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- The Godox iT32 simplifies off-camera flash with its modular remote trigger
- It's available from just $79 / £87 (about AU$140), plus as a kit with your choice of trigger
- Wireless triggers covering leading camera systems are also available separately
Price and technical complexity put most people off ever trying off-camera flash photography — and if you're in that camp, I implore you to consider the Godox iT32.
The Godox kit is the camera flash reimagined for today; it's simpler and cheaper than others I've tried, and I had a blast using it with my Nikon, Canon and Olympus (OM System) camera gear. I shot portraits that popped, and ones that I simply couldn't have created by relying on available light alone.
What's so different about the iT32? Well, it's built around a remote trigger, which snaps magnetically into the base of the flash itself, and secures to your camera's hotshoe. The trigger, called the X5, is available in five versions for leading camera systems: Canon, Sony, Nikon, Fujifilm and Olympus / Panasonic. I used three of them for my review.
This unique design simplifies off-camera flash. You can quickly switch from on-camera to off-camera flash, which you'll want to do for the best results, simply by pulling the flash off the remote trigger, which remains in the hotshoe. With some basic camera settings knowledge — which I'll share later in this article — off-camera flash really is a cinch. Heck, it's even fun.
For other camera flashes, you'll need separate remote triggers and receivers attached to the camera and the flash respectively for off-camera flash, all adding to the cost and complexity of the setup.
Tim ColemanTim ColemanTim ColemanThe iT32 also features a touchscreen to navigate settings, and it might surprise you just how innovative this feels, given that camera flash design has remained largely the same for decades, with most models featuring a basic LCD (or no screen at all).
Furthermore, the iT32's internal battery charges via USB-C. Again, a regular-sounding feature in 2026, but most others continue to be powered by AA batteries.
Perhaps the best part of all is that the Godox iT32 costs a fraction of the price of old-fashioned proprietary alternatives from Nikon, Canon, Sony and others. It's available for just $79 / £87 (about AU$140), with your choice of remote trigger costing an additional $19-20 / £17-18 (about AU$30).
Shoot with multiple camera systems? You can buy additional X5 triggers separately, again cutting the cost of having to fork out for multiple flashguns for different cameras. The Fujifilm trigger costs $19 / £17, while the Sony, Canon, Nikon and Olympus units cost $20 / £18).
Godox sent me the iT32 flash with X5 triggers for Canon, Nikon and Olympus cameras for review (each manufacturer's hotshoe is the same size, but with a unique pin design), and each version worked flawlessly for iTTL (through-the-lens metering) flash.
For the gains, the iT32 may well be the best money you spend on camera gear this year. Let's dig into my experience with the Godox iT32 a little more, and why you might want to use it.
(Image credit: Tim Coleman)The case for off-camera flashI used to shoot with natural light at all costs. After all, flash photography can be a complicated business — the technique, the extra gear, not to mention the prohibitive cost — whereas available light felt simplest of all.
There's no getting around it, though: sometimes you just need off-camera flash to lift portraits and still-life photography. For me, flash has become an essential part of my setup for portraiture and weddings. And in this vein, the Godox iT32 quashes all of the hurdles for getting started.
for the first time, off-camera flash felt completely simple, even enjoyable.
I came across the Godox kit when I spotted a fellow tech journalist using it at an event for the Lumix L10. At first, it looked like a regular flashgun, the kind I've relied on for years. However, he then pulled it off the camera and carried on using it as per usual. I grilled him about it, saw it in action, and knew that I had to get one for myself.
You see, on-camera flash is one thing, of the type that's built into your phone or camera, but being able to direct light is another level, and that's what the iT32 allows you to do, the most accessible way imaginable.
The classic Rembrandt lighting, for example, is 45 degrees above and to the side of your subject. With the iT32, you can simply line up the shot, remove the flash from the receiver on the camera, and hold it manually to get that effect. You then just snap it back in place when you're done. For me, for the first time, off-camera flash felt completely simple, even enjoyable.
The flash attached to a Canon EOS R100 via the camera's hotshoeTim ColemanWant off camera flash, simply pull the flash unit away from the remote trigger, which remains attached to the camera's hotshoeTim ColemanThe flash has a built in bounce card, plus it comes with a diffuserTim ColemanIt's also equipped with a model light, which can be used as a light source in and of itself, but also help with focusing in low lightTim ColemanTim ColemanHow I used the Godox iT32In addition to composing your shot and understanding where to position the flash, you'll need to know what flash settings to use for any given situation.
