Month: August 2024
Summit is an incredible precision platformer for Playdate that’ll hit you right in the feels
I was not expecting to cry while playing Summit, a $6 mountain climbing platformer for Playdate that’s impossible not to compare to Celeste. Scream in frustration? Yes. Storm away from the game only to come crawling back minutes later? Definitely. Get all up in my feels, though? Not so much.…
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A nightly Waymo robotaxi parking lot honkfest is waking San Francisco neighbors
If you’ve ever wondered what happens to all those self-driving taxis when the world is asleep, one YouTube channel has you covered. Since the beginning of the month, software engineer Sophia Tung has been livestreaming a San Francisco parking lot that Waymo is renting to give its robotaxis somewhere to…
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The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 is the real winner of the Paris Olympics – here’s why
It’s hard to believe it, but the 2024 Paris Olympic Games will close on August 11, and the Paralympics will finish on September 8. After the medal events, Olympians and Paralympians will head back home … and they’ll all be carrying a new phone with them. As with previous Olympic…
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Apple’s last-gen iPad has dropped to $224 for a limited time
Although Apple’s tablet lineup has undergone several shakeups over the last several years, we long considered the ninth-gen iPad to be the best budget iPad you could get. That changed when Apple dropped the price of the 10th-gen iPad to a more sensible $349 and discontinued its entry-level model. But…
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This eco-friendly search engine wants to tempt you from Google with its new weather skills
Non-profit search engine Ecosia is partnering up with AccuWeather to deliver “hyper-local forecasts” to its users. The goal here is to provide potentially life-saving alerts for weather events as they occur. It appears the update has already been implemented because if you go to Ecosia and type in your location…
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Lenovo unveils cheaper Apple Mac Studio workstation alternative — Yoga Portal mini PC is a copy of the ThinkCenter Neo Ultra but has a much faster GPU
Back in January 2024, we declared Lenovo’s ThinkCenter Neo Ultra the best Apple Mac Studio alternative on the market, but the company has now launched an updated version with a better GPU. The change of innards affects the Yoga Portal Mini PC, which is the Chinese version of the ThinkCenter…
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