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Introduction It doesn’t matter how good you think you are at Call of Duty or League of Legends – the chances of you making a career out of gaming are ridiculously slim. So Logitech gets props for making a keyboard that isn’t trying to cater to the professional elite. The G512 X is aimed more at those wanting to dip a toe into high-end analogue keyboard tech, rather than giving up the satisfying ‘thwack’ of mechanical keys. Rather than roll out costly tunnelling magnetoresistance (TMR) tech across the entire ‘board, Logitech has gone for a half-and-half approach – and left…

If you just can’t choose between refresh rate and resolution, LG’s next gaming monitor could solve your problem, as the UltraGear 25G590B monitor is the first one announced that will be capable of a native 1000Hz refresh rate at 1,920 x 1,080 resolution. So far, the 1,000Hz models we’ve seen have only been capable of 720p at the most, but this 24.5-inch IPS display does not have that limitation, as the company says it’s ready for esports competitors (whether they’re in an FPS or Excel), who need maximum responsiveness.LG hasn’t revealed the 25G590B’s price or release date beyond “second half…

Today, I’m talking with Jonah Peretti, who is, technically, the CEO of BuzzFeed — although that will be coming to an end very soon.Just days before we spoke, Jonah agreed to sell 52 percent of BuzzFeed for a total of $120 million to Byron Allen, who owns The Weather Channel, a number of broadcast stations, and several other websites. The deal is a bit of a life raft for BuzzFeed — the company was once valued at $1.6 billion dollars, but just last quarter, the company had told investors it was at risk of running out of cash. Now there’s…

Alexa Plus, Amazon’s upgraded AI assistant, can now generate podcasts on “virtually any topic,” according to an announcement on Monday. With the update, Amazon says you can give Alexa Plus a topic, and the AI assistant will offer an overview of what its AI hosts plan to talk about, allowing you to steer the conversation and adjust its length before it starts generating the episode.Some “Alexa Podcast” examples shared by Amazon have two AI-generated hosts talking about the history of the Roman Empire, new music, and expectations for the World Cup. Amazon says you can also ask Alexa Plus to…

If Dyson’s PencilVac Fluffycones made you wish the company had built something similarly slim for scrubbing the hard floors in your home, enter the recently released Dyson PencilWash. The cordless cleaner is designed to tackle spills and stains on tile and other surfaces, and right now, it’s available for a new low price of $249.99 ($100 off) from Amazon, Target, and Dyson in the run-up to Memorial Day.With its 1.5-inch-diameter handle and a design that lets it lie nearly flat, the PencilWash can easily slide under furniture and other tricky areas that bigger floor cleaners can’t reach. Built for hard…

Google’s next big AI development for Android phones was announced last week. It’s called Gemini Intelligence and, unlike the current Gemini iteration, it will be limited to the most premium Android phones. So much so in fact that that devices like the 2024 Pixel 9 range and the 2025 Galaxy Z Fold 7 won’t be able to access the features like intelligent auto-fill of forms and custom widgets. It also automates tasks across your suite of apps, such as referencing the shopping list in your notes app and having the app build a card for you in your favourite grocery…

The tech trial of the year, Musk v. Altman, was ultimately a fight for control. Elon Musk argued that Sam Altman, with whom he helped found the now-massive company OpenAI, shouldn’t direct the future of AI. Altman’s lawyers, in turn, poked at Musk’s own credibility. A jury came to a verdict on Monday after just two hours of deliberation, dismissing Musk’s claims due to the statute of limitations.In a strictly legal sense, three weeks of testimony added up to nothing. But the trial offered a more damning broader takeaway: Almost nobody in this saga seems worth trusting. Some of the…

Sony has announced it is raising the prices of its one-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscription service, just months after raising the price of PlayStation 5 games consoles. In a post on X from the PlayStation account on Monday, Sony announced prices for new subscribers were going up in the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom. Existing subscribers won’t be affected right now, and it appears annual subscriptions are off the hook. Sony says it’s down to “ongoing market conditions” but it doesn’t get specific about how a game subscription service is affected by those market conditions,. The new…

Walmart’s Onn brand just launched a whole line of budget-friendly Android tablets that, all together, cost less in total than a single iPad Pro. As spotted by 9to5Google, the six new tablets ship with Android 16 and all but one cost less than $200.The little Onn Core 7 is the most affordable of the bunch at just $97, which gets you a 7-inch 1040 x 600 IPS LCD display, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage that’s expandable with a microSD card, and, according to Walmart, up to 10 hours of battery life.A step above that are two larger Core tablets.…

Apple’s forthcoming standalone Siri chatbot app in iOS 27 could offer some key advantages for privacy-conscious iPhone users, according to a new report. The well-connected Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman says the app with models powered by Google Gemini will benefit from a auto-deleting the conversation history as soon as every thirty days. Apple currently offers the same functionality within iMessage, where users can delete after a month or a year. It’s also possible to just leave them there indefinitely. The plan is to offer the same for the Siri app, according to Bloomberg. Gemini currently offers users the opportunity to…

After around two hours of deliberation, the jury has reached a unanimous verdict in Musk v. Altman, the tech trial of the year. The group found that two claims were barred by the statute of limitations, and a third failed thanks to the dismissal of one of these.The jury here is an advisory jury, meaning the group is installed solely to offer another opinion to the judge, and its verdict is technically not legally binding. Ultimately, US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers is the ultimate legal authority — and she accepted the decision.The jury found that Musk’s claim for breach…

It’s not just you — the Google Workspace apps are getting a new look. The redesigned app icons, leaked last month, are now rolling out widely, as we started noticing this morning. Users with the redesigned icons will notice they now have a gradient look that fades from lighter to darker shades, rather than being the same flat tone throughout, similar to the redesigned Google logo that launched a year ago.Some of the icons switched from a rainbow design to a single color, like Google Chat, Meet, and Calendar, which could help all of the icons stand out a bit…