The Kindle turned 15 this month. It’s been a strange ride for Amazon’s first hardware device. CEO Andy Jassy gave the e-reader a rare bit of love in last year’s shareholder letter, noting: Our first foray into devices was the Kindle, released in 2007. It was not the most sophisticated industrial design (it was creamy…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Honda will launch a fuel cell electric vehicle in 2024 based on its bestselling CR-V crossover. The automaker said it will produce the CR-V variant at its Performance Manufacturing Center (PMC) in Marysville, Ohio, as part of its strategy to go fully electric by 2040 and carbon neutral by 2050. Instead of a battery, fuel…
It’s the middle of the holiday season here in the U.S., that magical time between Thanksgiving and Christmas when stores are packed with bodies and porches are piled with packages. All those packages produce a lot of waste — anywhere from 33 million tons to 51 million tons annually, depending on the estimate. A majority…
Spotify Wrapped season is finally here, and with it brings many questions — like how is it physically possible that you listened to “As It Was” by Harry Styles that many times? Just kidding. We get it. But the biggest question still looms large: When exactly does the Wrapped tracking period end? The internet’s colloquial…
It’s here. The moment you’ve been waiting for. You’ve survived Icebergify and Intsafest, and now the real deal has finally arrived: your 2022 Spotify Wrapped According to Spotify, 2022 has been a year of “emergence” where “everything is happening all at once,” so this year’s Wrapped looks inward, launching new features that analyze users’ personalities…
Bad Bunny has filled arenas, beaches, and most of the playlists on Spotify. The Puerto Rican superstar secured the title of most-streamed artist globally on Spotify for the third year in a row. According to Spotify, via its end-of-year Wrapped data, he accumulated over 18.5 billion streams in 2022. The second most-streamed artist was Taylor…
Valve’s iconic game Portal is getting reimagined this December courtesy of Nvidia, and we’re absolutely buzzing. The original Portal is widely regarded as one of the most iconic puzzle games of all time, and Nvidia will be bringing it to users complete with advanced graphics features like full ray tracing and Nvidia DLSS 3 capabilities…
Big news for fans of Genshin Impact: developer miHoYo has released a full-on trailer for a brand new trading card game (TCG) feature for the much-beloved RPG. Set to arrive in patch 3.3, Genius Invokation will allow players to get stuck into a brand-new TCG experience. Though the trailer doesn’t tell us much about game…
Google is finally rolling out its biggest Google Pixel update yet, which gives all owners of its Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro phones free access to the VPN from its Google One service. That’s right – Google Pixel 7 and Google Pixel 7 Pro users can now access a service that usually costs at…
Apple’s M2 Max chip, which will succeed the current M1 Max, has been spotted in leaked benchmarks giving us an idea of how much faster the next-gen variant might be. As Wccftech reports, this comes in the form of Geekbench results picked up by Benchleaks on Twitter, which as always with leaks, we should be…