By: The Verge

The Pixel 8 launch event is just days away, but someone has already gotten their hands on Google’s upcoming smartphones. In a pair of unboxing videos posted to YouTube by PBKreviews (via 9to5Google), you can see the packaging for the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro, along with a brief glimpse at how they look. The… Read more

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By: The Verge

The enormous, next-generation communications satellite BlueWalker 3 has become one of the brightest objects visible in the night sky, according to new research published today in the journal Nature. While BlueWalker 3 is groundbreaking for its ability to essentially turn ordinary smartphones into satellite phones, it might also usher in a new generation of satellites… Read more

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By: The Verge

FEMA and the FCC are conducting a dual test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) on Wednesday at about 2:20PM ET. The tests will appear on all consumer cellphones in either English or Spanish, depending on the language you have set, as well as radios and TVs. We regret to… Read more

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By: The Verge

Tesla produced 430,488 vehicles in the third quarter of 2023, a 10 percent drop from the previous quarter but a 25 percent year-over-year increase for the company. Tesla attributed the sequential drop in production to “planned downtimes for factory upgrades.” During a recent earnings call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk explained that the “summer shutdowns” were… Read more

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By: The Verge

Google has introduced Chromebook Plus, a new certification that’s meant to help shoppers identify high-quality Chromebooks to buy. Much like Intel’s Evo program for Windows PCs, the Chromebook Plus branding will be awarded to laptops that meet a set of minimum requirements. The idea is that even a shopper who’s not familiar with PC specs… Read more

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By: The Verge

Tesla didn’t end up holding a delivery event for its Cybertruck in the third quarter of 2023 as CEO Elon Musk had hoped. “We’re anticipating having [a] delivery event, a great delivery event probably in Q3,” Musk said in the company’s April earnings call. “The Cybertruck handover… will hopefully be around the end of Q3… Read more

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By: The Verge

The latest end-of-the-world movie coming to Netflix has some serious star power. Leave the World Behind — based on the book of the same name by Rumaan Alam — is helmed by Mr. Robot’s Sam Esmail and stars Mahershala Ali, Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, and Kevin Bacon. It’s a post-apocalyptic thriller with a decidedly intense… Read more

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By: The Verge

American scientists Katalin Karikó (a Hungarian-born biochemist) and Drew Weissman (an immunologist and professor of vaccine research) have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their research on messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), which contributed towards the development of effective covid-19 vaccines (seen via The New York Times). mRNA vaccines have an advantage… Read more

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By: The Verge

Microsoft’s task management app, Microsoft Lists, is now available for everyone to use. Launched in 2020, Microsoft Lists was originally limited to just business and enterprise users, before a limited preview for consumers last year. Microsoft is now letting anyone with a Microsoft Account access this free version of Microsoft Lists through iOS and Android… Read more

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By: Pocket-Lint

The arc of BMW’s electric car releases has been a little less conventional than some, thanks to the early launch of the BMW i3. The carbon-framed bubble was one of the first mainstream electric cars to launch from a major manufacturer and it was as much a vision of future design as it was a… Read more

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By: Pocket-Lint

The Jabra Elite 8 Active as the name quite clearly suggests, are a set of truly wireless earbuds built for exercise, but that can also be comfortably used as your day-to-day buds. Building on the solid Elite 7 Active, which I use regularly, Jabra has focused on making its latest Active set tougher, better at… Read more

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By: Pocket-Lint

I had a lot of love for the smaller iPhone 15 when I reviewed it, but I love the iPhone 15 Plus even more. Let me tell you why. For 2022, it was the iPhone 14 Pro models that saw all the love, while the iPhone 14 got a little left behind. Not only did… Read more

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By: Tom's Hardware

Today at Newegg, the Acer Nitro ED270U P2bmiipx gaming monitor is available for one of its best prices to date. It usually goes for around $199, but today has been discounted to $169. This gaming display has plenty of specs worth getting excited about including a fast curved panel with a 2K resolution. Acer’s Nitro… Read more

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By: Tom's Hardware

What is claimed to be “probably the most dangerous CPU cooler ever made,” has been analyzed by extreme overclocking expert der8auer, on his YouTube channel. The danger with the cooler under the spotlight is that its ordinary-looking heatpipes are actually filled with liquid metal. However, this isn’t the gallium-indium liquid metal der8auer often promotes as… Read more

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By: Tom's Hardware

News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Lenovo Legion 9i’s much vaunted liquid cooler has been tested and found wanting. In brief, YouTuber Dave2D fiddled with his Legion gaming laptop review sample and A / B tested the device with and without the liquid cooling pump connected to power, observing thermals and performance. Sadly, little to… Read more

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