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When a shonen anime releases its first movie, it’s always a big deal. These debuts are often thrilling adventures of debatable canon that have the potential to bring in new audiences and give fans the rush of seeing beloved characters in a new medium. It doesn’t matter what the plot ultimately is, it’s just fun to see these characters we’ve spent weeks watching stretch their animated legs and get into some beautiful chaos with the help of a bigger budget.
Oppo unveiled the Find X5 Pro flagship last month, and one of the more intriguing features announced was the battery’s life of 1600 charging cycles – double what the industry standard is. The company sent us a press release explaining in detail how the battery life cycle got longer while keeping ultra-fast charging speeds.
Gran Turismo 7‘s dependence on an internet connection is coming back to haunt the developers. Eurogamer notes players are review bombing the PlayStation racing sim on Metacritic after Polyphony Digital and Sony extended maintenance beyond 24 hours to deal with the faulty 1.07 patch. As you need online access to play the core GT mode, some gamers are furious — the average Metacritic user review score sat at 3.6 as of this writing.
Tile has largely dodged the criticism Apple has received for the privacy concerns its AirTag trackers pose, quietly staying in the background as the tech giant scrambles to release features that could mitigate the risk of stalking. Tile has taken similar steps to stop fingers from following it.
Samsung announced its new Galaxy A53 5G and Galaxy A33 5G as well as the Galaxy A73 5G yesterday and there are a bunch of promo videos on the brand’s YouTube page that highlight their key features. Spoiler alert: they all use the word “Awesome” abundantly.
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Would you believe Samsung has more new phones? This week, Devindra and Senior Writer Sam Rutherford discuss the new Galaxy A53 5G and A33, the company’s new feature-packed mid-range phones. The A53 has a 120Hz screen, four cameras and 5G support for $450! The iPhone SE doesn’t stand a chance against it. Also, Devindra dives into his review of the Mac Studio–finally, Apple has a great desktop for creative professionals.
Astronomers have reason to believe that a massive object is waiting to be discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system—the so-called Planet Nine. A recent search for this proposed planet produced a null result, but the case is far from closed.
When Twitter reopened its form for verification requests last year, it also teased upcoming changes to its website. Those changes include a space for pronouns in the profile section, along with your other information. It’s been almost a year since we first heard about the project, but now reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi has found proof that the company is indeed developing the feature and may have started testing it. Paluzzi has discovered a yet-to-be rolled out section when you edit your profile that lets you add whatever pronoun you want to use.
Samsung launched a trio of new Galaxy A smartphones yesterday. The company unveiled Galaxy A73, Galaxy A53, and Galaxy A33, and mentioned the new Onyx color for the Galaxy Buds 2 and Galaxy Buds Live earphones.
Wildfires across the globe are contributing to conditions that make future fires more likely, new research finds. The study estimates that brown carbon emissions from sources like wildfires are a greater contributor to warming in the Arctic atmosphere than previously thought. And because this warming then contributes to the weather conditions that give rise to wildfires in the first place, today’s fires are likely helping fuel increasingly stronger ones in the future, the researchers say.
Porsche is today updating the world on its financial results and, by extension, its plans to remain relevant in a world that’s clearly not going to survive climate change. The German luxury brand said that it had seen sales leap by €4.4 billion (around $4.8 billion) and plenty of interest in its models. For the third year running, Porsche’s pure-EV Taycan line managed to outsell the iconic 911, with 41,296 units of the electric ride out the door, while the flagship managed 38,464 units. To Mother Nature’s chagrin, however, both were outsold by the Macan and Cayenne SUVs, which sold around 171,433 units between them.
According to Insider, former staffers at the Disney-acquired—and then shuttered—studio Blue Sky were pressured into censoring a same-sex kiss in their animated adaptation of Nimona. The staffers took kiss out of future presentations with Disney executives, although they state that they hoped to include it in the final film. According to an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the movie was almost “75%” complete when Disney decided to scrap the entire project.
The Realme GT Neo3 will be one of the first phones to be powered by the Dimensity 8100, however, company VP Xu Qi Chase reveals that there will be another chip of note. This chip will assist the Dimensity’s Mali-G610 MC6 GPU to achieve a stable frame rate and in some cases lower power consumption.
