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16 Oct

Google Flights now has a ‘Cheapest’ tab

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Airline travel can get expensive and sometimes you don’t wanna wade through various options to find the lowest price. You just need the cheapest flight available and you don’t care who’s offering it.Google added the tab to its Flights search engine that will cut your flight schedule search to the chase and just show you the “cheapest” options available, according…

16 Oct

The first of Astro Bot’s free speedrunning levels arrives on Thursday

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Astro Bot, one of Sony’s greatest triumphs, is getting new content for those who live life (or at least play PS5) in the fast lane. Developer Team Asobi said on Wednesday that the first of five free speedrunning levels teased at Sony’s September State of Play will arrive on Thursday, October 17.The first speedrun level is Building Speed, where you’ll…

16 Oct

Panos Panay on launching his first products since moving to Amazon

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Panos Panay has a Diet Coke problem. It’s a topic that quickly came up when I walked into the small interview room, after he offered me a choice of beverages and I said my partner has a similar addiction. After a quick conversation on the advantages of drinking plain water over diet colas, I knew his wife, like me, advocates…

16 Oct

The JRPG-inspired Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has a stacked voice cast

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Sandfall Games just announced the voice cast for its forthcoming turn-based RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and it’s absolutely stacked. The actors include Andy Serkis and Charlie Cox, as a start. For the uninitiated, Serkis played a weird little guy named Gollum in some unknown movies about a magical ring. He also gave the iconic “one way out” monologue in…

16 Oct

Riot Games is hyping up Arcane’s second and final season across its various titles

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Arcane season 2 is coming to Netflix on November 9, and Riot Games is drumming up the hype by releasing various content in its current and upcoming video game titles. All of this content will come out within the coming months.Riot will release Ambessa Medarda, the Noxian general first seen in the show’s first season, as an upcoming Champion in…

16 Oct

Microsoft removes the $1 Xbox Game Pass trial just before Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is just around the corner, with a release date of October 25, and Microsoft has temporarily removed the $1 Xbox Game Pass 14-day trial from stores —‚ again. Some gamers may remember that Microsoft pulled a similar stunt last year just before Starfield’s release. Essentially, this keeps players from trying out a big new…

16 Oct

FTC ratifies ‘click-to-cancel’ rule, making it easier for consumers to end subscriptions

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The Federal Trade Commission has made it easier for consumers to cancel subscriptions. In a decision that went down along party lines, the agency voted to ratify a “click-to-cancel” rule that will require providers to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up for one. First proposed last year, the rulemaking prohibits companies from…

16 Oct

8BitDo’s Retro Mechanical Keyboard is on sale for $60 right now

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Sure, a sleek, modern device is great, but there's something so delightfully wholesome about a design that calls back to foregone times. Such is the case for 8Bitdo's Retro Mechanical Keyboard, a clickety-clackity device that looks like it belongs in another decade. Right now, the keyboard is on sale at Woot for $60, down from $100 — a 40 percent…

16 Oct

Analogue’s 4K remake of the N64 is almost ready, and it’s a big deal

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A year after it was first teased, Analogue says it’s nailed its most complicated project yet: rebuilding the Nintendo 64 from scratch. The Analogue 3D will ship in Q1 2025 — it was originally slated for 2024 — and pre-orders start on October 21 at $250.Like all of the company’s machines, the Analogue 3D has an FPGA (field programmable gate…

16 Oct

Amazon plans to build small, modular nuclear reactors

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Amazon has announced three new agreements to build small modular reactors (SMRs). These nuclear reactors are smaller than traditional ones, allowing them to be closer to the grid and be built faster. Microsoft and Google have recently announced their own investments into nuclear power.One of the agreements works towards developing four SMRs with Energy Northwest, a Washington-based consortium of state…