From The Verge: Ring has announced the latest model in its line of video doorbells, the Video Doorbell Pro 2. The Pro 2 is a new top-of-the-line model that comes with a number of enhancements over its predecessor, including a taller field of view and enhanced motion detection capabilities. It is...
From PC Mag: Amazon launched its Luna service in Early Access form in September last year. Access was limited by requiring an invitation, not only for the service, but for the Luna Controller, too. However, access restrictions have been relaxed and more gamers can now give Amazon's game streaming...
From CNET: Consumer electronics retailer Fry's Electronics is going out of business after nearly 36 years.
Fry's "has made the difficult decision to shut down its operations and close its business permanently as a result of changes in the retail industry and the challenges posed by the Covid-19...
From The Verge: The next entry in Polyphony Digital’s long-running Gran Turismo franchise has been delayed to 2022, GQ reports. In a statement, Sony said Gran Turismo 7 has been impacted by “COVID-related production challenges,” which means its planned 2021 release date has been shifted to 2022....
From PC Mag: It's been over four years since Sony launched PlayStation VR for the PS4, but today we got the first details of its replacement, targeted specifically at PS5 owners.
Writing on the PlayStation.Blog, Hideaki Nishino, Senior Vice President, Platform Planning & Management said, "Today I'm...
From CNET: Spotify on Monday laid out its vision for "a new golden age of audio," revealing that it will launch a new subscription tier called HiFi for high-quality audio later this year and that it is expanding to more than 80 new countries in the coming days. The streaming-music giant also...
From The Verge: Microsoft is planning to add text predictions to Word in March. The new feature will work similarly to Google Docs’ Smart Compose option, using machine learning to predict what words an author will need to speed up document creation. Microsoft originally announced a beta of text...
From The Verge: Huawei has announced the Mate X2, its first all-new foldable device since 2019’s Mate X. The new phone has received a radical redesign compared to the original device, with a large screen that unfolds from the inside of the device rather than around the outside. For using the phone...
From CNET: Apple became the world's top phone maker in the fourth quarter of 2020, Gartner reported Monday, with the launch of the 5G iPhone 12 helping it beat Samsung for the first time since 2016. It sold 79.9 million iPhones in that period, a 14.9% increase year-on-year.
Samsung sold 62.1...
For those who were in elementary school in 1990s or earlier, I want to ask you this question: Were playgrounds cooler back then compared to what we have now? I was recently talking to a friend who grew up in the 2000s, and I was lamenting how today's playgrounds simply do not stand against the stuff we had. Simply put, today's playgrounds are boring and uninteresting. Some of the stuff I remember back then include a freestanding, open-air metal...
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