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It's Monday, September 03, 2018.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

Welcome back! While some in the US take Labor Day off, we’re wrapping up our coverage from Europe’s biggest tech show and testing some unpretty wearables and tiny compact cameras with incredible zoom skills. We also give our verdict on Honor’s PUBG phone, the Play.

The EOS R would directly challenge Nikon's Z6.

Canon's full-frame mirrorless camera leaks in vivid detail

Leaked details of Canon’s new full-frame mirrorless camera, the EOS R, have spilled most of the beans. It has a 30.3-megapixel full-frame cam that would primarily compete with the Nikon Z6 and Sony's A7 III. The design would thrive on low-light photography with a wide ISO 100 to 40,000 normal sensitivity (up to ISO 102,400) and the company's familiar dual-pixel autofocusing. Those aren't exceptional specs given the increasingly competitive full-frame mirrorless space, but there would be a few twists that might give it an edge over its rivals.

For one, the EOS R appears to have a horizontal-swivel touchscreen -- unlike its Nikon and Sony counterparts, this might work for video blogging. There's also a touch strip on the back that could offer finer control than a dial.

We test the tiny Cybershot HX99 and its 30x superzoom.

Sony's new HX99 compact camera does things your smartphone can't

At a time when everyone is carrying around a generally capable camera inside their smartphone, compact cameras have struggled to stay relevant. Barring Sony's own wonderful RX100 series and Fujifilm's X100F family, the world of point-and-shoots is usually an unremarkable one. Sony's only camera announcements at IFA 2018 were intriguing, at least. It revealed two cameras, the Cybershot HX99 and HX95, which cram a technically impressive 30x, 24-720mm f/3.5-6 equivalent zoom lens into a 1.5-inch wide camera frame. Tiny camera, huge zoom.

They might have led to brain injuries, too.

Embassy sonic attacks may have been microwave blasts

When researchers postulated that the sonic attacks on embassies in Cuba (and more recently, China) were the fault of malfunctioning surveillance gear, that wasn't the end to concerns about the true cause... if anything, there's more worry than ever. The University of Pennsylvania's Douglas Smith (who led a paper discussing the trauma of embassy victims) said in an interview that microwave blasts are now considered primary candidates.

It wasn’t made for its legibility.

This funky new font is made up entirely of brands

A digital studio called Hello Velocity has created a typeface that embraces well-known corporate logos that is still somehow far less annoying than Comic Sans.

Keeping up with the Elons.

Tesla's Roadster prompts Koenigsegg to rethink its supercars

In a chat with Top Gear, Koenigsegg's namesake founder Christian von Koenigsegg revealed that his company started reworking its engines just to remain competitive with the Roadster's vaunted 1.9-second 0-60MPH time.

But wait, there's more...

1. Honor's Play gaming phone is far from perfect for 'PUBG'

2. Apple reports its first self-driving car crash

3. BioWare will offer a full 'Anthem' demo on February 1st

4. US police arrest China shopping giant's CEO over misconduct claims

5. The latest Pixel 3 leak came from the back of a Lyft

6. This audacious curved-screen wearable has a gaudy camera

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It's Saturday, September 01, 2018.

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Welcome to your weekend! We’ll have more info from IFA 2018 coming in all weekend, but first, we’ll look back at the highlights from the past few days, plus some leaked images of the Google’s Pixel 3 and a preview of what to expect from Apple’s upcoming iPhone launch event.

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What to expect from Apple’s 2018 iPhone event

After last year's iPhone X introduction, you'd think anything Apple would unveil at its September 12th "Gather Round" event would be anticlimactic. But, instead of just the iPhone XS and Apple Watch Series 4 we’ve already seen, we could also see an iPhone X-like iPad Pro, the still-MIA AirPower wireless charging mat and perhaps some new AirPods.

FYI

Apple will repair defective iPhone 8 logic boards for free

Apple revealed late Friday that it's opening an iPhone 8 Logic Board Replacement Program. According to the company "a very small percentage" of phones sold between September 2017 and March 2018 -- the first six months they were on sale -- have a manufacturing defect that can lead to restarts, freezes or a failure to start. To find out if yours is affected, and therefore eligible for a free repair, just input the serial number on Apple’s website.

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California's net neutrality bill is one signature away from taking effect

A net neutrality bill that its sponsor Scott Weiner calls "the strongest in the nation" got the necessary state Senate votes this evening despite opposition from groups representing ISPs like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon. With potential federal rules still being argued over in Congress, SB 822 is a governor’s signature away from becoming a state law.

CD Projekt Red brings the E3 and Gamescom experience to you.

Watch an extended cut of 'Cyberpunk 2077' gameplay

This 48-minute video walks viewers through the twists and turns of following a job from start to finish. Cyberpunk 2077 shows off a gritty future, but not totally dark. As seen in the E3 trailer, some of the gameplay occurred during the daytime, which doesn't diminish the cyberpunk feel: When the player-character yanks a cable from their wrist to jack into someone's brainstem or sits in a biohacker's chair to replace body parts with cyber-enhanced upgrades, the setting lives up to the game's name.

More leaks.

Feast your eyes on the Pixel 3

An anonymous Redditor posted a bunch of seemingly legitimate photos that show off the Pixel 3 from every angle. The images reveal a 5.5-inch display with a 2160x1080 resolution and a 2:1 aspect ratio while notes indicate it has a 2,915mAh battery and two 8-megapixel front-facing cameras.

Why smoke pot when you can drink it instead?

Cannabis infusions are the latest evolution in beer's 10,000 year history

CERIA's offerings will contain THC but not alcohol. The company plans to release three varieties -- a light beer, a wheat beer, and a stout -- this fall.

Old-school music meets the newest tech.

Yamaha's latest turntable streams multi-room audio via WiFi

The $700 MusicCast Vinyl 500 turntable uses WiFi to stream records wirelessly to MusicCast speakers in your home. If you don't insist on that distinctive vinyl sound, the machine will natively stream digital services like Spotify, Pandora and Tidal.

Our ever-eroding "privacy."

Bad Password: New lawsuit shows your phone is unsafe at American borders

A recent case filed in federal court, in which an American woman had her iPhone seized and cracked by Customs and Border Protection in a New Jersey airport puts a whole new spin on the things we now need to worry about when leaving the country. It appears that now everyone's phones, despite country of origin or cause, are subject to nonconsensual seizure and search -- even if we refuse to give up our passwords.