May 18, 2024

Hardware

Report: Call of Duty Black Ops 6 to get day one Game Pass release

This year’s Call of Duty game, which is expected to be Black Ops 6 and take place during the Gulf War, will launch on Xbox Game Pass, sources tell The Wall Street Journal. Publication Reuters has also corroborated the reports. 6 VIEW GALLERY – 6 IMAGES The upper limits of Xbox Game Pass will soon be tested as Microsoft plans to roll out Call of Duty, one of the world’s most popular video game franchises,

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With AI startups booming, nap pods and Silicon Valley hustle culture are back | TechCrunch

When Jeffrey Wang posted Monday to X asking if anyone wanted to go in on an order of fancy-but-affordable office nap pods, he didn’t expect the post to go viral. He said so many others wanted in, he could have ordered over 100 units.  “I had way too many people than I could handle,” Wang, cofounder of AI research startup Exa Labs, told TechCrunch. “I wanted to order two nap pods for ourselves, and see

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Spring 2025 tipped to finally see the launch of the next-gen iPhone SE

While we expect that Apple will release the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max later this year, we don’t expect there to be any more new iPhones before the end of the year. That means that the iPhone SE won’t be updated in 2024, but a new report suggests that we won’t have to wait another whole year for the updated iPhone SE to arrive. We’ve been told

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The Noonification: Dear America, I Am Breaking Up With You (5/18/2024) | HackerNoon

How are you, hacker? 🪐What’s happening in tech this week: The Noonification by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our top 5 stories of the day, every day at noon your local time! Set email preference here. By @scottdclary [ 8 Min read ] Andy Schoonover is the visionary founder of CrowdHealth. Hes not just building another health insurance company; hes leading a revolution. Read More. By @benoitmalige [ 9 Min read

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Buying an iPhone 15 just got cheaper if you have an old model to trade in

As we reach the halfway mark between the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro going on sale and them being replaced by their 2024 counterparts, Apple has started to incentivize people to pick up a new handset now rather than wait for the new hotness to arrive later this year. As part of the drive to improve new iPhone sales Apple has started to offer more trade-in value for those who are buying one of

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Impending global Apple Vision Pro launch will include Canada and the UK, we’re told

Apple is expected to start selling the Apple Vision Pro outside of the United States for the first time after the WWDC event on June 10, according to previous reports. Now, a new report suggests that we can add two countries to the list of countries that we’d already been told to expect that launch to take place in. Those two countries, we’re told by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, are the United Kingdom and Canada, two

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Hardware

Don’t expect an iPhone 17 Plus as Apple gets ready to ditch its big mid-range model

If you’re a fan of Apple’s big phones but don’t want to have to pay the big money to get your hands on something like the iPhone 15 Pro Max, the Plus handsets are always the best way to go. But while we expect there to be an iPhone 16 Plus launched later this year, a new report suggests that it will be the last of the family and be replaced by something new entirely.

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The Sneaky Standard

11 min read During Intel’s Pentium era, the motherboard featured a large PCI chipset in the middle of the board. A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. Personal computing has changed a lot in the past four decades, and one of the biggest changes, perhaps the most unheralded, comes down to compatibility. These days, you generally can’t fry a computer by

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