Zillow Group’s new senior leadership team members, from left: Christopher Roberts, Jon Lim and Marissa Brooks. (Zillow Photos)
Zillow Groupannounced three promotions to its senior leadership team.
After nearly two decades with Zillow, Christopher Roberts is now chief product officer. Roberts helped build Zillow Rentals, which the company touts as the No. 1 platform among renters. His Seattle tech career started at Expedia as a senior vice president of engineering.
Jon Lim is moving from VP of product management to SVP of Rentals Product & Business Operations. Prior to Zillow, Lim worked in technical product management roles at Amazon for more than five years.
Marissa Brooks is now SVP of corporate affairs, having previously served as VP of communications. Brooks, who works from Scottsdale, Ariz., joined Zillow in 2017.
Earlier this month, Zillow reported its revenue grew 16% last year. Its quarterly revenue, which came in at $654 million, was at the upper end of Zillow’s guidance and slightly higher than investors’ projections.
Jeffrey Kratz. (LinkedIn Photo)
— Jeffrey Kratz is retiring from Amazon Web Services after more than 13 years. He’s leaving the role of vice president of Worldwide Public Sector Industry international sales. Throughout his tenure at AWS, Kratz worked with public sector customers, whom he described on LinkedIn as “making the world a better place.”
Kratz previously was employed at crosstown rival Microsoft for two decades where he held a variety of leadership roles in enterprise and public sector sales.
“Now it’s time to recharge, take Luna-the-pup on leisurely walks, spend quality time with Beverly, Andrew, family, and friends,” Kratz wrote, adding that he would work on his golf swing, volunteering and “spending more time with Boards in areas I am passionate about.”
— In another Amazon departure, David Luan, who led the company’s San Francisco-based AGI Lab and oversaw one of its most important agentic AI initiatives, is leaving for an undisclosed new gig. Luan announced his exit on LinkedIn, saying he will leave at the end of the week. He joined Amazon through an acqui-hire deal targeting leaders at the startup Adept. More details are in this GeekWire story.
Manasa Hari. (LinkedIn Photo)
— Microsoft nabbed Manasa Hari from Apple to join its California-based AI Super Intelligence program as a partner.
“I’ll be supporting to build the infrastructure for human-centric AI systems that are safe, useful, and aligned with human needs. Inspired by Mustafa Suleyman’s mission to build AI that amplifies human potential, I’m excited about its broad impact on enterprise,” Hari said on LinkedIn.
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Hari was previously head of product and program at Apple’s AIML Machine Learning Platform. She also serves on San Francisco State University’s Big Data Advisory Board, which provides input on course curriculum.
— Craig Cincotta has moved to chief of staff for Microsoft’s Xbox division. He previously was a general manager of communications for cloud and AI. Cincotta has been with the Redmond, Wash.-tech giant for more than 17 years over two stretches of employment.
The company last week announced that Asha Sharma is taking the helm of Xbox and Microsoft Gaming, succeeding 38-year Microsoft veteran Phil Spencer. Cincotta and Sharma previously worked together at Seattle-based Porch.
Julie Keef. (LinkedIn Photo)
— Julie Keef is leaving her role of VP of product at Redfin, the Seattle real estate platform that was acquired nearly a year ago by Rocket Companies. Keef joined Redfin in 2016 as the first hire on what would become the company’s content marketing team. She was promoted seven times to reach her VP position in which she oversaw a team of 50.
“We grew Redfin to the 3rd most visited real estate site, and held on to that spot despite competitors outspending us 5 to 1 on tech and advertising. And we had fun doing it. Even as the housing market turned and investment was hard to come by, the rabid squirrel spirit of Redfin persisted,” Keef said on LinkedIn.
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Keef did not disclose her next pursuit.
Ravi Doddivaripall. (BusinessWire Photo)
— Seattle’s DexCare named Ravi Doddivaripall as chief technology officer. Doddivaripall joins the company from XY Retail and has more than 25 years of senior platform and engineering experience. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
DexCare’s software platform helps healthcare providers manage their system’s capacity and schedule appointments. The startup launched at Providence, spinning out from the healthcare network’s digital innovation group in 2021.
“Ravi brings the architectural depth and platform experience to accelerate what we’ve built to help more health systems treat more patients with the resources they already have,” said Matt Blosl, CEO of DexCare, in a statement.
