Google is the newest cellphone maker to hitch Apple and Samsung in providing you with sources to repair telephones your self. It’s partnering with the tinkerer of all tinkerers, iFixit, to offer official elements for Pixel telephones later this 12 months. Notably, the initiative will cowl fashions starting from the Pixel 2 (from 2017) via to the Pixel 6 Pro and past. According to the announcement, you’ll get entry to a “full vary” of parts, like batteries, cameras and shows, whether or not you purchase them individually or with iFixit’s personal Fix Kit instruments.
It’s shaping as much as be an fascinating 12 months for individuals prepared to restore their very own telephones. We nonetheless haven’t had an opportunity to see how Apple’s iPhone restore proposal will fare in actual life — how exhausting is it going to be? — however Google is being sensible by pairing with, arguably, the go-to individuals for these prepared to take their cellphone’s life into their very own palms.
— Mat Smith
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Hummer EV first drive
An monumental electrical tremendous truck
The Hummer has all the time been ostentatious. So it’s no shock the Hummer EV shouldn’t be solely giant but additionally heavy, and actually not all that environment friendly as an EV. But what it lacks in miles per kilowatt, it makes up for in over-the-top enjoyable.
Roberto Baldwin received to drive the larger-than-life SUV, and it proved to be a succesful off-roader that showcases GM’s Ultium platform. It continues to be, at its core, a Hummer.
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iOS 16 may embody upgraded well being monitoring options
But do not count on an UI redesign.
The subsequent main replace of iOS may embody “significant enhancements,” in keeping with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. In his newest Power On publication, Gurman anticipates iOS 16 will embody an replace to notifications and an assortment of latest health-tracking options.
Gurman added that the Apple Watch’s watchOS 9 might embody upgrades to its exercise and health-tracking options, however stopped in need of sharing specifics. Boo.
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‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ has one of the best opening weekend for a online game film
Breaking the report set by… the primary Sonic film.
With a $71 million debut on the home field workplace, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has set a brand new report for the US movie debut of a online game adaptation, beating the earlier excessive watermark set by its predecessor in 2020. The sequel made $57 million throughout its opening weekend, and Paramount now plans to develop this success right into a cinematic universe. What have you ever achieved?
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Police received confused making an attempt to tug over an autonomous Cruise car
‘Step outside the vehicle, please.’
Since February, GM’s Cruise self-driving unit has provided public taxi rides throughout San Francisco. And to this point, the service hasn’t had many points. A video from April 2nd confirmed San Francisco police trying to tug over a driverless Cruise car within the metropolis’s Richmond District, just for the automotive to quickly take off.
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Watch the primary trailer for ‘Kingdom Hearts IV’
Disney, Final Fantasy and a kinda-Tokyo.
During an occasion celebrating the franchise’s twentieth anniversary, we received our first correct glimpse on the subsequent Kingdom Hearts sport. Kingdom Hearts IV marks the return of Sora after 2019’s Kingdom Hearts III seemingly concluded the story arc that started with the unique sport in 2002. The trailer confirmed Sora waking up in a metropolis known as Quadratum, a Tokyo-inspired metropolis rendered in a semi-realistic approach, marking a serious creative shift for the collection. The metropolis is quickly attacked by a towering monster and the story-centric opening scenes seamlessly transition to gameplay… and preventing.
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