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Amazon Prime’s live-action God of War series is in pre-production, and it has found its Kratos. Funny enough, the actor portraying the Ghost of Sparta is no stranger to the franchise, having previously voiced the God of Thunder in the most recent game.Deadline reports that actor Ryan Hurst will portray Kratos. Hurst is probably best known for his role as Opie Winston in the FX series Sons of Anarchy, and he most recently appeared in the Netflix series The Abandons last year. However, Hurst also provided the voice of Thor in 2022’s God of War Ragnarök, a performance that earned…

It’s been about four months since the iPhone 17 launched, and rumors about the iPhone 18 series have already started to pour in. The most recent one comes from the Chinese tipster Digital Chat Station (via Weibo), shedding some light on the display specifications for the entire lineup. Starting with the baseline iPhone 18, it could feature the same 6.27-inch (marketed as 6.3-inch) 120Hz OLED screen as the iPhone 17, with ProMotion and the Dynamic Island. The iPhone Air 2, which has returned to the rumor mill after being cancelled, will also retain the 6.55-inch 120Hz OLED screen we’ve seen…

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Google’s gearing up to launch another Pixel, and this time, it’s the A-series that’s up next. Usually, the company drops an A-series handset in March, but multiple sources claim that the Pixel 10a could arrive a month earlier, in February 2026. Renowned tipster Roland Quandt (via a post on BlueSky) suggests that the Pixel 10a could hit shelves by the middle of February 2026. It’s worth emphasizing here that the retail availability of smartphones usually follows an announcement early on. Hence, Google could announce the next A-series handset in early February, and it might be available to purchase in the…

Most people end up buying a fan for summer and a heater for winter, then spend the rest of the year stepping around whichever one is currently in the way. The Shark TurboBlade Cool + Heat is a cleaner solution: one bladeless tower that’s built for year-round indoor use. It’s down to $249.99, saving you $150 off the $399.99 compared value. If you want better comfort without cluttering your space with multiple appliances, this discount makes it a lot easier to justify. What you’re getting This is a 2-in-1 bladeless tower fan and space heater designed to cover both seasons.…

Tesla will shift its Full Self-Driving (FSD) feature in new cars to a subscription-based model from February 14, 2026, company CEO Elon Musk has confirmed on X. As spotted by Bloomberg, anyone buying a new Tesla from February 14 onwards will need to pay $99 per month if they want to access FSD. Currently Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is an $8,000 add-on, and the Tesla website says “your car will be able to drive itself almost anywhere with minimal driver intervention.” For some Tesla drivers, the $99 per month subscription might work out better value when compared to the $8k upfront…

Animal Crossing: New Horizons was a massive hit when it launched just over six years ago (man, time flies!), but it seemed like Nintendo’s support for the game had come to an end. Then, the company surprised us all when it unveiled the game wouldn’t just be getting a performance-enhanced Switch 2 version, but there would be a huge, completely free, content update for all players. Both the update and Switch 2 version were set to drop tomorrow, January 15, but Nintendo had one last surprise in store for us – the 3.0 update is available now.After seeing commotion about…

Remember the “more personal Siri” ad that Apple pulled? Yeah, the same one where you could just say “which person I met at XYZ cafe two weeks ago” and it answered. And pulled a whole bunch of other futuristic tricks because it was armed with deep knowledge of your “iPhone life,” digging everywhere from your mail and messages to location and photos. Well, those plans still haven’t materialized.  But if you’ve been waiting for a similar convenience on Google’s side of the ecosystem, the future has just arrived. Today, Google has announced Personal Intelligence. Think of it as a more…

Meta has shut down its Twisted Pixel, Sanzaru Games, and Armature Studio as part of its massive job cuts to its virtual reality division, Reality Labs. These three studios, which Meta acquired over the last five years, had developed VR games for the studio.As reported by Bloomberg, Meta has begun cutting over 1,000 jobs across the Reality Labs division, which oversees the company’s VR hardware (such as its Meta Quest headsets) and software. Reality Labs consists of roughly 15,000 employees, meaning about 10 percent of workers will be impacted. The layoffs began Tuesday, with employees from Twisted Pixel, Sanzaru, and…

Samsung’s Samsung XR smart glasses are starting to look like a pair, not a single product. A new leak from GalaxyClub points to two versions of “Galaxy Glasses,” listed as SM-O200P and SM-O200J. That matters because a model split can change what you actually end up buying. It can also decide which version lands in your country first. For now, the leak doesn’t spell out what separates the two. A few spec crumbs do show up. The listing mentions a 12MP camera with autofocus, plus Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and no built-in cellular connection. One variant, SM-O200P, is also said to…