Kelly Brooks. (LinkedIn Photo)
— Kelly Brooks is now VP of sales for Read AI, a Seattle startup that sells enterprise productivity software tools using generative AI. Brooks joins from HubSpot where she worked for nearly nine years.
On LinkedIn, Brooks said she was attracted to the company after using its technology.
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“I saw immediate value from trialing the product, and got excited by the ways Read improves the transfer and access of information through organizations — perennial challenges I tackled as Chief of Staff at HubSpot,” Brooks wrote. “Inspired, I reached out to [CEO] David Shim to make a connection. The rest is history… or at least a story for another day :)”
— Serial entrepreneur and ShiftAI podcast host Boaz Ashkenazy is now senior director of AI infrastructure for Redapt, a Woodinville, Wash.-based IT company.
Ashkenazy is also co-founder of the legal tech startup Clause and co-founder and CEO of Augmented AI Labs, which builds and tests AI products. Ashkenazy additionally serves on the board of trustees for the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.
Jerome Johnson. (LinkedIn Photo)
— Jerome Johnson has a new leadership role at Amazon Web Services, serving as director of its professional services business for U.S. federal, defense and aerospace customers. Johnson, who is based in Arlington, Virginia, has been with AWS for more than 12 years. His previous role was director of solutions architecture for national security and defense customers.
“While my focus expands from architecture leadership to business and delivery leadership, the mission remains the same: Serving customers by helping them solve their hardest problems with AWS,” Johnson wrote on LinkedIn.
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— Jill Angelo is the new board chair of Special Olympics Washington. Angelo is the founder and past CEO of Gennev, a company billed as the first virtual menopause care provider in the U.S. The business was acquired by Unified Women’s Healthcare, where she served as president until last year.
Angelo is also currently VP of women’s health and commercial partnerships at the wellness startup Oura.
— Frieda Chan has left her role as manager of innovation development at the University of Washington’s CoMotion, the institution’s collaborative entrepreneurial hub. Chan is now director business development at Yale Ventures.
— Yoodli shared that Tom Craven is now the enterprise sales leader for the Seattle-based AI roleplay startup.
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—William Bal is now VP of growth for EdgeRunner AI, a Seattle-based defense technology company that raised $12 million last year.
Apple is taking Apple TV off the screen and into the real world with a public fan event designed to showcase its growing slate of original series.
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The company will host a free “Think Apple TV” activation at Westfield Century City in Los Angeles across two weekends, running April 23 through April 26 and April 30 through May 3. Interactive experiences tied to shows include Pluribus, Shrinking, Your Friends & Neighbors, The Morning Show, Slow Horses, Stick, and Margo’s Got Money Troubles. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
As child social media bans spread across Europe and beyond, Estonia isn’t having it. On Friday, the country’s education minister said the bans won’t “actually solve problems,” while warning that the kids will find a way regardless.
A growing list of countries looked at the negative data and concluded that the answer was to ban social media altogether for children. Although the age cutoff varies, legislation has been floated or enacted in Australia, Greece, France, Austria, Spain, Indonesia, Malaysia, the UK and Denmark — just to name a few.
Estonia’s education minister believes these countries are coming at the very real problem from the wrong angle. “The way to approach this, to me, is not to make kids responsible for that harm and start self-regulating,” Kristina Kallas said at a Politico forum in Barcelona. She added that “kids will find very quickly the ways to go around and to still use social media.”
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Instead, she said the responsibility lies with governments and corporations. “Europe pretends to be weak when it comes to big American and international corporations,” she added. But she called that a “pretense,” challenging the EU to “actually take this power and start regulating the big American corporations.”
Another argument against the bans is that it’s a short path from the well-meaning to a more sinister erosion of basic freedoms. In February, France suggested that the next logical step after passing an under-15 social media ban would be to go after VPNs. After all, once you pass the ban, you need to enforce it — and that can mean snuffing out the tools children could use to work around it.
Syndio’s new leadership, top row from left: Erik Darby, Shonna Waters, Devin Luquist. Bottom row: Erin McClintock, Elizabeth Temples, Manuj Bahl and Meredith Conroy. (LinkedIn Photos)
— Syndio, a Seattle startup that helps companies analyze and address pay equity, announced seven new additions to its leadership team.
