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Claude Guillemot, one of Ubisoft’s founders, passed away on Saturday in a plane crash in France, according to the Associated Press. He was reportedly in a twin-motor Cessna 421 aircraft alongside a flight instructor, who also died in the accident. In a statement to the Associated Press, Mayor Franck Louvrier said the aircraft went down in a field just before landing at La Baule-Escoublac Airport, along the Atlantic coast.“Ubisoft was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Claude Guillemot, co-founder of the group and chairman of Guillemot Corp., in an accident,” a spokesperson for Ubisoft said in a statement…
I’ve been using Apple products for as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest tech memories involve an iPod my father gifted me when I was a kid, and from there, I was hooked. Not long after, I got my hands on Apple’s second-generation iPad, and ever since then, I’ve spent most of my time inside Apple’s ecosystem. Fast-forward to today, and not much has changed. My daily setup revolves almost entirely around Apple products. I use an iPhone 17 as my primary phone, a MacBook Air M2 for work, an Apple Watch SE (2nd generation) on my…
This post is brought to you in paid partnership with YARBO. If you’ve been pricing out a robot mower for a genuinely large property, Prime Day just made the math easier. The YARBO Robot Lawn Mower Pro is down to $4,999 on Amazon (from a $5,999 list price), a $1,000 Prime Day saving on a machine built for yards most robot mowers can’t touch. At that price and that capability, this is the kind of purchase that changes how an entire weekend gets spent, and the RTK and AI vision navigation underneath means there’s no perimeter wire to bury, which…
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…