A two-second hold of the power/test button turns the flash on (the button illuminates green), followed by a swipe up of the screen. This two-step process confirms you didn't accidentally turn the flash on.
From here, exposure compensation can be dialled in (manually adjusting the brightness of the flash) by swiping the screen left or right, or scrolling the dial on the flash's side.
The menu is accessed through the menu button or by swiping down the touchscreen, where you'll find the option for a model (continuous) light, the flash modes and more.
There are iTTL, manual and multi-strobe flash modes, plus options for rear curtain, front curtain and high-speed flash.
I tend to rely on iTTL (through-the-lens auto-exposure metering), which is available with the flash physically or wirelessly attached to the X5 trigger, and experiment with exposure compensation for each scenario. Sometimes I just want a little fill light, so I'll dial in negative exposure compensation. Other times I'll want punchy lighting for which I might not make any changes at all. In any case, the maximum power of the flash is impressively bright.
Tim ColemanTim ColemanTim ColemanTim ColemanTim ColemanFor the manual flash mode, flash brightness is adjusted in the same way as exposure compensation for the iTTL mode.
You won't generally need to bother with the on-camera / sender / receiver menu options, as the flash automatically switches modes when you attach or detach the flash from the X5 trigger.
I only had a single iT32 flashgun for my testing, but it is possible to sync multiple flashguns and control the brightness as a group using the basic controls on the remote trigger.
If you want different brightness values for multiple flashes — say, the main front flash at full value and a side- or rear-positioned flash as a dimmer fill light — then those values need to be dialled in on the flashgun itself when it's off-camera. Something to bear in mind if the flashes aren't easily accessible in your setup.
With off-camera flash, even with a single light source, you can shape the light for more dramatic shadowsTim ColemanHere the flash is attached to the camera. Lighting is flatterTim ColemanThis portrait makes use solely of the model light, no flashTim ColemanAnd here there's no flash or model light at allTim ColemanWith iTTL in play, I set camera exposure settings manually, mainly because I usually want background detail to come through, too, rather than it being mostly black or seriously under exposed.
The flash sync speed of most cameras maxes out at around 1/250sec, but 1/160sec is a safe bet. An aperture of around f/11 tends to make a correct exposure in daylight, while a brighter aperture with shallow depth of field, say f/2.8, can be possible in low light at night or indoors.
Dialling in a high ISO helped to bring through the color and detail of the sunset in this portraitTim ColemanTim ColemanAn ND lens filter will unleash a brighter aperture in daylight for shallow depth of field (or a camera like the Sony A9 III). I then use a high ISO setting that brings through some of the background detail.
For the portraits I took at golden hour, my camera settings were 1/160sec, f/11 and ISO 3200, with the flash set to iTTL and the power adjusted with -0.7EV exposure compensation. Those settings are a good starting point to experiment from — but, of course, they depend on how bright the ambient light is.
Having used two flashguns for years that each require 4 x AA batteries, I really appreciated the USB-C charging of the iT32. The port can also be used for firmware updates, say, adding compatibility with future cameras.
The X5 remote trigger also has a built-in battery, and this receives charge when docked in the iT32 flash. The LCD shows the battery life of both units, and if you run into any off-camera pairing issues, docking the flash back in the trigger will do the trick.
(Image credit: Tim Coleman)The perfect package?Is the Godox iT32 the perfect package? For pros, not quite — there's no multi-channel feature for individually controlling brightness values from the main transmitter of complex multi-camera flash setups. However, for beginners and simple 1-2 light setups, with the features on board and the low asking price, the iT32 is for me the perfect gateway to off-camera flash.
- Adobe Acrobat study claims 99% of C-suite leaders use AI, but only 41% of regular workers use it
- Use cases are far more advanced among business leaders
- Data security and privacy concerns are still major blockers
New Adobe Acrobat research has revealed a growing disparity in AI adoption at work among UK adults, with 99% of C-suite leaders using AI tools compared with just 41% of non-management employees.
But it's not just a case of who's using AI and how much – it's also which tasks they're using it for, and the most common use case for non-management workers is document creation and editing (17%). In other words, basic creative work.
In comparison, leaders are clearly using AI for higher-level decision-making, with use cases spanning data analysis (35%), meeting and task management (33%) and marketing (25%).
Managers are using AI for more reasons than regular workersAs a result of this disparity, 37% of C-suite leaders say they save three to five hours a week thanks to AI, compared with just 13% of knowledge workers. Adobe argues this could imply that access to AI, knowledge of how to use it and support for its adoption may vary depending on the type of employee.