“This next phase of growth requires innovation and velocity,” said Maria Colacurcio, Syndio’s CEO, adding that the new hires bring “proven track records of transforming innovative enterprise solutions into industry-defining brands.”
Several of the new hires come from BetterUp, a professional coaching and training platform. The new leaders include:
Erik Darby, president, previously co-founded Motive Software, a San Francisco Bay Area startup using AI to understand employee and customer experience that was acquired by BetterUp in 2021.
Devin Luquist, senior vice president of product, was previously at BetterUp after holding technology and leadership roles at multiple companies.
Erin McClintock, SVP of marketing, joined from Workhuman and was formerly at BetterUp.
Elizabeth Temples, SVP of revenue, joined from the revenue platform Clari and was previously at BetterUp.
Shonna Waters, SVP of executive engagement and insights, is an organizational psychologist and adjunct professor at Georgetown University, and was at BetterUp.
Manuj Bahl, VP and head of architecture, joined from Talent.com and previously held roles at Seattle-area companies Microsoft, OfferUp, Apptivate.IO and RealNetworks.
Meredith Conroy, VP of account management, joined from Clari.
Rajeev Rajan. (LinkedIn Photo)
— Rajeev Rajan joined Stripe to serve as business lead for the payment company’s Revenue and Financial Automation (RFA) division, in which he will oversee product and engineering.
“I’ve long admired the company’s focus on engineering excellence, developer experience, and its ambition to increase the GDP of the internet,” Rajan said on LinkedIn.
Rajan began his career at Microsoft, where he spent 22 years — starting as a software design engineer in 1994 and rising to corporate VP for Office 365. He went on to serve as VP of engineering at Meta, leading the company’s Pacific Northwest engineering hub, before joining Atlassian as chief technology officer. He stepped down from that role last month amid company layoffs.
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— Nick Cecilwas promoted to chief technology officer for avante, a Seattle startup whose software helps companies reduce HR administrative workload and provides employees with an AI assistant for benefits guidance.
“What makes Nick unusual as an engineering leader is that he is just as obsessed with the customer as he is with the code. He spends real time understanding the pain our customers feel,” said Rohan D’Souza, avante’s CEO, on LinkedIn.
Cecil joined avante in 2023 as founding head of engineering. Previous roles include leadership positions at Salesforce, Tableau Software and Yapta.
— Levent Besik has joined SailPoint, an Austin-based cybersecurity company, as chief product officer. He comes from Microsoft, where he spent four years as VP of product management for the company’s identity authentication platform, covering both human and agentic AI users.
“With the rapid rise of AI, enterprises are urgently seeking solutions to secure, govern, and protect agents end to end,” Besik said in a statement. “The world demands an identity solution that provides AI security and governance across all clouds and platforms.”
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Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Besik previously held roles at Okta and Google. He also has an earlier chapter at Microsoft, having joined in 2002 as a software engineer working on Internet Explorer — a tenure that lasted nearly a decade.
Hélène Bouffard. (LinkedIn Photo)
— Hélène Bouffardhas left Amazon after more than 17 years, most recently serving as HR director for the Seattle company’s new Artificial General Intelligence division.
She said on LinkedIn that it was “the privilege of a lifetime” to work for the tech giant.
Bouffard is now chief people officer at Circana, a Chicago-based market research and data analytics company. Her role will include aligning employees’ jobs and skills with Circana’s AI-driven efforts.
Chris Atkins. (LinkedIn Photo)
— Chris Atkins, director of Amazon Worldwide Operations Sustainability, has resigned after 15 years with the company. In his most recent role, Atkins helped align Amazon’s fulfillment and transportation operations with its climate goals.
“For me, my time at Amazon was truly transformative,” Atkins said on LinkedIn. “I started as a night shift frontline manager working on the ship dock and finished leading ops sustainability for the world’s largest logistics organization.”
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Before joining Amazon, Atkins served as an operations manager in the U.S. Army following his graduation from West Point. He is taking a few weeks off before starting a new role, which he plans to announce at a later date.
Jake Oster. (LinkedIn Photo)
— Jake Oster, Amazon director of energy, environment and sustainability policy, has resigned after nearly a decade. Oster joined the company in 2017, with his tenure including a stint in Belgium leading policy for AWS.
“It was never dull and constantly rewarding. Every project, document, or accomplishment was the result of collaborative work with some of the smartest people that I have known,” he said on LinkedIn. Oster didn’t indicate his next career move, saying he was taking a “quick respite.”
