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After 84 Years, Olympus Is Exiting the Camera Business

After 84 Years, Olympus Is Exiting the Camera Business

PCMag editors select and review products . If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing.UPDATE: Read what our camera expert Jim Fisher has to say about .Original Story:Japanese manufacturer Olympus Corporation has announced that it intends to exit the camera business through the sale of its Imaging business. Olympus has existed as a company since 1919, but its Imaging business started in 1936 with the sale of a camera using the Zuiko photographic lens. The company's innovative Pen camera series then launched in 1959, and the went on to become a...

June 24, 2020
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Google Assistant Can Now Use Your Voice to Verify Purchases

Google Assistant Can Now Use Your Voice to Verify Purchases

PCMag editors select and review products . If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing.(Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images)Making purchases with your voice is convenient, but it's far from secure. Google is attempting to change that when using Assistant by introducing an optional voice verification test.As , the new security feature relies on Google Assistant's Voice Match and it's being rolled out slowly as part of a limited pilot program to test how well it works with and . The Voice Match training feature was updated...

May 26, 2020
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Software Developer Thinks VR Caused His Eyesight to Degrade

Software Developer Thinks VR Caused His Eyesight to Degrade

PCMag editors select and review products . If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing.Enjoying virtual reality for extended periods of time may come with a big negative if one software developer's experience is to be believed.As the , software developer has been working on virtual reality projects since 2016, partnering with companies including Google, Marvel Studios, Hyundai, and Microsoft. In all, he's logged close to 10,000 hours wearing a , some days spending up to six hours viewing virtual worlds split down into 30 minute sessions....

June 11, 2020
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ADT Technician Spied on Customers for 7 Years

ADT Technician Spied on Customers for 7 Years

PCMag editors select and review products . If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing.Installing is meant to make you feel safe and secure, but ADT customers have experienced the opposite, with the revelation a company employee has been spying on them for years.As , news of the spying first appeared in April when ADT reported to police that a former employee had gained unauthorized access to the accounts of 220 customers, all of them located in the Dallas area. In a statement, the company said, "We took immediate action and put measures in...

May 20, 2020
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Asteroid Passes Earth in 'One of the Closest Flybys Ever Recorded'

Asteroid Passes Earth in 'One of the Closest Flybys Ever Recorded'

PCMag editors select and review products . If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing.Last week, astronomers observed a brand new space rock passing the Earth and a little bit too close for comfort to one of our communications satellites.As , the space rock has been given the official name of 2020 HS7. It measures up to eight meters in diameter and was determined to have about a 10 percent chance of hitting Earth. If it had, the asteroid would burn up in the atmosphere before it could do any damage. However, 2020 HS7 did pose a risk to our...

May 4, 2020
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Amazon Scout Robot Deliveries Begin in 2 New Locations

Amazon Scout Robot Deliveries Begin in 2 New Locations

PCMag editors select and review products . If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing.(Photo: Amazon)If you're staying safe at home and would rather not have a real person deliver packages to your door, you'll be glad to hear Amazon is expanding its robot delivery service to two new locations.Amazon started testing robot deliveries using its six-wheeled Scout robot last year near Seattle. In August, Scout also in Southern California. Today, Amazon announced that Scout is "heading south," and has in Atlanta, Georgia and Franklin, Tennessee.The...

July 21, 2020
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LG Recalls 60K OLED TVs Due to Overheating Problem

LG Recalls 60K OLED TVs Due to Overheating Problem

PCMag editors select and review products . If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing.(Photo: LG)LG is having to recall around 60,000 OLED TVs spanning 18 different models sold between 2016-2019 due to a fault which may result in them overheating.As , all the affected models were sold in South Korea between Feb. 2016 and Sept. 2019 (hopefully nobody imported one). The problem stems from the power board in each of these , which contains components to minimize current noise. The performance of the components can drop, according to LG, which...

July 22, 2020
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Google Is Shutting Down a Social Network You Probably Didn't Know Existed

Google Is Shutting Down a Social Network You Probably Didn't Know Existed

PCMag editors select and review products . If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing.Google regularly experiments with new software and services, but one such service you've probably never heard of is set to shut down next month.As , Google is taking a social network called Shoelace offline on May 12. You'd be forgiven for not knowing, or having ever heard of this particular social network before. It was created by Google's workshop for experimental products known as Area 120 and soft-launched a few months after in mid-2019. One big limiting...

April 29, 2020
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iPhone SE Doesn't Support Haptic Touch for Notifications

iPhone SE Doesn't Support Haptic Touch for Notifications

PCMag editors select and review products . If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing.The availability of a new iPhone for $399 is great news for anyone on a budget or who prefers a smaller smartphone, but the is already disappointing users due to a surprising missing feature.As , it seems Apple decided not to include Haptic Touch functionality for notifications on the iPhone SE, meaning no long-press access to options in either the Notification Center or on the Lock screen. And if you think this is a bug, think again. As TechCrunch's...

April 28, 2020
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Windows 10 20H2 Update Will Include Chromium Edge Browser

Windows 10 20H2 Update Will Include Chromium Edge Browser

PCMag editors select and review products . If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing.The Chromium-based version of the Edge browser has been available since April last year, but it remains an optional version users can choose to install. However, later this year that's set to change and Microsoft will include the Chromium version by default in a Windows Update.As , Microsoft has just started talking about the next feature update for , an update that will appear as Windows 10 version 20H2 later this year. In the , Brandon LeBlanc, Senior...

June 17, 2020
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