Apple and Nike are at it again. But this time, their collaboration doesn't involve Apple Watch bands or a shoe-tracking iPod. Instead, the companies are launching a new color option for Beats' fitness-focused earphones. Meet the Powerbeats Pro 2 - Nike Special Edition. "This isn't just a new colorway," Beats CMI Chris Thorne wrote in a press release. "It's a collision of two brands that define performance, culture and sports — the attributes of today's athlete." Okay, cool, but marketing-speak as...
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Apple's Beats brand is launching its first hardware collaboration with Nike today, debuting a new special-edition Nike-branded version of the Powerbeats Pro 2. Featuring Nike's "Volt" color palette with a matte black and Volt-speckled charging case with Nike's "Just Do It" slogan printed inside the lid, the buds themselves sport the Nike Swoosh logo on the right ear bud and the Beats "b" logo on the left ear bud. Aside from the Nike-focused design, these are the same Powerbeats Pro 2 that were...
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Apple is expanding its partnership with the Save The Music Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting music education in U.S. public schools. The organization donates musical instruments and technology to schools and much more. "We're thrilled to be expanding our partnership with Save the Music, bringing music education to even more schools across the country," said Apple CEO Tim Cook. Apple's expanded partnership will help to bring music programming to nearly 50 more schools....
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Is the 'future of real-time rendering' in the room with us?
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As the old saying goes, you wait ages for a fantasy themed Minecraft-a-like to come along, and then two arrive at once. Just months after Hytale made a stellar entrance following its near-cancellation, Enjoy Studio's sandbox survival RPG Everwind is now ready to take the early access spotlight. But it's got something to set itself apart: airships. Which begs the question, can an airship make everything better? Would FIFA be improved if the goalkeeper abseiled onto the pitch at the start of a mat...
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Apple today shared a trailer for "Outcome," a dark comedy film starring Keanu Reeves, Jonah Hill, Cameron Diaz, David Spade, Martin Scorsese, and others. The original film will be available to stream on Apple TV starting Friday, April 10. Keanu Reeves and Jonah Hill in "Outcome" In the film, Keanu Reeves plays Reef Hawk, a Hollywood star who is being extorted with a video that would damage his reputation. With the support of his lifelong friends Kyle (Diaz) and Xander (Matt Bomer), and his lawye...
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The Sims 4's original lead AI programmer says he pitched the entire AI system not long before alpha and rewrote it from scratch.
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Last year, the PlayStation Portal was graced with its biggest update since the peripheral's 2023 launch. This came with a fair few advantages, not least the ability to play PS5 exclusives without actually having a PS5. As as result of this updates, Takuro Fushimi, senior manager of product management at Sony, noted that "the PlayStation portal has now become the most widely used device for PlayStation 5 Remote Play, surpassing mobile PC, PS5, and PS4."
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Monster Hunter Stories 3 has the spirit of a classic RPG and improves on everything in the Monster Hunter spinoff series
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Apple's iPhone 19e could come with an LTPO OLED display that would bring 120Hz ProMotion technology to its most affordable iPhone for the first time, based on a new report out of Asia. According to ZDNet Korea, the fourth-generation model in Apple's entry-level e-series – expected to arrive in early 2028 – could adopt a low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) panel, making the display technically capable of dynamically adjusting its refresh rate between 1Hz and 120Hz. It's the same underlyi...
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Oh deary me, NVIDIA have a bit of a wildfire on their hands here, with NVIDIA DLSS 5 being compared with AI generated slop "art"
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Coffeegrigus. The Pokémon Company is no stranger to a collaboration, and its upcoming crossover is for all those who assumed Miniccino can come in a Grande size with cream and syrup. That's right, Pokémon is teaming up with coffee brand Grind on a new range of products. The collection will consist of "drinks inspired" by the world of 'mon — best not to think too deeply about that one — as well as other goodies.
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Samsung is set to discontinue the Galaxy Z TriFold globally after just three months on sale (via Bloomberg). The company will start by ceasing sales of the device in Korea, where it has been on sale since December. Samsung plans to discontinue the device in the United States once it clears its inventory. Samsung's website already lists the TriFold as "sold out," but customers are still able to buy the device at Samsung stores. It launched in the United States in January and costs $2,899. The Gal...
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Oppo is back with another high-spec foldable phone you may never see outside a tech journalist's hands. The Find N6 is its new, sub-9mm device that is headed to Asian markets and, for now, not many other places. That means no US or European availability. So why write about it? With its build quality, hardware specs and camera array, not only is it a very good phone, but it's also proof that another device maker can go toe-to-toe with Samsung’s dominance in flagship foldable phones. Hardware Oppo...