For example, 74% of C-suite leaders say they're willing to share documents with AI, but only 20% of other workers feel the same way – that's a huge difference.
In its report, Adobe begins by recommending some basic AI use cases designed to alleviate some of the administrative pressures workers already face. For example, creating drafts and summaries covering meetings, emails and collaboration can reduce the need for some of the less creative work, freeing up time for more productive work.
But Adobe also stressed the importance of building organization-wide confidence to iron out the same old concerns we've been seeing since day one – once companies can get on top of security, privacy and transparency, workers are less likely to worry about potential risks.
For now, though, with data security and privacy concerns (22%) remaining some of the highest challenges to AI adoption, enterprises have a clear area to improve.
The most anticipated Netflix series — and perhaps the most awaited TV series of the entire year — is finally here, with East of Eden arriving later this week.
The new adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel stars Florence Pugh, Mike Faist and Christopher Abbott in its main roles, with events taking place between the 1860s and the build-up to World War I.
It's a cross-generational story that essentially retells the biblical story of Cain and Abel through the intertwined lives of two families in California's Salinas Valley; and it's epic in every sense of the world.
East of Eden is set to be a binge-watch for the ages, but exactly when does it arrive on Netflix?
What time can I watch East of Eden on Netflix?East of Eden drops on Thursday, October 1.
As for the time, it should be the standard 12am PT / 3am ET release time that practically every other Netflix TV Original has.
For fans who don't live in North America, here's when you'll need to tune in:
- US – 12am PT / 3am ET
- Canada – 12am PT / 3am ET
- UK – 8am BST
- India – 12:30pm IST
- Singapore – 3pm SGT
- Australia – 6pm AEST
- New Zealand – 8pm NZDT
All seven episodes of this season will be released at the same time. Unlike weekly drops on the likes of Prime Video, Apple TV, and Disney+, then, you won't need to wait around for new installment of East of Eden.
As this is a standalone book adaptation, there won't be a second series.
Social media has become central to how businesses communicate with customers, promote their brands, and build trust. But as businesses have relied more on these channels, they have also become a more attractive target for cybercriminals.
New research has found that social media impersonation and defamation have risen from the fifth greatest cyber threat last year to the top expected cybersecurity threat over the next three years. The data also revealed that employee and executive impersonation, including deepfakes, has entered the top five areas of risk for the first time.
These findings point to a wider challenge for security teams. Cybercriminals are still trying to compromise systems, but they are also increasingly using other ways to exploit legitimate brands’ hard-earned trust. That trust might sit in a senior leader’s online profile, a brand’s social media presence, a customer service account, a domain name, or a website that looks legitimate at first glance.
For security leaders, this means the attack surface is no longer defined only by infrastructure they own and control. It also includes the public-facing channels where customers, employees, and partners interact with the company every day.
Security strategies now need to reflect that reality. A threat may start with a fake profile, but it rarely stays there.
Social media and identity have become frontline cyber risksFake profiles and fraudulent customer service accounts are not new tactics, but they are becoming more prevalent and are increasingly being used as entry points for phishing, fraud, counterfeit sales, and wider brand abuse.
And this is all happening at a time when cybersecurity teams are already under pressure. Recent research found that 72% of senior technology leaders said the level of cybersecurity threats faced by their organization in 2025 was either “critical” or “very critical”.
On social media, criminals can meet potential victims where they are already used to engaging with brands. Fake accounts can be used to share malicious links, promote fraudulent schemes, spread false information, or pose as legitimate support channels.
Attackers may then direct users to a “second location”, such as a lookalike website, fake login portal, or phishing page, where victims are encouraged to enter account credentials, payment information, or other sensitive data.
A separate but related risk is counterfeiting. Fraudulent social media accounts can impersonate legitimate brands to advertise fake goods, directing customers to websites where counterfeit products are presented as genuine. In both cases, criminals are using the trust associated with a recognized brand to make the next step of the attack appear credible.
The impact can also go beyond fraud and counterfeiting. Impersonation or fake accounts can be used to spread false or defamatory claims about a company or its employees, potentially damaging reputation and customer confidence even when no direct financial fraud takes place.
As such, social media abuse, domain impersonation, and identity-based fraud should be treated as part of the same threat landscape.
