Ready to get your hands on the Google Pixel 8a? Good news! Its release date shouldn’t be far off now, as a new bit of news confirms.
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The Motorola Edge Plus (2024) just leaked, touting a fresh design, fast charging, and more. From what we’ve seen so far, it looks like a proper S24 Ultra rival.
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The Samsung Galaxy S24 has a competent camera setup. But compared side-by-side with another Android phone, it’s not even close.
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It’s that time once again. Google has just announced Android 15 and released the first developer preview for it. Here’s everything that’s new!
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Bard is dead, and the Gemini app is set to take the lead but there are some tasks that only the Google Assistant can perform.
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Advertisements and notifications are a common part of the whole smartphone experience. But according to two new reports, they present troubling privacy issues.
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Gmail for Android is constantly receiving really helpful updates, but if you’ve gotten tired of dealing with hundreds of mailing lists, you’re going to like this one.
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Asus has launched its new ROG Phone 8 gaming phone which packs a punch but offers a more all-round experience and a grown-up design.
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Tetris is one of the most popular and enduring video games of all time, with versions on just about every console, computer and gadget. Many of these iterations have endings baked into story modes and the like, but the original endless mode was considered unbeatable by humans, until now. A 13-year-old boy has become the first person to ‘beat’ the NES version of Tetris, 34 years after it originally released back in 1989, as announced by YouTuber aGameScout.
The reason we put ‘beat’ in quotes is due to the nature of the achievement. Oklahoma teenager Willis Gibson, also known as Blue Scuti on YouTube, didn’t access an authorized ending, as there isn’t one. Instead, he played the game so perfectly for so long that it forced a kill screen that crashed the game. These kill screens are usually caused by an overflow error that occurs when you speed the game up so much that the software can’t keep up.
The teen achieved this feat after 38 minutes of gameplay and captured the moment on video. He’s the first person to do this, but not the first, uh, entity. An AI program called StackRabbit forced a kill screen with the NES Tetris back in 2021. Score one for the humans!
This was done by incorporating a gameplay style called the rolling technique, which has players glide their fingers along the bottom of an NES controller and use that momentum to roll the controller into the other hand. When done correctly, you can hit the D-pad up to 20 times per second. The method revolutionized competitive Tetris play a couple of years back. Prior to this achievement, the 13-year-old had already broken the game’s high score record, level achieved record and the total number of lines cleared by using the rolling technique.
Gibson, aka Blue Scudi, told another YouTuber that he’s dedicating the achievement to his late father, who recently passed away in December. He also said that the gameplay session was so frantic that he couldn’t feel his fingers afterwards.
Achieving the mythical kill screen is something of a rite of passage for old-school games. If you’ve seen the documentary King of Kong, involving the arcade cabinet Donkey Kong, you know just how competitive it can be to snag those bragging rights. Players have hit the kill screen on Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Duck Hunt, and many others.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/this-kid-just-became-the-first-person-to-beat-nes-tetris-191557002.html?src=rss
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The Tribit StormBox Flow, a robust outdoor speaker with features such as 30-hour battery life, water-resistance, and powerful bass, is available on Amazon at a discounted price of $ 64.
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Helium Mobile’s new $ 20 monthly unlimited 5G service is an affordable plan that lets you be part of building the 5G network.
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Verizon is sweetening the pot for its myPlan customers with a new bundle that includes Netflix and Max together for a single low monthly price.
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Google has finally given in and brought a very demanded feature to the Pixel Watch 2 — and we couldn’t be happier.
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The 256GB Google Pixel Fold, which comes with a 7.6-inch inner OLED display and a 5.8-inch OLED cover display, is available from Best Buy with a $ 400 discount.
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Best Buy continues its early Black Friday deals with more than 100 new items you might wish to buy. We’ve picked out some of our favorites.
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The Apple Watch Series 9 is one of the best smartwatches around and it’s currently on sale at last at Walmart. Here’s why you need it.
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The Wi-Fi, 64GB model of the ninth-generation Apple iPad with a 10.2-inch Retina display is on sale from Amazon for $ 249, which is its lowest price this year.
