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Best ceiling speakers 2021: Top architectural picks for home cinemas and discreet playback

(Pocket-lint) – Ceiling and in-wall speakers give you all the benefits of room-filling sound while remaining out of the way of your furniture and out of sight. Whether you’re looking to install them as part of a home cinema surround sound setup, or you just want to discreetly have music filtered in all around you,… Read more

Best fixed TV wall mounts 2021: Excellent low-profile brackets to achieve a flush flatscreen

(Pocket-lint) – Picking up one of the best TV mounts will allow you to fix your screen flush onto the wall and leave the world of TV benches and stands behind. By installing a bracket to hold your TV on, it’s able to rest more like a picture frame than act as the centrepiece of… Read more

Nubia Red Magic 6 review: Game on!

(Pocket-lint) – The gaming phone market shows no signs of slowing down. Indeed, just 20 hours prior to revealing our verdict on this very device, the Red Magic 6, Lenovo revealed its next-gen Legion Duel gaming monster. Except, interestingly, the Red Magic 6 has a bit of a headline feature that the Lenovo lacks: there’s… Read more

Apple says iMessage on Android ‘will hurt us more than help us’

Apple knows that iMessage’s blue bubbles are a big barrier to people switching to Android, which is why the service has never appeared on Google’s mobile operating system. That’s according to depositions and emails from Apple employees, including some high-ranking executives, revealed in a court filing from Epic Games as part of its legal dispute… Read more

Intel’s Upcoming DG2 Rumored to Compete With RTX 3070

Home News (Image credit: Intel) According to Moore’s Law Is Dead, Intel’s successor to the DG1, the DG2, could be arriving sometime later this year with significantly more firepower than Intel’s current DG1 graphics card. Of course it will be faster — that much is a given — but the latest rumors have it that… Read more

Please, I need the Robinhood S-1, my family is starving

I love it when companies go public. I am never more excited than when I get to read a mandatory S-1 filing for the first time. Anything could be in there! Maybe the company has wildly more people using its products than I would have guessed. Maybe the company is surprisingly profitable. Maybe the company… Read more

Realme 8 Pro review: a peek at what’s next in midrange smartphone imaging

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. The Realme 8 Pro is a good, inexpensive Android phone that you probably shouldn’t buy right now — at least if you’re in the US. But it’s also a preview of positive things to come to the… Read more

Intel Advertises Tiger Lake Processor with Stock Photo of a MacBook Pro

Home News (Image credit: Apple – B&H Photo) Intel’s marketing snafus are the gifts that keep on giving. iThinkDifferent reported Wednesday that the company has started advertising “the world’s best processor,” by which it means the Core i7-1185G7, in “a thin and light laptop.” The only problem is that the ad features a MacBook Pro,… Read more

Amazon Fire TV Stick (3rd Generation)

Our Verdict The 3rd Generation Fire TV Stick is a capable video streamer, but it drops at an awkward price point For Strong app offering Improved UI Excellent HDR performance Against SDR picture could be more subtle 4K model only costs a little more What’s grey and sticky? The Amazon Fire TV Stick (3rd Generation),… Read more

Twitter reportedly discussed buying social audio app Clubhouse for $4 billion

Twitter’s already building a competitor to the hot social audio app Clubhouse, but apparently, it’s discussed outright acquiring the company, too. Bloomberg reports today that Twitter held discussions with Clubhouse about purchasing the app for around $4 billion. These conversations have reportedly stalled, and it’s unclear why. It’s also unclear whether Twitter or Clubhouse approached… Read more

‘Hey Spotify’ is another hands-free way to control your music, rolling out now

If you want to pull up your favorite Spotify track or playlist without pressing buttons, there is no shortage of voice assistants to help you get those jams, including Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, Cortana, and even Bixby. But now, Spotify has its own hands-free wake word: “Hey Spotify” appears to be rolling out on Android… Read more

Build-A-Bear’s adorable Animal Crossing: New Horizons collaboration is here

Build-A-Bear has finally revealed what its new Animal Crossing: New Horizons-themed lineup will look like with two stuffed animal versions of fan-favorite Isabelle and infamous loan shark (loan raccoon?) Tom Nook, decked out in island outfits that match the game. Of course, because it’s 2021, you simply can’t just buy a hot item like an… Read more

Display Driver Chip Shortage Leads to Delays for Pretty Much Everything

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Bloomberg today reported that a shortage of inexpensive display driver chips has delayed production of the LCD panels used in, well, pretty much every product category you can think of. Displays are ubiquitous, and many devices can’t function without them. But for the displays to work, they require a display… Read more

Once again, someone tampered with an entire drinking water supply via the internet

You would think that something as critical as a town or county’s drinking water supply would be well-protected — you know, like how America’s nuclear armament was isolated from the internet and even relied on eight-inch floppy disks until just recently? And yet we’ve now had two instances where someone was able to remotely log… Read more

Asus TUF Dash F15 review: Pro gaming in a slimline chassis

(Pocket-lint) – The Asus TUF Dash F15 is another of the company’s ultra-thin gaming laptops, which sports some serious specs in a compact, lightweight and portable frame. Available in two colours with a small mix of specs options and some nifty design accents, the TUF Dash F15 is interesting enough on paper, but is it… Read more