AI is making impersonation faster and more convincingAI is making impersonation faster and more convincing. Criminals can use AI tools to imitate a brand’s tone of voice, generate convincing customer messages, produce realistic imagery, or create more credible fake profiles at speed.
Deepfakes, synthetic audio, and AI-generated content can also strengthen employee or executive impersonation, particularly when combined with information gathered from multiple sources. For example, an attacker could create a fake executive profile and use AI-generated messages that mimic how that individual communicates, making requests or links appear more credible.
But AI is only one part of the threat. Attackers can also use established techniques to build the infrastructure behind impersonation campaigns. Domain generation algorithms (DGAs), for example, can produce large numbers of plausible lookalike web addresses to support phishing and impersonation campaigns. DGAs are not inherently AI-powered, but they remain a concern for security leaders, with 86% of respondents viewing them as a threat.
These domains can then be combined with fake social media profiles to create a more convincing digital presence. A fake executive account may point to a fraudulent landing page. A counterfeit product post may direct customers to a lookalike domain.
For customers and employees, these attacks are becoming harder to identify based on appearance alone. The signs of fraud may be subtle, and by the time an impersonation attempt is reported, the campaign may already have moved to another account, page, or domain.
Businesses need a more connected approach to protecting trustSocial media impersonation should be treated as part of the wider cybersecurity strategy, rather than as a standalone brand or communications issue. That requires coordination between the teams responsible for protecting organizations, their people, and their customers.
Attacks often move from a fake profile to a lookalike domain, phishing page, or fraudulent website, so companies need a connected view of where threats are emerging. Social media teams may spot one warning sign. Security teams may see another. Legal or brand protection teams may hold the takedown process. A coordinated approach can help companies respond more effectively.
Alongside those measures, organizations need continuous monitoring across social media, domains, websites, and other public-facing digital assets to identify impersonation, brand abuse, and related threats occurring beyond infrastructure they directly control. Bringing these signals together can help teams recognize when activity across different channels forms part of the same campaign.
Clear processes for investigation, escalation, and takedown are essential, particularly as AI enables campaigns to spread, adapt, and reappear rapidly. Businesses need to know who owns the response, what evidence is needed, and how quickly action can be taken.
Technology will also play a growing role. More than half of respondents, 57%, confirmed that they use AI-based monitoring and enforcement solutions, while 44% use AI-based solutions for threat detection and fraud prevention. Given the 24/7 nature of the internet and how quickly malicious accounts and materials can appear, some level of automated detection is increasingly important for identifying threats at scale.
This is an important step, but tools alone will not solve the problem. Companies need the right governance, clear ownership, and close collaboration between security, legal, marketing, and digital teams.
The goal should be to detect and stop impersonation before it reaches customers, employees, or partners and causes wider damage.
Looking aheadSocial media is no longer simply a communications platform that sits outside the traditional cybersecurity perimeter. It has become one of the main environments in which criminals exploit trust, impersonate legitimate people, and manipulate victims into falling for fraud.
As AI makes these attacks faster and more convincing, businesses will need to connect social media protection with their broader approach to identity, domains, and digital brand security. This means monitoring for threats across the full online journey, sharing intelligence between teams, and responding before an impersonation campaign has time to spread.
The companies best equipped to protect customers will recognize that trust itself has become a target and treat the channels where that trust is built as a core part of their cybersecurity strategy.
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ChatGPT has a new way to help you study with interactive flashcards that the AI chatbot can generate on demand from almost any subject or from documents you upload.
The decks save automatically in your ChatGPT Library, so they become something you return to whenever you need a refresher. In my case, it was all about dinosaurs and the history of paleontology.
(Image credit: ChatGPT)The flashcards are baked into the conversation; you just have to ask for some on a topic or based on attached information, and ten will appear almost immediately, with one question visible at a time. A prompt like “Make me some flashcards about dinosaurs”, will do the trick.
You need to self-mark the quiz. There's a tick or a cross to click on depending on whether you know the answer, and you can click on the card to reveal the answer.
You can also edit the question or response as you choose, or shuffle the deck, which becomes increasingly useful once you have accidentally memorized the order of the answers. If you ask for more, the number of cards jumps to 30, then 50, and so on.
Dinosaur expertiseMy paleontology deck started with the sort of material I actually wanted to learn, including early fossil discoveries and the development of dinosaur science. Instead of having ChatGPT explain the entire history of paleontology in one enormous response, I was forced to stop and retrieve individual facts.
