Category: author_name|Lawrence Bonk

Apple’s AirPods Max drop back down to $400

Apple’s AirPods Max headphones are on sale for $400 via Amazon. This isn’t a record-low, though it’s close, but does represent a savings of $150. The sale includes a bunch of colorways, like gray, blue, silver and pink. For the uninitiated, these are Apple’s high-end over-ear headphones. They are, in…

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New Zelda footage features cute horseback riding and uh, smoothie shops

Nintendo just dropped a rather lengthy new overview trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. That’s the top-down Switch entry that stars the titular princess instead of Link. The six-minute video focuses on “traversing Hyrule,” so there’s plenty of cool stuff here about the kingdom and, more importantly,…

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New Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom footage features cute horseback riding and uh, smoothie shops

Nintendo just dropped a rather lengthy new overview trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. That’s the top-down Switch entry that stars the titular princess instead of Link. The six-minute video focuses on “traversing Hyrule,” so there’s plenty of cool stuff here about the kingdom and, more importantly,…

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Say goodbye to Boomerang, the streaming service dedicated to classic cartoons

Warner Bros. Discovery is shuttering Boomerang, a streaming service dedicated to classic cartoons, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The platform started as a digital cable channel back in 2000 before expanding to a streaming platform in 2017. Boomerang will officially cease operations on September 30, giving subscribers around two months…

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Microsoft is dropping ads from Skype

Skype is going ad-free, as indicated in a blog post by Microsoft. The latest update removes all ads from the entire platform, including Skype channels and the main chat interface. Microsoft said this move was a response to feedback and an attempt to make the “Skype experience cleaner and more…

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Nothing just announced the Phone 2a Plus, a minor refresh of a pre-existing model

Nothing just announced a relatively surprising hardware update for its Phone 2a smartphone. The Phone 2a Plus is a modest upgrade, but still significant, being as how the original 2a was just released back in March. Most notably, the 2a Plus has a faster chip than the OG 2a. The…

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