The Love Island USA season 8 reunion premieres exclusively on Peacock on Monday, August 31 at 9pm ET and if it’s anything like the spicy trailer, reality TV fans are in for a treat. All eyes on Melanie… that’s all we’re saying.

You can watch the Love Island USA season 8 reunion online from anywhere with a VPN and potentially for free.

Every F-35 pilot in the US Air Force gets their own custom-fitted $400,000 helmet, which lets them peer through the cockpit mid-flight to see what’s going on in the surrounding airspace and the ground below.

This is possible through six infrared cameras embedded on to the flight’s exterior, broadcasting a 360-degree video stream straight into the pilot’s visor. Pilots say it’s like being able to see through the hull of the aircraft, as if it were made of glass.

No expense spared

The MSI PRO MP243 is a slim-bezel monitor that delivers nearly everything you would want from a low-cost display. At the same time, it’s exactly what you would expect when you hear the words “budget monitor.”

It’s not going to impress you with flashy features, and it’s not going to win any performance awards. It’s not the very best business monitor we’ve ever tested. But what it does offer, however, is a sleek design, an easy setup, and enough of what most people need to make it a practical choice for everyday work in the office or home.

Four days into a Kickstarter run that ends September 26, FarseerTech’s RocXZoom has already pulled in about $249,628 from 344 backers against a $9,999 goal. Company copy calls it the world’s first robotic extreme zoom camera, and the hardware matches the slogan more closely than most crowdfunding pitches do.

FarseerTech’s senior team formerly worked on the R&D and mass production of DJI products such as the Inspire, Osmo Pocket, and the high-end Ronin 4D. As you’d expect, this experience is reflected in the camera’s design: a beautifully machined aluminum body, a motorized pan-and-tilt head, a built-in vision chip, and a long zoom, all packed into a 400-gram handheld unit rated for IP54 dust and splash resistance, which means it can withstand being dropped in the mud. A 5 inch OLED screen on the back provides a clear view of what you’re capturing. The battery life is advertized as up to four hours.

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On paper, the camera has some impressive specs, including a 20x optical zoom and 50x hybrid zoom, which is equivalent to a 40mm to 2,000mm full frame lens range, albeit the latter is a bit misleading; more on that below. The aperture increases from f1.8 to f3.9 as the lens extends. Video resolution is up to 4K at 30fps, with 1080p accessible at both 30 and 60fps. Photos can be in either 4K or 1080p resolution. Stabilization is achieved by a mixture of electrical image stabilization within the camera and, on higher-end kits, a gimbal. The 2,000mm figure attracts a lot of attention, but it’s worth taking a closer look: the camera has a far more realistic reach of roughly 40mm to 1kmm, with the rest being digital zoom and processing. The software they’ve developed will determine how well that works in the long run.

Then there’s subject tracking, which employs a computer vision system to detect subjects and automatically pan and zoom the camera to keep them in view. It is based on a model that has been trained on a large number of bird photos, with additional assistance from a Siamese network to identify individuals. FarseerTech claims it can identify over 300 distinct animal species, track people or custom targets, react in 0.01 seconds, and keep up with subjects moving at up to 45 mph. So far, we’ve seen some demo film featuring a fake bird on a remote control car, which is a good real-world test but far from the subjects they claim it can handle.

The camera has a small but powerful 1/2.5 inch sensor hidden behind that impressive-sounding lens. That allows them to pack a lot of zoom into a small body, but it also means sacrificing some image quality, especially in low light, dynamic range, and fine texture. Anyone who has used a competent compact or mirrorless camera with a good telephoto lens understands what I’m talking about.

FarseerTech is marketing this camera based on ease and automation rather than pure image quality. That’s supported by the pricing: their Kickstarter campaign is substantially more competitive than the retail price, with the Super Early Bird for the standalone camera costing only $449, followed by $499 and $549 on later tiers, for an MSRP of $799. The Pro Kit costs somewhat more: Super Early Bird is $849, followed by $949 and $1,049, with a retail price of $2,099. They hope to begin shipping this device by November 2026, but they showed out the hardware during CES 2026, so we at least have an idea of how it functions.
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• AI data center construction is now a hot-button topic in the US
• President Trump wants constituents to embrace data centers or risk falling behind
• Trump does not address energy, resource, or other growing concerns

The growth and expansion of generative AI is unprecedented, surpassed only, perhaps, by the rapid expansion and impact of the data centers that support it. While anti-data center sentiment is on the rise, US President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social social media platform on Monday to urge people to support rapid data center growth, warning those who oppose that “the only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is that they want to end up being backwards and poor.”

Before we dive into the rest of Trump’s post, it’s worth stepping back to look at data center construction growth and the more recent and somewhat remarkable backlash.