That tiny bit of friction made the information feel much more like something I was learning rather than something I had merely read. OpenAI lets you ask ChatGPT to add cards or edit existing ones conversationally, so I could expand the paleontology deck without starting again.
Next I went broader and asked for flashcards about what dinosaurs actually looked like. That produced cards dealing with feathers, posture, skin coverings, and the evidence paleontologists use to reconstruct animals nobody has been able to photograph.
The actual studying is deliberately uncomplicated. I tried to answer each question, clicked the card to reveal the answer, and then marked whether I had got it right. Cards I miss can be practiced again later, while ChatGPT keeps track of that progress for future reviews.
When I finally made it through a complete round correctly, ChatGPT rewarded me with a brief burst of on-screen fireworks. It lasts only a moment and does absolutely nothing for my understanding of paleontology, yet I would be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it. Apparently, several decades of technological progress have led us back to the educational power of receiving a shiny sticker.
(Image credit: ChatGPT)I also tested out the flashcards using some uploaded documents from online histories of paleontology and asked ChatGPT to turn them directly into flashcards. That's a feature that makes flashcards potentially much more useful for students studying a specific class rather than a general subject.
I didn't have to have the AI decide what generally mattered about a subject when it had the study material I wanted in front of it. ChatGPT pulled out important names, concepts, and details and converted them into short question-and-answer pairings. It's faster than doing it manually, though arguably making them manually is part of the study process.
And while sticking to uploaded sources should make it more reliable, I still wouldn't blindly trust the finished deck without double-checking. In particular, if you're using flashcards for technical material where a small change in wording can completely alter an answer.
Quicker study than quizzesThere are plenty of other alternatives like Quizlet, Knowt, and Gizmo using AI to turn notes and documents into flashcards. Current flashcard tools increasingly compete on what happens after the AI generates the cards, including scheduling, practice modes, importing material, and long-term review.
ChatGPT's advantage is convenience. I don't have to decide to visit a dedicated flashcard service, create a new account, and learn another interface. I can be discussing paleontology with ChatGPT, decide that I actually want to remember some of it, and ask for flashcards without leaving the conversation.
The flashcards make an interesting companion to ChatGPT's interactive quizzes, which I previously tested on many subjects. The quiz feature is more aggressive about exposing what you don't know because it puts a question in front of you, makes you commit to an answer, and then tells you where you went wrong. You can also adjust the difficulty as you go, ask ChatGPT to make the multiple-choice answers less obvious, and have it concentrate later questions on areas where you struggled.
I see the flashcards as better for learning and reinforcing information, while quizzes are more useful when I want to find out how much of it has actually stuck. Flashcards feel less like a test and more like practice. The two features could work well together, though.
The simplicity of ChatGPT's flashcards may be its best feature. It's important to treat the first generated deck as a draft, but it gets made so quickly that it's not a heavy time investment if you need to alter it. It's also useful to tell ChatGPT the difficulty you want for the cards and any particular areas to focus on. For me, it's time to really dive into the Bone Wars and the crazy world of early paleontology.
Launching a business has never been easier. AI tools can generate brand names, build websites, create logos, and produce marketing copy in hours.
It's a remarkable shift for entrepreneurs - but the same technology is also making it easier for cybercriminals to create convincing digital impersonations at scale.
Recent allegations by Google claim cybercriminals used AI to generate 1.5 million malicious URLs designed to mimic legitimate organizations.
As AI lowers the cost of creating convincing websites, businesses face a new challenge: proving they're real.
That's why conversation around domains is changing. The hardest part of launching a business is no longer getting online; it's establishing a distinctive brand that customers can recognize, trust, and confidently return to.
The problem isn't .com's relevance but its availabilityFor decades, securing a .com domain was considered the first milestone of establishing an online presence. It became the default because it was familiar, widely recognized, and trusted.
That hasn't changed. A .com domain still carries value and remains the first choice for many organizations. What has changed is availability.
According to The Domain Name Industry Brief's (DNIB) latest quarterly report, there are more than 166 million .com domains registered with domain registrars. Many short, memorable .com domains are already registered, held defensively, or owned by investors.
Businesses launching today might discover that their ideal domain has long since been taken, forcing them to settle for longer names, additional words, or unconventional spellings that can make brands harder to remember.
This doesn't signal the decline of .com. Instead, it's encouraging organizations to become more intentional about how they establish their online identity. Rather than focusing solely on securing a .com address, businesses are evaluating whether their domain reflects their brand, communicates what they do, and supports long-term recognition.
