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Google Offloads Nest Thermostat to $100 Before Prime Day

The Google Nest Thermostat regulates temperature while saving energy and can be controlled remotely. It’s normally priced at $130 but is currently $100 on Amazon after a 23% discount; all colors—Charcoal, Fog, Sand, and Snow—are reduced. You may also qualify for additional utility rebates based on where

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40+ hidden Google Maps settings to make the app more useful

Google Maps hides dozens of settings that can improve navigation, battery life, accessibility, privacy and more. Many of the options work on iOS and Android, and several also appear on the web version. For drivers, you can keep the map facing north, avoid tolls, highways or ferries, prefer fuel-efficient routes,

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Acer Nitro ED340CUR: $200 ultrawide gaming monitor worth considering

You can pick up the Acer Nitro ED340CUR J9biip for $200 at Newegg, a $50 discount on an ultrawide panel that puts more on-screen at once for both tactical advantage in some games and greater immersion in others. The 3440 x 1440 screen runs at 120 Hz with a 1

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PS5 owners face steep SanDisk SSD price hikes

SanDisk has launched the Optimus GX PRO 850P NVMe, the PlayStation 5's officially licensed storage option formerly sold under the WD_Black label. The company lists the drives at 1 TB — $379.99, 2 TB — $759.99, 4 TB — $1,499.99 and 8 TB — $2,959.99,

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Gears of War: E-Day's movement and cover changes could reshape multiplayer

Gears of War has long split players: some love its skittish multiplayer, while others see it as a sweaty killing field. That divide traces back to design choices that fixed overpowered shotguns and manipulated cover mechanics. The Coalition is aiming to change that with Gears of War: E-Day, shifting the

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Former Sony Executive Says Xbox Moves Show 'Basic Misunderstanding'

Shawn Layden, the former CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment America and chairman of SIE Worldwide Studios, wrote on LinkedIn that a string of recent Xbox decisions "evince a basic misunderstanding of how the interactive entertainment world moves." He made the comment in response to a post by consultant

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Six Amazon gadgets on sale ahead of Prime Day — up to 68% off

Prime Day is next week, and some Amazon devices are already seeing steep price cuts that are unlikely to get deeper. Amazon's smart-home reach includes Ring, Blink and Eero, plus thermostats, air quality monitors, smart plugs, tablets, televisions and smart glasses. Notable early deals include the Fire TV

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Sony patent explores magnetic shape-shifting buttons for future controllers

A Sony patent has been published exploring new tactile feedback built into a gamepad. The filing describes reactive buttons that can soften or harden in real time (via Cheat Happens), offering different sensations depending on the situation or player preference. The patent outlines several use-cases, including a "finger grab&

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Sony patent describes joystick whose buttons can harden as you play

Sony continues to file unusual controller patents, many of which never leave the filing cabinet and serve mainly as legal protection. The company’s latest published patent is shaped like a conventional gaming joystick and describes an "operation member" meant to receive input from a user. The patent

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Idle Taskbar Game Tops Steam Charts Amid Bot-Driven Marketplace

Released at the end of May, TBH: Task Bar Hero is a tiny desktop idler that sits in a portion of the taskbar while pixel heroes fight and gather loot. It has climbed to third place on Steam’s concurrent players chart, just below Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2, but

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Xbox's secret weapon could change everything for The Elder Scrolls 6

Microsoft's gaming division is under pressure to produce hits quickly, and leadership has signaled a renewed focus on its biggest franchises. Releasing The Elder Scrolls 6 and Fallout 5 as soon as possible sounds unlikely given Bethesda's long development cycles, but there is one realistic option:

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Best power banks and battery packs in the UK for reliable charging, tested

It’s disempowering when your smartphone, laptop or other important gadget runs out of battery. Carrying a power bank is your ticket out of electronic oblivion: these pocket-sized cuboids plug into compatible devices and charge them, often via USB-C and USB-A. Most are aimed at smartphones and smaller gadgets, though

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Forza Horizon 6 patch may calm Bowie Knife99 and adds roads completion percent

