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Why You Should Think Twice Before Buying A Smart Ring
With any tech craze, the important thing for longevity is to have practical use cases. While it’s very easy to be tempted to buy the latest tech fashion, products soon lose their luster if they’re just another social media trend with limited utility. Consumers increasingly want devices that simplify their lives and cut down on distractions, rather than adding more to the equation. This is where smart rings can really show their practical advantages.
They’re very low-maintenance while active and are designed to monitor various facets for the wearer automatically. They also neatly sidestep some of the issues that come with smartphones when used for similar purposes: Without a screen or instant access to that time-sapping social media, there’s no temptation to be sucked into a doomscrolling session that might be counterproductive to your fitness goals. Similarly, being a hands-off sort of device (which is extremely ironic considering how it’s worn), there’s no need to mess with it as we may have a tendency to do with our smartphones.
While they lack some of the downsides that other devices like our smartphones have, they are fundamentally different systems. This means that they also don’t have some of their advantages either. Let’s take a look at some particular weaknesses of one of these tiny devices, including potential hefty subscriptions and their reliance on secondary devices. Ultimately, a smart ring may not be worth it for you.
One of the major potential disadvantages: cost
At the top of the range are products like the Oura Ring, which tends to demand a premium pricetag. The latest version, the Oura Ring 5, starts at $399 for the standard silver and black versions. Premium color options like Stealth, Deep Rose, Brushed Silver, and Gold command an additional premium of $100 on top of that. If you want the Oura Ring 5 Charging Case, it costs an additional $134.
After that, there’s another common charge to concern yourself with: the subscription. In the case of an Oura Ring, the cost of membership is the same as it was for the base $349 Oura Ring 4: $69.99 annually, or $5.99 billed monthly if you prefer. Oura states that, “with an active membership, you can track numerous biometrics and receive personalized insights from Oura to help you understand what your body needs.” The premium features locked behind a membership include SpO2 Blood Oxygen Sensing, detailed sleep analysis, Oura Labs features that the brand is experimenting with before rolling out, and the Women’s Health suite.
That means that even after forking over the cash for the Oura Ring itself, some of its key features will be locked behind an additional paywall. If you don’t think that’s worth it, there are plenty of alternatives to the Oura Ring without subscriptions like the Samsung Galaxy Ring or the Circular Ring 2. Still, these models cost $399 and $349, respectively, so they are still quite the investment. While other models might be cheaper, like the Amazfit Helio Ring priced at $150, you’ll generally start to sacrifice other features like battery life when you prioritize a cheaper price.
Some more pros and cons of a smart ring
As noted, the discreet and screen-free nature of a smart ring is great for those users who might want to reduce their screen time or simply stop worrying about being inundated with notifications. On the flipside, though, the Oura Ring effectively requires an app in order to access the data it collects, which kind of makes the point of not using your phone moot. For what it’s worth, however, most smart rings including the Samsung Galaxy Ring and the Circular Ring 2 work with apps, too.
Because of the ring’s placement on the body, some reviewers have also expressed concern that they might not record your heartrate with the same accuracy as other wearables, which can usually be tightened along the wrist or chest with a band. They could also be disruptive to your workout if, for example, you are lifting weights or needing to grip something.
Like any device, it’s all about choosing the option that fits your needs the best. While some might have limited use for a smart ring, these devices do have unique functions and an aesthetic that will certainly appeal to others. It seems they’re going to continue to, as well. In January 2026, the Los Angeles Times reported that “smart rings are finally going mainstream with a projected 49% jump in shipments, far outpacing smartwatches’ expected 6% growth.”
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Bottom line: Consumers are paying more each month to keep up with new shows, movies, and live programming as streaming services continue to raise subscription prices. The eight major services now cost about $151 a month combined for ad-free plans purchased separately, without bundles, compared with roughly $90 for a similar lineup four years ago.
Apple TV+ has had one of the largest increases. The service launched in 2019 at $4.99 a month and has since raised its price by 200%. It still has a smaller overall library than most of its main competitors, but Apple has continued to add original series and films while treating the service as part of its broader subscription business.
Disney+ has also moved well beyond its original price. It launched in 2019 at $6.99 a month without advertising. Its ad-supported plan now costs $11.99 a month, while the ad-free version costs more. Paramount+’s least expensive tier has risen 80% in five years. Netflix’s Premium plan is up 125% from its 2013 price.
The pace of increases has recently picked up as well. Streaming prices across the market rose 11.8% over the past 12 months. In 2023, the average increase was 17.7%. Apple TV+ raised its price 50% in the past year, and Peacock’s plans rose by roughly the same amount.
HBO Max has been a notable exception. Its price has increased 23% over six years, less than most of its rivals. But HBO entered the streaming market at a higher price than newer services.
The industry’s pricing has risen faster than inflation. Consumer prices have increased by an average of 3.84% annually since 2019, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Streaming services have raised prices far more aggressively, even as companies add lower-cost, ad-supported plans.
Cable and satellite television have also become more expensive over time, but their increases have been more gradual. A Hollywood Reporter analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data found that cable and satellite prices rose by an average of 3.9% a year, excluding the late 1980s, when deregulation led to a temporary surge. That does not mean cable is suddenly a bargain. Full packages from providers such as Spectrum and DirecTV can cost more than $170 a month.
Streaming companies are under pressure to make their businesses more profitable after spending heavily on original programming, subscriber growth, and technology. The low launch prices that helped services build audiences are giving way to a model built around higher subscription fees, advertising, bundles, and tighter rules on account sharing.
Consumers still have more flexibility than they did with traditional cable. They can cancel services at any time and return when a particular show or sports season begins. That has led more viewers to rotate subscriptions instead of keeping every service active year-round.
The approach can cut costs, but it also changes how people watch television. Viewers may have to wait until a season ends or a show moves to another platform before subscribing. The days of paying for one service and finding most of what you want to watch in one place are largely over.
Your router has several Ethernet ports, but they might not all be for the same purpose.
The Ethernet ports on the back of your router might seem interchangeable. On some routers they are, but others feature a mix of ports with different jobs and maximum speeds. One may connect the router to your modem or fiber terminal, while the others provide a wired connection for PCs, consoles and other devices around your home.
Deciding on the right port depends first on what you’re plugging in, then on how fast the devices at both ends can communicate. Start with WAN versus LAN; speed comes after that.
Start with the WAN or Internet port
If your router connects to a separate modem or optical network terminal (ONT), the Ethernet cable from that device normally plugs into the router’s WAN or Internet port. WAN stands for wide area network; here, it is the router’s connection to your internet service. For router/modem combo units, you won’t need this connection since one device performs both functions.
The other Ethernet connections are generally LAN (local area network) ports. These are where you connect devices inside your home, such as a desktop PC, game console, smart TV or network-attached storage (NAS). Four LAN ports don’t give the router four separate internet connections; they let you connect up to four wired devices directly (rather than using wireless connections).
