💻 Apple wants to make even thinner devices
🔘 Leak claims to show Galaxy Smart Ring case
🎧 Audio-Technica’s new cans have insane battery life
🍿 Inside Out 2 sets box office records 🍌 People are clicking on a banana on Steam for money |
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Apple believed to be eyeing even thinner devices |
A prominent Apple tipster believes the tech giant is once again intent on making its devices as slim as possible |
Apple made much of the slimness of its new 13-inch iPad Pro when it unveiled the tablet in May. At a mere 0.2 inches thick (5.1mm), it's 0.25 inches (6.4mm) thinner than its predecessor and the thinnest device the tech giant has ever made. According to high-profile Apple tipster Mark Gurman, that iPad Pro has set the stage for thinner iPhones, MacBook Pros, and Apple Watches. Writing in his Power On newsletter on Sunday, Gurman said that although Apple had appeared to be moving away from making devices as thin and light as possible, the new iPad “marked a return to form” that shows that “Apple has figured out how make its devices thinner again while still adding major new features” ... |
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Leak claims to show the Galaxy Smart Ring's charging case
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Samsung is expected to officially launch the smart ring next month
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As part of Samsung’s long, slow reveal of the Galaxy Smart Ring, the tech company first teased the device at the Galaxy S24 Unpacked showcase in January before revealing more at the Mobile World Congress event a month later. What Samsung hasn’t shown us is the smart ring’s charging case, though a new leak claims to do just that. Rather like a wireless earbuds’ case, the ring slots into a diminutive white box where it can receive a charge for further use. “The design here is fancier than the cases for Samsung's wireless earbuds,” SamMobile said, noting that the ring should run for up to nine days on a single charge ... |
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Audio-Technica’s new wireless cans have insane battery life for just $90 |
Headphones mark company's entry into budget ANC segment
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Audio-Technica’s new ATH-S300BT noise-canceling headphones cost a reasonable $90 and offer an incredible 90 hours of claimed battery life. You can also get 2.5 hours of use after just three minutes of charging time. Notably, this is the first time a company with Audio-Technica’s deep history of delivering quality audio has tried its hand at the budget ANC segment, Digital Trends reported. Up until now, the company’s only sub-$100 wireless cans were the $80, non-ANC ATH-M20xBT. Audio-Technica’s new S300BT headphones feature selectable transparency mode (or you can turn ANC/transparency off) and a low-latency Bluetooth connection mode that should appeal to gamers ... |
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Inside Out 2 sets box office records on opening weekend
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The movie's successful opening will come as a relief for studios that have been waiting for the summer season to properly take off
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Disney and Pixar‘s animated sequel Inside Out 2 raked in an impressive $155 million in its first weekend of release in North America, racing past Dune: Part Two ($82.5 million) and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire ($80 million) to post the biggest opening of the year, Variety reported. Inside Out 2 was also a hit internationally, generating $140 million to surpass Frozen 2 ($135 million) for the biggest overseas animated opening of all time. Bad Boys: Ride or Die, which opened last week, slipped to second place with $33 million, while Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes climbed to the third slot with $5.2 million in its sixth weekend of release ... |
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700,000 people are clicking on a banana on Steam to make money
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The priciest banana skins to be sold on the marketplace have reached more than $1,000 |
A bizarre game on Steam has snowballed in popularity in recent days, and it’s called Banana, Insider Gaming reported. The game involves players clicking on a banana until they earn new bananas ... and that’s all. To make it more interesting, however, players periodically earn random banana skins of varying rarities, which they can then sell on Steam’s marketplace. “The problem is that the developer has recognized that the vast majority of the 700,000 peak players recorded on Banana are bots,” the news site said. “With this game using ‘less than 1%’ of your computer’s resources, people are setting up thousands of fake profiles to run this clicking-based game in the hope of securing and selling rare banana skins, which are quickly growing in value” ... |
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