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ZDNET’s key takeaways The Wacom Movink is priced at $700 and comes with an OLED display It’s ultraportable, with a built quality that should last you years I just wish there was an integrated stand for a more comfortable drawing experience. more buying choices Wacom is well known as the leader in tablet and pen display technology for content creators and digital artists. In its latest offering, the company considers the nomadic, on-the-go lifestyle of…

Lance Whitney/ZDNET Do you use any of the AI features on your smartphone, and if so, do you find them valuable? Those are two of the questions covered in a recent survey from phone reseller SellCell. Released on Monday, the results found that people are less than thrilled with the current crop of AI features but do use certain ones. Also: I’m an AI tools expert, and these are the only two I pay for The goal…

Strategic principles of zero trust for OT EMA’s new zero-trust research, based on a survey of 270 IT professionals, found that IT/OT convergence correlates with a different approach to this security model. For instance, the top two guiding principles of zero-trust initiatives in general are (1) preventing unauthorized access and (2) preventing zero trust from negatively impacting network performance and user experience. With OT-focused zero trust, enterprises are less concerned about network performance impacts. Instead,…

piranka/Getty Images Agentic AI is on the rise — some reports predict that 25% of businesses will deploy it next year (whether they’re ready to or not). AI company Blitzy believes it has the autonomous powerhouse to keep up, without sacrificing human oversight.  On Wednesday, the Massachusetts-based company announced Blitzy Platform, an agentic system that “batch-builds up to 300,000 lines of code in a single 8-hour inference run, cutting end-to-end development timelines from months to days.”…

Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET Those who like to spice up text messages with emojis may get tired of using the same old generic images. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could create your own emojis? Now, you can, if you own an iPhone or iPad that supports Apple Intelligence. Unveiled in iOS/iPadOS 18.2, a new feature called Genmoji lets you cook up your custom emoji. Just describe the character or object you envision, and Apple’s…

ChargerLAB Power-Z AK001 USB-C cable with power meter. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET If you’re a professional repair technician, then having one or more USB power meters in your toolkit is essential. These devices are invaluable as they provide a quick and efficient means of diagnosing issues.  A USB power meter can instantly read voltage and amperage, what power protocols are being used, and much more, helping technicians pinpoint power-related problems with various devices. This capability makes them…

Getty Images/Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library Slowly but surely, Starlink is growing into a leading broadband internet alternative. Its network of low Earth orbit satellites ensures its users high-speed internet access, even in areas where traditional infrastructure such as cell towers can’t reach. Now, that technology can provide service to your mobile device.  On Monday, T-Mobile opened registration for a T-Mobile Starlink beta program that aims to eliminate dead zones by leveraging Starlink’s 300 direct‑to‑cell satellites…

Screenshot by Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET OpenAI upped the ante in the video generation space earlier this month, making Sora — its state-of-the-art text-to-video generator model — available to ChatGPT Plus users with Sora Turbo. Now, Google is gearing up to compete with the launch of its most advanced video generator.  On Monday, Google launched Veo 2, a text-to-video generator that boasts improvements from the company’s previous model, including a better understanding of real-world physics, which helps the AI…

Google’s Willow quantum computing chip has 105 physical qubits crafted from superconducting “transmons,” a technique pioneered in 2007 at Yale University. Google Google’s quantum computing scientists this month demonstrated breakthroughs in the field that reinforce the sense that quantum computing is for real and will be able to find its place among other kinds of computers as a valuable resource.  But much remains to be done: Google’s latest quantum chip — called Willow and fabricated…