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Xbox Game Pass may be getting a more budget-friendly route in, and Discord could be the vehicle Microsoft uses to make it happen. The company already teased a new Discord and Xbox Game Pass partnership earlier this week. Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma said the two companies were teaming up again “as we continue to make Game Pass more flexible for our players,” while also hinting that some users might start seeing code appear before a formal announcement. What does this collaboration offer to gamers? In a tweet shared by DiscordPreviews, subscribers of Discord Nitro may soon get access to…

Old jeans and old sneakers get a pass because fashion is cyclical. One year something looks dead, a few years later it’s back with a better markup and a straight-faced explanation about authenticity. I’m starting to see consumer tech the same way. The revival isn’t limited to one corner of the junk drawer, either. It’s showing up in phones, cameras, audio gear, movies, and games. A tiny camera dangling from a wrist has more personality than another glass slab taking overprocessed night-mode shots. Then there’s the quieter appeal. These gadgets don’t need to become platforms. They mostly do the thing,…

As a Mac fan, going through the entire butterfly keyboard saga was not easy, and I will be the first to admit that I have enjoyed the relative calmness of the M-series MacBook Pros. Yes, every new iterative update has not vowed me, but the performance and reliability have been a godsend. But after five years of using the same M1 Pro MacBook Pro I purchased on launch day, I am ready to upgrade to a new machine. And if current leaks and rumors hold true, the end of this year could be the ideal time to upgrade to a…

My wife recently woke up from a nightmare where AI had taken over human bodies. The likely culprit was less dramatic: Google Photos kept nudging her to “AI” herself when she only wanted to look at pictures of our cats. That’s where a lot of people are with AI right now. Curious, tired, mildly creeped out, and increasingly annoyed when normal apps start acting like every action needs a software demo attached. I get the tension. AI spent the last couple of years trying very hard to become a product. The better trick may be learning when to disappear. The…

Gaming phones have a heating problem, but Infinix thinks it has cracked the solution. Meet the Infinix GT 50 Pro, a gaming phone with an industry-first micro-pump liquid cooling system that works more like a gaming PC than a smartphone. And yes, you can literally watch the coolant flow through a transparent Pipeline Window Display on the back. How does the Infinix GT 50 Pro’s liquid cooling system actually work? The HydroFlow Liquid Cooling Architecture uses a piezoelectric-driven ceramic heat pump. It circulates specially formulated coolant at 6.5ml per minute through precision channels etched with micron-level laser accuracy. The system…

The Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 is down to $899.99, a $400 saving off its $1,299.99 list price, and it’s the kind of monitor purchase that makes everything you set up before it feel like a compromise. A 49-inch curved QD-OLED panel at Dual QHD resolution with 144Hz and a 0.03ms response time is a specification that most monitors at any price don’t reach, and the $400 discount brings it to a point where the conversation becomes considerably easier. What you’re getting QD-OLED is the technology that makes the Odyssey G9 worth the attention. Quantum dot filtering over an OLED panel…

Amazon is set to release a refreshed Fire TV Stick HD on April 29 for $35. For the first time ever, a Fire TV Stick is ditching Micro-USB for a USB-C port. That change prompted Amazon to release a new USB-C Ethernet Adapter for $20, and buried in the product listing is something interesting. It claims speeds of “up to 480 Mbps,” which means the adapter is technically Gigabit-capable. However, there is no Ethernet standard between 100 Mbps and Gigabit, so the only way to hit 480 Mbps is with a Gigabit adapter. But Amazon just isn’t advertising it that…

At the Beijing Auto Show 2026, BMW unveiled the iX3 Flow Edition, marking the first time E Ink’s Prism technology has been integrated into a series-ready production vehicle. The announcement signals a major leap from experimental concept cars to real-world automotive applications, bringing dynamic, color-changing surfaces to everyday mobility. From Concept To Production Reality The iX3 Flow Edition represents the culmination of a multi-year collaboration between BMW and E Ink. Earlier milestones included the iX Flow concept revealed at CES 2022 and the i Vision Dee in 2023, both of which showcased the potential of electrophoretic displays in automotive design.…

Apple loves keeping critics and reviewers on their toes. While we’ve heard whispers of cost-cutting on the iPhone 18 lineup, fresh supply chain intelligence from Taiwan (via Commercial Times) suggests that the company is cooking up one of its most hardware-centric upgrades in years. At the core of the purported iPhone 18 lineup sits TSMC’s 2nm A20 chip, which is believed to be a generational leap from the 3nm process A19 series chips on the iPhone 17 and the iPhone 17 Pro models.  What’s actually getting upgraded? The node shift should deliver better performance per watt, which should translate to…

China’s DeepSeek has a habit of showing up, uninvited, to Silicon Valley’s AI party, and this time, it has done so with the long-awaited V4 preview. The Hangzhou-based company has released its latest AI model, which beats popular American models in certain areas.  DeepSeek has launched two new models: V4-Pro (Expert mode) and V4-Flash (Instant mode). While the former is a massive 1.6 trillion parameter model, the latter is at a more manageable 284 billion parameters. However, both of them have a one-million-token context window.  🚀 DeepSeek-V4 Preview is officially live & open-sourced! Welcome to the era of cost-effective 1M…