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It's been the summer of the rugged, waterproof point-and-shoot camera, and there have been some really good ones. Fuji wants in on the rough and tough action, but can it hang with the others? We beat it up to find out. A 14.4MP point-and-shoot. Freeze-proof, dust-proof, waterproof to 33 feet, and drop-proof to 6.6 feet. Outdoors types who don't want to worry about ruining a camera all the time. Handsome. Solid. Thick, but pocketable. A door with two locks hides the ports, card, and battery. Photos snap quickly. Adjustments are cumbersome. Lived up to its water-proofiness! Two surf sessions, immersion in the Pacific—came out fine. It's damn near impossible to take a nice photo with this thing. Awful in low light. Couldn't focus in daylight. Photos are washed out, colors are bland, dynamic range is terrible, and there's noise everywhere. See for yourself. Built-in Wi-Fi, a banner feature, is a pain to set up, the iOS app barely works, and the Android app doesn't ...

Jul 30, 2012 12:08 PM   Just a few weeks ago, Digg sold itself for a pittance. Now, the new Digg team has posted a preview of what it's calling v1: its ambitious plan to fix the ailing network. Signs of life! A battery of new changes! The new design launching later this week will dispense with horrid DiggBar. Will it be enough to save the basically dead site? On rethinkdigg.com, the (new) Digg team has posted a series of its earliest wireframes and mockups for what the new Digg will look like. Besides the absence of a DiggBar, the new version will have more images and, for now at least, no advertisements. The Digg score won't only take into account the activity of users on the site, but also data on tweets and Facebook Likes. Oh, and the first version of new Digg won't have comments. That's ballsy. Based on what we can tell, the company is trying as hard as it can to distinguish itself from Reddit. Instead of lone headlines, it'll have big images. Do you find Red...