I had been leery of prepared meal delivery services. They gave me flashbacks to those delivery diet plans sold on late night television in the 1990s. And so Tempo Meals, a spin-off prepared meal brand from meal kit service Home Chef, came as a pleasant surprise even after testing dozens of meal kits.

Tempo meals look like TV dinners, but they’ve never been frozen, thanks to advances in packaging technology. The beef barbacoa and sous-vide chicken I tried actually retained moisture and tenderness. Green beans were still vibrantly green, with a little bit of snap. They’re cooked in a commissary kitchen, and shipped to your doorstep in special packaging that prevents spoilage without using a bunch of preservatives. Heat-and-eat meals won’t ever be quite as good as freshly cooked meals, but especially when I reheated them in an air fryer they got closer than expected.

Tempo is especially known for high-protein and GLP-1 plans created in consultation with dietitians, helping prevent people from losing muscle mass when on calorie-restricted diets or just in midlife. Meals are $11 to $13 a serving at regular price, but Tempo Meals discount codes are available. For now, with a Tempo Meals promo code, you can get up to 60% off your first box of Tempo, with discounts throughout the first month.

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Like a lot of meal delivery services, Tempo Meals wants you to try them out in hopes you enjoy the service and decide you can’t live without it. And so Home Chef offers a Tempo Meals coupon code for new customers. Depending on the Tempo promo code, this may be a straight discount of 30% off for the first four weeks. Or it may be 50% or 60% off the first box, and then discounts off the next month of boxes. Right now, you can also sign up for a lifetime free breakfast item. For previous customers who for whatever reason paused their Tempo subscription, there are Tempo Meals promo codes for existing customers that show up in your inbox. These may automatically be applied when you visit the Tempo website.

Activate the Heroes Discount to Get 50% Off Now and 10% Off for a Lifetime

Most Tempo Meals promo codes are good for deals during the introductory week only. But the Tempo Meals heroes discount applies for life for military personnel, first responders, teachers, doctors, nurses, and other hospital employees. To get the heroes discount from Tempo, you’ll need to verify your identity with the ID.Me system. After this, you get a permanent discount—pretty much the best discounts available if you plan on using Tempo long-term for a high-protein meal program.

Secure Instant Savings by Applying Your Tempo Meals Coupon

Often, Home Chef offers multiple Tempo Meals coupons at the same time. These can usually be activated on the site by clicking on the right pop-up. After you enter your area code and email address to verify that Tempo serves your area, you’ll be asked a couple questions about your meal preferences, before selecting how many meals you want each week—anywhere from six to 20 meals. At checkout, make sure the right Tempo Meals discount code has been applied to your order. This may include free shipping for the first week, and an extra item such as free breakfast.

I’ve written quite a lot about 8K TV over the years, which seems so strange for a format that’s never really taken off.

Maybe it really is the hope that kills you. The amount of effort TV brands put into showcasing an 8K future, only to slowly retreat from it and pursue other lines of picture quality. And while no one seems to have officially put the stake into 8K TV’s chest, the silence around the technology has approached deafening levels.

8K popped into my mind recently as I was going through our best buys and updating the best 8K TV page. The past few years have seen the options dwindle, and each time I look at it, it’s not to add something but likely to remove a no longer available TV and to spruce up the copy so that it reflects 8K’s current status of a technology that was a thing rather than is a thing.

With RGB tellies occupying the mind space of TV brands, I can’t help but wonder where TVs go next.

The search for the next shiny thing

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I’ve written much about how 8K arrived too soon trying to do too much without the content in place. Some out there on the Internet forums would still believe that 8K is just over the horizon, but if studios and the such wanted to make content available, they’d have done so years ago. There is an apathy rather than excitement around 8K that’s consumed it whole. Samsung was the format’s biggest cheerleader but even it has gone quiet recently.

TV brands have been searching for an answer to the next frontier in TV technology, but so far it’s been a busted flush. It started with 3D in the 2010s, a technology that no one quite seemed to figure out how to make it work for the home. This kicked off a series of ‘shiny’ new things that the industry would investigate, toil and make hard work of, and then leave it to list while pursuing other ‘shiny’ things.

QLED started of as a premium technology for TVs priced at £2000+ and now you can get it in a TV that costs £350. You’ll see in marketing for QLED TVs that they’re brighter and more colourful than standard TVs (or something to that effect), but the problem with this is that QLED is now the standard, and there’s been no progress in the technology for years at budget price brackets.

We then had a dabble with MicroLED, but quite correctly that proved prohibitive in terms of cost and who the intended market was for. MicroLED is more B2B – at best it’s custom install for the millionaires and billionaires out there. The dream of MicroLED being able to make it into 55-inch sizes was just that – a dream.

