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DS 3 Crossback E-Tense review: Electric with a touch of flair

(Pocket-lint) – The DS 3 Crossback E-Tense name might be something of a mouthful, but hidden behind the nomenclature is a nice compact hatchback, boosted to give it crossover appeal, while retaining the charms of the regular DS 3. The E-Tense is the first fully electric car from DS Automobiles, arriving in full DS style,… Read more

17 of the best British speakers of all time

Home Features (Image credit: ProAc) We’re celebrating all things British hi-fi this week on What Hi-Fi?, so we had to include our newly updated round-up of our favourite sets of speakers to have emerged from these isles. This list includes some big, some small, some heavenly high-end, some much more affordable – but all straight… Read more

6 of the best British hi-fi innovations and technologies

Home Features (Image credit: Bowers & Wilkins) Cambridge Audio’s inaugural P40 integrated amplifier was the first-ever amp to use a toroidal transformer – a significant innovation in 1968. It’s still a standard component inside high-end amps today, irrefutable proof that what Gordon Edge, Peter Lee and a few other noted individuals tried out in their… Read more

Wharfedale Diamond 12.3

Our Verdict Wharfedale’s Diamond 12.3 floorstanders are refined, entertaining and well built. What’s not to like? For Superbly balanced presentation Expressive and revealing midrange Pleasing build and finish Against Nothing at this price Mention the words ‘Wharfedale Diamond’, and the image that comes to mind is that of a small talented budget standmounters. That description… Read more

iPad Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Limited Edition Collection

Caviar introduces the Apple Collection. This luxury Limited Edition collection includes three iPad Pro tablets and two iPhone 12 Pro (Max) smartphones. Caviar, known for enriching and decorating existing Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy smartphones, has just announced its new Apple Collection. The new series consists of two iPhone 12 Pro (Max) models and three… Read more

Pokémon Legends: Arceus is an open-world RPG coming to the Switch

At a special live-streamed event today, The Pokémon Company revealed something fans having been waiting a long time for: an open-world Pokémon adventure. The next major entry in the franchise will be called Pokémon Legends: Arceus, and it looks to be a huge evolution of the long-running RPG formula. The developers describe it as a… Read more

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl are getting remakes for Nintendo Switch

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl will be remade for Nintendo Switch. The Pokémon Company announced the news today during a special Pokémon Presents broadcast. Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl will launch in late 2021. Diamond and Pearl launched in 2006 for Nintendo DS. The game introduced the Sinnoh region, home to pokémon such as Bidoof,… Read more

One Medical gave COVID-19 vaccines to ineligible people, NPR report says

Health care company One Medical gave COVID-19 vaccines to people who were ineligible under local guidelines, including friends and family of company leadership, NPR reported. Health departments in Washington state and California said they stopped distributing doses to One Medical after finding out that the company was not sticking to eligibility rules. The company was… Read more

USPS unveils next-generation mail truck with electric drivetrain option

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has revealed its new mail truck after a years-long competition. The new truck will be built by Wisconsin-based defense contractor Oshkosh and can be fitted with both gasoline and electric drivetrains. But it won’t hit the road until 2023. Oshkosh winning the contract is a potentially major blow to… Read more

Pokémon is a huge hit because it’s cooperative

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Twenty-five years later, that’s still the case When Pokémon launched 25 years ago, it did so twice simultaneously. Pokémon Red and Green (later made Blue for its Western release) are almost identical, but each has a few exclusive monsters. The fire puppy Growlithe is only available in… Read more

Final Fantasy XIV Patch 5.5 will ‘pave the way’ for Endwalker expansion

Matthew Wilson 1 day ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Last week, Square Enix officially announced ‘Endwalker’, the next expansion for Final Fantasy 14. Now, the development team’s pre-expansion patch plans are beginning to come to light, with the first arriving in April. Final Fantasy XIV Patch 5.5 is coming on the 13th of… Read more

Please GameStop it, Hollywood

Okay, screenwriters, directors, authors, and production companies — we get it. You have some experience telling stories about Wall Street, the video game industry, or social networks, and you see some mighty big dollar signs in the true tale of how Reddit managed to drive an ailing video game retailer’s stocks to completely ridiculous highs… Read more

HP’s Spectre x360 14 review: the best 2-in-1 you can buy

HP’s Spectre x360 14 is a luxury worth paying for. I have used a heck of a lot of laptops in the past year, and some of them are quite nice. MacBooks have nailed the “premium” look and feel for years, and I’ll never waste an opportunity to gush about the build quality of Dell’s… Read more

Audio-Technica brings its iconic wood design to ATH-WP900 portable headphones

Home News (Image credit: Audio Technica) Audio-Technica has been making beautiful wooden high-end headphones for a quarter of a century – its first were the ATH-W10VTG in 1996 – and thankfully (because we’re yet to hear a bad pair), it doesn’t appear to be calling it a day on that particular production line. The Japanese… Read more

Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway will help Apple re-create the WeWork disaster for TV

Apple’s television adaptation of the podcast adaptation of the real-life soap opera that was WeWork now has some major talent attached. Jared Leto, the soon-to-be leading vampire of Morbius, and Anne Hathaway, are joining the Apple TV Plus series WeCrashed as Adam and Rebekah Neumann, according to The Hollywood Reporter. WeCrashed takes its name from… Read more