Not every router uses that exact arrangement. Some have ports marked WAN/LAN that can perform either job, while other models use auto-sensing Ethernet ports instead of a dedicated WAN jack. If your router doesn’t clearly identify one port for an Internet or WAN connection, its setup guide or specifications should tell you which port to use.
The number of LAN ports you need depends on how many devices you want to wire directly to the router. If you run out, an Ethernet switch can add more connections without requiring another router. Much like an HDMI switch, these plug into one of the LAN ports on your router and provide additional ports for other devices. You might need more than you’d think, given there are ways to use wired Ethernet without running long cables.
Not every LAN port on a router offers the same speed
Once you’re considering the LAN side, the next question is speed. Some routers feature identical LAN ports, while others (like the Netgear Orbi 870) mix gigabit and multi-gigabit connections on the same device.
Labels such as 1G, 2.5G, 5G and 10G refer to maximum link speeds of 1Gbps, 2.5Gbps, 5Gbps and 10Gbps. A manual or specification sheet may instead use Ethernet standard names such as 1000BASE-T for 1Gbps, 2.5GBASE-T for 2.5Gbps or 10GBASE-T for 10Gbps.
For example, the TP-Link Archer BE900 shows why checking matters. It has four 2.5Gbps LAN ports as well as 10Gbps connections that can handle either WAN or LAN duties. There is no general rule that port 1 will be faster than port 4 simply because of its position or number.
If all your router’s LAN ports support the same speed and none has a special function, moving a device to a different one generally won’t make the connection faster. The choice starts to matter when the ports have different speed ratings or roles.
A faster Ethernet port won’t make a slower device faster
A 10Gbps port doesn’t automatically give every device plugged into it a 10Gbps connection. The rest of the Ethernet hardware has to support the faster speed as well.
If your computer has a 1Gbps Ethernet adapter, connecting it to a faster multi-gigabit router port doesn’t upgrade what your computer offers. Copper Ethernet hardware typically uses auto-negotiation to determine a link configuration supported by both ends. The practical result is simple: a 1Gbps device can’t become 2.5Gbps-compatible just because the router port is faster.
The reverse applies as well. Upon connecting a computer with 2.5Gbps Ethernet to a 1Gbps LAN port, the slower port becomes the limiting factor. To establish a faster link, the router port, the Ethernet interface on the connected device and the cable between them all have to support the higher standard.
Cable names can cause some confusion here. Cat5e, Cat6 and Cat6A are cable categories, not router port speeds, so there is no such thing as choosing a “Cat6 port” on the router. The cable category, quality, length and installation can all affect which Ethernet speeds a setup will reliably support.
Your internet plan isn’t necessarily the limit for everything you do over Ethernet, either. Two devices communicating inside your home (on a LAN) don’t need to send that traffic through your internet connection. A PC and network-attached storage device connected over 2.5Gbps Ethernet, for example, can transfer files across the local network at speeds far faster than your broadband connection likely supports.
Before plugging a device into your router, check the port’s label, what speed the device supports and which Ethernet cable you’re using. If every LAN port on your router is identical, the choice usually doesn’t matter. If they aren’t, use the fastest compatible port where the extra bandwidth will actually be useful. Check the router’s manual for any manufacturer-specific functions.
Ford rarely colors outside the lines of traditional automaking. The company wrote the book on the automotive world, launching the Model T in 1908 and revolutionizing the industry with the assembly line in 1913. Today, the Ford F-series is the top-selling vehicle in America, and Ford trucks are renowned for their rugged durability and towing capabilities. This reputation is why many are surprised to learn that the company’s new electric truck, the Fathom, will not boast impressive towing capacity. While Ford has not disclosed exact numbers, the company compared the vehicle to its existing Maverick, which does not prioritize towing.
To be fair, Ford offers a full lineup of towing options, from the Maverick’s 2,000-pound limit to the Super Duty’s impressive 40,000-pound capabilities. Electric trucks typically don’t have the same towing capacities as gasoline-powered pickups, but several can tow 10,000 pounds or more, like the Rivian R1T. The new Fathom will have towing capabilities, but Ford’s VP of Advanced Development Projects stated that the truck’s ability to “tow really heavy weights really long distance isn’t something that we’ve spent a lot of time on.”
The industry is awash with speculation as to why Ford chose this route, but the answer appears fairly simple — cost. The new Fathom has a sticker price of $28,350, plus destination and delivery fees of $1,595, bringing the total to just under $30,000. This low price will make it one of the most affordable EVs on the market and is a clear indicator of Ford’s strategy.
What we know about the new Ford Fathom
EV sales in the U.S. fell dramatically after the federal tax credit program expired, and the average cost of a new EV is $55,300, which represents a challenge for many average buyers. If Ford wants to sell this new electric vehicle, and we imagine they very much do, it has to face these challenges head-on.
Ford plans to begin preorders of the Fathom in early 2027, and the midsize truck will be built from scratch in Louisville, Kentucky. It will have fewer components than Ford’s earlier EVs to help cut costs, and the manufacturing process was also overhauled to keep the Fathom’s price under $30,000. The automaker hopes to sell more than 100,000 trucks in the first year of production, which is a lofty goal. Only Tesla has managed to hit that benchmark with a single model. At time of writing, Ford has remained tight-lipped on details regarding the Fathom. We do know it will have a large touchscreen, navigation powered by Apple Maps, and will be BlueCruise Capable for hands-free driving on the freeway. Driving range and charging times have not been disclosed.
After Ford discontinued the F-150 Lightning, which previously sold for about $50,000, Chevrolet’s Silverado EV took its place as the most affordable electric pickup truck currently for sale in the U.S. It has a starting price of $55,895, meaning the Fathom will be well-positioned to capture an untapped market niche for budget-friendly electric pickup trucks — provided owners don’t want to tow much.
British fintech Revolut confirmed that it disclosed sensitive customer information to an unauthorized third party after receiving fraudulent requests sent from a legitimate government agency email domain.
The exposed data included customers’ identity and contact details, including their birth date, postal and email addresses, and phone numbers, as well as copies of their identity documents including passports and driver’s licenses, according to a notification emailed to affected customers and reviewed by TechCrunch. The data may have also included verification selfies, account statements, and transaction histories, the firm said in its notification.
A Revolut spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that a “limited” number of customers were impacted and said the company had contacted those customers directly. Revolut, however, did not disclose the exact number of impacted individuals. It also did not answer whether the incident was limited to a specific market and declined to disclose the government agency involved.
“Revolut recently identified a sophisticated external impersonation scam where an unauthorised third party utilised a legitimate government agency domain email to submit fraudulent requests for information,” the spokesperson said.
Revolut told TechCrunch that it blocked the email address after discovering the scam from the unauthorized third party and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and relevant regulators, adding, “Revolut systems and customer funds are unaffected.”
