TechHive Editors Choice At a glanceExpert`s Rating Pros Dual-lens view leaves no blind spots while minimizing distortion No subscription needed for storage or to unlock any features AI search could be a game-changer—but not today Cons There’s a slight visual anomaly where the two camera images are spliced The weak onboard siren won’t dissuade a bad actor from lingering Cheap screws stripped immediately Our Verdict Dual lenses give Reolink’s latest floodlight camera an incredibly wide field of view, while its bright and capable floodlights ensure the scene is effectively lit. Price When Reviewed This value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefined Best Pricing Today Best Prices Today: Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi Retailer Price Check Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide Product Price Price comparison from Backmarket Best Prices Today: Check today’s prices No matter how wide a viewing angle a given fixed-lens security camera might have, it will invariably suffer from this flaw: It won’t be able to see everything in front of it. And while some cameras try to solve this problem by employing a fish-eye lens to widen that viewing angle, the resulting image usually suffers from a degree of barrel distortion. Reolink’s Elite Floodlight WiFi mitigates that problem via a clever hack. It uses two camera lenses instead of just one to deliver a combined (and relatively distortion-free) 180-degree field of view. It’s a concept that Reolink has pursued with several earlier products, including its Reolink Duo 3 WiFi, and which it improves upon here. Specifications Like most floodlight cameras, the Elite Floodlight is a hardwired device that must be permanently mounted on a wall and connected to a home’s 120-volt wiring. Reolink supplies everything you need to attach the camera to a standard junction box, but it can also be attached directly to a wall (or ceiling) and plugged in with a bare wire/pigtail extension cord (that connection should still be in a weatherproof box). All those pixels really do fill a wide screen, and you can zoom in impressively to catch quite fine details when you need to. Reolink supplies wire nuts for either attachment method (along with various other mounting hardware), but I ended up using my own because the supplied ones felt a bit too small to be secure. Either way, once you use the three nuts to complete the circuit and ground the device, the unit is ready to be mounted to the wall. This is achieved via a mounting bracket that comes complete with a built-in spirit level. Installation and setup As is common with floodlight cameras, you’ll need to hardwire the Reolink Elite WiFi floodlight WiFi to your home’s 110-volt electrcal system.Christopher Null/Foundry The first hiccup with the hardware install was that I found I needed to swivel both the camera housing and the two spotlights well out of the way to access the two tiny channels in which the screws that connect the camera unit to the mounting bracket are placed. (I could also have used a lengthy bit extension for my drill.) I must also complain about the poor quality of the screws included with the kit, two of which stripped completely during installation. Removing them later took more than an hour and a lot of headache. The camera records to its own storage, so you’ll need to install a microSD card (capacities up to 512GB are supported) as a last step. No card is included, and the camera can’t record without one. (Reolink doesn’t require a subscription plan, and unlike other Reolink cameras, this device doesn’t even support one.) Wi-Fi setup was painless in my testing once I got the blaring and endlessly repeating audio instructions silenced, and it’s additionally helpful that the camera supports both 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi networks. Using the Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi Once installed, I felt the camera was slightly more attractive than many floodlight-cam competitors, as it’s a little more compact and less obtrusive—although this is of course a matter personal preference. But overall, the design is similar to that of most other floodlight cameras, with two spotlights providing a maximum of 3,000 lumens of illumination, perched atop a separate camera housing. The Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi is slightly less visually intrusive than most of its competitors.Reolink All three components can be positioned independently, and the entire device carries an IP67 weatherization rating, which our IP code guide tells us means the device is not only impervious to dust ingress, but that it can withstand being submerged in several feet of water for up to 30 minutes. Intriguingly, you can not only set the floodlight’s brightness level, but you can also adjust its color temperature, from a somewhat warm 3,000 Kelvin to a daylight-equivalent 6,000K. The floodlights can be set to always off, on at night, on based on a timer, or on at night based on motion detection, a setting that can be further restricted based on person, vehicle, or animal detection. A detailed scheduling system allows you to define when the camera records, which again can be restricted to types of motion if, for example, you don’t want to record every passing car on the street. Users can also define a “post-recording duration” to set how long to record after motion ends (15 seconds, 30 seconds, or 1 minute), and the camera can be set to record continuously (24/7 or based on a schedule), overwriting recordings at an interval you set (or simply deleting the oldest recording once the available storage is filled). Don’t like the lights? The unit also includes infrared night vision that can be set to kick in if ambient light is dim and the floodlight is turned off. Other features include two-way