Prior to Amazon, Oster worked at Seattle’s EnergySavvy, a startup that helped utilities manage their relationships with customers and was acquired in 2019.
Carol MacKinlay. (LinkedIn Photo)
— Carol MacKinlay is the new chief people officer for Tanium, a Kirkland, Wash.-based cybersecurity company. MacKinlay, who is based in Carmel, Calif., joins from Pebl where she served for two years.
MacKinlay has worked as a CPO and in other human resource leadership roles for more than 20 years with previous jobs at Binance, UserTesting and Matterport.
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— Eric Emansis now chief financial officer for Insurity, a Connecticut startup providing software for insurance carriers and brokers. Emans joins Insurity from the Bellevue, Wash.-based workflow automation company Nintex, where he was CFO for four years. He was previously CFO for Lighthouse and A Place for Mom.
— Seattle’s Remitly appointed Adam Messinger, the former CTO of Twitter (now X), to its board of directors. The global remittance company disclosed the news in an SEC filing. Messinger left Twitter a decade ago.
Stephanie Rogers. (LinkedIn Photo)
— Paper Crane Factory, a Seattle-based creative branding agency that works exclusively with startups, has named Stephanie Rogers as head of communications and public relations. Rogers will lead the agency’s new East Coast expansion and run its operations there. She joins from DataRobot and brings more than 15 years of experience in communications and PR.
“As we continue to grow, bringing in leadership across disciplines allows us to better support founders at the earliest and most critical stages — from defining their story to scaling it in market,” said Cal McAllister, Paper Crane Factory founder and creative director, in a statement.
— Barbara Schmid is leaving Starbucks after nearly 22 years, resigning from the role of Global Coffee and Cocoa Sustainability program manager. Schmid expressed gratitude to the company and colleagues in a LinkedIn in post, adding she is grateful “most of all to the coffee and cocoa producers, without whom none of this would have been possible, and who remain the reason behind it all.”
CoreWeave stocks jumped to around $97 a share yesterday (9 April). Prices have since settled at around $92.
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“This is another example that leading companies are choosing CoreWeave’s AI cloud to run their most demanding workloads,” said Michael Intrator, the co-founder, CEO and chairperson of CoreWeave.
The US cloud compute provider is one of the prime beneficiaries of the AI race, having previously inked an expanded $22.4bn deal with OpenAI last year.
Today (10 April), Anthropic has also agreed to rent data centre capacity from CoreWeave to help train its Claude model. The multi-year agreement will bring compute online starting later this year.
Meanwhile, Meta, much like its AI rivals, has been ramping up spending to bolster its position in the race. Earlier this year, the company announced a planned spending of up to $135bn in 2026.
Earlier this week, the company’s Superintelligence Labs launched its debut product Muse Spark, a multimodal, “purpose-built” model for Meta’s own products. The model will be rolled out to several countries via Meta’s Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp platforms, as well as the company’s AI glasses.
Besides a wealth of Fortnite skins based on Disney IP, it hasn’t really been clear what the entertainment company has gotten in return for its $1.5 billion investment in Epic from 2024. That could change this November, Bloomberg reports, when Epic releases a Disney-themed extraction shooter. The game is one of three Disney projects the publisher is currently working on, and is reportedly expected to be Epic’s comeback after the company laid off 1,000 employees in March due to a “downturn in Fortnite engagement.”
The game is reportedly similar to Arc Raiders, a multiplayer shooter where players fight for resources before escaping through an extraction point, but with Disney characters fighting enemies instead of post-apocalyptic survivors. Bloomberg writes that internal reviewers have worried that the game’s mechanics are “not very original,” but the project is the most promising of the three Epic is developing. The second title received middling internal reviews, according to Bloomberg, and Epic moved resources off the third project “after reports that Disney was disappointed by Epic’s release timeline.”
While details of Epic’s work for Disney are coming into focus, it’s still unclear whether this new extraction shooter will be a standalone game or incorporated as a mode in Fortnite. In its efforts to sell the title as a “multiverse” and a competitor to Roblox, Epic has introduced multiplegames inside Fortnite over the last few years with distinct mechanics. The developer announced that it would shut down three of those titles — Rocket Racing, Ballistic and Fortnite Festival Battle Stage — as part of its recent round of layoffs. According to current and former Epic employees Bloomberg spoke to, several affected employees were also working on these unannounced Disney games.
