Rez is a terribly good video game – a synaesthesic shooter from Tetsuya Mizuguchi and Q Entertainment, originally released for the Dreamcast and PS2. Donlan has been a fan for years, and he wondered what Ed Nightingale, who loves music games but had never played Rez, would make of it. Ed played the game, and…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
I’ve been lucky enough to test out a bunch of weird and wonderful tech, but I don’t always get a chance to share my discoveries in a full review or roundup. That’s why this column exists, to highlight bits of tech that might not fit elsewhere but nonetheless deserve a mention. Enjoy! It feels like…
Now that the Nothing Phone (1) has launched, have you been seeing plenty of chatter about Nothing OS software? Here’s what you need to know about it. If you’ve been perusing these pages recently, you’ll have seen plenty of news about the Nothing Phone (1), the first smartphone ever released by this London-based startup company….
Qualcomm introduced its new Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 flagship chipset and makers are now rushing to refresh their performance-oriented devices. Xiaomi already unveiled the 12S series, and it’s also about to give us a Redmi phone with the new top chip. The brand chief Lu Weibing, also known as William Lu, revealed on Weibo there…
Before Andrew Tate became social media famous, he was a professional kickboxer. He started kickboxing at 17 years old and he was champion at 23. He retired from kickboxing at 28 but came back to the ring later and got a bad poke in the eye. According to Andrew, fighting is difficult because you have…
Google is expanding its photo and canvas prints service to Europe and Canada. Google has offered printed photo books in the U.S. since 2017, a service that started rolling out in Europe the following year. And then in 2019, Google started offering photo prints and canvas prints in the U.S. Starting today, these two additional…
Xiaomi said on Wednesday it has shipped over 200 million smartphones in India to date, demonstrating just how large of a presence it has marked in the world’s second largest phone market in just eight years. The Chinese giant, which began selling smartphones in India in 2014, revealed the figure at a media conference on…
Conversational commerce isn’t exactly a new phenomenon, with countless companies using live chats, messaging apps, chatbots, voice assistants and more to encourage consumers to part with their cash. As part of that broader movement, the mighty WhatsApp, a dominant force in the messaging world, has been pushing deeper into the business arena with myriad tools…
Do you like ads? It’s not a real question. No one likes ads. If you can stomach them, though, an ad-supported subscription plan for Netflix could be good if it’s significantly cheaper than the regular plans. But unfortunately, the inclusion of ads won’t be the only bad thing about this plan. Talking on Netflix’s earnings…
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Getty Images Putin warns natural-gas flows to Europe via Nord Stream 1 could fall more due to equipment issues. The pipeline is shut and due to come back online on Thursday after scheduled maintenance. Russia has already cut gas flows to Europe via Nord Stream 1 before the shutdown, citing an…