Organizations are looking beyond convention and exploring domain extensions that better align with their brand, industry, or audience. Not because .com has lost its value, but because a memorable and distinctive online presence has become just as important.
Domains have evolved from web addresses into brand assetsA domain name has traditionally been viewed as a technical requirement; a web address customers type into a browser. Today, it’s much more than that.
A domain shapes the first impression customers have of a business. It appears in search results, LLM citations, email addresses, advertisements, social media profiles, and digital marketing campaigns. It is one of the few digital assets a business owns.
Businesses invest heavily in building audiences across social media platforms, but those platforms ultimately control the experience. Algorithms change, policies evolve, and visibility can change overnight. A domain, however, provides a stable identity that remains under the business’ control.
This shift is changing how organizations approach domain strategy. Businesses are asking whether it reinforces their brand, communicates what they offer, and supports long-term recognition.
Alternative domains have become part of that conversation. A technology startup may choose an .ai domain. An ecommerce retailer might adopt a .store extension. Creative agencies, consultants, and online communities are similarly exploring domain names that better align with their industries and audiences.
These choices are less about following trends and more about improving clarity. A well-chosen domain can communicate something meaningful before a visitor even reaches the homepage.
Digital identity is becoming a competitive advantageAI has accelerated more than business creation. It has also made it easier to imitate legitimate organizations.
Generative AI simplifies the creation of convincing fake websites. Professional-looking branding, realistic copy, and cloned user experiences can now be produced at a scale that would have been difficult just a few years ago.
As a result, businesses face growing pressure to make their digital presence unmistakably authentic. A customer who lands on the wrong website may not have another opportunity to determine which business is genuine. In this era, a domain is not just a destination for customers. It's part of a broader trust strategy.
Business owners should think beyond individual websites and consider their entire domain portfolio. Relevant brand variations, country-specific domains, and campaign domains all contribute to protecting digital identity, while forgotten domains, expired microsites, or unmanaged registrations can create opportunities for phishing, typosquatting, and brand impersonation.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently closed their first application opening for new generic top-level domains since 2012, which means more TLDs will be available for business owners and impersonators. It's not enough to focus only on your primary business domain. Businesses need to consider monitoring registrations and new TLDs and understand where their brand sits within the domain landscape and decide when and how to protect their names.
Protecting online identity is no longer solely the responsibility of cybersecurity teams. It requires coordination across marketing, IT, legal, and security as organizations work together to protect customer trust.
More choice creates more opportunityThe growing range of domain extensions is giving businesses greater flexibility in how they establish their online identity.
For many businesses, .com remains an important part of their domain portfolio. But businesses are recognizing that different extensions can serve different strategic purposes.
A global organization may continue using its .com as its primary corporate website while adopting other extensions for regional initiatives, product launches, marketing campaigns, or specialized services. Startups may choose an extension that more reflects their industry while maintaining consistency across their broader brand.
The conversation is shifting from finding the right extension to building the right domain strategy.
As businesses expand into new markets, introduce new products, or adopt emerging technologies, their digital presence should evolve alongside them. The growing diversity of domain extensions gives organizations more tools to support that evolution.
Owning your identity matters more than everA .com domain is still one of the internet's most valuable assets, and there is little reason to believe that will change anytime soon.
The bigger shift is how businesses think about domains. AI can help launch companies faster, but it also helps malicious actors imitate them more convincingly. That’s why domains are more than just navigation tools. They also prove authenticity.
The future is more than choosing between .com and newer domain extensions. It's also about being intentional - building a domain strategy that helps customers recognize the genuine business while supporting long-term growth and resilience in an AI-driven internet.
To put this into practice, businesses should prioritize:
•Monitoring for typosquat and lookalike domains
•Auditing their domain portfolio regularly for unused domains
•Registering brand domains across other reputable domain extensions
•Maintaining an accurate domain inventory
•Making legitimate customer communications easy to verify
Together, this strategy can help protect a brand’s reputation online, no matter what domain extensions are used.
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- Multiple Reddit threads have highlighted issues with iOS 27
- Some users say their screens are sometimes unresponsive, while others report slow and jittery performance
- Some possible fixes have been suggested, though these aren't ideal solutions
While iOS 27 has generally been well received, no update is perfect, and some users are reporting that, since downloading the latest software, they’re experiencing performance issues.
Across multiple Reddit threads, there are reports of unresponsive touchscreens and slowness or stuttering. It’s unclear how widespread these issues are, but in the case of unresponsive screens, users are reporting it can happen on almost any part of the interface, while the slow or stuttery performance is most often exhibited when swiping or switching screens.
