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Nexus 7 Pixel edition: it’s time for Google to resurrect the greatest tablet ever
Summary Google has released a number of tablets over the years, but none have quite lived up to the hype of the original Nexus 7. Google’s 2012 Nexus 7 was built by Asus — it ran on the Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, and it shipped with Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. It’s time for Google to…

Tamron’s TAP-in Console: A nexus for camera lens update and control
Camera lenses were originally fully mechanical (and in some cases, still are; witness my Rokinon Cine optics suite). The user manually focused them, manually set the aperture, and manually zoomed them (for non-fixed-focal length optics, that is). Even when the aperture was camera body-controlled—in shutter-priority and fully auto-exposure modes, for example—the linkage between it and…