149,95€ - Xiaomi

NETWORK
Technology No cellular connectivity
LAUNCH
Announced 2022, October 04
Status Available. Released 2022, October 05
BODY
Dimensions 250.5 x 158.1 x 7.1 mm (9.86 x 6.22 x 0.28 in)
Weight 465 g (1.03 lb)
Build Glass front, aluminum frame
SIM No
DISPLAY
Type IPS LCD, 1B colors, 90Hz, 400 nits (typ)
Size 10.61 inches, 320.4 cm2 (~80.9% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution 1200 x 2000 pixels, 5:3 ratio (~220 ppi density)
PLATFORM
OS Android 12, upgradable to Android 13, MIUI 14
Chipset Mediatek Helio G99 (6 nm)
CPU Octa-core (2x2.2 GHz Cortex-A76 & 6x2.0 GHz Cortex-A55)
GPU Mali-G57 MC2
MEMORY
Card slot microSDXC
Internal 64GB 3GB RAM, 128GB 4GB RAM, 128GB 6GB RAM
UFS 2.2
MAIN CAMERA
Single 8 MP, f/2.0, (wide), AF
Video 1080p@30fps
SELFIE CAMERA
Single 8 MP, f/2.3, 105° (ultrawide)
Video 1080p@30fps
SOUND
Loudspeaker Yes, with stereo speakers (4 speakers)
3.5mm jack No
24-bit/192kHz Hi-Res audio
COMMS
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct
Bluetooth 5.2, A2DP, LE
Positioning No
NFC No
Radio No
USB USB Type-C, OTG
FEATURES
Sensors Accelerometer
BATTERY
Type Li-Po 8000 mAh, non-removable
Charging 18W wired
MISC
Colors Graphite Gray, Moonlight Silver, Mint Green
Models 22081283G
Price About 250 EUR
TESTS
Performance AnTuTu: 319077 (v9)
GeekBench: 1852 (v5.1)
GFXBench: 13fps (ES 3.1 onscreen)
Display Contrast ratio: 1529:1 (nominal)
Loudspeaker -23.9 LUFS (Very good)

Photo: Tucker Bowe

Leica has launched a new LUX app for iOS that's ostensibly intended to reach longstanding fans of the brand and endear a new generation of shooters to the photographic aesthetic of the iconic German camera company – or at least a digital approximation of it.

The app's proprietary image processing engine can apply film emulation presets to existing photos in a similar fashion to Fujifilm's popular offerings. Eleven so-called "Leica Looks" are included in the app at launch, such as Leica Standard, Leica Classic, Leica Contemporary, and Leica Black and White. However, the company says that new looks will be added every month.

Though now available to a much broader potential set of consumers, Leica Look filters technically aren't new for the brand. The feature initially appeared in the company's Fotos app for owners of newer Leica digital cameras.

Like other fully-featured third-party camera apps such as Halide, iPhone photographers can also use the LUX app's automatic mode, "Aperture Mode," and manual control modes to capture photos.

Photo: Leica

Aperture Mode is the most unique selling point of the new app. Seemingly like Apple's own Portrait Mode on steroids, the feature leverages Leica's image engine to emulate the bokeh and color of the brand's iconic – and for many, unobtainable – premier lenses, such as the Leica Summilux-M 28mm F1.4 ASPH, Summilux-M 35mm F1.4 ASPH, and Noctilux-M 50mm F1.2 ASPH. iPhone 15 Pro (Max) users can also access an APO-Telyt-M 135mm F3.4 emulation thanks to the phone's telephoto lens.

There's also a pro manual mode, which allows advanced users to control settings, including exposure compensation, shutter speeds, ISO, white balance, manual focus, and Raw/ProRaw capture settings. You can also see a live histogram.

While we haven't tested the app yet ourselves, at least some journalists, such as Antonia G. Di Benedetto at The Verge, who have had access to early beta versions, describe the app's processing features as hit-or-miss and the color filters in some cases as heavy-handed, at least for now. Like the built-in portrait modes on many premium smartphones, Leica's efforts to simulate bokeh and depth of field via software seem to struggle to produce realistic results under certain conditions.

A free version of Leica’s LUX App is available from the Apple App Store with limited features, including access to five looks. Paying a monthly subscription fee of $6.99 or an annual fee of $69.99 unlocks all of the app's capabilities. Leica recommends using the app with an iPhone Pro 12 or newer.

