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Microsoft appears to be preparing a new ad-supported tier for its cloud gaming service, and early signs of it are already showing up for some gamers. The move could open up Xbox Cloud Gaming to a much wider audience, especially those who don’t subscribe to Xbox Game Pass but already own digital copies of Xbox titles. According to a recent post from The Verge’s Tom Warren on X, some Xbox Cloud Gaming users have reported seeing a notice referencing the upcoming tier while launching games. The notice suggests that the ad-supported option will offer access to the cloud gaming service…
MSI’s handheld roadmap is starting to feel like a bit of a rollercoaster. After months of silence, the AMD-powered Claw A8 – running on the Ryzen Z2 Extreme platform – is finally inching toward a U.S. launch. But for American gamers, this arrival feels long overdue. While the device has been in the hands of players across Asia and Europe since mid-2025, buyers in the States have been stuck waiting with zero explanation, even as MSI hyped the device globally on social media. This model is a big deal because it marks MSI’s pivot to AMD silicon after initially betting…
It feels like the days of the Detroit Auto Show being a global party are over, but Ford didn’t need confetti to make a statement this year. Instead, they used the stage—and a quieter appearance at CES 2026—to lay out a strategy that feels less like a product roadmap and more like a survival guide. CEO Jim Farley didn’t mince words when speaking to InsideEVs, comparing Ford’s current situation to the Apollo missions. It sounds dramatic, sure, but when you look at what they are trying to pull off with their Red Bull Formula 1 partnership and the secretive “Universal…
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft reached the Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday following a 4-mile, 12-hour crawl from the Vehicle Assembly Building. The rocket is being prepped for the Artemis II mission, which will carry three Americans and one Canadian on a voyage around the moon, taking humans further from Earth than ever before. NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman, along with CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen, have been in training for the much-anticipated mission ever since when they were announced as part of the crew in…
The situation with mobile browsers on Apple’s platforms is not exactly rewarding for users. Safari gets the job done, but for every other browser landing on the iPhone or iPad, they are forced to use Apple’s WebKit engine. Simply put, most browsers are simply wrappers built atop the same foundation on iOS and iPadOS As a result, you won’t find Safari alternatives that can really stand out. On the desktop side for Mac, there’s no such rule. As a result, you can find terrific options such as Perplexity Comet, Dia, and ChatGPT Atlas, aside from the big names such as…
After Netflix won the bidding war for Warner Bros.’ film and streaming business in December 2025, the company revealed its plans for releasing films in theaters. In a recent New York Times interview, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos explained that, after Netflix acquires Warner Bros., he “will run that business largely like it is today, with 45-day windows.” In April 2025, Sarandos previously stated that he loved theaters but thought that theatrical moviegoing is an “outmoded idea, for most people, not for everybody.” As a result, Netflix’s purchase of Warner Bros. ignited backlash and fears over the film industry’s future. Sources…
On today’s episode of You Asked: What even is local dimming? Who’s gonna have the Mini LED RGB TV to beat? And why is everyone so obsessed with brighter TVs? Why is everyone obsessed with brighter TVs? @weirdNamja asks: Why is everyone obsessed with getting the brightest picture they can get. Is burning out your retina the new trend or what? We get this one every so often, but it warrants a quick answer. It’s not that everyone’s obsessed with a blindingly bright TV that’s maxed out from edge to edge. Rather, a bright TV means you have a better…
In my recent OnePlus 15R review, I claimed it had the best battery life I’d ever experienced in a smartphone. That felt, from a month of use, to be the case – now I’ve got the figures to back it up. The OnePlus 15R’s 7,400mAh battery is larger than most of the best Android phones, and day after day during testing I was constantly wowed by how much charge was left in the tank when I went to bed. I fell out of the habit of regularly charging my mobile – who knows how I’ll cope when I go back…
If you thought 2026 was going to be the year PC building finally got easy again, AMD has some bad news. The company is heading into the new year facing a perfect storm of supply chain headaches and skyrocketing prices. In a candid chat with Gizmodo during CES, AMD’s Ryzen lead David McAfee laid out the situation, and honestly, it sounds like they are trying to steer a ship through a hurricane without losing any cargo. The hardware they showed off at CES tells the story better than any press release could. They revealed the new Ryzen 7 9850X3D and…
EVs aren’t the only cars that plug in. Plug-in hybrids can theoretically serve as stepping stones to all-electric vehicles, providing enough electric range for short trips while still offering the flexibility of a gasoline engine. For those who can’t charge at home, or just don’t want to deal with the uncertainty of public charging infrastructure on road trips, they seem like a decent option. But the news cycle just delivered two reminders of the limits of plug-in hybrids. Last week, Stellantis abruptly confirmed that it would discontinue three popular plug-in hybrid models. And at the Automotive Press Association conference in…