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There's been a great deal of backlash against Flock cameras, with constant vandalism and numerous reports of crooked cops misusing them, leading to more and more communities to cancel their contracts. While Flock has received the most backlash, there are other ALPR companies out there. Rather than ending their use of technology that spies on you, and in a move that doesn't really solve the problems associated with mass surveillance, some departments that have dropped Flock have simply switched to other companies that do the same thing, reports NPR. One of those competitors is Axon. If that name sounds familiar, it's probably because you've seen it displayed on body cam videos, since Axon is the leading supplier of body cams to law enforcement, according to The Intercept. After a bit of rebranding in 2017 (the same year Flock was founded), many people don't know that Axon is the company formerly known as Taser, the electrical stun gun — another technology that police never, ever misuse.

The laptops offer up to 128 GB unified memory, 1 petaflop FP4 performance and support for local AI agents and 8K video. NVIDIA announced the availability of RTX Spark laptops, which combine RTX graphics with NVIDIA’s AI software platform in Windows PCs. The laptops are designed for content creation, gaming and local AI workloads and will be available from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI.

Écoute audio has announced the TH2, second-generation wireless over-ear headphones that combine dual Korg Nutube 6P1 preamp stages with independent DAC cores and discrete Class A/B amplification. Building on the TH1, the new design adds improved tube-stage shielding, quieter hybrid active noise cancellation, eight-band sound tuning, and a modular chassis. The $999 headphones are scheduled for North American availability in November 2026. Écoute audio has announced the TH2, second-generation wireless over-ear headphones that combine dual Korg Nutube 6P1 preamp stages with independent DAC cores and discrete Class A/B amplification. Building on the TH1, the new design adds improved tube-stage shielding, quieter hybrid active noise cancellation, eight-band sound tuning, and a modular chassis. The $999 headphones are scheduled for North American availability in November 2026. The interesting part of the écoute audio proposition remains the decision to build a complete playback system into wireless headphones, with an analog gain stage between digital conversion and the power amplifiers.