When it invested in Epic in 2024, Disney suggested it would build an “entertainment universe” with the developer, where players could “play, watch, shop and engage with content, characters and stories from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Avatar, and more.” Epic’s current plans sound far less ambitious than that, but if they manage to increase engagement with Fortnite and Disney’s brand, that might not matter.
In short:Amazon’s satellite internet service, rebranded from Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo in November 2025, entered enterprise beta on April 8, 2026, with commercial availability targeted for mid-2026 per Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter. The service offers three terminal tiers delivering up to 1 Gbps for enterprise users, with Verizon, AT&T, Vodafone, JetBlue, and NASA among the beta partners. Amazon has approximately 210 to 241 satellites in orbit against a Federal Communications Commission requirement of 1,618 by July 30, 2026, has applied for a two-year deadline extension, and has contracted 22 additional launches to close the gap.
From Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo, the rebrand and the beta
Amazon received Federal Communications Commission approval for a 3,236-satellite low-earth-orbit constellation in 2020, then spent five years building the hardware, regulatory infrastructure, and carrier partnerships needed to turn that approval into a commercially viable service. The first production satellites launched in April 2025 aboard an Atlas V rocket operated by United Launch Alliance, and by November 2025 Amazon had enough operational hardware in orbit to retire the Project Kuiper name in favour of Amazon Leo, a rebrand that signals a deliberate shift from development programme to commercial product. A business preview programme opened to select enterprise partners shortly after the rebrand. The full enterprise beta launched on April 8, 2026. The following day,Jassy’s annual letter to shareholdersconfirmed mid-2026 as the commercial launch window, placing Leo alongside Amazon’s $50 billion Trainium chip investment as one of the defining bets in the company’s current capital allocation cycle. Beta customers span Verizon and AT&T in North America, Vodafone and Vodacom across Europe and Africa, JetBlue for in-flight connectivity, NBN Co in Australia, Vrio in Latin America, and NASA, along with enterprise logistics clients Hunt Energy and Crane Worldwide Logistics.
Three terminals, three speed tiers
Amazon has engineered three terminal models to address distinct market segments without forcing a single hardware compromise across all of them. The Leo Nano is the consumer and light-enterprise unit: seven inches square, 2.2 pounds, and rated to 100 Mbps download. The Leo Pro is aimed at small businesses, rural operators, and mobile backhaul deployments: eleven inches square, 5.3 pounds, priced at under $400, and rated to 400 Mbps. The Leo Ultra is the enterprise flagship, a 20-by-30-inch installation weighing 43 pounds and capable of 1 Gbps download with 400 Mbps upload, designed for maritime vessels, commercial aircraft, and large-campus enterprise deployments. Jassy claimed in his shareholder letter that Leo terminals deliver six to eight times better uplink performance and twice the downlink performance compared with the satellite internet alternatives currently available to enterprise customers, a claim that will be scrutinised closely once commercial service begins and independent benchmarks are possible.
The FCC deadline and the launch shortfall
Amazon’s FCC licence for its Generation 1 constellation requires exactly half the planned 3,236 satellites, or 1,618, to be in orbit and operational by July 30, 2026. As of early April 2026, Amazon has between 210 and 241 satellites in orbit, a figure that makes the original deadline effectively unreachable. The company filed a formal request with the FCC in January 2026 for a two-year extension, citing a shortage of available launch vehicles. Alongside the extension filing, Amazon disclosed ten additional Falcon 9 launch contracts with SpaceX and twelve additional New Glenn contracts with Blue Origin.Bezos is betting heavily on orbital infrastructurebeyond Leo itself: Blue Origin separately filed with the FCC for a 51,600-satellite Project Sunrise constellation and a 5,408-satellite TeraWave optical backhaul network, making the New Glenn launch pipeline central to multiple overlapping ambitions simultaneously. The FCC separately approved Amazon’s Generation 2 constellation in February 2026, clearing the path to a potential 7,727-satellite network once the current launch bottleneck is resolved. The contracted vehicle fleet now spans Atlas V and Vulcan Centaur (United Launch Alliance), Falcon 9 (SpaceX), Ariane 6 (Arianespace), and New Glenn (Blue Origin).