32,99€ - Sport-Outlet

Cashback widilo 6%
adidas Originals Unisexe Lunettes de soleil AOM011 CM1285 075.022
Marque : adidas
Verres : plastique
Cadre : plastique
Largeur de l'objectif : 55 mm
Pont de nez : 18 mm
Longueur des branches : 140 mm
Catégorie de filtre 1 : 20 à 57 % de teinte
Comprend un étui à lunettes
confort de port agréable
NOUVEAU & emballage d'origine

GOG, a Poland-based popular gaming platform, has announced plans to enforce a 200MB limit on cloud save files per game. This move may adversely affect players of open-world titles like Cyberpunk 2077, where save folders can reach several gigabytes. A report adds: The company will begin deleting game saves that exceed the limit on Aug 31. When the deadline rolls around, GOG will delete saves for each game, beginning with the oldest until it's below the 200MB threshold. That means your newest saves will survive.

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Some artists are jumping ship for the anti-AI portfolio app Cara after Meta began using Instagram content to train its AI models. Fast Company explains: The portfolio app bills itself as a platform that protects artists' images from being used to train AI, and only allowing AI content to be posted if it's clearly labeled. Based on the number of new users the Cara app has garnered over the past few days, there seems to be a need. Between May 31 and June 2, Cara's user base tripled from less than 100,000 to more than 300,000 profiles, skyrocketing to the top of the app store. [...] Cara is a social networking app for creatives, in which users can post images of their artwork, memes, or just their own text-based musings. It shares similarities with major social platforms like X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram on a few fronts. Users can access Cara through a mobile app or on a browser. Both options are free to use. The UI itself is like an arts-centric combination of X and Instagram. In fact, some UI elements seem like they were pulled directly from other social media sites. (It's not the most innovative approach, but it is strategic: as a new app, any barriers to potential adoption need to be low). Cara doesn't train any AI models on its content, nor does it allow third parties to do so. According to Cara's FAQ page, the app aims to protect its users from AI scraping by automatically implementing "NoAI" tags on all of its posts. The website says these tags "are intended to tell AI scrapers not to scrape from Cara." Ultimately, they appear to be html metadata tags that politely ask bad actors not to get up to any funny business, and it's pretty unlikely that they hold any actual legal weight. Cara admits as much, too, warning its users that the tags aren't a "fully comprehensive solution and won't completely prevent dedicated scrapers." With that in mind, Cara assesses the "NoAI" tagging system as a "a necessary first step in building a space that is actually welcoming to artists -- one that respects them as creators and doesn't opt their work into unethical AI scraping without their consent." In December, Cara launched another tool called Cara Glaze to defend its artists' work against scrapers. (Users can only use it a select number of times.) Glaze, developed by the SAND Lab at University of Chicago, makes it much more difficult for AI models to accurately understand and mimic an artist's personal style. The tool works by learning how AI bots perceive artwork, and then making a set of minimal changes that are invisible to the human eye but confusing to the AI model. The AI bot then has trouble "translating" the art style and generates warped recreations. In the future, Cara also plans to implement Nightshade, another University of Chicago software that helps protect artwork against AI scapers. Nightshade "poisons" AI training data by adding invisible pixels to artwork that can cause AI software to completely misunderstand the image. Beyond establishing shields against data mining, Cara also uses a third party service to detect and moderate any AI artwork that's posted to the site. Non-human artwork is forbidden, unless it's been properly labeled by the poster.

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Critiqué par les oppositions, qui lui reprochent d’utiliser les commémorations du Débarquement pour faire campagne, le chef de l’Etat a assuré être « dans [s]on rôle » en parlant du scrutin du 9 juin lors d’une interview accordée, jeudi, au 20 heures de TF1 et de France 2.

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Des problèmes sur certains des propulseurs, utilisés pour réaliser de petits ajustements de trajectoire, ont retardé l’approche finale du vaisseau qui a transporté, pour la première fois, deux astronautes de la NASA. Des fuites d’hélium sans gravité ont également été détectées.

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Le candidat Les Républicains a réussi plusieurs coups médiatiques remarqués, dans l’espoir de devenir audible et d’élargir son électorat. Mais ses « happenings » n’ont pas eu d’effets visibles dans les sondages, où il reste crédité de 8 % des intentions de vote.

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Le recours de la MGEN contre le résultat de l’appel d’offres du ministère de la transition écologique a été rejeté. L’attribution de ce contrat emblématique à un assureur privé irrite les syndicats.

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Le gouvernement veut découvrir si ces entreprises se sont rendues coupables de pratiques anticoncurrentielles, a rapporté jeudi le New York Times.

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