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Apple iPad Pro 12.9 (2021)

Our Verdict It might be aimed primarily at creative types, but the new iPad Pro 12.9 is also the best tablet there’s ever been if portable cinema is your thing For Stunning picture quality Great sound with headphones Hugely powerful Against Expensive for a tablet At this stage, each new iPad feels like an incremental… Read more

Devialet Phantom I 108dB

Our Verdict A powerful, striking and truly one-of-a-kind wireless speaker, but not the most entertaining one at this level For Big, broad, room-filling sound Heart-in-your-mouth bass Striking aesthetic Against Lacks transparency and subtlety App isn’t a UPnP controller In-app multi-room flakiness Despite having welcomed many Devialet Phantom wireless speakers into our test rooms over the… Read more

Cooler Master Builds World’s Thinnest Vapor Chamber

Home News (Image credit: Cooler Master) Cooler Master, in partnership with Murata, is developing the world’s smallest vapor chamber cooler, which is just a little thicker than human hair. In other words, that’s just 200 micrometers tall. This vapor chamber is planned to be a full replacement for standard heat pipe air coolers in devices… Read more

Apple iPad Air (2020)

Our Verdict The latest iPad Air gets more than just a makeover – it’s a brilliant all-rounder and all the tablet most people could ever need For Great picture and sound Attractive design Excellent user experience Against Imperfect front-facing camera Touch ID button is awkward Not the cheapest tablet around It’s not every day an… Read more

Wattbike Atom (Next Generation) review: Turn down for watt

(Pocket-lint) – Lockdowns around the world led to a boom in indoor cycling, with training and virtual racing taking off. For many this has meant buying a smart turbo trainer – such as the excellent Wahoo Kickr or Tacx Neo 2T Smart – and hooking your bike up to it before riding off into the… Read more

Cambridge Audio Melomania 1 Plus

Our Verdict Cambridge’s Award-winning recipe has been refined to include app support and extra sonic clarity and detail For Extra ounce of dynamic expression Great clarity for the level Slick app support Against No noise-cancelling When Cambridge Audio announced a new model in its inaugural and two-time What Hi-Fi? Award-winning Melomania line-up, we heaved a… Read more

Noctua Says Its Fanless CPU Cooler Is Coming ‘Very Soon,’ Shares Details

Home News (Image credit: Future/AnandTech) Noctua is primarily known for its highly efficient air coolers that offer high performance and are also surprisingly quiet. Yet, some customers want to have a PC that produces no noise at all and who prefer fanless cooling systems and cases. Bringing Noctua’s expertise to passive coolers has always been… Read more

Amazon debuts free video-streaming service MiniTV in its India app

Amazon has launched an ad-supported, free video streaming service called MiniTV within the Amazon India app, TechCrunch reports. It’s a different offering than its separate Amazon Prime Video service, as MiniTV is contained within Amazon’s traditional shopping app, rather than its own standalone app. Only available to users in India, MiniTV’s catalog includes mostly older… Read more

A podcast app is exposing subscribers-only shows

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge The beauty and misery of private RSS feeds There’s only supposed to be one way to hear exclusive podcast content from sports host Scott Wetzel: by paying $5 a month to subscribe to his Patreon. But the show’s also been available on a smaller podcasting app for free…. Read more

Asus ZenFone 8 review: an Android iPhone mini

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. After a couple of generations making phones with flip-out cameras and increasingly large displays, Asus has taken the ZenFone 8 in a totally different direction: small. The flipping camera concept lives on in the also-new ZenFone 8… Read more

Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo review: In a wonderful world of its own

(Pocket-lint) – During a week where the sun had non-stop been blinking between the clouds – almost teasing a glimpse of summer – it was perhaps inevitable, from the moment we arrived at Porsche HQ in Reading, UK, that the heavens opened. And didn’t stop properly pissing it down thereafter. But perhaps the car gods… Read more

Motorola Moto G Play (2021) review: a fairly good phone for a very good price

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. The Moto G Play is the least expensive of four phones that Motorola introduced for the US market earlier this year. Introduced at $169, it’s already enjoying an apparently permanent $10 mark down, placing it firmly in… Read more

Beefing over beef is a distraction the climate movement can’t afford

Lately, it seems like forgoing red meat has become an unfortunate proxy for environmental credentials. Epicurious, for example, just announced that it will no longer publish articles or recipes with beef in a decision it calls, “not anti-beef but rather pro-planet.” And then there are headlines like “Why do some green activists eat meat?” Meat-eating,… Read more

Amazon is opening a hair salon in London to trial new technology

Amazon’s latest bricks-and-mortar experiment is, unexpectedly, a hair salon. The company is opening its Amazon Salon in London’s East End Spitalfields area, where it says it will trial “the latest industry technology.” This includes an augmented reality app that lets customers see what different hair styles and colors look like on them before they decide… Read more

Google Earth’s historical 3D time lapses show the ravages of climate change

Google Earth is getting a new 3D time-lapse feature that lets you observe how Earth has changed from 1984 to 2020, allowing you to see just how much the devastating effects of climate change have already shaped the geography of the planet. “It’s best for a landscape view of our world,” Rebecca Moore, director of… Read more