Month: May 2022
Update: Sonos looks to squash UE Boom with classy new Roam colors
Audio player loading… Update: Sonos has officially unveiled three new colors for the Sonos Roam portable speaker, confirming the initial leak. The different color options won’t cost any more than the black or white speaker, meaning it’ll be $179 / £179 / AU$299. Original story continues below. We’ve had a…
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Battle.net is suffering from a DDoS attack, though things seem to be recovering
Activision Blizzard said on Twitter Wednesday that its Battle.net service was suffering from a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. As of publish time, things seem to be recovering. In the initial tweet, sent at 7:11PM ET from the @BlizzardCS Twitter account, the company cautioned that the attack “may result…
Read MoreAfter roasting Apple about headphone jacks, Google quietly dumps it from Pixel 6A
Google just revealed the Pixel 6A at Google I/O on Wednesday, and while it has a number of impressive specs for a midrange device, it’s missing one that the company has celebrated on its A-series line for years: a 3.5mm headphone jack. As many smartphone manufacturers have moved on from…
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Disney CEO calls hypothetical ESPN streaming package ‘the ultimate fan offering’
On an earnings call earlier today, Disney CEO Bob Chapek sounded like someone who has clear ideas of ESPN’s fully streaming future. He told analysts and investors that “when it comes time to actually pull the trigger,” he believes ESPN can create “the ultimate fan offering that will appeal to…
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Jack Dorsey says he’ll never be the CEO of Twitter again
Jack Dorsey is trying to squash rumors that he’ll be reinstated as Twitter’s CEO once Elon Musk takes charge. On Wednesday he tweeted “nah I’ll never be CEO again” in response to someone predicting he would be returning to lead the company he co-founded, before going on to say that…
Read MoreGoogle’s ‘premium’ Pixel Tablet sure doesn’t look very premium
Big white bezels. Matte, looks-like-plastic back. Thick profile. 2023. Android. That’s about all we know about Google’s forthcoming Pixel Tablet, which the company teased during its keynote presentation for the I/O 2022 developer conference this week. Rick Osterloh, Google’s senior vice president of devices and services and head of the…
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