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The lawsuit has not yet ended, but the new version of Twitter is online first: it is run by the former attorney general, and you can exchange it for a "Truth" account for $20
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What is the difference between Dolby Atmos and lossless sound quality? It is actually the one that most people should upgrade first.
Apple Music and Tidal label both "Dolby Atmos" and "Lossless" as upgrades, but they solve completely different problems. Engadget author Adnan Ahmed breaks down the technical differences and gives his own listening advice.
Fire TV Stick has no official lifespan, and Netflix’s withdrawal is the real expiration date
Amazon only guarantees security updates for the Fire TV Stick for at least four years, but that's not the end of the hardware. What really kills a streaming stick is when apps like Netflix give up on it first.
GTA VI Extended Trailer Teardown: Return of Six-Star Wanted, Dual Protagonist Switching and Tribute Easter Eggs
Rockstar has released a 26-minute extended trailer for GTA VI. The film contains a six-star wanted system, Criminal Profile causal mechanism and many details that pay tribute to RDR2 and San Andreas. The game is expected to be released on November 19.
NVIDIA DLSS 5 leaked in advance, Control heroine aged overnight, causing a strange feeling
An unfinished DLSS 5 extracted from the early version of "NBA 2K27" was forced into games such as "Control" and "Skyrim" by players. As a result, the characters' faces were strangely aged and the frame rate was cut in half. The official version is not expected to be officially released until this fall.
Is it worth it to build your own retro arcade machine? First think about what game you want to play, and then ask which generation of Raspberry Pi
When building a DIY retro arcade machine, the first question you should ask is not which Raspberry Pi to choose, but what games to play. From control panel configurations to electronic components, this article summarizes the actual choices and costs you will encounter.
That old Android in the drawer can actually fix your home’s Wi-Fi dead spots
There is no need to spend money on extenders. A fully charged old Android phone can use the built-in hotspot function to send more signals to the corner of the room that can never be connected.
The Xbox 25th Anniversary Combo is on sale for $900, but the transparent green color is actually not the original appearance
Xbox has released a 25th anniversary package for pre-order. For $899, you can get a transparent green Series
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is coming: Google wants to make voice input automatically turn into a piece of clean text
Google has released a new generation speech-to-text model, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, which features automatic removal of redundant words and recognition of more than 85 languages. It will be available in any Chrome input box and multiple Google services in the future.
No need to plug in physical movies to play: Xbox tests "disc-to-digital" function, thousands of games can be exchanged for digital versions
Xbox Insiders can test the new feature starting from August 31. Insert a supported physical disc to unlock digital version benefits, covering thousands of Xbox One and Series X games. The disc can still be resold or loaned.
Mosseri Testifies "This Is the First I'm Hearing of This" — Instagram Teen Safety Data Interception Scandal
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri testified in Meta's social media addiction lawsuit, denying knowledge that staff were asked to restrict teen safety data from reaching him, while the judge also questioned on the spot why another executive was unaware of feature usage rates.
CRKD Launches Three Gibson Guitar Controllers, Including a Recreation of a Never-Released GH2 Prototype
CRKD has built three Gibson-licensed guitar controllers for the rhythm game *Stage Tour*, with the SG-shaped model based on a scrapped PS2-era *Guitar Hero II* concept design. The game launches December 10.
Instagram Rolls Out First Draft Feature to Auto-Trim Dead Space in Reels
Instagram has launched a new editing tool called First Draft that automatically trims pauses and silences from video footage, launching first on iOS. Notably, the official announcement never mentions "AI" once, a choice foreign media see as a deliberate move to distance the tool from Meta's recent wave of AI features.
ChatGPT's Scheduled Tasks Now Free for All Users, Paid Tiers Get Gmail and Slack Trigger Integration
OpenAI announced that ChatGPT's scheduled tasks menu is now fully available to free accounts, while paid users can set up prompts triggered by Gmail, Slack, and GitHub events — the latest update to the feature's tiered rollout.
Commodore 77: CD Projekt Red Deliberately Distresses the C64 Ultimate into a Night City Prop Machine
Retro brand Commodore has teamed up with CD Projekt Red to launch the Commodore 77, taking the brand-new C64 Ultimate and giving it graffiti and battle damage. It's up for preorder now at $377, though the shipping date hasn't been announced.
BenQ ScreenBar Max Review: A $289 Dual-Monitor Light Bar—Worth It?
BenQ's first light bar built for dual-monitor setups, the ScreenBar Max, comes with mmWave sensing and studio-grade color accuracy, but its starting price of $289 puts this light bar in an awkward spot.
Musk Sends NVIDIA's Most Advanced Chips to Space, and Orbit Is the Least of Starmind's Problems
SpaceX has filed with the FCC to launch up to a million satellites for its Starmind project, with the first batch of AI1 satellites set to run on NVIDIA's Vera Rubin GPUs. But radiation exposure and cost issues could make the 2027 launch timeline far tougher than it sounds.
iPhone Lost and Getting Extorted to Turn Off Find My? That's Exactly When You Shouldn't
There are actually very few situations where Apple's Find My should be turned off — mainly when selling a device or sending it in for repair. But if your phone is genuinely lost or stolen, don't fall for extortion messages telling you to disable it.
The Nokia 300 Charge Is a Classic Flip Phone That Doubles as a Power Bank
Nokia's new feature phone, the 300 Charge, packs a 3,700mAh battery that can reverse-charge other devices at 10W, plus a flashlight that's 4x brighter than the Nokia 105's.
Claude's Memory Now Bridges Chat and Cowork, With Sensitive Topic Recall Left to Users
Anthropic has updated Claude's memory system so that chat history and the automation tool Cowork now share memory. A new "record sensitive topics" toggle also lets users decide whether information like health or religion gets remembered.
From Thirty a Year to Just Reskins: Why Movie Tie-In Games Disappeared
In 2007, there were still over thirty licensed movie tie-in games on the market. By 2025, all that's left is a limited-time event server for the Minecraft movie and a Fortnite skin for The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Money and time are the two keywords behind this extinction.
Xbox's 25th Anniversary Gear Goes All-In on See-Through Green, with Razer, 8BitDo, and GameSir Joining the Nostalgia Trip
As Xbox approaches its 25th anniversary, Microsoft has teamed up with brands like Razer, 8BitDo, and GameSir to roll out a lineup of translucent green accessories, paying tribute to the shell of that iconic 2001 console.
Apple Walks Back Hide My Email Domain Change That Nearly Defeated the Whole Point of Anonymous Addresses
Apple had planned to switch newly generated Hide My Email addresses to the @private.icloud.com domain—but that would have let websites spot disguised addresses at a glance. The plan has now been scrapped.
Upscaling Video to 4K Doesn't Make It Sharper—It's Software Guessing the Extra Pixels
That "convert to 4K" button in your editing software looks like magic, but the extra pixels—three times as many—are almost entirely the product of interpolation or AI guesswork. The Star Trek: The Next Generation restoration, which cost over $10 million, shows exactly where upscaling hits its limits.