audio, a configurable siren (albeit a very weak one), a time-lapse recording mode, and the ability to push recordings to an FTP or NAS device instead of storing them on the camera itself. Camera image quality The cameras 8-megapixel image sensor records 4K video (which Reolink defines as 5120 x 1552 pixels) at 20 frames per second, and that ultra-wide angle image takes a little getting used to. Watching playback in Reolink’s app all but requires your phone to be in landscape mode. In portrait view, the image is so small that you can’t see any details. Fortunately, all those pixels really do fill a wide screen, and you can zoom in impressively to catch quite fine details when you need to. One hiccup of note: The use of two cameras means that the image must be digitally stitched together, which creates a visible seam that runs down the middle of the picture, along with a slight visual glitch, invariably where you least want it to be. The Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi’s ultrawide field of view all but requires your phone be in landscape mode to watch its live feed or recordings.   Christopher Null/Foundry The illumination power of the spotlights is solid, but I found the infrared night vision mode to be better from a recording standpoint, as I was able to make out figures further away in IR mode than with the spotlights on, even at full power. I have the opposite opinion when people were much closer the camera and recorded at night, as the floodlight makes up-close figures much clearer. The camera was adept at detecting motion in my testing, and a sophisticated detection-zone system lets you define areas and types of motion within those areas that you might want to ignore. Clips are catalogued in Reolink’s Playback menu, which lets you scrub video on a 24-hour timeline, one day at a time, or you can choose from animated thumbnails below the timeline, showcasing each moment where motion was detected. Each clip is even marked with a small dot to indicate where notable motion events occurred within the clip. The app can also be configured to send notifications of motion via push notification or email; but for the latter, you’ll need to configure mail server settings in the app, which might be more of a headache than most users want to deal with. The camera’s onboard AI leaves much to be desired I was less than impressed with the Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi’s AI (center app screenshot), and the view from its dual lenses isn’t perfectly stitched together (right-hand app screenshot). Christopher Null/Foundry A new feature (introduced in beta test mode just days before the product’s release) lets you search for recorded clips using natural language. This AI-powered search is a potential game-changer, letting you filter clips of people, vehicles, and animals (and only those three categories, not general motion), using written qualifiers. For example: “Person in a blue shirt.” “Cat running.” “Red pickup truck.” My tests with this were all over the map, indicating the algorithm probably has room to grow. It works well with color queries, picking out clips of me wearing a black shirt with ease, but it didn’t find any clips of me “holding a bottle,” identifying just about everything else as a valid clip except the one where I was holding a bottle. The system could find no clips of any person either “with a beard” or “without a beard.” (I have no beard, for the record.) And while it was successful at finding clips of my cat, it also tagged the same clips if I searched for “dog.” As noted, Reolink has work to do on the AI front. Should you buy the Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi? At $220, the Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi is a reasonably priced and capable lights-and-camera combo. It’s also fairly compact and remarkably full-featured, producing high-quality, ultra-widescreen video that you won’t get elsewhere. Apart from its onboard AI–which remember–is still in beta, it’s a solid product. And not having to pay for a subscription is icing on the cake. 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Let’s cut right to the chase: today, you can get a Lenovo Legion 5i laptop with an RTX 5060 for just $1,500 at B&H. Once that crazy bit of info has soaked in, go ahead and jump on this deal because I doubt you’ll find a better one for an RTX 50-series laptop anytime soon. This Lenovo Legion 5i features a spiffy Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX processor and a whopping 32GB of DDR5 RAM (with some AI capabilities though it isn’t a full-blown Copilot+ PC). Combined with the 1TB SSD, this is a powerful machine that can easily handle Windows 11 Home plus all your apps, games, and browser tabs without slowing to a crawl. But here’s the pièce de résistance: a GeForce RTX 5060 dedicated graphics card, which is absolutely insane for a laptop that only costs $1,500. Granting you access to DLSS 4 and Nvidia’s other latest tech, you’ll be gaming like a fiend on this machine. And it’s going to look sweet on the laptop’s 15.1-inch OLED display with native 2560×1600 resolution and fast 165Hz refresh rate. Other noteworthy bits include a USB4, a USB-C, and three USB-A ports, plus an HDMI 2.1, LAN, and 3.5mm audio ports. That’s a good mixture of connections that makes this laptop adequately future-proofed. It also has Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.3 support, a long-lasting 80-watt-hour battery, and it’s okay for portability at 0.85 inches thick and 4.4 pounds heavy. I repeat, this is a slamming deal on a slamming gaming laptop. Snag this Lenovo Legion 5i for $1,500 at B&H while you still can! There’s “limited supply at this price” so don’t expect it to last forever. Score this RTX 5060 OLED laptop with 32GB RAM for only $1,500Buy now from B&H Read...