However, a few possible solutions have also been presented. One user has reported that restarting their phone fixes an unresponsive screen (at least temporarily), while another has said that when their apps freeze, they can unfreeze them by switching to the home screen and then back to the frozen app.
As for slowness and jittery animations, one Redditor found that having too many app icons on your home screens can cause a stuttery launch animation, so reducing the number of apps on each screen might help.
You might have to wait for a proper fixiOS 27 on an iPhone (Image credit: Future/Jacob Krol)Still, these all seem to be either temporary solutions or ones that restrict how you customize your phone, so they’re not ideal.
More long-term, it’s possible that things will settle down on their own after the initial post-update system-wide indexing is complete. Failing that, if you’re affected by these issues, you might have to wait for the next iOS update for a proper fix, as hopefully Apple will address it there.
And if you haven’t updated to iOS 27 yet, you might want to consider holding off until it’s clearer how widespread these issues are — though usually bugs like these only affect a minority of users, so the risk probably isn’t too high.
There’s certainly plenty of good stuff in iOS 27 too, including the long-awaited AI overhaul for Siri, so hopefully these teething issues don’t last long.
Last week I flew out to Warsaw for Logitech G Play 2026. The gaming brand’s annual flagship event saw a wealth of new product reveals, with the Pro X2 Rapid keyboard and Pro X3 Superstrike mouse dominating headlines in the PC gaming peripheral space.
I tried them out at the venue ahead of the official launch, and they’re great pieces of hardware, but ones squarely aimed at a very specific audience of esports pros and aspiring competitive gamers. With top-of-the-line specs, they’re also pretty expensive at $229.99 / £209.99 / AU $399.95 and $199.99 / £169.99 / AU$299.95, respectively.
I naturally assumed that such high-end kit would be the highlight of the show for me, but it was actually something right at the other end of the price spectrum that impressed me the most.
More for lessThe keyboard is available in both white and black. (Image credit: Logitech)The Logitech G316 X 75 is the latest arrival in the brand’s more budget-oriented G3 series.
It’s a smaller version of the existing G316 X 98 from earlier this year. I didn’t really pay much attention to the original launch: it was a full-size keyboard, and I’ve always preferred more compact designs for that extra desk space.
As a 75% size model, the G316 X 75 ditches the pointless numpad (seriously, when was the last time you used yours?) and a couple of little-used keys like Home and End to give you roughly 2.4in / 6cm on the right-hand side — perfect for positioning your mousepad if, like me, you’re short on desk space.
It wasn’t just the size that drew me to the G316 X 75 on the show floor, however. It’s a very flashy-looking keyboard with full RGB backlighting and a large LED strip with zones you can customize in the compatible Logitech G Hub software. There’s also a little LED screen in the top right corner which, alongside an accompanying button and dial, is used to turn on game mode (locking the Windows key), adjust music volume, or tweak key settings like RGB brightness.
It seemed like a practical little addition in my hands-on time, with some playful touches like a dancing smiley face that appears if you leave the keyboard idle. I found myself wondering if you could display your own little custom icon or emoji on the screen, though, sadly, a representative told me that wasn’t possible for now. A missed opportunity for even more personalization, perhaps.
The 75% form factor leaves plenty of room for your mouse. (Image credit: Logitech)The materials were decent for the price too. The whole keyboard is plastic, but it still feels weighty and suitably premium, with no noticeable flex when typing. Keycaps are double-shot PBT, with shine-through legends, so they should hold up for a long time as well. If anything does go wrong, both the keycaps and switches are hot-swappable for easy repairs.
On the subject of the switches, they’re tactile ones developed by Logitech that feel a bit different to alternatives from the likes of Cherry or Akko. They require a bit more force to press, and don’t really have that noticeable mid-press biting point characteristic of tactile switches. Unusual, but not necessarily a bad thing. They’re not super loud either, and are very smooth and still suitably satisfying to press.
This is obviously a keyboard geared more towards casual gaming than anything else and is wired-only, though that doesn’t mean that there aren’t a few decent specs. The big one is the 8kHz report rate, which should ensure that you’re not held back by delayed inputs if you do venture into more competitive titles like Counter-Strike 2.
All of this comes in at just £89.99 / $99.99 / AU$169.95. I’ve tested keyboards that cost a hell of a lot more and offer far less bang for your buck, so I can see the Logitech G316 X 75 becoming the go-to choice for cost-conscious gamers.
