Warner Bros. Minecraft movie looks square, but somehow yet not square enough.

The Tado X range of heating products, which launched in Europe earlier this year with support for the Matter smart home protocol, is coming to the UK in early November. As a refresher, the Tado X lineup includes wired and wireless versions of the new thermostat, a smart radiator thermostat, a wireless temperature sensor, and a heat pump optimizer that interoperate to create a smart heating system in your home. The X range runs on Matter-over-Thread and includes an optional Bridge X, which acts as a Thread border router (for homes that don’t already have one) to connect each Tado X device to your home’s Wi-Fi and ethernet network. Tado is using an upcoming energy price increase in the UK as a selling point for its new X range....

The Ring Battery Doorbell Pro has 3D motion detection, head-to-toe video, and it's just $150.

In the wake of Pavel Durov’s arrest, German conspiracy theorists and extremists began to talk about exiting Telegram. Experts, though, think there is no alternative.

Meta’s semi-independent Oversight Board says the company made the right call in letting Facebook users post pro-Palestine messages with the phrase “from the river to the sea.” In a decision published today, the board concluded the slogan “has multiple meanings and is used by people in various ways and with different intentions.” Consequently, it shouldn’t be removed under hate speech policies unless it’s accompanied by other violating content — like explicitly antisemitic sentiments or praise for terrorist groups. Following the October 7th attack on Israel by Hamas and the subsequent retaliation by Israel, online service operators were faced with a flood of posts and videos related to the conflict, particularly posts that supported...

A new study suggests that Viking societies in Denmark were far less violent than their Norwegian counterparts, and with political centralization playing a key role.

Refrigerated delivery with an E-Transit is now feasible, as the onboard power is now available while the van is in motion. and reduced their output of CO2 by 25 million kg.

Move over, Detective Pikachu, there’s an even stranger live-action video game movie on the way. And by that, I mean Warner Bros. just released the first teaser trailer for A Minecraft Movie. The film features actual humans and a slightly realistic CG take on Minecraft. But when you mix the game’s iconic blocky style with real life, you get, well, this: Unsettling imagery aside, A Minecraft Movie looks like some silly family fun, with lots of one-liners, large-scale battles, and Jack Black exclaiming “I am Steve!” very proudly. And obviously, there’s both mining and crafting. Aside from Black, the movie also stars Jason Momoa, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Eugene Hansen, and...

The Acer Nitro Blaze 7 is the latest attempt to dethrone the Steam Deck with a base 2 TB of storage if you want access to all your games all the time.

The Hero 13 has a bevy of lenses to choose from. Plus, there's now the shrimpy 4K Hero camera the size of a few grape tomatoes.

Plus, there's rumors of even more Green Lantern candidates beyond Josh Brolin for DC's Lanterns show.

At IFA today, Acer announced it’s expanding its Swift AI laptop line with models featuring Intel’s new Lunar Lake chips, Qualcomm’s just-announced eight-core Snapdragon X Plus, and AMD’s Ryzen AI 300. And, it claims, each of them can theoretically last over 24 hours playing back video or over 17 hours in productivity tests. If you buy them with their IPS panels and 65 watt-hour batteries, Acer claims the new $1,199 Swift 14 AI and $999 Swift Go 14 AI can last: Those sorts of quotes aren’t unusual in late 2024! Dell just boasted its XPS 13 can get 26–27...

After playing Nintendo’s highly-anticipated Switch game, we can confidently say it supplies Hyrule’s new hero Zelda with more than a sword.

Zelda’s first mainline game feels like a clever crystallization of the franchise’s recent experimental era.

Zillow is upgrading its AI search feature with the ability to find homes or rentals based on how far away they are from your office, school, or other points of interest. Instead of narrowing your search by selecting specific locations or filters, you can now simply enter, “Homes 30 min drive from Millennium Park.” This will be very handy for people like me. I’m always searching for dream homes in spots that I’m not familiar with, and now I’ll be able to search for “homes near Disney World” rather than casting a huge net over the entirety of Orlando. Zillow will also let you search for homes to buy or rent based on affordability, such as “Seattle homes under $4,000 monthly.” Zillow first rolled out AI search last year, allowing you to...

GoPro has announced two new action cameras, the GoPro Hero 13 Black and a smaller GoPro Hero. The Hero 13 Black will cost $399 while the Hero will go for $199. Both are up for preorder now and will be released on September 10th and September 22nd, respectively. Some of the new features GoPro is adding to the 13 Black include magnetic mounting and charging, three new lenses, and a redesigned battery that the company says has a 10 percent higher capacity than its predecessor. The Hero 13 Black comes with in-camera noise reduction and can record HLG HDR video and 10-bit video in G-Log. It also sports a new burst slo-mo mode that can record 720p video at up to 400 frames per second, 900p at 360fps, and 5.3K at 120fps. The camera also...

Acer has so far stayed out of the handheld gaming PC race, but that’s about to change. It’s just announced its first Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally competitor, the Acer Nitro Blaze 7, which looks like it fits somewhere between last year’s Asus ROG Ally and the newer ROG Ally X. Like Asus — but unlike most rivals — it features a seven-inch 1080p variable refresh rate IPS screen to keep things smooth, one that refreshes slightly faster at 144Hz. (Acer tells The Verge it’s a landscape-native screen.) It’s also got a newer Ryzen 7 8840HS chip, albeit with the same Radeon 780M integrated GPU as most other Windows handhelds. With 16GB of 7500 MT/s memory and a 50 watt-hour battery, it’s a step ahead of the original Ally’s 6400 MT/s memory and...

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