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Spotify wants to make the yearly Wrapped experience more than a once a year thing

Spotify loves when people share its annual Wrapped music breakdown on social media, so it’s making that more of a year-round treat. The company is announcing a new digital experience today called Only You, which will give users personalized playlists in a shareable form. The in-app experience will give users a variety of playlists and… Read more

Adata XPG Spectrix D50 Xtreme DDR4-5000 C19 2x8GB Review: Toy For The Rich

Our Verdict The Spectrix D50 Xtreme DDR4-5000 is one of those luxury memory kits that you don’t necessarily need inside your system. However, you’d purchase it in a heartbeat if you had the funds. For + Good performance + Gorgeous aesthetics Against – Costs an arm and a leg – XMP requires 1.6V When a… Read more

Some Apple Music Hi-Res Lossless content is already showing up on the service

Home News (Image credit: 0gniRincha, Twitter) With Apple Music CD-quality, Lossless and Hi-Res Lossless streaming announced at no extra charge to Apple Music users (and at an unspecified date in June) certain users have reported actual lossless and hi-res icons appearing on the streaming service ahead of its official the launch. With Apple’s annual (coronavirus permitting) Worldwide… Read more

Etsy targets Gen Z shoppers with $1.6 billion Depop acquisition

E-commerce site Etsy, best known for selling handmade and vintage wares, is buying up a cooler, younger rival, UK-based secondhand shopping app Depop. The $1.6 billion acquisition lets Etsy access Depop’s young and growing userbase. Etsy says more than 90 percent of Depop’s users are under 26, meaning they mostly belong to Gen Z, while… Read more

Neo Forza Mars DDR4-3600 MHz CL18 2×8 GB Review

Introduction High performance memory kits have evolved over the last few years, both in styling and technology. Styling has shifted to heavier heat sinks, LED light bars, and fancy RGB control software. The technology has done what it inevitably will by producing greater speeds and densities at generally lower cost as DDR4 has matured. The… Read more

BMW’s i4 sedan is the electric 4 Series you’ve been waiting for

Fabian Kirchbauer Photography The latest EV from Bavaria is a $55,400 luxury sedan with 300 miles of range Months after revealing its first new electric vehicle in nearly a decade, the iX SUV, BMW is ready to pull back the curtain on its next EV. The i4 electric sedan is the automaker’s electrified 4 Series,… Read more

Google union pushes company to drop deadnames from ID badges

The Alphabet Workers Union launched a campaign Tuesday to push Google to allow employees to use their chosen names on ID badges. The move comes after Phares Lee, a transgender man who works at a Google data center in South Carolina and is employed by security subcontracting firm G4S, asked to have his deadname removed… Read more

The Great Wings Rush

It was March 2020, and restaurants across the country were shutting down, setting up takeout windows, or doing whatever they could to absorb the shock of COVID. But it was Chuck E. Cheese, of all places, that had the foresight and steely clarity to see not just what the new era required, but what it… Read more

Nvidia and Valve Bringing DLSS to Linux via Steam Proton

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Nvidia today announced at Computex 2021 that it’s partnered with Valve to bring its Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) graphics tech to Linux via Steam Proton. Now people who game on Linux systems should be able to put their Nvidia graphics cards—including the new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and RTX… Read more

Alienware’s X15 is its thinnest and coolest gaming laptop yet

Alienware is keen on giving Razer a run for its money when it comes to making a super-thin gaming laptop. Two of the configurations of Alienware’s new X15 flagship model are actually 15.9mm thick, almost the same as Razer’s just-refreshed 15.8mm-thick Blade 15 Advanced. That’s impressively thin, especially considering that Alienware doesn’t usually try to… Read more

Razer Kraken V3 X Review: Light Weight, Heavy Sound

Our Verdict The Razer Kraken V3 X will keep you satisfied with an excellent microphone and solid rich audio reproduction. For + Lightweight + Solid audio reproduction and thump + Great, microphone + Succulently soft ear cups Against – ll-plastic design Designed to compete with the best gaming headsets, without breaking the bank, Razer’s Kraken… Read more

Xiaomi Mi Band 6 review: Greatness on a budget?

(Pocket-lint) – Xiaomi’s expertise when it comes to affordable fitness trackers is no longer a matter for debate. This is the sixth iteration of its impressive Mi Band tracker, after all, and practice does tend to make (closer to) perfect. Best fitness trackers 2021: Top activity bands to buy today We’ve been wearing it for… Read more

Watch Intel’s Computex 2021 Keynote Live Here at 10pm ET, 7pm PT

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel’s EVP Michelle Johnston Holthaus will take to the stage tonight, May 30, 2021, to present Intel’s ‘Innovation Unleashed’ keynote for Computex 2021 before the show officially kicks off Monday. Due to the pandemic, Computex 2021 is an all-virtual experience, so you can pull up a seat and see the… Read more

Instagram making changes to its algorithm after it was accused of censoring pro-Palestinian content

Facebook-owned Instagram has made changes to its algorithm after a group of its employees reportedly complained that pro-Palestinian content was not viewable for users during the conflict in Gaza. Instagram typically surfaces original content in its stories before reposted content, but will now begin to give equal weighting to both, the company confirmed to The… Read more

PC Makers Intensify Chip Stockpiling to Fight Shortages

Home News (Image credit: Dell) PC sales in Q1 2021 tallied 83.981 million units, up 55.2% year-over-year, and all of the leading PC makers reported huge revenue gains for the first quarter. However, meeting the extraordinary demand was a big challenge for suppliers as pretty much every PC component suffers from ongoing shortages. Both Dell… Read more