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Wait, GameStop sells GPUs now?

GameStop has sold PC gaming hardware for a while now, including entire gaming laptops, monitors, headphones, mice and speakers, but in the post-stonks era it apparently wants a piece of Best Buy and Newegg’s desktop components business as well. Most prominently, the company has started selling Nvidia RTX 3000 series graphics cards — where by… Read more

BMW and PG&E think electric vehicles could stabilize California grid

As blackouts become more common during California’s fire season, utility PG&E is looking to electric vehicles as one potential backup plan for the state’s stressed-out grid. It’s been working with carmaker BMW to test whether electric vehicles could provide power when there’s an outage or not enough energy to meet demand. Theoretically, a network of… Read more

Best games to buy in the Steam sales: Our favourite PC gaming bargains

(Pocket-lint) – The Steam sales are a great way to blow your hard-earned cash on awesome games you’ve been mulling over purchasing for a while but have been putting off. Steam is currently running a sale specific for the Remote Play Together launch. From now until 29 March you can grab discounts on a multitude… Read more

Competitively priced Motorola G100 and G50 offer 90Hz screens and 5,000mAh batteries

Motorola has unveiled the G100 and G50, two midrange phones headed first for European and Latin American markets. Both offer displays with fast 90Hz refresh rates for smooth scrolling and animations, 5G connectivity, and they embrace Motorola’s ethos of “more battery, more better” with huge 5,000mAh cells. The higher-end G100 is poised to compete with… Read more

This website that generates Beeple-esque NFTs is also an NFT and my brain is eating itself

Beeple has been one of the biggest names in NFTs, likely because some of his artwork has sold for truckloads of money. So it was really only a matter of time before someone came along with a tool that let you create Beeple-like artwork without having to download and pose assets yourself. (NFT? WTF? If… Read more

Amazon adds annoying streaming service buttons to its Fire TV remote

Amazon is coming out with a third generation of its Alexa Voice Remote, and it includes some unwelcome new buttons that will take you to the Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney Plus, and Hulu apps. If you’re one of the people who subscribes to and regularly uses all of those exact streaming services, this remote could… Read more

The Astro City Mini is an awesome blast through Sega’s arcade past

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Sega’s latest retro gaming machine, the Astro City Mini, comes on the back of two very different products: the excellent, crowd-pleasing Genesis Mini and the baffling but adorable Game Gear Micro. The former was an obvious mainstream… Read more

The Realme 8 Pro is a £279 phone with a 108-megapixel camera

Officially launching in the UK today, the Realme 8 Pro is a budget device that’s one of the first to use the new Samsung ISOCELL HM2 108-megapixel sensor in its main camera. While similar high-res sensors have been more common in pricier phones like the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, this chip is designed for lower-cost… Read more

Jack Dorsey’s first tweet sold as an NFT for an oddly specific $2,915,835.47

After it spent just over two weeks on the market, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has sold his first tweet as an NFT for the weirdly specific figure of $2,915,835.47. The winning bidder was Sina Estavi, who had held the high bid since offering $2.5 million on March 6th. He upped his bid to this number… Read more

John Cleese has an NFT bridge to sell you for $69.3 million

“The world has gone terminally insane,” Monty Python’s John Cleese told Vanity Fair on the topic of getting into NFTs. So naturally, the comic actor known for silly walks is now selling a ludicrously expensive NFT of his own: a Vonnegut-esque drawing of the Brooklyn Bridge made on an iPad Pro. It’s listed on OpenSea… Read more

Apple iPad Pro 2021: release date, price, specs and all the news

Home Advice (Image credit: Apple) There’s a new iPad on the way. Or, rather, four to be exact. Apple is said to be about to launch a new iPad Pro next month. While most range refreshes include minor tweaks, this one should bring some major new screen technology into play – and it’s tech that… Read more

Time made a hypey crypto cover and is selling it as an NFT

Time is the latest brand to jump on the NFT craze, with auctions for three magazine covers — including its iconic 1966 front page asking, “Is God Dead?” A more recent spin on the cover, “Is Truth Dead?” from 2017, is also up for auction, as is a brand-new “cover” that’s not actually appearing on… Read more

Poco’s new phones have new-ish Snapdragon processors

Xiaomi-owned Poco has returned with two new phones that have some notable processor choices at low prices. Both the X3 Pro and the F3 use new Qualcomm chips that are essentially updated and repurposed flagship-class processors from the past couple of years, which make them an interesting price-performance proposition. First up is the Poco X3… Read more

Rega introduces Kyte bookshelf speakers with “unique” phenolic resin cabinet

Home News (Image credit: Rega) We first spotted these Rega Kyte speakers at the Bristol HiFi Show 2020 (remember when in-person shows were a thing?) when they were first demoed as part of the Rega System One all-in-one vinyl solution over a year ago. Now, they are official and on sale. Priced at £499 a… Read more

Time is running out to bid on an NFT version of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet if you really must

If you want to buy Jack Dorsey’s first tweet, you’d better get your bid in. The billionaire co-founder and CEO of Twitter put the tweet up for digital auction as an NFT —non-fungible token— a digital good that lives on the Ethereum blockchain. Dorsey’s 15-year-old tweet is up for sale on a platform called Valuables… Read more