Month: May 2024
Sonos casually launches the Roam 2 with easier Bluetooth pairing, but confirms our fears about the stamina
Yes, after countless rumors, Sonos formally announced its entry into the world of headphones this morning. Ace looks to rival the likes of Apple’s AirPods Max and Sony’s WH-1000XM5 at $449, but the audio brand also quietly and casually launched the Sonos Roam 2. That’s right, Sonos’s second-generation portable Bluetooth…
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Pixar cuts 14 percent of workforce, shifts focus back to feature films
According to Variety, Deadline, and The Hollywood Reporter, Pixar is laying off 175 staffers — 14 percent of its workforce — as it shifts its focus back to projects meant for theatrical rather than streaming releases. These layoffs come months after Disney began dismissing employees by the thousands in an…
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Ayaneo’s latest handhelds are inspired by the Game Boy and GB Micro
We might just be living in the ultimate golden age of portable gaming. There’s the Switch for Nintendo first party games and indies, the Steam Deck and its rivals for modern PC titles and, of course, a whole bunch of systems intended for retro gaming. Ayaneo has been one of…
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Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree’s latest story trailer showcases ‘the tyranny of Messmer’s flame’
FromSoftware has released a brand new story trailer for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree ahead of the expansion’s launch next month. The three-minute cinematic, which you can watch below, finally provides a deeper glimpse into the story while also offering lots of lore for fans to sink their teeth…
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Here’s the eight-inch Snapdragon PC for your Windows on Arm experiments
The new $899.99 “Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows” houses the most powerful of Qualcomm’s lineup of Snapdragon X Elite chips — the one with the 4.6 TFLOP GPU — as well as 32GB of LPDDR5x RAM, 512GB of NVMe storage, and lots of ports, all within roughly the same volume…
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Here are all the Qualcomm Snapdragon X AI laptops announced at Microsoft’s ‘AI Era’ event
Microsoft recently held its ‘AI Era’ live event which saw a new line of laptops featuring the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus chips, and offerings from its laptop manufacturing partners. All the machines detailed below meet the minimum requirements for Windows Copilot+, the AI-powered assistant that Microsoft is…
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