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Did Resi really need the Face App treatment?
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Following the battle against the Automatons over Cyberstan, another of Helldivers 2's factions is getting some new additions later this week. The Illuminate - technologically advanced alien squids for the uninitiated - are set to have their ranks bolstered by fresh troops and will start to unleash exostorms you'll be tasked with containing via new missions.
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Momoa's new character, Hayt, is a key part of Frank Herbert's Dune Messiah and the rest of the franchise, explaining his return in Dune 3.
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The paradigm of consumer computing has revolved around the concept of a personal device — from PCs to smartphones and tablets. Now, generative AI — particularly OpenClaw — has introduced a new category: agent computers. These devices, like the NVIDIA DGX Spark desktop AI supercomputer or dedicated NVIDIA RTX PCs, are ideal for running personal...
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The paradigm of consumer computing has revolved around the concept of a personal device — from PCs to smartphones and tablets. Now, generative AI — particularly OpenClaw — has introduced a new category: agent computers. These devices, like the NVIDIA DGX Spark desktop AI supercomputer or dedicated NVIDIA RTX PCs, are ideal for running personal...
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The features on social media apps like Snapchat evolve nearly as fast as what’s trending. To keep pace, its parent company Snap has adopted open data processing libraries from NVIDIA on Google Cloud services to boost development. Every new feature rolled out to Snapchat’s more than 940 million monthly active users goes through a set...
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The features on social media apps like Snapchat evolve nearly as fast as what’s trending. To keep pace, its parent company Snap has adopted open data processing libraries from NVIDIA on Google Cloud services to boost development. Every new feature rolled out to Snapchat’s more than 940 million monthly active users goes through a set...
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While V for Vendetta's creator criticized the 2006 adaptation, twenty years later, its portrayal of fascism in Britain has only grown more relevant.
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Last year, Dell came this close to abdicating its throne as the maker of the best premium Windows laptops when it announced it was killing off the XPS brand. Thankfully, the company regained its wits, admitted its mistake and doubled down on its flagship notebook line by revealing a full redesign for 2026 with super sleek builds, improved performance and helpful tweaks to nearly everything else we loved about its predecessors. The one blemish to Dell's crown jewel is some keyboard issues on earl...
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Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times from developer SlugGlove is a wonderful adventure about overcoming puzzles with its unique spell system
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There may be other online shooters taking the limelight away fromHelldivers 2 (here's looking at you, Arc Raiders and Marathon), but that doesn't mean Arrowhead Game Stuidos' breakout hit has gone anywhere - especially with a live-action movie coming up. With a perfectly stabilized player base and install size woes dealt with, Arrowhead is ramping up the content output again, and the next major update looks like a doozy.
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Smart home company Aqara has launched what it says is the first camera certified for Matter, the open source standard that enables interoperability across brands, like Google and Amazon. The Aqara G350 is an indoor security cam that also functions as a Zigbee and Matter hub in the Aqara Home app, which means the camera will enable you to control various devices across smart home protocols from different brands within one location. The camera itself comes with a 4K wide-angle and a 2.5K telephoto...
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Blizzard’s latest World of Warcraft promotion has hit a snag, as bad actors scoop up all of the limited edition Thunder-Ridged Elekk mounts.
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Winnie's Hole is one of my current indie favourites from the creators of Ring of Pain, with you infecting the classic Winnie-the-Pooh character
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Marathon will implement a limited duo queue later this week, as Bungie experiments with an alternative to lonesome solo play and hectic three-person teams in its new extraction shooter.
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Let's revisit the game where all your villagers bully you.
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After what felt like many years of silence, things are finally picking up for Netflix's Assassin's Creed adaptation, with four more high-profile actors announced to be joining the series.
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Oh, it wasn’t a dream. Nvidia really did announce DLSS 5 last night, its central feature not being better upscaling or frame generation but a "real-time neural rendering model that infuses pixels with photoreal lighting and materials." In practice, the primary function of this model appears to be looksmaxxing, transforming Resident Evil Requiem’s traumatised wallflower Grace into a smouldering ScarJo lookalike and, erm, lightening the skin of Starfield’s PoC characters. DLSS 5 isn’t launching un...
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More hardware and software releases from Intel today with the launch of the Intel Core Ultra 200HX Plus series and their new "Binary Optimization Tool"
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Dare we hope that those Olympus cores turn up in a future PC chip?
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