- A study carried out by researchers in France looked at drone delivery for defibrillators
- It found that wait times could be cut by 3.76 minutes on average
- Provision of more fixed defibrillators and better placement of the devices is important too
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests are currently survived by fewer than 1 in 10 people, but researchers in France have explored a new defibrillator delivery method that could help push these figures in the right direction: delivery by drone.
In an analysis carried out by Lariboisière Hospital emergency physician Hillary Minka and her colleagues, drone delivery capabilities were added to the current network of fixed automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in areas surrounding Paris.
Using drones could cut delivery times by an average of 3.76 minutes, the simulations showed, with 95% of cardiac arrest patients reached within five minutes, compared to the current 30-40% figure when relying on foot and road transport of the devices.
However, the researchers emphasize that the provision of more AEDs should be a priority too, not just the use of drones to deliver them, and say locating more AEDs in places that are publicly accessible, rather than in private spaces, will also help. Together, they say these measures could increase the five-minute coverage rate to 99.4%.
Real-world testing is nextEverdrone already deploys medical drones in Sweden (Image credit: Everdrone)"Drones will never replace bystanders, resuscitation efforts or emergency medical teams," says Minka. "However, they could represent an additional link in the chain of survival and help make defibrillation available more quickly."
The researchers' work also showed the importance of the geographical distribution of AEDs. Better placement reduces the need for additional units, given the drone range of around 3,900 meters (12,.795 feet).
Next, the researchers want to set up real-world trials. This new study was based on simulations and modeling — no actual drones were flown — and so it doesn't take into account any day-to-day variables, such as weather conditions.
The study hasn't yet been peer-reviewed, but it has been presented at the European Emergency Medicine Congress 2026 in Paris. Defibrillators are already delivered by drone in some parts of Sweden, and it may not be too long before other countries follow its lead.
- Discord is working on a new 'Game Mode' feature to reduce CPU and GPU usage while gaming
- The new feature seems to be an auto-toggle of the Reduced Motion feature on the desktop app when a game is running
- It's not yet clear if any improvements will be made to resource consumption while screen sharing
Discord is infamous for its high RAM, CPU, and GPU consumption while gaming, and some of those aspects are finally being addressed.
As reported by VideoCardz, Discord is working on 'Game Mode,' a new feature for the Discord client that frees up CPU and GPU resources while a game is running by disabling effects and animations for smoother gameplay.
Discord already offers options to reduce system resource use, notably Reduced Motion, which reduces the intensity of animations and hover effects when navigating the client. Users can also disable hardware acceleration, which stops the app from using the GPU for better performance within it, and disabling it should stop "visual glitches like frame drops in games or performance problems".
Game Mode sounds a lot like Reduced Motion, with DiscordPreviews (on X) describing how it reduces animations and effects automatically once a game is detected. With this in mind, Game Mode might not be the best answer to solving Discord's system resource issues, especially since there's no mention of RAM usage reduction.
It's also worth noting that Discord is an Electron-based application (a framework for desktop applications that uses web technology), which means Discord's web app is essentially running in an embedded browser engine known as Chromium — the same engine Google Chrome is built on, which is another app that is heavy on system resources.
Discord is working on Game Mode. Once activated, Discord's client will automatically reduce animations and disable effects when it detects a game being played, freeing up CPU and GPU resources that might help your game run smoother. pic.twitter.com/Ul9v9qQqnxSeptember 26, 2026
What about screen sharing?(Image credit: Getty Images)It's unclear if Game Mode will do anything new other than serve as an automatic toggle for Reduced Motion while gaming. In that case, Discord still has a long way to go in ensuring the desktop app doesn't continue to creep up as a system resource issue for gamers.
At the very least, having Discord devs address the issues is a great start, but it remains to be seen if Game Mode will also help with keeping CPU and GPU usage as low as possible while screen sharing.
Unsurprisingly, the latter uses high amounts of system resources, especially when streaming at higher resolutions, but it's more reasonable compared to simple voice chat or the app being open in the background and still hogging memory.
Still, in-game frame rates can suffer when using screen share, even if the resolution is below 1080p, and this is far more problematic on lower-end systems with less RAM. Solutions such as a capture card on a separate system (or specifically a laptop) can help solve game performance problems completely, but it's not exactly an affordable option.
If Discord can optimize the desktop app or move away from its Electron-based nature, it could go a long way toward removing all of the major pain points.