London-based Revolut has more than 80 million customers globally and operates as a bank in more than 30 countries, per its website. The fintech recently expanded its presence in markets including India, Mexico, France, and the UAE. Moreover, earlier this month, the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted a conditional approval to Revolut to set up a national bank in the country, which the firm expects to launch in the first half of 2027.
Well-known crypto security researcher ZachXBT posted about Revolut’s email to its affected customers late on Friday. The researcher said the incident appeared to have been targeted at high net worth users.
The incident comes as Revolut reportedly weighs a potential public listing that could value it at as much as $200 billion, up from its $75 billion private valuation in November. The fintech has also been expanding its banking footprint in Europe and globally, securing banking licenses in France and the UK in recent months.
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Knowing when a venue is busy can make all the difference when you’re hungry.
Google Maps is super useful for step-by-step directions, whether you’re walking, driving or taking transit to a destination. But it also offers much more than that, highlighting businesses and points of interest along the way with useful information about them. This can include star ratings, opening hours, travel distance and even suggestions about dishes or services visitors tend to love, but it can also provide real-time information as well. At a glance, it can tell you how busy a place is and how long you may be likely to wait.
This information, only available if Google has sufficient data to provide it, can potentially inform your decision as to where and when to go somewhere. If you’re in a rush, you don’t want to stop at a very busy breakfast spot that won’t get you back on the road quickly. Conversely, if you’re looking for a vibe, it’s best to wait until the local bar is starting to fill up. So, how does Google Maps not only know this information, but know it practically in real time?
Understanding wait times and visit durations
When it comes to specific establishments, like restaurants, hotels, stores and coffee shops, Google uses an aggregate of anonymous data supplied by random users who have opted into the Google Maps Timeline feature. By tracking the density of devices in a certain place, Google can determine how many people are in a specific venue, and thus how busy it is, using typical traffic as a benchmark.
Google works out popular times, usual wait times and how long people stay by analyzing historical data. Google Maps displays a graph that indicates times when the business may be slow and when it’s likely to have queues out of the door. The average visit duration and wait time estimates are calculated using visitor patterns from the previous few weeks.
Visit duration is a great metric because it can give you an idea of how long people visit venues, like a museum, which allows you to better plan your day. Meanwhile, wait times are perfect for determining which restaurants and other service-based businesses will fit into your packed itinerary. You can even chat with Google Maps to order food, reserve hotels and more.
Avoiding areas with lots of people
Google also calculates how busy entire areas are, which is great for outdoor events. You can tap the “Busy area” label to see a chart for the times of day the space is usually at its busiest, along with a directory of the businesses in the vicinity. Google captures this data by combining the information it has on various locations within that locale, like stores, restaurants and even parks. It does not, however, capture data from private residences.
This is calculated, once again, using anonymous data from users who have opted into Google Timeline. Google must collect enough visitor data to be able to show this information, so it might not be as readily available for less popular locales. This feature is usually limited to high-traffic zones that attract a lot of people, like a tourist town or a festival location.
The data is always private, says Google, and never reveals the identity of people or the total number of people in a location. Google Maps will only tell you if a place is busy, not busy or so busy that it’s probably not worth the hassle.
Before opting in to Google Timeline, it’s worth noting that, with this feature on, Google is essentially always tracking your activity. Bear in mind, this not only helps determine the busyness of a location, but can also prove useful in other areas. Google Maps and its sister app, Waze, use similar techniques to track traffic patterns to help you find the best driving route to your destination.
If you prefer not to be part of the process, simply turn off Google Timeline, and you won’t contribute to the company’s data collection.
Apple’s latest Pro iPhones are officially available to pre-order. The iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max can now be ordered through Apple, major carriers, and participating retailers ahead of their September 18 release.
The iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199 for 256GB, while the larger iPhone 18 Pro Max starts at $1,299 with the same amount of storage. Both phones are available in 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB configurations. Color choices include Burgundy, Glacier, Silver, and Black.
Here’s where you can pre-order
Apple is accepting orders through its website and Apple Store app. Preorders are also available through AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and authorized retailers such as Amazon and Best Buy. Apple offers trade-in credits of up to $885 toward the new Pro models, while participating carriers have their own trade-in and bill-credit promotions.
The first preorder deliveries are scheduled for September 18, when both phones will also reach stores.
What’s new on the iPhone 18 Pro
Apple’s biggest upgrades this year include the new A20 Pro, its first 2nm iPhone chip, and a 48MP main camera with physical variable aperture. The Camera app also gets proper manual controls for aperture, shutter speed, and white balance.
The Dynamic Island is smaller, battery life has improved, and both models use an updated vapor chamber for better sustained performance. If you already own an iPhone 17 Pro and are wondering whether the new model is worth the upgrade, we’ve compared the iPhone 18 Pro with the iPhone 17 Pro to help make that decision easier.
Fears like these have long circulated in Silicon Valley and among niche communities obsessed with AI. In fact, several of the top AI companies were founded by leaders who each claimed they would take worries about “existential risk” more seriously than their rivals.
- A resigning Anthropic employee’s warning that advanced AI could wipe out humanity went mega-viral this week, spurring new interest in AI safety from the public and from Washington.
- The warning resonated because of recent news about rogue AI hacking, stunning increases in AI capabilities, and claims from inside the industry that the technology will soon get far more powerful.
- If the US government wanted to step in, officials could conceivably try to ban advanced AI, require new monitoring or approval for such research, or toughen liability standards in hopes the companies will rein in risk.
- Yet though many want action, serious obstacles remain — from President Trump’s own skepticism to the risk the technology’s rapid improvement will leave the government in the dust.
But as OpenAI, Anthropic, and other companies’ AI projects have advanced in recent years, the general public’s anxieties have tended to be less apocalyptic. Concerns about how AI will impact jobs, the environment, energy costs, or our politics have dominated the discourse, with the prospect of human extinction seeming rather far-fetched.
This was the week that worries AI might kill us all finally went mainstream — captivating public attention and even starting to galvanize politicians into more aggressive stances. An unprecedented rogue AI incident, a high-profile resignation from a top AI company, and increased concern from tech researchers about AI improving itself too quickly to be contained, have all combined to draw a much louder response from elected leaders in both parties.
The thing is, though, that politicians have already talked about this issue. The Biden administration put out an enormous executive order to limit the harms of AI, which President Donald Trump rescinded. The last two Congresses have promised different AI working groups, which have largely fizzled, or gone quiet. And even the Trump White House has a version of an AI safety plan, which it is enforcing — though the details are all kept private.
In conversations with AI safety advocates and experts this week, nobody I spoke to seemed confident that politicians were close to addressing the problem at the scale that AI really represents — and a lot of them aren’t sure the government could address it, even if it tried.
For anyone who wants to prevent some very bad outcomes, it’s important to understand where the solutions might actually lie — and where the mismatch between risk and solutions is coming from.
