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Insta360 has announced a successor to its One R modular actioncam system, which comes with a new 4K Boost Lens boasting improved light sensitivity, more powerful brains for faster Wi-Fi and instant zoom, enhanced image stabilization and a redesigned mounting bracket.The upgrades brought to the One RS are relatively minor, but welcome all the same. Chief among those is the 4K Boost Lens, which is essentially an upgrade to the previous 4K Wide Angle Lens and benefits from a 1/2-inch 48-MP image sensor for the promise of…

Teledyne FLIR Defense has unveiled its Lightweight Vehicle Surveillance System (LVSS) with advanced counter-unmanned aerial system capabilities. Mounted on a Ford F-250 standard truck chassis, it deploys in under a minute to counter drone swarms.Many people think of small drones as little quadcopters that take cool aerial videos and can really annoy people in parks, but these increasingly sophisticated machines have evolved to the point where the US Department of Defense regards them as posing new risks to military…

Drone maker DJI has announced its first dedicated audio recording system, the DJI Mic. The portable package comes with two microphone transmitters, a wireless receiver and a charging case, and is reckoned ideal for "shooting a vlog, interviews or any kind of content creation that requires high-quality audio."The DJI Mic system comprises a compact charging case, two wireless transmitters with built-in microphones and a receiver that features a touchscreen interface for easy channel selection and input/output settings…

In a major milestone for astronomy, NASA has confirmed the existence of a massive 5,000 planets beyond our own solar system. Not so long ago, we only knew a handful of planets that revolved around our Sun, but the quest to know the world beyond always continued. NASA has now added a fresh batch of 65 planets outside our immediate solar family to its exoplanet archive, pushing the total beyond the 5,000 mark — after a 30-year journey of astronomical discoveries. The NASA Exoplanet Archive records discoveries that have been…

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas or GTA San Andreas is one of the most popular games that PC players have relished playing over the years. The biggest highlight of this GTA title is the extensive map and appealing graphics that have aged well. In addition to that, the game has a great story where you play as Carl Johnson or CJ, who is returning to Grove Street after the death of his mother. The game takes place in the 90s and revolves around CJ’s attempt to save his family by fighting corrupt cops on the street. So, if this…

Grand Theft Auto aka GTA Vice City was one of the best action game of the early 2000s, with a cult following of its own. Almost every gamer growing up in that era must have spent hours playing GTA Vice City on PC or gaming consoles. Its popularity continues to this day and is still among the most popular games for almost 20 years. The credit goes to GTA Vice City’s graphics, which was second to none, and its equally impressive gameplay and open-world design. Rockstar recently launched remastered version of the game as…

NASA's Hubble telescope has captured the interstellar visitor Comet Borisov to our solar system and shared its movement as a runaway point of light in a time-lapse video. The agency said that it “was a rocky visit”. Discovered by amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov in 2019, it is the first confirmed comet to enter our solar system from outside our Sun's influence. Comet Borisov is the only second interstellar object to ever enter our solar system: the first such visitor was an object officially named "Oumuamua". It came…

A few years back, I was working as a freelancer for a company that was trying to develop a US market for its rather obscure hardware products and needed a native English speaker to tweak the text on its site. Everything was going swimmingly until my second week on the job, when I went to the site — and found that I was suddenly getting weird ads flashing across my screen and had lost the ability to access my security software. I needed to get rid of whatever had invaded my system — hopefully, without the need to reset…

In a new blog post, the developers behind Call of Duty’s Ricochet anti-cheat system have outlined a new “cloaking” measure which makes legitimate players invisible to cheaters. It effectively makes it impossible for cheaters to be competitive during a match, regardless of any illicit software they might be using. “Characters, bullets, even sound from legitimate players will be undetectable to cheaters,” the blog post reads. “Legitimate players, however, can see cheaters impacted by cloaking… and can dole out in-game…

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