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Marshall’s Mode II earbuds are stuck between rock and a hard price

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Marshall, the British company best known for its thunderous guitar amps, has also managed to build a solid reputation for headphones and earbuds over the last several years. Though they’re a little overpriced for what you get,… Read more

AMD Announces Global Retail Availability of Threadripper Pro

Home News (Image credit: Newegg) AMD announced today that the Threadripper Pro desktop processors, which top out with 64 cores and 128 threads with the Threadripper Pro 3995WX, are now available for purchase worldwide. These chips were previously exclusively available in Lenovo’s ThinkStation P620 workstation that we recently reviewed, but the chips and the accompanying… Read more

Canelo vs Yildirim live stream: weigh in, start time, how to watch the boxing in UK, US and more

Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez returns to the ring this Saturday night to defend his WBC and WBA super middleweight titles against Avni Yildirim in Miami. The big fight costs up to $50 in the US, but savvy sports streaming service DAZN has the rights to show the clash in 200 countries – and from only £1.99… Read more

Moto G30 review: Low-price but all high praise?

(Pocket-lint) – Motorola is really, really good at making affordable phones. That, ultimately, is its bread and butter. So when, for 2021, it decided to rejig its Moto G family – although not by much, it now takes on a bigger-number-equals-better-features approach – the arrival of the Moto G30 looked like a familiar success story…. Read more

Apple Fitness Plus review: easy mode

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Apple Fitness Plus has been out for a couple of months now, and a few of us here at The Verge have been spending that time running it (and ourselves) through its paces. The $9.99-a-month service offers… Read more

Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite on turntables, soundtracks and live church recordings

Home Features (Image credit: Brian Sweeney) This interview was originally published by What Hi-Fi? in March 2016. It is easy, often and now especially, to become consumed by technology. It is easy to allow the romanticism of music, the entire grounds for that technology, to be camouflaged. That is why, speaking with Stuart Braithwaite, guitarist,… Read more

SNES hacker speeds up a game that originally ran at 4 frames per second

The Atari arcade cabinet game Race Drivin’ was ported to the Atari ST in the summer of 1991, and then ported again to the SNES a year later. It was the sequel to 1989’s Hard Drivin’, and while it boasted numerous improvements over its predecessor — it could model a car with four wheels, as… Read more

Royal Albert Hall celebrates 150th birthday with film narrated by Mick Jagger

Home News (Image credit: Royal Albert Hall) Hot on the heels of the announcement that public indoor events are set to return to the UK this May, the Royal Albert Hall has released a 90-second clip, entitled Your Room Will Be Ready, to commemorate its 150th anniversary year. Indeed, the timing couldn’t be more apt… Read more

The biggest news and trailers from Blizzcon 2021’s opening keynote

Blizzcon happened a little later than usual due to the pandemic, but the first virtual version of Blizzard’s games convention still had some interesting news and trailers. The opening keynote covered most of the big franchises, like World of Warcraft and Diablo, along with some more obscure classics. (Though Overwatch was curiously absent.) If you… Read more

Blizzard Arcade Collection bundles three of the studio’s more obscure classics

As part of BlizzCon Online’s opening ceremony, Blizzard Entertainment announced a new video game anthology that includes some of the earlier titles created by the World of Warcraft developer. Blizzard Arcade Collection is a compilation featuring three titles developed by Blizzard around the early and mid-1990s. Blizzard Arcade Collection includes The Lost Vikings, a puzzle… Read more

25 of the best tracks for testing bass

Everybody loves low frequencies, right? To celebrate all things bass we’ve rounded up a list of some of our favourite test tracks when it comes to the bottom end. Volume isn’t everything, quite the opposite, so expect subtlety and detail, as well as the occasional trouser-flapper. Whether you’re listening to a stereo system or a… Read more

Wahoo Kickr Climb review: Taking indoor training up a level

(Pocket-lint) – The Wahoo Kickr Climb is a simple yet innovative product – but one that’s likely to split opinion. While some people will see it as an expensive gimmick with appeal that will soon wear off, others will view it as the next step along the road to making indoor riding even more immersive… Read more

GeForce RTX 3060 Takes 42% Performance Hit in Mining Operation

Home News GeForce RTX 3060 (Image credit: CryptoLeo/Youtube) Nvidia announced today that it has taken necessary actions to gimp the GeForce RTX 3060’s mining performance in an effort to stop cryptocurrency miners from getting their hands on the graphics card. YouTuber CryptoLeo has put the GeForce RTX 3060 through its paces and found Nvidia’s measures… Read more

NASA is set for its most daring attempt to land on Mars in a search for ancient life

On February 18th, NASA will make a daring attempt to land a car-sized rover on Mars in its most complex mission yet to hunt for ancient extraterrestrial life. If it survives the plunge through the Red Planet’s atmosphere, the Perseverance rover will kick off the first leg of a grand relay race to capture humanity’s… Read more

PlayStation 5 Limited Editions with black carbon, leather or gold

Caviar unveils retail price of unique PS5 Golden Rock console and introduces two additional luxury Limited Edition versions of a black Sony PlayStation 5. At the end of December last year, Caviar announced a special PS5 Limited Edition game console, called the Golden Rock – with a whopping 20 kilos of 18-karat gold. A sales… Read more