How AI panic went from nerds to normies
On September 8, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced on X that he was resigning from the company because it and OpenAI were “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” Coxon’s post went megaviral, amassing 150 million views and spurring significant media coverage. (Disclosure: Vox’s Future Perfect is funded in part by the BEMC Foundation, whose major funder was also an early investor in Anthropic; they don’t have any editorial input into our content.)
Coxon wasn’t some lone disgruntled dissenter. Anthropic’s alignment science lead Evan Hubinger soon wrote that “Jacob is correct here — we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” He added: “I personally think it is >10% within the next decade.” In fact, the company’s reputation for principled concern about disaster scenarios was one reason Coxon’s resignation was seen as so jarring.
What keeps safety-minded researchers like Coxon up at night? Deadly possibilities include hacking of crucial infrastructure or weapons systems, as well as AI-engineered biological weapons, all of which could kill many. But the true human extinction scenarios revolve around the belief that AI will keep getting exponentially smarter and more capable until it reaches the level of a “superintelligence” that we cannot control.
That probably still sounds like speculative science fiction. But a blizzard of recent news developments has hammered home that AI’s capabilities are rising extremely fast, and that AI is already getting out of control in ways that have real-world consequences.
A few months ago, a “swarm” of OpenAI agents gained access to the open internet and hacked the AI company Hugging Face, communicating and planning with each other in sci-fi-sounding ways to try to cheat on a test OpenAI had given them. And we’ve since learned that wasn’t the only time agents have escaped containment and taken over websites. (Disclosure: Vox Media is one of several publishers that have signed partnership agreements with OpenAI. Our reporting remains editorially independent.)
Recent days have brought headlines about advanced AI helping people make stunning breakthroughs in the fields of mathematics — and also in hacking (cybersecurity researchers developed a tool that could have taken over hundreds of millions of phones).
Then there are the ominous statements from people at leading AI companies on what they’re working on now. The companies are trying to move toward “recursive self-improvement” — that is, handing over the process of developing and improving AI models to AI itself, since that would be faster.
While it’s still theoretical, this has long been a linchpin of doomsayers’ theories of how AI could rapidly become something we don’t understand and can’t control — and maybe even cover up its tracks while doing so. Coxon mentioned this fear of “self-improving superintelligence” specifically in his post.
So whether you’re most afraid of humans using advanced AI for nefarious ends, autonomous AI launching out-of-control cyberattacks, or the birth of a superintelligence that could kill us all — there’s a surge of interest in what Washington can actually do about it. But what should they do about it?
Three government approaches for AI safety
In conversations with AI safety advocates, I heard three main approaches being floated.
The first is seemingly the simplest: just ban it.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) are proposing a permanent ban on “superintelligent AI systems,” which they define as a system that can “match or exceed human cognitive performance and capabilities across a broad range of domains or tasks.” Their proposal would also pause all advanced AI development until a new federal agency can be created to regulate it.
Yet few think it’s at all plausible that the Trump administration will agree to this, given Trump’s belief that AI data centers are his “golden goose” boosting the economy.
“We’re really wrestling with questions of political feasibility,” Jessica Ji, an analyst at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, told me. “A lot of proposals have to contend with what will specifically the Trump administration be willing to accept.”
There’s also a bipartisan fear that if we unilaterally stop AI development in the US, rival powers like China will simply forge ahead anyway, risking the same disastrous outcomes we’re trying to forestall. That means a real solution might require not only coming up with new rules for the US, but the even harder task of reaching a verifiable international agreement of some kind to head off an AI arms race.
So the second approach is to continue advanced AI development, but give the government or some independent group the authority to review or block systems officials deem dangerous. But there are very different ideas over who exactly should get this authority and how empowered they should be.
The Trump administration has been open to versions of this approach. They’ve already set out a process for top AI companies to voluntarily submit their latest models to government review before release — which OpenAI participated in before its release of its latest model, Astra, last week. But the process is secretive, the standards are unclear, and we don’t know whether the officials reviewing these releases even really understand them very well.
The administration is considering going further. This summer, Trump officials reportedly discussed a proposal to create an AI oversight organization modeled after FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. FINRA is supervised by the government, but it’s an industry-funded and industry-run body. It would mean the AI industry trying to regulate itself. But tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg opposed the idea, and there’s been no action on it yet.
To many AI safety advocates, though, that wouldn’t be enough. They want a government body with technically skilled and empowered officials who can actually understand and assess what these companies are doing.
“The government should be in a position to know a lot about what is happening at companies who are building frontier AI. This means knowing a lot about their safety plans, knowing a lot about incidents after they happen, and having all of this be legally binding rather than voluntary,” said Scott Wisor, a policy director at the Secure AI Project.
An alternative route to either industry self-regulation or a heavy government agency hand would be the government empowering AI safety nonprofits to review these companies’ activities. Some have pointed to METR, the nonprofit that OpenAI tasked with an independent review of the Hugging Face hack.
Finally, a third approach would try to pile on the legal risk in hopes of getting top AI companies to change their behavior and be more cautious. Think Meta’s recent multibillion-dollar settlement over teenage social media use, which seems poised to set new industry standards ahead of Congress.
“What I think should be the centerpiece of AI governance is a strict liability regime,” Gabriel Weil, a University of Houston law professor and a senior fellow at the Institute for Law and AI, told me.
The current system of liability law, Weil believes, is poorly suited for problems of AI agents acting autonomously. “If an Open AI human employee had hacked Hugging Face, it would be 100 percent clear that Open AI would be liable for that,” Weil said. But right now, he said, a lawsuit over this would have to prove that humans at OpenAI or the corporation itself behaved unreasonably or failed to take reasonable precautions.
So he suggests making clear AI companies are legally responsible for harmful agent behavior, as well as requiring them to buy liability insurance for catastrophic risks that could bankrupt the company, and even making them liable for damages in “near miss” incidents that could have been catastrophic.
Washington also isn’t the only game in town when it comes to new laws. There was some relative optimism about state legislatures — particularly in blue states, if the Democratic base gets more engaged on the AI safety issue. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed new AI safety legislation into law this week with backing from major AI companies.
“I think we’ll continue in this model where states are kind of forced to step in, and we’ll see new forms of AI policy coming from the states as compared to the federal government,” said Ji.
But will this talk turn into action?
Still, in my conversations there was widespread skepticism that a polarized Congress would manage to agree on a significant bill anytime soon — or that other avenues would bear fruit in time to head off some dangerous developments.
And though the Trump administration has shown some openness to taking action, the president himself has seemed less inclined. Asked this week by reporters if he had concerns AI could cause human extinction, he said, “No, I don’t have any.” He added: “I have concerns that if we don’t win AI, we’re going to be put in a very bad position.”
Yet Trump’s endorsement of the “AI race” frame is exactly what safety advocates are so worried about — that, in the big companies’ headlong rush to achieve superintelligence first, they’ll create something supremely disastrous. Plus, advocates fear, the worst-case scenarios could happen quite suddenly — and if these companies empower AI to start building more powerful versions of itself, it can be very hard to put the genie back in the bottle.
