The Nintendo Switch OLED Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Edition is available to preorder for $359.99. | Image: Nintendo After months of rumors, Nintendo finally confirmed recently that it’s releasing a Zelda-inspired Nintendo Switch OLED on April 28th. The special-edition console will retail for $359.99 and commemorates one of this year’s most anticipated video games,
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Read MoreWhat’s new out there? | Image: Nintendo We’re less than a month away from the launch of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and even though we just got a new trailer jam-packed with details, there’s still so much we don’t know about the game. Here are a few concrete things I can
Read MoreSuzume. | Image: Crunchyroll Right now, we are absolutely spoiled for choice when it comes to entertainment. TV shows, movies, and games all come out at such a fast and furious pace that it’s hard to keep up. Not all of them are worth your time, of course — which is where we come in.
Read MoreGoing to the movies is an experience. But how popular do you think they’d be if you went in, bought your popcorn, picked your seat, and the curtain would rise on a large still photograph? Probably not a great business model. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then a video is worth at least
Read MoreApple’s HomePod Mini comes in a variety of fun colors, including orange, yellow, and blue. | Image: Jennifer Tuohy / The Verge Believe it or not, May is now just a few weeks away, which means both Mother’s Day and graduation season are nearly upon us. If you plan on picking up a gift for
Read MoreNintendo At T-minus one day less than a month until Tears of the Kingdom launches, Nintendo has released a final trailer for Breath of the Wild’s potentially life-ruining sequel. The three-minute trailer featured sweeping vistas of Hyrule, some new friendly faces, and one very old not-so-friendly face. It looks like Link will have some friends
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Smartphones aren’t just functional mini-computers for taking care of your digital tasks. These gadgets are also a form of accessory we usually carry around and show to the world. You want them to look good, especially if you’re buying a high-end phone that costs a significant amount of cash.
Read MoreThe white ROG Phone 7 Ultimate flanked by the ROG Phone 7 in black and white. | Image: Asus The ROG Phone 7 and Phone 7 Ultimate are the latest devices in Asus’ line of gaming-focused smartphones. They’re available to preorder in Europe and Taiwan starting today and will ship later this month. In Europe,
Read MoreJoe Eskenazi / Mission Local: Sources: SFPD arrested tech executive Nima Momeni for Bob Lee’s killing; Momeni and Lee purportedly knew each other and were driving together before the killing — Mission Local is informed that the San Francisco Police Department early this morning made an arrest in the April 4 killing …
Read MoreNinety Percent of advertisers think affiliate programs are essential to their marketing strategy, and marketers extensively use affiliate marketing to promote their brands and products. However, though affiliate marketing is a huge and growing industry, not everyone succeeds. There are some affiliate marketers playing in billions while some others struggle to earn even pennies from
Read Morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsuxmzRX7rw The ROG Phone series is ASUS’ premium gaming phone, complete with associated gaming accessories built to (hopefully) help you boost your W/L ratio. The latest ASUS ROG Phone 7 epitomizes the mobile gaming philosophy, boasting bleeding-edge specifications, RGB lighting, and performance above and beyond your typical flagship phone. Of course, a solid gaming phone
Read Morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsuxmzRX7rw The ASUS ROG Phone 7 and its Ultimate counterpart are official. The phones have the latest hardware, an updated selfie cam, and some new software tricks. With US pricing still unknown, you’ll pay at least €999 (~$1,084) for the entry-level model. Historically, ASUS has made the best gaming phone of each year. Although 2023
Read MoreTom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: AWS begins offering customers access to LLMs by Anthropic, Stability AI, AI21 Labs, and AWS, aiming to become a neutral platform for generative AI features — The world’s largest cloud provider wants to become the Switzerland of generative AI and let companies pick their own software and models
Read MoreThe ecommerce giant doesn’t have a ChatGPT rival, but it wants to sell you the tools you need to build one.
Read MoreCecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: Twitch CEO Dan Clancy defends cutting 400 employees, saying the move was vital to keep the service viable, and plans to meet with creators to allay their fears — Dan Clancy, Twitch’s new chief executive officer, has led projects at NASA and Google, and once wanted to look for life on
Read MoreAlex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Filing: Amazon paid Andy Jassy $1.3M in 2022, after awarding him a $200M+ stock grant in 2021; Jassy talks efficiency, ads, LLMs, and more in his annual letter — Jassy had earned $212 million in 2021. — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy saw his 2022 compensation crater in 2022 …
Read MoreJess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe rolls out support for images and PDF in Frame.io and plans to add text-based editing in Premiere Pro in May 2023 — Adobe has announced several product updates ahead of the 2023 NAB Show, including the addition of text-based video editing features to Premier Pro and the expansion …
Read Morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsuxmzRX7rw The ASUS ROG Phone 7 and its Ultimate counterpart are official. The phones have the latest hardware, an updated selfie cam, and some new software tricks. With US pricing still unknown, you’ll pay at least €999 (~$1,084) for the entry-level model. Historically, ASUS has made the best gaming phone of each year. Although 2023
Read MoreRobert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: How the US is making arrests and seizing crypto funds, like James Zhong’s 50K+ bitcoin, using Chainalysis and other tools to identify criminals via transactions — Federal authorities are making arrests and seizing funds with the help of new tools to identify criminals through cryptocurrency transactions
Read MoreRaphael Satter / Reuters: Discord says it is cooperating with US law enforcement’s investigation into the classified material breach — Instant messaging platform Discord said on Wednesday it was cooperating with U.S. law enforcement’s investigation into a leak of secret U.S. documents that has grabbed attention around the world.
Read MoreYoshihiro Sato / Bloomberg: Taiwan Ministry of Finance data: chipmaking machine exports to the US rose 42.6% YoY to $71.3M in March 2023, while exports to China dropped 33.7% YoY — US purchases of machines to make computer chips from Taiwan rose to a record in March, as the Biden administration works to reinvigorate the
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority The Xiaomi 13 Ultra will have a one-inch main camera with variable aperture tech. This feature should address a long-standing issue with large camera sensors and wide apertures. The Xiaomi 13 Ultra is scheduled to launch on April 18, and it’s expected to be a photography powerhouse. The Chinese
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: ByteDance is offering to pay developers who made VR apps for Meta to bring them to its Pico headsets, paying between $15K and $25K per title — ByteDance offers to pay software makers to bring apps to its VR device, while Meta sees friction over its app-store approvals
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