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TL;DR: Microsoft Office 2024 Home for Mac or PC is available now for a one-time purchase of $129.97 (reg. $149.99). While it may seem like there’s a new version of Office every few years, updating this kind of software is crucial. However, the question is always the same: Is this one really worth it? If you’re tired of shelling out monthly fees for features you don’t use or dealing with watered-down web versions, then yes—Office 2024 Home is absolutely worth your one-time $129.97. This latest version ditches the bloat and dials up the speed, collaboration, and intelligence. With an updated interface that shows you only what you need (when you need it), improved accessibility tools, and AI-powered features in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, you’ll actually get things done faster. Need to write a paper, analyze a budget, build a presentation, or collaborate with a family member? Office 2024 now supports real-time co-authoring, smart compose, and even recorded presentations with captions. And the best part is it’s yours forever. No monthly payments. No renewal reminders. Just a clean, streamlined, and fully loaded Office suite that lives on your machine, not in the cloud, and includes ongoing updates. Pick up this lifetime access to Office 2024 Home while it’s just $129.97 (reg. $149.99) for a limited time. Microsoft Office 2024 Home for Mac or PC: One-Time PurchaseSee Deal StackSocial prices subject to change. Read...

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Adobe has finally delivered on one of the most requested features in Photoshop: image upscaling, as well as improved abilities to insert and remove objects from photographs and other images. Adobe said Tuesday that the new additions are arriving on the desktop edition of Photoshop as well as the web, though you’ll need an ongoing Photoshop or Adobe Creative Cloud subscription to take advantage of them. The new updates pit older generations of users against new, modern digital artists. If you own a scrapbook or physical photo album of printed photos, you may have used Google PhotoScan (for Android) to create those printed photos and add them to your physical photo albums. The problem, of course, is that they might be old and grainy, especially if you’re like me and didn’t have access to the latest and greatest film cameras. Upscaling uses AI to smooth and polish those grainy photos in an attempt to add back what the camera couldn’t capture. Adobe calls this Generative Upscale, and it’s been added to the Photoshop beta for desktop and the web. Adobe Windows already has a free image upscaler hidden away within the Photos app, called Super Resolution. Unfortunately, it’s locked to Copilot+ PCs, as it uses the NPU to inject more pixels. Photoshop historically has used the CPU, GPU, and the cloud to polish up your images. That polish is receiving an upgrade today, too. Harmonize is a new Photoshop feature that improves the way in which objects can be added to a photo. Think of it as the opposite of “Photoshopping” out an object — doing so removes the object, its shadow, and so on. Harmonize does the opposite: When you add an object in, it automatically examines the scene and adjusts the lighting and other effects, blending it in. Harmonize isn’t just available on desktop and on the web, but within the Early Access version of the Photoshop app for iOS. Adobe also said that it has tweaked Photoshop’s ability to remove objects, so that highlighted content is removed and (optionally) replaces it with AI-generated objects. The idea is that removing parts of the scene won’t be as noticeable as adding back content helps to blend the scene. Adobe Adobe is also allowing users to choose between different Firefly Image Models (Firefly Image 1 and Firefly Image 3) when using Generative Fill and Expand, the company said. Read...