The good news, in a way, is that a lot of the proposed solutions are firmly within the realm of things the government has done before, and aren’t unrealistic — they just require some unified action, and political will. We’ve managed to do this before with all kinds of scary technologies, from nuclear weapons to the automobile.
There’s bad news too, though: the time factor. AI could conceivably improve itself so fast that eludes our control just as it becomes wildly dangerous — which the government, even a functional government with good intentions, just cannot move fast enough to address.
“Ultimately, I worry that the public is taking on a huge amount of risk already and that the timeframe for legislative solutions to come online might not be quick enough for the scale of challenge ahead,” said Steven Adler, a former OpenAI safety researcher who has co-founded a safety nonprofit, Guidelight AI Standards.
Partly for this reason, the darkest thought I heard expressed repeatedly in my conversations was that, as impactful as Coxon’s warning was in capturing attention, it might not be enough — and that the government might not swing into action until AI actually starts getting people killed.
To some of them, that’s even a relatively optimistic scenario. Perhaps some deadly, but not humanity-threatening, events could galvanize action to rein in dangerous AI development before it gains truly species-threatening capabilities. Here’s, uh, hoping?
If you’re a fan of anime and live sports, this news is for you: Sony’s streaming service Crunchyroll has launched a bundle with Fox One for customers based in the US. The package, called the Crunchyroll Fan Tier x Fox One bundle, costs $23 per month and is now available on Prime Video for a limited time.
It’s worth noting that this pair-up offers customers a 23% discount compared to the price for subscribing to each service separately. Crunchyroll on its own costs $10 for its ad-free plan; Fox One costs $20 per month.
Pairing sports and anime fandoms may sound out of place, but a recent study by Crunchyroll from the National Research Group shows how strong the entertainment genre has become. “54% of Gen Z globally make their love for anime known — just behind LeBron James at 59%, and ahead of Serena Williams at 47% and Shohei Ohtani at 25%,” the press release states.
Fox One features a full slate of Fox’s entertainment brands, including Fox News, Fox Sports, the Fox Network, Fox Business, Fox Weather, FS1, FS2, Fox Deportes, the Big Ten Network and your local Fox stations.
Crunchyroll is the largest anime streaming platform in the world, boasting over 21 million subscribers. The service features anime hits like Dragon Ball, Naruto and My Hero Academia, along with current standouts Black Torch, Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia, Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You and One Piece Heroines.
This is the second bundle Crunchyroll has launched this year. Earlier this summer, the streaming service announced its first, with Starz. If you’ve been wanting to watch your favorite anime shows in the comfort of your own car, Crunchyroll will soon be available on select vehicles’ entertainment systems.
Texas A&M’s Advanced Vertical Flight Laboratory has spent years turning a century-old flying idea into something that can actually hold still in the air. Latest result is a 55-pound uncrewed aircraft whose four rotors spin like sideways paddle wheels instead of overhead discs. A recent flight-test video from lab director Moble Benedict shows the machine in controlled hover, using RPM and pitch-phase control on all four cycloidal rotors.
Ramsay Ramsey, a graduate student, tests his 25 kg quad cyclocopter as part of his Master’s thesis. In a 2022 article with David Coleman, Benedict, Saul Sanchez, and Atanu Halder, the design details are put out: this beauty is 1.8 meters long, 1.4 meters wide, and 0.8 meters tall, with four cantilevered cyclorotors and a smart five-bar system to pitch each blade once every revolution. Initial testing was done while connected. Later on, both the lab and Benedict’s own channel demonstrate the remote-controlled hover work on the same 55-pound airframe.
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Cyclorotors behave quite differently from helicopter blades. Airfoils are supported by a horizontal axle, and their pitch changes with each turn, ensuring that each blade encounters the air at a suitable angle at both the top and bottom of their circle. Because the entire span moves at the same speed, the rotor can generate thrust at relatively low rpm. Changing the phase of such pitching results in a thrust vector that jumps almost immediately. Benedict claims that rapid vectoring is why the layout can manage gusts faster than a traditional rotor and why the airframe can hover at weird pitch angles, which is highly helpful if you want a camera to stare sideways without using a hefty gimbal.
The 55-pound ship’s four rotors are each six-blade units with a 0.67 chord-to-radius ratio, a symmetric NACA 0015 section, and a pitch amplitude of 45°. In-house 2D CFD tests determined that the mix provided a punchy combination of strong thrust and excellent power loading at around 700 rpm. The frame tubes are carbon fiber, as light as the vibratory loads allow, and include a carbon cowling and mounts for batteries and electronics. Plus, blades and supports on this type of machine have been claimed to account for only a fifth of the empty mass, a figure that they take as a real budget rather than a slogan.
Control is complicated on purpose because the four rotors may change speed and thrust direction separately, giving you eight control knobs and an overactuated hover. To maintain the aircraft upright, a bespoke autopilot uses a cascaded PID loop. That software is handling the behind-the-scenes work in the new hover footage; cage-like rotors continue to whirl, the body remains level, and nothing in the video appears to be an accident.
DaVinci Resolve is an all-in-one multimedia editing application that combines video editing, color correction, visual effects, motion graphics, audio post-production, and photo editing in a single platform. It offers a unified workflow that reduces the need to switch between multiple tools, with support for high-quality, camera-original media throughout the production process. The software is designed to accommodate both new users and professionals, and is widely used across film and video production environments.
Features
High end professionals working on feature films and television shows use DaVinci Resolve more than any other solution! That’s because it’s known for incredible quality and creative tools that are light years beyond the competition. You get DaVinci’s Emmy award winning image technology with 32-bit float processing, patented YRGB color science and a massive wide gamut color space for the latest HDR workflows.
You also get the legendary quality of Fairlight audio processing for the best sound in the industry! With DaVinci Resolve, you get the same tools professional colorists, editors, VFX artists and sound engineers use every day to finish your favorite films and streaming television shows.
Multi User Collaboration
DaVinci Resolve is the only solution that lets you grow and build your own multi user post production studio! The project libraries are built for real time local and remote collaboration. While the Blackmagic Cloud website lets you host and access your projects and media from anywhere in the world. Now you can collaborate with editors, colorists, visual effects artists, and sound engineers all working together at the same time. Best of all, you no longer have to import and export files, translate projects, lose work, or conform and manage changes. DaVinci Resolve is the only application in the world that lets everyone work together in parallel on the same project and at the same time.
All In One Solution for Post Production
DaVinci Resolve is divided into “pages”, each of which gives you a dedicated workspace and tools for a specific task. Editing is done on the cut and edit pages, visual effects and motion graphics on the Fusion page, color correction on the color page, audio on the Fairlight page, and media organization and output on the media and deliver pages. All it takes is a single click to switch between tasks.
