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Past articles by Chaim:

The BlackBerry Storm showed why you should never turn a touchscreen into a button

The BlackBerry Storm was the last gasp of hardware buttons on phones. It was a bold attempt to bridge QWERTY keyboards to touchscreens by turning an entire multitouch display into a button. It did not go well. → Read More

Intel shows off its first Arc desktop GPU, coming summer 2022

Intel has finally revealed a first look at the hardware for its upcoming Arc desktop GPUs, along with a summer 2022 release window for the upcoming graphics cards. → Read More

Intel’s first Arc GPUs are launching today for laptops

Intel has officially launched its Arc GPUs for laptops today, starting with the Arc 3, Arc 5, and Arc 7 graphics cards. It’s the start of Intel’s big push into GPUs against competitors like AMD and Nvidia. → Read More

Intel’s XeSS AI upscaling won’t be available until sometime in ‘early summer’

Intel has officially launched its Arc GPUs, but without a key feature: its XeSS AI-powered super sampling upscaling won’t be arriving until sometime in early summer, not at launch. → Read More

Dyson’s bizarre new headphones have a built-in air purifier

The Dyson Zone headphones are the company’s latest product: they feature a snap-on visor that can pump in clean air through a filtration system built into the earcups. They’ll be out in fall 2022. → Read More

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s sequel is delayed to spring 2023

Nintendo announced that the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been delayed, and the still-untitled game is now scheduled for release in the spring of 2023. → Read More

Intel’s unlocked Core i9-12900KS processor claims to be the ‘world’s fastest desktop processor’ with 5.5GHz speeds

Intel’s new unlocked Core i9-12900KS desktop processor claims to be the “world’s fastest,” hitting speeds up to 5.5GHz. It’ll cost $739 when it arrives on April 5th. → Read More

Apple will reportedly sell the iPhone as a subscription service

Apple is reportedly working on a new iPhone subscription service that would let customers subscribe to the company’s hardware for a monthly fee, similar to digital services like Apple Music or Apple TV Plus. → Read More

Spotify’s 2021 royalty report paints a rose-tinted vision of the music streaming industry

Spotify has updated its “Loud & Clear” site for 2021, giving an updated look at how it paid out royalties to artists and record labels last year and an (optimistic) view of the music streaming industry. → Read More

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has officially been delayed to spring 2023

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has been delayed a few months from its original 2022 release window to sometime in “spring 2023.” The game will be out on PS5, Xbox Series X / S, and PC. → Read More

Ikea’s new Vappeby Bluetooth lamp speaker has Spotify Tap support

Ikea has announced its latest Bluetooth speaker, the Vappeby, which combines a portable speaker with an LED lamp. It is also the first speaker with Spotify Tap support. → Read More

Intel looks on track to fix its core problems

Intel debuted its new IDM 2.0 strategy under its new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, in March 2021. A year later, the company is firing on all cylinders as it looks to the future. → Read More

Apple’s Studio Display has 64GB of storage in addition to its iPhone 11-caliber processor

Apple’s new Studio Display doesn’t just have an A13 processor: it has 64GB of internal storage, the same as an entry-level iPhone 11. It’s practically a whole computer all by itself. → Read More

Nintendo’s original mobile gacha game Dragalia Lost is shutting down

Dragalia Lost, Nintendo’s first mobile game based on an original IP, is shutting down, with the company announcing that it’ll end the story in July 2022 after ceasing new content updates at the end of March. → Read More

The Mac Studio’s removable SSD is reportedly blocked by Apple on a software level

Apple’s Mac Studio has been revealed to have removable SSDs, but it turns out that even if you are willing to disassemble your computer, replacement parts are blocked from working. → Read More

CD Projekt Red announces a new Witcher game is in development

Developer CD Projekt Red has announced that a new Witcher game is in development, its first since 2015’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The new title will also switch over to use Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5. → Read More

T-Mobile’s new prepaid $10 per month Connect plan is its cheapest yet

T-Mobile’s prepaid Connect plans are getting more data and a new $10 tier that offers 1,000 minutes of talk, 1,000 texts, and 1GB of data every month. It also added a new $35 tier with 12GB of data per month. → Read More

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate gets free 30-day free trial of Paramount Plus to watch the Halo TV show

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers are getting a free 30-day trial of Paramount Plus as a bonus perk to encourage fans to tune into the Halo TV series debuting on the streaming service on March 24th. → Read More

Watch 14 minutes of gameplay from Hogwarts Legacy, the upcoming Harry Potter RPG

The first gameplay trailer for Hogwarts Legacy, the upcoming Harry Potter RPG, has arrived, showing off 14 minutes of footage from the title. It’ll be out holiday season 2022. → Read More

TikTok is rolling out its Snapchat-style stories to more users

TikTok is continuing to roll out its Snapchat-style stories feature to more users, although the company still has yet to announce a formal release for the feature. → Read More