Backed by Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr.’s 1789 Capital, the Enhanced Games aims to disrupt the Olympics with a competition that allows athletes to dope. Launching in Las Vegas in May 2026, the games promise $1 million bounties for breaking world records and lean on a business model reminiscent of Red Bull’s, using the…
Speedhunters Throwback: This story was originally published in 2015. This FD3S Mazda RX-7 doesn’t need much of an introduction – it’s one of many cars over here in Japan that I’ve had on my ‘to shoot’ list for far too long. But finally, after the stars recently aligned, I managed to get the cool guys at Car…
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, a latency-optimized “small” model that delivers similar levels of coding performance to Claude Sonnet 4 while running more than twice as fast at one-third the cost. The model is immediately available via Anthropic’s API and in partner catalogs on Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex AI. Pricing is $1/MTok input…
Meta has broadened its AI-powered Reels translation feature, now supporting Hindi and Portuguese in addition to English and Spanish. The update aims to make short-form video content on Facebook and Instagram more accessible and inclusive for global audiences. Developed with feedback from creators, Meta’s AI translation tools allow Reels to be translated and dubbed across…
While employees spend much of their day communicating and coordinating amongst themselves on projects, this effort is often undermined by the availability of specific individuals. When a colleague with vital information is away — whether on vacation or in a different time zone — the rest of the team must delay progress until that person…
Japan’s vast road network boasts 1.2 million kilometres of tarmac across its sprawling landscape. That might sound like a lot, but it manages some 82 million vehicles in some of the world’s most densely populated cities daily. As a country, it should be at a perpetual standstill. Yet, ever since the 1950s, the Japanese have…
ServiceNow Research has released DRBench, a benchmark and runnable environment to evaluate “deep research” agents on open-ended enterprise tasks that require synthesizing facts from both public web and private organizational data into properly cited reports. Unlike web-only testbeds, DRBench stages heterogeneous, enterprise-style workflows—files, emails, chat logs, and cloud storage—so agents must retrieve, filter, and attribute…
FUJIFILM Corporation has launched the FUJIFILM X-E5, its latest addition to the X Series mirrorless camera lineup, in India. Designed as a compact and lightweight mirrorless camera, the X-E5 is crafted for creators seeking portability without compromising performance. The camera features a 40.2 MP X-Trans CMOS 5 HR sensor paired with the X-Processor 5, delivering…
Video editing app VSCO is adding a set of new AI image editing tools, support for high-resolution RAW files, non-destructive edits, and content-aware region detection. The AI tools will be housed in a new tab called “AI Labs,” which also brings AI-powered object removal chops, similar to Google and Apple’s homegrown offerings. You can highlight…
In all my years in Japan I’ve never seen an influx of tourists like I have in the last two years since the country opened up post-pandemic. And rightly so, there’s so much to see, visit, do and of course eat, oh and if you happen to be a car guy or gal, then you’re…