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Starlink is not a vulnerable incumbent. SpaceX’s satellite internet service generated $10.6 billion in revenue in 2025 at a 54 per cent EBITDA margin and serves more than 10 million paying subscribers across more than 100 countries, operating a constellation of 7,600 to 8,000-plus satellites.SpaceX has filed for the largest IPO in history, seeking to raise $75 billion at a valuation of up to $1.75 trillion, potentially as early as June 2026, which would cement Starlink’s position as a capital-markets-validated infrastructure business before Amazon Leo has completed its initial rollout. Amazon’s response involves two distinct moves. The first is distribution: Leo is being sold primarily through carrier partners and enterprise integrators in its launch phase, using Verizon’s, AT&T’s, and Delta’s existing customer relationships rather than competing for consumers directly. Delta has contracted Leo for in-flight Wi-Fi across 500 aircraft starting in 2028, with free access available to SkyMiles members. The second move is spectrum acquisition.Amazon is reportedly in talks to acquire Globalstarfor approximately $9 billion, a deal that would give Leo access to L-band spectrum currently anchoring Globalstar’s existing satellite network and Apple’s emergency satellite connectivity service. Apple holds a 20 per cent stake in Globalstar through a $1.5 billion investment, adding complexity to any acquisition. If the deal closes, Amazon would arrive at commercial launch with not just a new constellation but a second frequency band and an established spectrum position.The year 2025 established satellite internetas a serious enterprise infrastructure market rather than a connectivity experiment, and Amazon Leo’s mid-2026 commercial launch arrives precisely as that market enters its most contested phase.
8849 TANK Pad Ultra1080p projector accurately projects clear images from 0.5 to 4 meters
Night vision camera captures usable images even in near-total darkness conditions
Rugged chassis resists drops, dust, and water for harsh environments
The 8849 TANK Pad Ultra is a rugged Android tablet which combines a 10.95 inch FHD 1200 x 1920 display with a built-in 1080p DLP projector rated at 260 lumens.
The projector can auto-focus and project images from 0.5 to 4 meters, supported by a micro-ranging laser which helps fine-tune the focal distance.
The design is intended for outdoor use, temporary presentations, and fieldwork where a separate projector would be impractical or expensive.
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Night‑Vision camera and rugged features
The 8849 TANK Pad Ultra features a 10.95 inch FHD panel, flanked by stereo speakers using a smart PA configuration and a waterproof receiver for calls.
On the rear, it has the projector lens, night vision camera cluster, and a 2.5 inch-style speaker cutout, while the side and bottom edges host the charging port, PTT keys, and waterproof connector caps.
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The tablet’s IP-rated, reinforced chassis aims to withstand drops, dust, and moisture, while the projector remains enclosed and protected when not in use.
On the imaging side, the TANK Pad Ultra stacks a 50MP rear main camera with an IMX766 sensor and a 64MP AF night vision camera using an OV64B sensor.
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The night vision array adds four infrared LEDs that illuminate scenes in near-total darkness, allowing the camera to capture usable images without a visible light flash.
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The rugged tablet also includes a camping lamp module with red and blue warning lights, magnetic modular accessories, and a 3.5mm headphone jack.
Buttons for power, volume, and two PTT keys are built into the ruggedized frame, which is designed to work with protective handheld leather covers and waterproof interface plugs.
Under the hood, the tablet runs a MediaTek Dimensity 8200 platform with 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 512GB of internal storage.
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It supports 5G NR on both FDD and TDD bands, along with LTE Advanced, Wi-Fi 6, and Bluetooth 5.3, enabling fast wireless data and screen mirroring to external displays.
The device includes dual-band GPS, Glonass, Galileo, and Beidou for relatively precise location tracking, as well as NFC for reading and card mode interactions.
A 23,400mAh battery delivers long runtime, replenished over a 66W USB-C fast charging input, with the same port doubling as a reverse charging source for other gadgets.
This device also supports dual nano SIM cards plus a microSD card for additional storage expansion, and it ships with Android 15 out of the box.
The in-development word game “Character Limit” faced testers in the last two months, but as TestFlight got underway, an unexpected game convention opportunity went especially well.
A tale of two tests: TestFlight and a gaming convention.
