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OnePlus Watch Cyberpunk 2077 limited edition now on pre-order in China with cool hand-shaped stand

You had to wait for months, but you can finally complete your Cyberpunk 2077 outfit with a limited edition OnePlus Watch to go with that limited edition OnePlus 8T. Well, you can if you live in China – the watch went on pre-order at 20:00 local time at a couple of online stores. Sales will… Read more

Xiaomi Redmi AirDots 3 Pro to arrive on May 26 with ANC

Xiaomi’s brand Redmi is having a huge announcement tomorrow, May 26, where the Chinese fans will also get to see the Note 10 smartphones for the local market. We expect to see the new Redmi Note 10 Ultra, and today we learned the stage will also see the Redmi AirDots 3 Pro – the brand’s… Read more

Eero 6 and Pro 6 owners are now getting Apple’s HomeKit security features

Owners of Amazon’s Eero 6 and Pro 6 routers will now be able to isolate their HomeKit IoT devices from the rest of their home network and the wider internet, thanks to a new integration with Apple’s HomeKit that’s now rolling out (via MacRumors). The new feature is coming as part of a firmware update,… Read more

Philo is the latest live TV streaming service to get a price hike

Philo has become the latest live TV option for cord-cutters hoping to skirt cable contracts to get a price bump — but there’s a workaround for current subscribers. Beginning June 8th, Philo’s monthly subscription cost for incoming customers will hike to $25 from $20. But those who are subscribed to the service before that date… Read more

Sen. Ron Wyden pushes to raise standards for stimulus-funded broadband

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) is calling on the Treasury Department to fund broadband projects in communities without access to 100Mbps upload and download speeds with the money allocated by the American Rescue Plan earlier this year. In March, President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan, directing the Treasury Department to distribute billions of dollars… Read more

Evidence is piling up that Netflix wants to be the Netflix of games

Netflix has dipped a toe in gaming on occasion, with perhaps the hugely-successful “choose your own adventure”-style film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch as the most prominent example. But the streaming giant may be expanding further into gaming with a new bundle for Netflix subscribers, according to several reports over the past few days. The Information had… Read more

Elon Musk called lidar a ‘crutch,’ but now Tesla is reportedly testing Luminar’s laser sensors

A Tesla Model Y was photographed in Florida sporting rooftop lidar sensors made by buzzy sensor manufacturer Luminar. The sighting caused a bit of a stir among Tesla watchers, given Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s well-established disdain for the laser sensors commonly used by autonomous vehicle companies to create 3D maps of their environment. Even more… Read more

Sony X95J flagship LCD TV to hit the shelves in June

Home News (Image credit: Sony) Sony has announced the arrival of its top LCD TV for 2021. The hotly anticipated Sony X95J will be available to buy in June and is even open for pre-order already in some regions in 75in and 85in panel sizes. The 65in model will be released later in the year…. Read more

Frontier Supercomputer to Get World’s Fastest Storage: 75 TB/s, 15 Billion IOPS, 700 PetaBytes

Home News (Image credit: OLCF) The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) has announced the first details about the Orion storage subsystem of its upcoming Frontier exascale supercomputer set to go online in late 2021. Being the industry’s first 1.5 ExaFLOPS supercomputer, Frontier will need a very fast storage subsystem. It looks like it is set to get… Read more

Citizen CEO offered to personally fund LA arson manhunt — for the wrong person

Photo by Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Image ‘We make this sort of heinous crime impossible to escape from’ As wildfires raged through Southern California last weekend, an app called Citizen offered an unorthodox bounty over livestream and in push alerts to local residents: “hunt down” the alleged arsonist, and we’ll give… Read more

Amazon is shutting down Prime Now and folding two-hour deliveries into its main app

Amazon is shutting down its standalone Prime Now delivery app, with its speedy two-hour delivery options moving exclusively into the company’s main app and website, the company announced today. Prime Now services have already moved into the main app in India, Japan, and Singapore, while in other countries Amazon is already directing Prime Now users… Read more

Acclaimed TimeSplitters franchise set to return under reborn Free Radical studio

TimeSplitters, the acclaimed PS2-era first-person shooter franchise, is being brought back to life by a newly reformed Free Radical Design, publisher Deep Silver announced today. Development is set to commence in the coming months after the new studio is built. The studio, which carries the same name as the original TimeSplitters developer, will be headed… Read more

Spotify launches virtual concert series, kicking off with The Black Keys

Home News (Image credit: Spotify) Spotify has announced a series of streamed concerts due to take place over the next month, recognising that the global live music industry is still a long way from getting back to normality. The streaming giant, which may soon be launching a HiFi service, has billed the five virtual events… Read more

Google details how interconnected Matter smart home standard will work on Android and Nest

Google is one of the major companies behind the upcoming interconnected cross-platform smart home standard Matter, and today, the company has explained how it’ll work to support Matter with its Android devices and Nest smart home products. To start, the company is promising that all of its Nest displays and speakers will be updated to… Read more

iPad Pro (2021) review: dream screen

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. How much do you care about having a great screen? That, really, is the only question that matters with the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro. It has a new kind of display so good I think it is… Read more