Photo – Hollywood’s most advanced color tools for still photos
The Photo page introduces Hollywood’s most advanced color tools to still photography for the first time. Whether you’re a professional colorist applying your existing skills to fashion shoots and weddings, or a photographer ready to push the boundaries of dedicated photo apps, DaVinci Resolve unlocks the tools you need. Work with native RAW files from Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon and Sony cameras, reframing and cropping at source resolution. Manage and organize media with Albums and apply the full DaVinci color toolset to your images. Tether a camera for live capture and collaborate via Blackmagic Cloud. With all of DaVinci’s AI toolset, ResolveFX and FusionFX, the only limit is your imagination.
Edit – The world’s fastest and most advanced professional NLE
The edit page is the world’s most advanced professional non-linear editor. The familiar track layout, dual monitor design and traditional workflow makes it easy for new users to learn while still being powerful enough for professional editors. It’s perfect for larger projects such as feature films, television shows, streaming, commercials, documentaries and more. The edit page features drag and drop editing, context sensitive automatic trimming tools, fully customizable keyboard shortcuts so you can work faster, and a library full of hundreds of titles, transitions, and effects that you can add and animate. You also get complete media management, organization and timeline management tools.
Cut – Designed for editors to turn around work fast
The cut page is perfect for projects with tight deadlines that you have to turn around quickly. The streamlined interface is fast to learn and designed for speed. Features such as source tape, dual timelines, fast review, and smart editing tools help you work faster than ever. The sync bin and source overwrite tools let you quickly edit multicam programs. It’s also great for documentaries plus live broadcast editing and replay. Multi Source is the fastest way to see your cameras and edit to the timeline while the cameras are still recording! Everything on the cut page is action based so every click does something. That means you’ll spend more time editing and less time hunting for commands.
Color – Hollywood’s favorite color corrector
The DaVinci Resolve color page is Hollywood’s most advanced color corrector and has been used to color and finish more high end feature films and television shows than any other system! It’s also approachable with features designed to make it easier for new users to get great results while they continue to learn the advanced tools. For example, primary control sliders will be familiar to anyone who’s used image editing software, making it easy to adjust contrast, temperature, mid-tone detail, saturation and more. The color page has an incredible range of primary and secondary color grading features including PowerWindows, qualifiers, tracking, advanced HDR grading tools and more.
Node Editor for Non-Destructive Edits
DaVinci Resolve’s powerful node based workflow can now be used on still images. Add nodes in series or parallel to build complex grades, apply different corrections to different parts of an image simultaneously and use shared nodes to apply the same look across an entire album of photos at once.
Cropping and Reframing
The Photo page lets you reframe and crop images at their original source resolution and aspect ratio. Every adjustment preserves the full quality of your original file, so you can refine your composition at any time without ever affecting image quality.
What’s New
DaVinci Resolve 21 introduces the Photo page, bringing Hollywood’s most advanced color tools to still photography! A new generation of AI tools let you search media by content, read slate data, perform de-aging, blemish removal and more. The Edit and Cut pages have improved keyframing and greater graphic format support. Color page workflows are optimized with MultiMaster trim passes, layer list node graphs and group versions. Fusion offers over 70 new graphics via the powerful Krokodove toolset. Fairlight’s folder function simplifies audio track management and navigation. Plus, increased support for immersive and VR workflows puts you at the forefront of the latest deliverable technologies.
Search Contentwith AI IntelliSearch
Instantly search for people and content with AI IntelliSearch! Analyze media and use the IntelliSearch tool to find specific objects or key words in dialog. You can even search for individual faces! Results appear as whole clips in the Media Pool for faster clip organization and editing.
Advanced AI Speech Generator
Generate speech from written text using one of Blackmagic’s voice models or a sample of your own. The DaVinci AI Neural Engine can create a unique voice from as little as a 10 second clip! Adjust speed, pitch and even inflection, to create multiple performances for voiceovers, narration and more.
Adjust Focuswith AI CineFocus
Define the focal point of a shot with AI CineFocus! Click to focus on a particular area of a scene and adjust aperture and focal range to change the depth of field. Advanced controls let you select the aperture shape and add optical effects like bokeh. You can even keyframe parameters to rack focus!
AI Face AgeTransformer
Change an actor’s age with the AI Face Age Transformer tool. Analyze a face, enter the subject’s age and adjust the age offset slider to add or remove age-related features, such as wrinkles and facial fullness. Perfect for maintaining continuity in flashbacks and flash-forward scenes!
AI Face Reshaper
The AI Face Reshaper lets you change facial features’ shape and position on a moving subject. After detecting and tracking a face in a clip, use the AI Face Reshaper parameters to adjust the eyes, nose, mouth, eyebrows and overall face shape. Manual controls let you fine-tune the resulting face.
AI Blemish Removal
The AI Blemish Removal tool is perfect for reducing the appearance of superficial skin imperfections such as acne, discoloration, spots and pores while retaining texture of the natural skin. Use the strength slider to adjust the intensity of the tool to better suit the subject in the scene.
Sync withAI Slate ID
AI Slate ID automatically detects the slate clapperboard details! It intelligently extracts metadata from the slate in the frame, even in dark or out-of-focus clips, saving hours in metadata entry. Media is ready for editing, faster than ever before!
Extreme QualityAI UltraSharpen
DaVinci’s most advanced sharpening tool to date lets you produce significantly clearer, high quality moving images. Use AI UltraSharpen with upscaled videos to make previously unusable footage sharp in higher resolutions. AI UltraSharpen can also be used to improve or fix slight focus errors.
AI Motion Deblur
Remove common motion blur artifacts, such as streaks and softness, from video content. AI Motion Deblur analyzes the source media file and generates a new render with significantly reduced blurring for more dynamic images. This tool is perfect for more impactful slow motion and freeze frame effects.
Photo
Hollywood GradingTools for Still Photography
DaVinci Resolve’s powerful post-production workflow now fully integrates photo image editing! The new Photo page lets you import and manage photographs, integrating with the color page for node based grading. Now colorists and photographers can use Hollywood color grading tools on still images!
Support forDaVinci Color Tools
Now you can easily use the legendary DaVinci color page tools for still images! Use primary color correction, curves, qualifiers, power windows and node editor to adjust color in artistic ways across your entire project. Plus, you can use a DaVinci color panel to adjust multiple parameters at once!
Node Editor for Non-Destructive Edits
DaVinci Resolve’s powerful node based workflow can now be used on still images. Add nodes in series or parallel to build complex grades, apply different corrections to different parts of an image simultaneously and use shared nodes to apply the same look across an entire album of photos at once!
Croppingand Reframing
The Photo page lets you reframe and crop images at their original source resolution and aspect ratio. Every adjustment preserves the full quality of your original file, so you can refine your composition at any time without ever affecting image quality.
LightBox View
LightBox view on the Photo page gives you an overview of your entire album with grades applied. Select any image and grade it live while seeing the results update across the whole collection in real time. Filter by graded, ungraded, star rating, flag and clip color for fast library management!
