Month: May 2022

Epic returns to in-person Fortnite competition with a November event

Epic Games has announced plans to host an in-person Fortnite competition in November, its first major in-person competitive Fortnite event since the Fortnite World Cup in 2019. The upcoming event, the FNCS Invitational 2022, will take place on November 12th and 13th at the Raleigh Convention Center in North Carolina.…

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Rivian manufacturing executive leaves as part of reorganization

Rivian’s Charly Mwangi, its executive vice president of manufacturing engineering and a former Tesla exec, is leaving the company as part of a bigger shakeup splitting up parts of the company, according to Bloomberg. “The reorganization calls for splitting the commercial business, which includes delivery vans made for Amazon, from…

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Major Google Drive update could be a blessing for IT teams

Audio player loading… Google has announced that admins can now place shared drives into sub-organizational units (OUs) in certain editions of its Workspace suite. In what could be a boon for IT teams working with Google Drive cloud storage, admins will now be able to configure sharing policies, data regions,…

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Playtime Engineering debuts two new music makers for kids

Ahead of the NAMM 2022 trade show being held in Anaheim next weekend, San Francisco’s Playtime Engineering has unveiled a pair of toys, the Blipbox SK2 synthesizer and the Blipbox myTrack groovebox, designed to help even the youngest musically-inclined minds produce, record, save and share electronic beats and melodies.  Playtime…

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Alleged Pixel 7 prototype hits eBay months ahead of the phone’s official release

An alleged prototype of Google’s upcoming Pixel 7 smartphone has been posted on eBay, giving us our first look at the new phone in the wild months ahead of its scheduled fall release (via Android guru Mishaal Rahman). Google just revealed the phone a few weeks ago at Google I/O,…

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The LG C1 OLED TV just crashed to a new record-low at Walmart’s Memorial Day sale

Memorial Day sales are in full swing today and we’ve just spotted what is possible the best deal of the day – especially if you’re after a premium display. Walmart has LG’s incredible 65-inch OLED TV on sale for $1,549.99 (was $2,499.99) (opens in new tab). That’s an enormous $950…

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