News (Image credit: Amazon – Cooler Master) If you’re a shoe collector or just a huge fan of sneakers, you’ll love Cooler Master’s new Sneaker X pre-built gaming PC. The system mimics the exact look of an authentic sneaker but doesn’t sacrifice its visuals for performance, coming with a full-blown i7-13700K and an RTX 4070… Read more
read more...Cooler Master’s Sneaker Gaming PC Sells For $3,799
Tesla rolls out an updated Model Y in China but keeps the same starting price
Tesla’s China arm announced in a WeChat post Sunday morning that it released a new Model Y with design and performance tweaks that keeps the same starting price as before (via Reuters). The new car follows the company’s release of the revamped “Highland” Model 3 in China, which also hit Europe early last month. According… Read more
read more...Apple plans to upgrade the App Store’s search engine, and it might not stop there
Apple will soon bring its powerful internal search engine to the App Store and other apps, as Mark Gurman reports in this week’s Power On newsletter for Bloomberg. Apple debuted upgrades to its Spotlight search feature in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, letting users search there for web results, details from apps, documents, and much… Read more
read more...A leaked Google ‘Switch to Pixel’ ad highlights Pixel 8 AI features
A leaked Pixel 8 “Switch to Pixel” ad posted to X by Arséne Lupin highlights Google’s AI features, including Best Take, which lets you swap faces into an image from other pictures (via 9to5Google). Google’s Pixel event is just around the corner on October 4th, but there’s seemingly very little we don’t already know about… Read more
read more...Hong Sangsoo’s new movies are losing focus
eEach recent year, we’ve been gifted two new works by Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo. He loves a small movie, usually comfortably under the 90-minute mark, and a scope that might encompass a novella or even a short story. I personally find them kind of hit or miss. Not to say Hong is inconsistent. In fact,… Read more
read more...The best Google alternative I’ve tried yet
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 8, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, first of all, hi, hello, welcome, and second of all, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve spent an alarming amount of my free time playing… Read more
read more...LG is dropping ATSC 3.0 from its TVs next year
LG told the FCC it’s pulling support for the ATSC 3.0 standard in its TVs next year because of a “challenging and uncertain patent landscape,” according to LightReading (via ZatzNotFunny). ATSC 3.0, aka Nextgen TV, is the next-generation broadcast format that would bring 4K TV and advanced video and audio formats like HDR and Dolby… Read more
read more...Apple blames iOS 17 bugs and apps like Instagram for making iPhone 15s run hot
Apple has acknowledged user complaints that iPhone 15 and 15 Pro phones are overheating, reports Forbes, but said that contrary to speculation, it has nothing to do with the phone’s hardware design. Forbes noted an update to Instagram has already rolled out with version 302, released September 27th, to address some of the issues. Bloomberg… Read more
read more...The Sphere’s first show looks like it was a mind-blowing spectacle
U2 played the first-ever show at the Las Vegas Sphere, a massive, dome-shaped venue wrapped in over a million LEDs. The concert, a live performance centered on the band’s Achtung, Baby album, was also the band’s first in a series of performances it will put on at the venue through the end of December. The… Read more
read more...The Humane Ai Pin finally debuts — on the catwalk at Paris Fashion Week
It’s Paris Fashion Week, and Humane was designer Coperni’s latest buzzy tech name to be included. Humane’s Ai Pin — a device we’ve so far only seen in silhouette on the company’s website or peeking out of Humane co-founder Imran Chaudhri’s breast pocket in a TED demo earlier this year — was pinned on the… Read more
read more...Smart glasses need to be stylish to really go mainstream
When I first saw the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses a few weeks ago, I noticed something. In the event space Meta had so carefully prepared, there was a wall showcasing the different frames, colors, and lenses. It was meant to visualize all the different style options — more than 150, in fact. But standing about… Read more
read more...Best Smartwatches for Kids 2023
Smartwatches aren’t just for adults anymore. While it might seem like a luxury device that’s better suited to the office or the gym, there are great smartwatches options made just for kids. A smartwatch might sound like an expensive gift for a kid, especially young ones, they’re really just as much for the parents. Smartwatches… Read more
read more...Best budget Alexa gadgets: Smart home on a shoestring
We’d all like our homes to be a little smarter, but kitting yourself out with all the latest smart home gadgets can cost an arm and a leg. There is a huge range of smart home devices that you can control with your voice using Alexa, but a lot of these products come with premium… Read more
read more...Apple iPhone 15 Pro review
It’s got some stiff competition this year, not just from the iPhone 15 Pro Max, but the iPhone 15 too. So should you buy the iPhone 15 Pro? Apple not only recently announced the excellent iPhone 15 Pro Max but it also revealed the standard iPhone 15 models, the standard Watch model and a second… Read more
read more...Lenovo Legion Slim 7i (Gen 8, 2023) review: Great gaming on the go
The Legion Slim 7i is a powerful portable 16-inch gaming laptop that gets a lot of things right. In the past, 16 and 17-inch laptops have generally been treated as ‘desktop replacement’ systems. They were too big and heavy to carry around with you on a regular basis, so they mostly stayed on a desk… Read more
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