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After buy ban, GameStop hypebeasts are looking for a Robinhood alternative

In the wake of Robinhood’s surprise trading block, a new class of Reddit investors are looking for apps that will let them plow their money into their favorite stocks. On Thursday morning, Robinhood announced that it would temporarily block investors from purchasing or trading companies including GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Nokia,… Read more

AirPods Max replacement ear cushions now available in all colours

Home News (Image credit: Apple) Apple is now selling replacement ear cushions for the class-leading AirPods Max wireless noise-cancelling headphones. In the US they cost $69 and are available now, while the rest of the world will get them soon. The cushions come in all the same colours as the headphones themselves – silver, black,… Read more

Disney Plus Star line-up goes official: 270 films, 75 shows, 4 originals

Home News (Image credit: Disney Plus) There’s a wave of content coming to Disney Plus called Star next month and the full catalogue of TV and film and has just gone official. It will host four exclusive Star Originals at launch with adult animated sitcom Solar Opposites, from the makers of Rik and Morty, and… Read more

Elon Musk’s shot at Amazon flares monthslong fight over billionaires’ orbital real estate

The satellite feud between Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Amazon spilled out into the open on social media this week, after brewing for months in meetings with regulators. It’s only the latest spat in a new race among billionaires for a slice of a $1 trillion telecommunications market. Musk and Bezos, the two richest… Read more

10 best remastered games: The top Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC gems to play now

(Pocket-lint) – Feeling all nostalgic? Well, if you want to dabble in a bit of old-school gaming then there’s no need to go digging the PS1 or Dreamcast out of the attic – so many of those machines’ older games have been lovingly picked up and remastered by developers. No scratched CD nightmares or cartridge-blowing… Read more

7 tips to improve your computer sound quality

Home Advice (Image credit: Ruark) Be it at work or at home, a lot of us spend a whole lot of time at our desks. For many, a 9-to-5 job is likely to have you sitting in front of your computer for upwards of 1,500 hours every year. But look at it another way: that’s… Read more

Best Mario games you can play in 2021: Get a dose of platforming magic

(Pocket-lint) – Mario is one of gaming’s true greats, an iconic mascot who’s starred in more masterpieces than we care to count down the years, each of them doing something radical to take platforming games forward. Top Nintendo Switch games: Best Switch games every gamer must own There are so many games in his history,… Read more

Lego Vidiyo is a new augmented reality-powered version of TikTok — for your Minifigures

Lego is launching a new, augmented reality social video service called Vidiyo that will let users create their own music videos and dance clips and share them with friends, all while applying their own effects and styles to the videos. It sounds a lot like TikTok but aimed at younger children with strict moderation built… Read more

Apple adds walking with celebrities to Fitness Plus’ features

Apple is adding celebrity-guided walking workouts to Fitness Plus today, with new walks to be added every Monday through the end of April. The new feature, called “Time to Walk,” pairs music and inspirational monologues from famous musicians, athletes, and actors with the exercise tracking that Apple Watch and Fitness Plus are known for. Today’s… Read more

Aorus Adds Quad Slot GeForce RTX 3090 Master To the Family

Home News (Image credit: Gigabyte) If you thought Gigabyte was done making new RTX 3090 SKUs, you’d be wrong, Gigabyte has just released a new RTX 3090 model to the family, the Aorus Master: a huge quadruple slot card with a beefy triple-fan heatsink. Specs-wise you get the RTX 3090 GPU we all know, GA102… Read more

New trailers: Godzilla vs. Kong, The World to Come, Son of the South and more

I finally finished Ted Lasso last night and I get why everyone loved it so much. I was totally prepared to not like the earnest, goofy Ted but Jason Sudeikis won me over. I won’t spoil in case you haven’t seen it, but Ted Lasso has plenty of plot developments you expect will turn out… Read more

SpaceX is sparring with a Texas oil company to drill for natural gas

SpaceX is locked in a legal fight with a Texas oil company for a plot of land it wants to use to drill for natural gas, according to public records. The 806-acre site in southern Texas sits near SpaceX’s Starship facilities, a sprawling testing ground for its methane-fueled Raptor rocket engine. Tim George, an attorney… Read more

No brand is safe from Fortnite

Starting this week in Fortnite, you can have the Predator doing a Pelé victory dance while wielding TheGrefg’s gamepad pickaxe. On Thursday, a Faze Clan streamer played Fortnite with a Manchester City star while wearing Manchester City skins. The battle royale hit has long been known as a cross-promotional juggernaut, but developer Epic Games has… Read more

Best Bang & Olufsen speaker 2021: Which B&O speaker is right for you?

(Pocket-lint) – Bang & Olufsen makes some of the best looking and best-sounding speakers on the market, Bluetooth and otherwise. There are a couple of ranges within B&O Play’s lineup: BeoPlay and BeoLit, with the BeoLit name dating all the way back to 1939. Quite the heritage. Our guide to the best Bluetooth speakers We’ve… Read more

Brief information: home office, IBM, online lessons, solar activity

Home office wherever possible The people in Germany need further patience in the corona pandemic: The federal and state governments have extended the lockdown to mid-February out of concern about the virus mutation and partially tightened it. Schools and daycare centers should also remain closed until then. But the countries want to implement this controversial… Read more