With its silky performance and razor-sharp video resolution, the Apple TV 4K has been my streaming box of choice for years, but it has some quirks that drive me up the wall. For instance, why does the TV button on the Siri Remote send you to the Apple TV app rather than the main Apple TV home screen? What’s with those Apple TV+ video promos that start playing automatically, complete with sound? And don’t get me started on trying—fruitlessly—to pinpoint a particular moment in a video by clumsily swiping the remote’s touch-sensitive navigation pad.  Luckily, you can nip these Apple TV 4K annoyances in the bud with a few simple tweaks in the Settings menu. Read on for fixes to five quirks that perpetually annoy Apple TV users. Quirk: the Siri Remote TV button doesn’t take you to the home screen Back in the early days of Apple TV, the Home button on the remote did what it said it would do: It took you to the Apple TV’s home screen, where you could find all your ATV apps, just like on an iPhone.  Then the Apple TV app came along, and before we knew it, the Home button on the Apple TV remote (later dubbed the Siri Remote) jumped you to the Apple TV app rather than the home screen. Talk about annoying.  Fix: Change how the TV button on the Siri Remote works Luckily, there’s a way to make the Home button—OK, fine, the TV button—on the Apple TV remote do what we actually want.  Go to Settings on the Apple TV, select Remotes and Devices, scroll to the TV Button setting, then pick an option: either Home Screen or Apple TV App. Pick the former, and you’re all set.  Changing what the Siri Remote’s TV button does takes just a few clicks.Ben Patterson/Foundry Quirk: “Scrubbing” videos is way too finicky When you pause the video on your Apple TV, you can swipe the touch surface in the center of the navigation pad to “scrub” forward or backward. But scrubbing with precision can be a royal pain, as it’s all too easy to overshoot the spot you’re trying to find. And the more you try, the more you’ll wish you’d never started scrubbing in the first place. Fix: Use the rim of the navigation wheel If you’re getting frustrated, try this trick: Instead of swiping the touch surface in the middle of the navigational wheel, slide a finger around the rim of the wheel itself—clockwise for forward, or counterclockwise for reverse. Using that gesture makes it a little easier to pinpoint an exact spot on a video.  Just swipe clockwise or counterclockwise along the rim of the Siri Remote’s navigation pad to “scrub” forward or backward on a paused video.Ben Patterson/Foundry Quirk: Auto-playing videos in the Top Shelf So, you know when you scroll over the app icons in the top row of the Apple TV home screen, and promo images or even auto-playing videos appear at the very top of the screen? Apple calls that promo area the Top Shelf, and for the most part, you can’t control the content what appears there as you scroll from one app to another.  There is a key exception, however: the Apple TV app. Normally, when you scroll over the Apple TV icon, you’ll see a screen-dominating What to Watch preview that begins playing automatically, complete with sound (more on the annoying auto-play audio in a moment). But for the Apple TV app, you have the option to change the Top Shelf’s behavior to something more useful.  Fix: Change the Top Shelf setting for the TV app to Up Next Try this: Go to Settings, then click Apps, TV, and scroll down to the Home Screen setting. Finally, toggle the Top Shelf setting from What to Watch to Up Next.  Now, when you scroll over the Apple TV app on the Apple TV 4K’s home screen (assuming you keep the Apple TV app in the top dock), you’ll see what’s in your Up Next queue, handy for jumping back into what you’ve been watching or teeing something you already want to watch.  Bonus tip: You can set the Up Next promos to show either the cover art for the TV show or movie you were watching or a still-frame of the video; just toggle the Up Next Display setting. Put your Up Next row back where it belongs.Ben Patterson/Foundry Quirk: Auto-play previews have sound, too One of the more aggravating features of the Apple TV app is its habit of automatically playing a preview—complete with sound—for any show or video that the Apple TV’s cursor happens to be hovering over.  Now, you can’t do anything about the auto-playing videos, but you can mute their sound (you can always scroll up if you do decide you want to hear the preview).  Fix: Silence the auto-playing previews  Go to Settings, click Apps, TV, scroll down to the Video and Audio heading, then toggle Autoplay Video Sound to Off.  Ah, that’s better.  Apple TV 4K (3rd-generation, 2022) (64GB, model A2737) Read our review Best Prices Today: $124.50 at Adorama | $129 at Apple | $129.99 at Best Buy Quirk: Switching from one app to another is a pain Navigating the Apple TV 4K’s convoluted screens and interfaces can be a tedious process, particularly when it comes to switching from one app to another.   For example, if you’re deep inside the Netflix app and decide you want to check out Hulu, you’ll likely need to click the Back button multiple times to return to the home screen, and then you’ll need to navigate to the Hulu app icon and click that to begin, say, your binge-watching session of The Bear.  Of course, you could just click the TV button to zip back to the home screen (assuming you’ve followed my advice above), although you’ll still need to navigate to the app you want to open.  FIx: Double-click to switch apps  Instead, try this: Double-click the TV button. 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