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Hands-on Review: OPPO Find X9 Pro smartphone

OPPO's Find X9 Pro flagship, with a 200MP Hasselblad lens, 7500mAh battery, and 6.78-inch 3600-nit AMOLED display, redefines premium smartphones.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Sun, 2nd Nov 2025

Global Stories

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Drones

Global handheld smart camera shipments jump 83% in 2025

Rising short-form video and vlogging demand helped the category reach 16.65 million units, putting pressure on traditional cameras and margins.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Thu, 26th Mar 2026

Marketing Technologies

Adobe adds conversational AI tools to Photoshop, Firefly

Adobe is baking chat-style AI assistants into Photoshop and Firefly, letting users edit and generate images simply by describing changes.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 3 min read • Wed, 11th Mar 2026

Document Management

ABBYY, Desktop Imaging automate NZ council rebates, invoices

AI document tools slash manual workloads at Wellington City Council and Fire and Emergency New Zealand, boosting compliance and payment speed.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 3 min read • Thu, 15th Jan 2026

Marketing Technologies

Apple bundles pro creative apps in new AI Studio deal

Apple has unveiled Creator Studio, a subscription bundling pro creative apps with new AI tools and premium content across its platforms.

By Mark Tarre • 5 min read • Wed, 14th Jan 2026

Storage

OWC boosts ThunderBlade X12 portable RAID to 192TB

OWC has doubled its ThunderBlade X12 portable Thunderbolt 5 RAID SSD to 192TB, targeting filmmakers needing ultra-fast, on-set shuttle storage.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 3 min read • Wed, 14th Jan 2026

Marketing Technologies

Sandisk launches Creator Series storage for digital professionals

Sandisk unveils Creator Series storage, offering mobile and desktop solutions tailored for digital professionals and content creators in Australia.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Tue, 18th Nov 2025

Artificial Intelligence

GigaChat AI assistant achieves 93% accuracy in medical diagnoses

SberHealth's GigaChat AI assistant achieved 93% accuracy diagnosing 30 clinical cases, outperforming rivals and showing promise for healthcare and training.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • Fri, 8th Aug 2025

OPPO

OPPO & Hasselblad extend imaging partnership for new phones

OPPO extends its imaging partnership with Hasselblad to develop next-gen smartphone cameras, aiming to elevate mobile photography to new heights.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • Thu, 24th Jul 2025

Document Management

Kodak Alaris unveils S5000 scanners & Capture Pro 7.0 update

Kodak Alaris launches S5000 Series scanners and Capture Pro 7.0 software, enhancing speed, image quality, and compliance for high-volume document capture.

By Jed Nykolle Harme • 3 min read • Thu, 17th Jul 2025

Sony

Sony unveils ECM-778 microphone, CFexpress cards, & podcast

Sony launches ECM-778 shotgun microphone, CFexpress Type A cards, reader, and a new podcast, enhancing tools for professional and amateur content creators.

By Kaleah Salmon • 5 min read • Wed, 16th Jul 2025