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When it comes to style, the new Motorola Razr foldable with its Sage Green vegan leather finish is surely one of 2023’s highlights. The appeal is more than skin-deep, however, because under the hood is a Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chipset, a 4,200mAh battery, 30W charging, and 64MP main camera. And while it’s RRP of […]
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I can’t count how many times I’ve travelled and realized that while I remembered to bring a charger or power bank along that I’d somehow forgotten to pack the requisite charging cable. Here with a perfect solution to the problem for both Android and the new iPhone 15 series is Anker whose 5,000mAh Nano Power […]
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Amazon Prime Day is almost upon us (10 & 11th October) and here with a bunch of early-access deals is Honor offering savings of £200 on its excellent Magic 5 Pro flagship (Review). Powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset and packing a class-leading camera setup, the Magic 5 Pro offers premium hardware at […]
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The Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro were just announced last week, but they’re already old news. Another new Google phone coming in 2024 has leaked!
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If your iPhone 15 Pro has been running hotter than expected, then a new patch released by Apple on Wednesday should resolve the problem.
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Samsung has introduced a new phone and two tablets. The latest additions to the family are the Galaxy S23 FE, Galaxy Tab S9 FE, and Galaxy Tab S9 FE Plus.
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Samsung appears to be making all the positive strides with the Galaxy S24 Ultra, but embracing a terrible Apple imitation for the standard Galaxy S24.
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If you’ve trimmed your outgoings by cancelling your Disney+ streaming subscription you can snag a 3-month sub for less than it usually costs for a single month. As part of Disney’s latest promotional offer to tempt both new and former subscribers back to its stable, you can get 3 months access for a total of […]
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After 38 years, Microsoft is updating its Paint App with support for image transparency and layers. For most of us, MS Paint brings waves of nostalgia and memories of spending hours trying to be Picasso. Back then, you had a pencil, brushes, a handful of colors and not much else. Now, it seems Microsoft is beefing up its app to make it more useful for slightly more advanced image editing. In a blog post, Dave Grochocki, Principal Product Manager for Windows Inbox Apps, announced the new features and "exciting" new possibilities.
"When you combine layers, transparency, and other tools in Paint, you can create exciting new images and artwork! For example, when combined with the new background removal feature, you can quickly create interesting layered compositions," Grochocki said.
To get started, you'll need to click on the new layer option in the toolbar and that will open a panel on the side of the canvas. From there, you can hide, duplicate, merge or delete layers — much like you can do in other, more robust photo editing software. As of right now, the update is only available to users who are signed up to receive Windows Insider software builds. The features are not currently available to all Windows users, but are likely to be rolled out soon.
While it isn't the most groundbreaking thing, people who are still using MS Paint will find these features useful. And it's likely Microsoft will continue to update its Paint app, since the company has made it clear: MS Paint is here to stay.
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If you’re in the market for an affordable smartphone with a big battery, a physical fingerprint reader, and a 90Hz display then TCL’s 40 X 5G could be the phone for you – especially since it’s reduced from $ 199 down to just $ 179 for a limited time. Boasting a slim,. lightweight design, the TCL 40 […]
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Mobvoi’s excellent TicWatch Pro 5 is one of the best Wear OS smartwatches out there. It now comes in a Sansdstone finish for the same asking price.
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If you’re happy with an older and refurbished Kindle Paperwhite, you can buy one for just $ 25 at Woot right now. Here’s why it’s worth it.
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The Tensor chips in recent Pixel phones have been problematic, to say the least. And it looks like that won’t be changing for a while.
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TCL have been making their own-branded smartphones for a few years now and the latest model to reach US shores is the new 40 XL which comes in at an affordable $ 149. Featuring a 50MP main camera, a big 6.75-inch NXTVISION display, dual speakers, and a 5,000mAh battery, the TCL 40 XL could be the […]
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The Pixel 6a is a budget smartphone with a flagship processor, as with this deal bringing it under $ 300, you’re getting a steal of a deal.
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One of the first big Pixel Watch 2 leaks just dropped. And if this one is true, I already can’t wait to get my hands on Google’s next smartwatch.
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The DJI Air 2S, a drone with a 20-megapixel, 1-inch sensor that can record 5.4K videos at up to 30 frames per second, is now on sale from Amazon at $ 150 off.
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