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Best waterproof speakers 2021: Top portable picks for any budget

(Pocket-lint) – Owning a top waterproof speaker allows you to take your tunes near the pool, in the shower or on expeditions in the great outdoors – all while remaining free from damage. While all speakers offer some level of Ingress Protection, the dedicated water-resistant and weatherproof options we’ll be detailing below are a different… Read more

Linux Support on Apple’s M1 Macs Could Come With New Kernel

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Linux could make it to Apple silicon even sooner than expected. A pull request for the Linux 5.13 kernel submitted on Thursday and spotted by Phoronix looks to add “initial support” for the Mac Mini, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models equipped with an M1 chip. Developer Hector Martin submitted… Read more

I’m salivating over this new four-volume Philip K. Dick collection by the Folio Society

The Folio Society has released a limited-edition, four-volume set of Philip K. Dick’s collected short stories and I am seriously considering selling my plasma to buy a copy. Each volume is bound in fluorescent colors, with 2,560 pages of text containing some 118 stories. There are 24 illustrations by 24 different artists, and the set… Read more

Huawei P40 vs P40 Pro vs P40 Pro Plus: What’s the difference?

(Pocket-lint) – Not content with bringing its usual two-model flagship series release programme, for 2020 Huawei stepped things up by bringing not just one, not two, but three different P series handsets: the P40, the P40 Pro, and the P40 Pro+. It’s a move that came as no surprise, in a world where many competitors… 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

Take a ride on this man’s model train set

Some people spent the pandemic writing the next King Lear, others lamenting the fact that they weren’t. It doesn’t really matter. There are plenty of inspiring pandemic projects to go around, but one of the most striking (and brain-breaking) has to be this model train video created by Jason Shron of the YouTube channel Rapido… Read more

Expedia launches a new tool to check coronavirus travel restrictions

As more people get vaccinated against the coronavirus and spring weather coaxes people outside, we’re all thinking about those travel plans we shelved last summer. But with COVID-19 travel restrictions varying by country and by state in the US, it’s difficult to figure out what’s safe and what the latest rules are. Expedia Group —… Read more

Skoda Octavia iV plug-in hybrid review: A step into the future?

(Pocket-lint) – Electrification is the future. Policy makers as well as car makers have asserted that. So while the revolution’s wheels begin to turn, there’s a good interim point to jump in – a hybrid plug-in, such as this, the Skoda Octavia iV. The “iV” part of the equation is what tells you this is… 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

Lil Nas X’s ‘Twerk Hero’ is a real game where you shake a virtual butt to Montero

Rapper Lil Nas X has just released a free rhythm game that has you twerking to his new song “Montero (Call Me By Your Name).” Yes, the main mechanic is twerking. It’s a free browser game, and you can play it right now at this link. If you want to get an idea of how… Read more

You can now play every classic Halo on Xbox with a mouse and keyboard

Today, you can fire up an Xbox game console and play Halo with a mouse and keyboard. It’s hard to believe I’m writing those words. Five years ago, I asked a small room of first-party Xbox devs how they felt about supporting mouse and keyboard (now that their boss Phil Spencer had confirmed they were… Read more

The French army is testing Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot in combat scenarios

Spot, the quadruped robot built by US firm Boston Dynamics, has appeared alongside soldiers during military exercises carried out by the French army. The robot was apparently being used for reconnaissance during a two-day training exercise, but the deployment raises questions about how and where Boston Dynamics’ machines will be used in future. Pictures of… Read more

Unicomp New Model M review: back to brilliant basics

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. I’m not old enough to have ever encountered an original IBM Model M in an office. But in my second year of university, after hearing about how amazing these old keyboards were to type on, I sought… Read more

Garmin Varia RTL515 radar tail light review: Trip the light fantastic

(Pocket-lint) – When out cycling it’s not just your eyes but also your ears that can be crucial in assessing what’s going on around you – it’s why we’d never put in headphones and listen to music while out on the road. But sometimes your own limited senses aren’t quite enough. That’s where the Garmin… Read more

So you’re vaccinated — what are you waiting for?

I asked experts when vaccinated people can resume high-risk activities — and got a whole bunch of answers It’s been over a year since my office shut down. Over a year since I went to a bar, a fitness class, a movie theater, a concert, a Knicks game, or to the many other public events… Read more