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We’ve had fancy looking OLED TVs – LG bringing out its rollable OLED-R, but designs like this came and went leaving less a crater and more a scoop of unturned soil. Then we Mini-LED (Quantum Dot Mini LED) but that’s experience a similar trajectory as QLED. A panel technology that started life as the reserve of those who could afford riches has now reached affordable status. Samsung’s M80H is an entry-level Mini LED for £699. A few years ago and that would have cost £2000.

RGB Mini LED seemed like it could be the cure-all, but now that we’re past the launches, RGB doesn’t feel like it’s an earth-shattering development. That’s not to say that RGB TVs aren’t good – some are better than others, of course – but it’s already suffering from a lack of excitement and enthusiasm. At the end of the day, it is an LCD TV, and has the same strengths and drawbacks.

Let’s not forget OLED, which seems to be the one TV technology that’s resisting taking a dive and becoming affordable. But it suffers from a lack of competition – Sony dabble in it, Hisense and TCL disavow it, Panasonic has struggled to assert itself, and no other TV brand will touch it because of the dominance of both LG and Samsung in the sector.

Where next?

It feels as if the TV industry has slowly exhausted its options, and at the same time, customers do not seem much enthused.

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We remain in a cost of living crisis but something has changed in the conversation around TVs. Teens and young adults care more about their phones, younger kids grow up holding tablets, and these are the coming and upcoming generations that TV brands want to ensnare.

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But TVs don’t form the epicentre of home life any more – the move to streaming has released any bonds and attachment to the big screen in the living room. For the first time in its history, the IPA TouchPoints data survey revealed that for adults in the UK (aged 15+) mobile phone time overtook TV watching for the first time. When I was growing up, the TV was the window to the outside world, the only way to see massive events if you weren’t there. That’s not the case any more.

It’s not so much that the TV itself has changed – it still does the same it did sixty years ago – but everything around it has. What does the future look like for TVs? I’m not too sure but it can’t be more of the same. That’s partly the reason it is where it is now.

As far as the Asus’ appearance goes, the side bezels are a bit large, and the top and bottom bezels aren’t the same size, which I find visually off-putting. Nicely, though, the amount of adjustability is impressive. This stand can swivel, tilt, rotate into portrait mode, and the height can shift 5 inches. The stand has some very basic built-in cable management, with down-firing ports that help keep cords organized. Also, the flat base doesn’t require much space on my desk.

Each of the two back USB-C ports has a specific purpose. One is USB-C 3.2 with DP Alt Mode, which provides 96 watts of power delivery for your laptop. The other is a USB-C 3.2 port for the KVM switch, enabling you to connect two PCs to the monitor and switch between them seamlessly. Fortunately, Asus clearly labels each port, so you know which to use for your intended purpose. The monitor also comes with two USB-A ports for accessories, a headphone jack, HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4, and a DisplayPort Out for daisy-chaining monitors together. This is a solid array of port selection that gives you just about everything you need to use the ProArt PA279cdv as a workstation.

Photograph: Luke Larsen

Photograph: Luke Larsen

Meanwhile, the controls for the onscreen display and menu are on the right side of the front panel. I tend to prefer just a single joystick for simplicity’s sake, but like the other Asus ProArt monitors, this one gives you five control buttons, plus a power button, in addition to a joystick. Once you know how to use it, though, the buttons give you quick access to switching inputs or changing brightness.

There are quite a lot of features to dig through in the menu, including a number of color modes and detailed picture-quality tweaks. There’s also a Display Widget app to handle all these settings, available in Windows 11 or macOS.

The monitor includes speakers, but they sound pretty bad, which is unfortunate for a monitor designed at least partially for entertainment purposes. Keep this in mind if you plan to watch a movie on the monitor, since you’ll only want to use the speakers for basic notifications. By contrast, the Dell 32 Plus QD-OLED has a really nice set of speakers.

OLED, Oh My!

Brightness—both measured in standard dynamic range (SDR) and HDR content—is the key feature of an OLED monitor, as it determines how good at HDR the device in question truly is. OLED displays can switch off individual pixels, a capability that provides the absolute blacks this class of display is known for. But if the pixels aren’t bright enough, the display still won’t produce a strong HDR performance.

Using an HDR test pattern, I was able to record 1,038 nits in a 1 percent window and 917 nits in a 4 percent window. These strong results deliver a greater sense of visual fidelity when watching movies or playing games than what you’d get with dimmer displays. Compared to the current ultimate HDR monitor, the Apple Studio Display XDR (7/10, WIRED Recommends), though, these results aren’t stunning. On the Apple monitor, I got to 1,905 nits of brightness in a 25 percent window. Even so, comparing these two monitors is hardly fair, given that the Apple costs more than $3,000 and should provide a premium quality to match. I’m providing these results to demonstrate the broad HDR landscape in monitors.