Forza Horizon 6's latest patch released yesterday and brought a whole host of changes. Under the AI subheading the notes list "improvements to difficulty balancing" and "fixed an issue with drivatar race start behaviour", which may dial down the likelihood of a drivatar sporadically

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Super Pocket Rare Edition delivers Banjo-Kazooie and Solar Jetman charm

The Super Pocket Rare Edition is a compact retro handheld that feels like a childhood dream: smaller than an original Game Boy Color, priced under the cost of many new console games, and capable of running Banjo-Kazooie. This version keeps the same 5/5 budget portable charm that impressed in

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Tim Sweeney pitches Epic as savior for AAA gaming

At Unreal Fest 2026 in Chicago, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney presented Unreal Engine 6 as an alternative to a gaming ecosystem dominated by closed platforms like Roblox. He framed the pitch around helping developers confront a shifting market where social experiences and attention competition are reshaping play. Sweeney warned

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Slate Truck price appears to have leaked: starts at $24,950

The Blank Slate makes its formal debut next week. Designed by Slate Auto as a back-to-basics electric pickup, the vehicle aims to cut costs with a compact footprint and pared-down features—electric windows are even optional. When Slate broke cover in 2025 it targeted a price of around $20,000,

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Cuktech 15 Air fastest to recharge in lab tests

Power banks keep devices running on the go, and charging speed matters most for many users. Ten popular units were compared to measure how quickly each reached 50%, 80% and 100% charge. Testing used a HOBOware plug load logger to record the energy drawn from the wall while charging each

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Guild Wars 3 aims to fix the inventory problem that drove me from GW2

I'm thrilled by the announcement of Guild Wars 3, but a little voice in my head keeps whispering, "you know you won't have time for a new MMO." ArenaNet appears aware of that worry as it begins to set expectations for the sequel and

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Epic merges UE5 with UEFN to create Unreal Engine 6

Epic is merging Unreal Engine 5 with Unreal Engine for Fortnite (UEFN) to create Unreal Engine 6. Tim Sweeney summed it up as "UE 5 plus UEFN equals UE 6, plus some more cool stuff on the way." The merge is intended to let developers build and ship

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Treyarch confirms Black Ops 1 and 2 are being ported to PlayStation

Treyarch has confirmed the original Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2 will be ported to PlayStation in July, with work handled by Iron Galaxy. The studio added that both ports will include Campaign, Multiplayer and Zombies, after a tease from fan account PlayStation Game Size. Iron Galaxy

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Windows 11 Search will soon correct typos and prioritise local files

Whether you’re coding or hunting for a file, a single typo can be frustrating, and Microsoft is working on a number of improvements for Search in Windows 11 to ease that pain. The Insider Experimental Preview Build 26300.8687, which dropped last week, introduced a “more forgiving” version of

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Titan sub: design flaws and company groupthink central to catastrophe, report finds

Canadian safety officials have issued a damning report on the Titan submersible’s final voyage, finding that the US company behind the expedition was overcome by “groupthink” and “confirmation bias” and failed to understand the profound risks confronting their largely untested craft. The 6.7-metre carbon fibre submersible left for

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Unreal Engine 5.8 adds mesh terrain, vegetation tools and Lumen Lite

Unreal Engine 5.8 is available now via the Epic Games Launcher. The headline features are Mesh Terrain and the Procedural Vegetation Editor (PVE), both experimental: Mesh Terrain generates full 3D meshes for large open-world landscapes, while PVE procedurally produces trees, bushes, reeds and grass that interact with existing world

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Every way your phone tracks your location — and how to stop it

Smartphones can reveal where you are in many ways beyond GPS. Carrying a handset and connecting to services exposes locations through satellites, cellular towers, Wi‑Fi networks, Bluetooth, wearables and the apps and browsers on your device. GPS can be accurate to within a few meters when unobstructed, but Wi‑

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Why the Ocarina of Time remake’s release window matters

Nintendo appears to be returning to the holiday spotlight with its remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The company has not announced a release date, but late October or early December seem likeliest given the fall release landscape and how Nintendo is positioning the game. For years