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On Friday afternoon, Halo Studios published an extensive FAQ answering a number of questions about its upcoming Halo: Combat Evolved remake, Halo: Campaign Evolved. In a section covering how local, split-screen co-op will work on PlayStation 5, Halo Studios wrote, “If you’re playing split-screen on PlayStation 5, both accounts will need to have PlayStation Plus and be linked to a Microsoft account. Having these active PlayStation Plus subscriptions will also provide access to online co-op play.”Following online frustration over this requirement, Halo Studios shared an update on X, writing, “We incorrectly stated that PlayStation Plus is required for local co-op…

Professional conference interpretation setups are notoriously painful. Dedicated booths, trained interpreters, bulky hardware, and a bill at the end of every month that makes you rethink whether the meeting was even required in the first place.  Timekettle wants to collapse all of that into a single hub that weighs 199 grams (less than modern flagship smartphones). The company just launched the X1 Meeting Interpreter Hub.  So how does the device actually work? It is a portable AI translation device that handles real-time interpretation for a team of up to 50 participants across up to five languages simultaneously. Timekettle claims that…

This post is brought to you in paid partnership with SKG. If you’ve ever bought a gadget that ended up forgotten in a drawer, these two are built to avoid that fate. SKG’s W9 Ultra 2.0 Lower Back Massager and G7 Pro Fold 3.0 Neck Massager are on sale on Amazon, and both are designed for the kind of daily, comfortable use that makes a purchase stick. At that price and that build, these are the kind of massager that change how someone unwinds in the evening, and the titanium-coated heads and warming features underneath put them a tier above…

MacBook Air M5 MSRP $1,099.00 “Performance stopped mattering. Excellence remained.” Pros Great battery life Thin and light Good performance Cons No OLED yet That display notch Quick Take The MacBook Air M5 is what happens when Apple keeps refining an already excellent laptop instead of reinventing it. On paper, the upgrades feel modest. The design is unchanged, the display is still 60Hz, and the M5 chip isn’t delivering the dramatic leap that makes last year’s model instantly obsolete. Yet after spending two weeks with it, none of that really matters. What stands out is how effortless everything feels. The M5…

Tiny digital cameras are all the rage, and Yashica is now offering a very cute toy photography experience of its own. The company’s new Funtastic Keychain Camera is exactly what the name suggests, a miniature digital camera small enough to clip onto your keys, bag, or lanyard. The popular Kodak Charmera is the obvious comparison, which brings a tiny blind-box keychain camera that became a viral collectible. Now, Yashica’s version lands in the same novelty-camera lane, but adds one very useful trick, which is a 180-degree flip screen. The flip screen is the fun part The big advantage of the…

Xiaomi’s latest budget earbuds are rolling out beyond Asia, and as always, the brand is bringing great specs for an accessible price tag. The Redmi Buds 8 are now available in more global markets, including the UK and Germany. Xiaomi lists them for £40 in the UK and €50 in Germany, with an official German MSRP of €60 once the launch offer ends. In comparison, Apple’s AirPods Pro 3 cost £219 in the UK, which makes them more than five times as expensive as Xiaomi’s new earbuds. While the AirPods do bring deeper ecosystem features and advanced health features, the…

Every few months, a new budget Android phone shows up with a design that’s either heavily inspired by the latest iPhone or a straightforward copy.  Leaked renders of the HMD Luma 2, shared by tipster @smashx_60 on X, seem to be blurring the line between the two.  So what exactly are we looking at here? As seen in the renders, the purported smartphone has a rectangular camera plateau in the upper section of the rear panel, similar to the one on the iPhone 17 Pro. Only instead of three cameras, HMD fits in two. The renders also suggest a two-tone…

Xiaomi has never exactly been shy about where some of its inspiration comes from. Every now and then, the company makes something that looks at Apple’s homework, changes the font, and somehow still ends up with a pretty compelling product. That’s why my recent trip to Taiwan for Computex 2026 had me buying some familiar-looking products, namely the Xiaomi UltraThin Magnetic Power Bank 5000 15W and the Redmi Buds 8 Pro. At a glance, both neatly slot into a very familiar Apple-shaped corner. The power bank feels like a cheaper answer to Apple’s iPhone Air MagSafe Battery. The Redmi Buds…

Samsung may extend the Galaxy S26 Ultra‘s screen privacy trick to more models next year. A new leak claims that the upcoming Galaxy S27 Pro might also offer Privacy Display to help users keep their screen away from prying eyes. What the leak claims In a recent post on Weibo, tipster Digital Chat Station has said that Samsung is testing a hardware-level privacy screen for the Galaxy S27 Pro, which is said to feature a 6.47-inch panel. The display spec aligns with previous leaks, which have also suggested that the device will join next year’s lineup alongside the standard S27,…

Apple is preparing to raise iPhone prices in the coming months. CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal this week that climbing memory costs, driven by AI’s demand for the same chips, have made the move necessary. For years, Apple managed to keep sticker prices steady, likely by absorbing some of the rising component costs on its own, but that cushion now appears to be gone. Having bought and used Apple products for years myself, I think this is the right moment to stop holding out for the newest release and start browsing the used shelf instead. The savings…