Organize Images in Albums
Albums let you build and manage collections directly in DaVinci. Create albums based on shoot days, camera models, or any desired criteria, and save countless hours by tagging and making raw setting adjustments in batches. Albums appear as timelines on the Color, Cut and Edit pages for easy access.
Instantly Search Library
AI IntelliSearch lets you instantly find any photo across your entire project using plain language search. Analyze your albums and search for specific people, objects, animals or scenes without manual tagging. You can even label individuals to search for them by name!
Direct Image Capture
Camera Controls let you tether a Sony or Canon camera directly to DaVinci Resolve for live image capture. Adjust camera settings such as ISO, exposure, white balance, monitor with live view and save capture presets to lock in a consistent look before you shoot. Images save directly into an album!
Full Resolve FX Support
Resolve FX and Open FX plug-in support is available for still images on the Photo page, allowing you to apply effects, graphics, transforms and DCTLs. You can apply looks directly in the Photo page with the help of LUTs or generate LUTs to later apply looks in-camera or while monitoring.
DaVinci AI Toolset
You can access DaVinci Resolve’s powerful native AI tools within the Photo page. Tools like the AI Magic Mask let you make one click selections of an object or person, and separately color grade different elements on an image. Or use the new AI UltraSharpen to upscale low resolution images.
Blackmagic Cloud Collaboration
The Photo page is integrated into DaVinci Resolve’s multiuser collaboration workflow using Blackmagic Cloud. You can share the contents of albums, all associated metadata and tags, and all grades and effects with colorists, visual effects artists and editors, simultaneously anywhere in the world!
Cut and Edit
Keyframes andCurves Editor Updates
Keyframing updates include new ease animations with loop, pingpong and relative modes plus simultaneous adjustments to multiple clips. The curves editor’s normalized zoom mode automatically scales curves to fill the available vertical space. Four-point Bezier easing supports complex video retiming.
AnimateFusion Effects
You can now adjust Fusion effects directly in the keyframes and curves editors of the cut and edit pages. This allows for more seamless workflows as you tweak text, transitions and motion graphics without leaving the editing pages. For advanced VFX adjustments, simply click the Fusion button!
HTML Graphicsand Lottie Support
Native support for OGraf HTML graphics and Lottie animations means that you can now drag .json and .lottie files directly into the media pool, where they will be treated like fully rendered animation clips. Alpha channels are recognized, allowing you to layer graphics and titles over video tracks.
Improved Text+and MultiText Tools
You can now enable multi-language spell check for all text elements, preview fonts in a dedicated font browser window and use emojis in your text. Character level styling lets you assign different attributes such as font size, weight and color within a single text box, simplifying title design.
Smart Bin Views in Cut Page
In the cut page, the bin list dropdown now features smart bins and quick access buttons for creating new bins. Smart bins allow you to design sophisticated media pool filters based on a wide range of rules and criteria. For example, filtering to display only .braw clips that have been flagged green.
Color
MultiMaster Trim Manager
The MultiMaster trim manager allows you to generate multiple HDR and SDR trim deliverables from a single timeline. When enabled, the node editor will display additional layers for trim operations, allowing you to color manage the timeline for each output standard and render each iteration in one go.
Magic Mask Render in Place
The Magic Mask palette now features a render in place option, allowing you to cache a tracked mask as a traveling matte node. The resulting matte will automatically link to your active node, allowing you to continue grading and applying effects in real time, with significantly lighter processing.
Layer List View in Node Editor
You can now change the color page node editor to layers view. Nodes are listed in rows according to their number in the node graph. This typically results in a less crowded interface and allows for easier node management when adding, labelling, switching, locking, bypassing and removing nodes.
Group Color Grade Versions
When using groups in DaVinci 21, you can now create and manage multiple grade versions. Right-click to add a new version or to change the group version of pre-clip and post-clip node graphs. This affects all clips in a group uniformly. Remove clips from groups for individual grading.
Fusion
Krokodove Motion Graphics
Fusion now proudly features Krokodove, the popular and ever-growing library of motion graphics. The collection ranges from utility tools that improve productivity, to essential vector and data tools, to customizable 2D and 3D graphic templates that can be used throughout DaVinci Resolve.
Macro Editor Inspector View
Building Fusion tools and templates is now even easier with the updated macro editor. Significant interface improvements make developing custom tools and templates faster and more intuitive. Use the newly supported inspector view to effortlessly set up, format and publish macros for immediate use.
Audio DrivenFusion Animation
The Fairlight Animator modifier connects Fusion to Fairlight’s audio engine, enabling automatic animation based on audio analysis. The audio levels from timeline clips or media pool sources are used to drive the control of parameters such as eyes and lips giving you dynamic animation!
Upgraded USD Toolset
The USD toolset has been updated to USD SDK 25.11 with Hydra 2.0 API for the Storm renderer. This gives VFX artists an improved Fusion USD environment, with support for 3D matte objects and textures, USD Texture Projector and Catcher, plus global in and out controls for the USD loader.
Read the complete release notes here.
Previous Release Notes:
The following features have been added or updated.
- Relink clips can now relink proxies with different formats.
- DRT imports automatically relink to existing nested clips if present.
- Selected clip stays in view with clip filter changes in the Color page.
- Support for importing Affinity legacy file formats.
- Support for Sony FX-5 X-OCN clips.
- Scripting API to get timeline clip selection.
- Scripting API to get timeline object from media pool timeline entry.
- SetRenderSettings API options for handles, extents and data burn.
- Addressed realtime playback issues on large cached timelines.
- Addressed power bin navigation bar issue in media pool windows.
- Addressed segment clip suffixes in media management.
- Addressed issue with edit index ordering.
- Addressed source viewer audio issue when pasting timecode.
- Addressed multiple retime speed curve editing issues.
- Addressed path length issues for Fusion templates on Windows.
- Addressed missing marker notes tag for data burn in.
- Addressed issue with decoding some DPX files.
- Addressed issue with decoding some CR2 stills.
- General performance and stability improvements.
What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 21.0.3
The following features have been added or updated:
- New legacy speed mode retime curve option.
- DNG pre tone curve is enabled by default in new projects.
- Addressed missing QuickSync encode options on older Intel GPUs.
- Addressed issue with adding keyframe at a subframe.
- Addressed issue with pasting keyframes to linked audio clips.
- Added configurable keyframe ease actions.
- Inspector frame display for interlaced transition durations.
- Addressed interlaced generator and transition duration interpretation.
- Addressed audio duration for inserted segment of interlaced media.
- Addressed field dominance detection issue for some interlaced clips.
- Addressed Fusion issue with importing PSDs with disabled layers.
- Addressed issue with rendered Magic Mask for photos in album.
- Addressed bezier window move when adjusting vertex smoothness.
- Addressed issue with decoding some Sony BURANO X-OCN clips.