Back in early February, Character Limit had reached a good stopping point to get some testing done with real players. A lot of the work had been done, so now it was time to get some bug fixing and polishing done, and to get some real feedback. This previously came in the form of visits to meet other game developers in Cardiff for brief sessions. But you can only go so far in terms of feedback from a kind audience. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
Words have no meaning when Black Friday falls in April and lasts two weeks. Originally coined to denote the pandemonium and chaos when holiday shopping met football games after Thanksgiving, Black Friday has come to blankly mean “discounts whenever.”
And so when The Home Depot says they’ve got a “Spring Black Friday” sale going, what they seem to be trying to say is that springtime might as well be Christmas for the DIY and backyard set. It’s when you buy stuff. Except probably for yourself.
Anyway, most of this sale is not a barn-burner. But Home Depot loves a BOGO tool sale on the Milwaukee tools used and recommended by WIRED tester Scott Gilbertson. And Weber grills are $50 to $100 off, including a couple of WIRED’s favorite grills on earth.
Here are the deals WIRED is tracking on the Home Depot Black Friday Spring Sale, ending April 22. Or just check out the whole Home Depot Black Friday deals below.
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$50 off the Best Gas Grill for Most Families
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For years, we’ve been recommending Weber’s straightforward 200-series Sprit grills as some of the best grills at the intersection of value and performance. The build quality is good, the cook is even, and the heat on the propane burners is easy to adjust. Like all Webers, you can build your grill’s workspace out with accessories and snap-on options until it’s tong heaven. Spirit already starts out pretty affordable, with a 10-year warranty and porcelain-coated cast iron grill grates that make for easy clean-up and clean cooks. An extra $50 off is a nice cherry on top.
But note that while a Spirit is likely all the grill you’ll ever need for a large family, grill cooks who throw a lot of parties might upgrade to the Genesis E-325 ($849) for the larger searing area and higher BTUs, added storage and prep, and the option on a top grill. That’s also on sale in April, for $100 off list price.
BOGO Deals on Milwaukee, Dewalt, and Ryobi Tools
The other thing The Home Depot likes to do is offer BOGOs on tools—in this case packaging a $200 tool with a free $200 power pack. This is, needless to say, a nice deal.
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On the Milwaukee tool ecosystem used by WIRED reviewer and inveterate DIYer Scott Gilbertson—favored for its mix of value, durability and pure power, an assortment of tools come with a free power pack.
But these BOGos can be a bit maddening to sort out on Home Depot’s website. So I’ve done a little legwork for you. Here are the links to the BOGO deals for Milwaukee, Ryobi, and DeWalt. You’re welcome.
Steep Discounts on Ryobi Yard Tools
Longtime WIRED reviewer Parker Hall has long held the belief that Ryobi yard tools are the most most slept-on tool ecosystem for home gardeners and landscapers, from mowers to chain saws to trimmers.
Part of the reason is service: At least in our region (the Pacific Northwest), Ryobi doesn’t make you send in tools to be serviced somewhere else. They instead keep a repairman on retainer, and he comes to you and fixes your mower. This is a wonderful thing. In any case, Hall says that he’s rarely had cause to call on his repairman. He just likes to know he’s there.
A 20-year-old man was arrested by the San Francisco Police Department after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s house, The New York Times reports.
In a statement shared on X, SFPD wrote that it responded to a request for a fire investigation in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco around 7:12 AM ET / 4:12AM PT. “At the scene, officers learned that an unknown male subject threw an incendiary destructive device at a home, causing a fire at an exterior gate.” After the man fled on foot, police found and arrested him around an hour later while responding to a business’ complaint about an “unknown male subject threatening to burn down the building.” That business turned out to be OpenAI’s headquarters and the subject happened to be the same man who threw the Molotov at Altman’s house.
“Early this morning, someone threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s home and also made threats at our San Francisco headquarters. Thankfully, no one was hurt,” an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed in a statement to Wired. “We deeply appreciate how quickly SFPD responded and the support from the city in helping keep our employees safe. The individual is in custody, and we’re assisting law enforcement with their investigation.”
As it’s become more commonplace, artificial intelligence has also become more divisive. While more and more people continue to use AI tools, public reaction to the encroachment of the technology, whether in gaming or customer service, is increasingly negative. Altman’s warnings of AI’s impact on employment, and a recent New Yorker investigation digging into his allegedly manipulative leadership style at OpenAI, have also raised questions about the CEO’s prominent role as a steward of the technology.
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