Lilbits: Arduboy FX-C, AYANEO AM03, OneXFly Apex announcements… and maybe Windows 11 will actually shut down when it’s supposed to soon

Developer Kevin Bates has been making Arduboy handheld game consoles for more than a decade, bringing together Arduino hardware and support for 8-bit homebrew games into portable, programmable devices. The latest is the newly announced Arduboy FX-C, wh…

Developer Kevin Bates has been making Arduboy handheld game consoles for more than a decade, bringing together Arduino hardware and support for 8-bit homebrew games into portable, programmable devices. The latest is the newly announced Arduboy FX-C, which brings some modern features like a USB-C port and some retro features… like support for playing multiplayer […]

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HDR10+ Advanced joins Dolby Vision 2 in trying to make you like motion smoothing

Can more creator control fix the soap opera effect?

Motion smoothing has a bad reputation among most cinephiles, as well as many home theater enthusiasts and content creators. Also known as motion or video interpolation, motion smoothing is available in virtually every modern TV today. It’s supposed to remove judder from films and TV shows that are shot with 24p (24 frames per second) or 25p film and displayed on 60Hz or 120Hz TVs. But motion smoothing often results in the dreaded soap opera effect and unwanted visual artifacts.

Two upcoming HDR standards, HDR10+ Advanced and Dolby Vision 2, are looking to change how we perceive motion smoothing and more closely align motion interpolation with a creator’s vision. However, it’s unclear if these standards can pull that off.

HDR10+ Advanced’s Intelligent FRC

Today, Samsung provided details about the next version of the HDR10 format, which introduces six new features. Among HDR10+ Advanced’s most interesting features is HDR10+ Intelligent FRC (frame rate conversion), which is supposed to improve motion smoothing.

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The first liquid-cooled smartphone launches Nov 18 for $749 and up (REDMAGIC 11 Pro global launch)

The $699 REDMAGIC 11 Pro is a smartphone designed for mobile gamers. It has a 6.85 inch, 144 Hz AMOLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor and a massive 7,500 mAh battery. It’s also the first smartphone to feature both a fan an…

The $699 REDMAGIC 11 Pro is a smartphone designed for mobile gamers. It has a 6.85 inch, 144 Hz AMOLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor and a massive 7,500 mAh battery. It’s also the first smartphone to feature both a fan and a liquid cooling system to help keep components cool under heavy […]

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US gives local police a face-scanning app similar to one used by ICE agents

Mobile Identify app on Google Play helps police perform tasks delegated by ICE.

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) launched a face-scanning app for local law enforcement agencies that assist the federal government with immigration-enforcement operations. The Mobile Identify app was released on the Google Play store on October 30.

“This app facilitates functions authorized by Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA),” a US law that lets Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) delegate immigration-officer duties to state and local law enforcement, according to the Mobile Identify app’s description on the Google Play store. “Through a formal agreement, or Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), with DHS [Department of Homeland Security], participating agencies like your Sheriff’s Department can have designated officers who are trained, certified, and authorized to perform certain immigration enforcement functions, helping to identify and process individuals who may be in the country unlawfully. This tool is built to streamline those responsibilities securely and efficiently, directly in the field.”

A screenshot of the app on the Google Play listing shows it requires camera access “to take photos of subjects.” More information on how it works was reported today by 404 Media. “A source with knowledge of the app told 404 Media the app doesn’t return names after a face search. Instead it tells users to contact ICE and provides a reference number, or to not detain the person depending on the result,” the news report said.

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Meet Project Suncatcher, Google’s plan to put AI data centers in space

Google is already zapping TPUs with radiation to get ready.

The tech industry is on a tear, building data centers for AI as quickly as they can buy up the land. The sky-high energy costs and logistical headaches of managing all those data centers have prompted interest in space-based infrastructure. Moguls like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have mused about putting GPUs in space, and now Google confirms it’s working on its own version of the technology. The company’s latest “moonshot” is known as Project Suncatcher, and if all goes as planned, Google hopes it will lead to scalable networks of orbiting TPUs.

The space around Earth has changed a lot in the last few years. A new generation of satellite constellations like Starlink has shown it’s feasible to relay Internet communication via orbital systems. Deploying high-performance AI accelerators in space along similar lines would be a boon to the industry’s never-ending build-out. Google notes that space may be “the best place to scale AI compute.”

Google’s vision for scalable orbiting data centers relies on solar-powered satellites with free-space optical links connecting the nodes into a distributed network. Naturally, there are numerous engineering challenges to solve before Project Suncatcher is real. As a reference, Google points to the long road from its first moonshot self-driving cars 15 years ago to the Waymo vehicles that are almost fully autonomous today.

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Ploopy’s Nano 2 is a minimal trackball mouse with a single button

Ploopy has been making trackball mice and other niche computer input devices for more than six years, including models with classic designs, one of the only decent USB touchpads available for Windows PCs, and some quirky devices like the Ploopy Nano Tr…

Ploopy has been making trackball mice and other niche computer input devices for more than six years, including models with classic designs, one of the only decent USB touchpads available for Windows PCs, and some quirky devices like the Ploopy Nano Trackball, which is about as basic as an input device can get. Now the […]

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Deals Roundup (11-04-2025)

Black Friday is still more than three weeks away, but Google is running a sale on Pixel smartphones, Amazon is offering some Fire tablets for as much as 50% off, and you can also find a bunch of other deals on mobile tech and related products. Here are…

Black Friday is still more than three weeks away, but Google is running a sale on Pixel smartphones, Amazon is offering some Fire tablets for as much as 50% off, and you can also find a bunch of other deals on mobile tech and related products. Here are some of the day’s best deals. PCs […]

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MINISFORUM MS-R1 mini PC has a 12-core Arm processor and PCIe x16 slot for a dGPU

The MINISFORUM MS-R1 is a small desktop computer with support for up to 64GB of RAM, a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot for an optional discrete GPU, and plenty of I/O features including two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports and support for multiple displays. What makes this…

The MINISFORUM MS-R1 is a small desktop computer with support for up to 64GB of RAM, a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot for an optional discrete GPU, and plenty of I/O features including two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports and support for multiple displays. What makes this PC stand out though is that instead of an Intel or […]

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Apple’s next MacBook could be a budget model to compete with mid-range Windows laptops (and high-end Chromebooks)

Apple’s laptop strategy has pretty much always been the same: offer premium products for customers willing to pay high prices for high-quality hardware designed to run the Mac software. While the company has occasionally toyed with offering &#822…

Apple’s laptop strategy has pretty much always been the same: offer premium products for customers willing to pay high prices for high-quality hardware designed to run the Mac software. While the company has occasionally toyed with offering “budget” models, that usually means selling previous-gen hardware at discounted prices. But according to a report from Bloomberg’s […]

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