- Addressed preview issue with HDR still exports on some browsers.
- Addressed wrong audio mapping scripting results in some scenarios.
- Updated DaVinci Resolve 21 reference manual.
- Replay SDI output now always shows selected camera.
- Scripting API support to list project attributes in a project bin.
- Scripting API support for user preferences presets.
- Scripting API support for listing UI layout presets.
- Scripting API support for listing and deleting data burn in presets.
- Addressed installation issues on some Windows systems.
- Custom install location for Windows ARM encode SDK plugins.
- General performance and stability improvements.
What’s new in DaVinci Resolve 21.0.2? The following features have been added or updated.
- Addressed thumbnail preview when bypassing color or Fusion.
- Improved display of retime speed curve.
- Addressed issue with pasting copied keyframes between clips.
- Addressed issue with video inspector zoom minimum values.
- Addressed issue with slower IntelliSearch performance.
- Addressed bit depth when exporting current frame as TIFF still.
- Addressed inconsistent selection of source tape.
- Addressed inspector unicode display issue with spell check.
- Addressed some Fusion transition defaults for vertical timelines.
- Addressed media pool custom sort persistence issue.
- General performance and stability improvements.
DaVinci Resolve 21 introduces the Photo page, bringing Hollywood’s most advanced color tools to still photography! A new generation of AI tools let you search media by content, read slate data, perform de-aging, blemish removal and more. The Edit and Cut pages have improved keyframing and greater graphic format support. Color page workflows are optimized with MultiMaster trim passes, layer list node graphs and group versions. Fusion offers over 70 new graphics via the powerful Krokodove toolset. Fairlight’s folder function simplifies audio track management and navigation. Plus, increased support for immersive and VR workflows puts you at the forefront of the latest deliverable technologies.
DaVinci Resolve 21 Features
- New photo image editing now fully integrated within DaVinci Resolve.
- Support for DaVinci color control toolset and grading panels.
- Reframe and crop images at original source resolution and aspect ratio.
- LightBox view gives an overview of entire album with grades applied.
- Albums let you build, manage and tweak photos at source resolution.
- Direct image capture via Sony or Canon tethered cameras.
- Looks, LUTs, Resolve and Open FX for your images.
- Photo page is integrated with Blackmagic Cloud collaborative workflow.
- AI IntelliSearch lets you easily search for people or objects.
- AI Speech Generator transforms written text to spoken voice.
- AI CineFocus allows refocus with realistic bokeh and lens effects.
- AI Face Age Transformer lets you age or de-age a face.
- AI Face Reshaper for flexible reshape and resize of facial features.
- AI Blemish Removal to repair facial and skin blemishes.
- AI SlateID to read slate and populate clip metadata.
- AI UltraSharpen for high fidelity sharpening of moving images.
- AI Motion Deblur enables removal of common motion blur artifacts.
- Keyframing provides powerful retime controls with 4 point bezier.
- Fusion animation can be creatively driven by Fairlight audio.
- Native support for OGraf HTML graphics and Lottie animations.
- Spell checking, color fonts and Emoji for Text+ and MultiText.
- Smart bin views in Cut page.
- MultiMaster trim pass to grade single timeline to many deliverables.
- Render Magic Mask in place as an external matte.
- Node graphs can now be viewed as a layer list.
- Support for Krokodove motion graphics effects.
- New Macro Editor with inspector view and publishing to edit effects.
- Support for USD SDK 25.11 with Hydra 2.0 API for Storm renderer.
- Folder tracks allow a group of tracks to be folded down or expanded.
- Apple Immersive workflows now support foveated rendering.
- VR180 and VR360 deliver presets for Meta Quest and YouTube.
- Fusion adds Panomap immersive rotation and ILPD retargeting.
- Resolve FX Picture in Picture effect.
- IntelliScript supports Final Draft or plain text screenplay imports.
- Metadata panel supports star rating and tagging for clips.
Search Content with AI IntelliSearch
Instantly search for people and content with AI IntelliSearch! Analyze media and use the IntelliSearch tool to find specific objects or key words in dialog. You can even search for individual faces! Results appear as whole clips in the Media Pool for faster clip organization and editing.
Advanced AI Speech Generator
Generate speech from written text using one of Blackmagic’s voice models or a sample of your own. The DaVinci AI Neural Engine can create a unique voice from as little as a 10 second clip! Adjust speed, pitch and even inflection, to create multiple performances for voiceovers, narration and more.
Adjust Focus with AI CineFocus
Define the focal point of a shot with AI CineFocus! Click to focus on a particular area of a scene and adjust aperture and focal range to change the depth of field. Advanced controls let you select the aperture shape and add optical effects like bokeh. You can even keyframe parameters to rack focus!
AI Face Age Transformer
Change an actor’s age with the AI Face Age Transformer tool. Analyze a face, enter the subject’s age and adjust the age offset slider to add or remove age-related features, such as wrinkles and facial fullness. Perfect for maintaining continuity in flashbacks and flash-forward scenes!
AI Face Reshaper
The AI Face Reshaper lets you change facial features’ shape and position on a moving subject. After detecting and tracking a face in a clip, use the AI Face Reshaper parameters to adjust the eyes, nose, mouth, eyebrows and overall face shape. Manual controls let you fine-tune the resulting face.
AI Blemish Removal
The AI Blemish Removal tool is perfect for reducing the appearance of superficial skin imperfections such as acne, discoloration, spots and pores while retaining texture of the natural skin. Use the strength slider to adjust the intensity of the tool to better suit the subject in the scene.
Sync with AI Slate ID
AI Slate ID automatically detects the slate clapperboard details! It intelligently extracts metadata from the slate in the frame, even in dark or out-of-focus clips, saving hours in metadata entry. Media is ready for editing, faster than ever before!
Extreme Quality AI Ultra Sharpen
DaVinci’s most advanced sharpening tool to date lets you produce significantly clearer, high quality moving images. Use AI UltraSharpen with upscaled videos to make previously unusable footage sharp in higher resolutions. AI UltraSharpen can also be used to improve or fix slight focus errors.
AI Motion Deblur
Remove common motion blur artifacts, such as streaks and softness, from video content. AI Motion Deblur analyzes the source media file and generates a new render with significantly reduced blurring for more dynamic images. This tool is perfect for more impactful slow motion and freeze frame effects.
Hollywood Grading Tools for Still Photography
DaVinci Resolve’s powerful post-production workflow now fully integrates photo image editing! The new Photo page lets you import and manage photographs, integrating with the color page for node based grading. Now colorists and photographers can use Hollywood color grading tools on still images!
Support for DaVinci Color Tools
Now you can easily use the legendary DaVinci color page tools for still images! Use primary color correction, curves, qualifiers, power windows and node editor to adjust color in artistic ways across your entire project. Plus, you can use a DaVinci color panel to adjust multiple parameters at once!
Read the complete release notes here.
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