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- Thrilling new trailer for Star Wars’ anime anthology series is filled with action and style
- Bose QuietComfort 45 headphones appear again in leaked promotional photos
- CES 2022 to require proof of vaccination for attendees, exhibitors
- Platforms struggle with Taliban policy amid chaotic US withdrawal
- Google Pixel 5A comes with a bigger battery and screen, smaller price tag
- The Google Pixel 6 won’t ship with a charger
- Google Pixel 5A review: boring, but better than ever
- Microsoft hires former Uber exec to lead a new consumer apps effort
- YouTube will show video chapters right in search results
- There’s finally a new Densha de Go! train controller, and it’s awesome
| Thrilling new trailer for Star Wars’ anime anthology series is filled with action and style Posted: 17 Aug 2021 10:26 AM PDT  Disney has shared an impressive trailer for Star Wars: Visions, its anime anthology series premiering September 22nd on Disney Plus. The trailer oozes style and flair, and it looks like the series will tell some thrilling new stories in the Star Wars universe. Visions will feature nine animated shorts from seven anime studios. Disney also revealed the English dub voice cast, which features some big names including Alison Brie, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, David Harbour, Neil Patrick Harris, Lucy Liu, and Temuera Morrison (who is reprising his role as Boba Fett). You can see more of the cast here on the official Star Wars website. And Disney says that you'll be able to watch the series both with the English dub cast and the original Japanese...  |
| Bose QuietComfort 45 headphones appear again in leaked promotional photos Posted: 17 Aug 2021 10:25 AM PDT  After first surfacing last month in an FCC filing (which Bose quickly withdrew), the company's upcoming QuietComfort 45 headphones have now been leaked more extensively courtesy of WinFuture. Set to be priced at $329, the QC45s certainly look the part of a successor to the popular QC35s. The overall design is very similar, with some modern refinements like a USB-C port thrown in. According to WinFuture, the QC45s will offer active noise cancellation, an Aware Mode for piping in outside noise, and be tuned with Bose's signature Active EQ. Battery life is expected to be up to 24 hours of continuous playback. A quick 15-minute charge will give the headphones 2.5 hours of listening time. Multipoint pairing to two devices at the same time...  |
| CES 2022 to require proof of vaccination for attendees, exhibitors Posted: 17 Aug 2021 10:08 AM PDT  After an online-only event this year, the CTA is still planning to put on CES 2022 as a hybrid event with in-person and digital components. Today the CTA announced that if you're planning on showing up in Las Vegas, then you will need to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19.
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| Platforms struggle with Taliban policy amid chaotic US withdrawal Posted: 17 Aug 2021 09:05 AM PDT  Social platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are coming under new scrutiny for the way they treat Taliban accounts, as the militant Islamist group emerges as the dominant power in Afghanistan in the wake of the US withdrawal. While none of the platforms have publicly changed their policies on the group, moderation practices have come under close scrutiny, and many are shifting resources to ensure the policies are appropriately enforced. A particular question raised by The Washington Post is whether the group will be allowed to wrest control of the official Facebook and Twitter accounts for the government of Afghanistan. While the Taliban has seized effective control over the government, granting access to official accounts...  |
| Google Pixel 5A comes with a bigger battery and screen, smaller price tag Posted: 17 Aug 2021 09:00 AM PDT  Google has officially revealed the Pixel 5A 5G, a phone it kind of announced in April to contradict rumors that it had been canceled. It comes with a short list of updated features compared to its 4A 5G predecessor, including a slightly bigger screen, a much bigger battery, and an IP67 rating for water resistance. Few though they may be, these are some important tweaks to an already good midrange phone, and the best part is that the price has gotten smaller: in the US it will cost $449, which is $50 less than the Pixel 4A 5G's introductory price. The 5A goes on sale in the US and Japan on August 26th.  |
| The Google Pixel 6 won’t ship with a charger Posted: 17 Aug 2021 09:00 AM PDT  Google is the latest manufacturer to bid farewell to the in-box charging brick, saying it expects the Pixel 5A will be the last phone to include one. That means the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro won't include one when they arrive this fall. The company says that most people already have a USB-C charging brick, so there's no longer a need to include one with its phones. Apple and Samsung made similar arguments when they announced they would no longer be offering an in-box charger. That may be true, but it's likely that the cost savings of not including a charger played a big role in those decisions. T...  |
| Google Pixel 5A review: boring, but better than ever Posted: 17 Aug 2021 09:00 AM PDT |
| Microsoft hires former Uber exec to lead a new consumer apps effort Posted: 17 Aug 2021 08:42 AM PDT  Microsoft is hiring Manik Gupta, the former head of product at Uber, in a renewed effort to boost Microsoft's consumer apps. Gupta will be responsible for Microsoft Teams consumer, Skype, and GroupMe, and he will report directly to Jeff Teper, Microsoft's head of Microsoft 365 collaboration. Gupta spent four years at Uber running the various teams that contribute to the Uber app, and he also oversaw product management for Google Maps for seven years. While Gupta has a lot of experience in maps, that's not why he's joining Microsoft. The software giant appears to be keen to tap into his wealth of experience in consumer-focused apps. "Manik's experience... will be invaluable to us building world-class consumer experiences across all of...  |
| YouTube will show video chapters right in search results Posted: 17 Aug 2021 08:00 AM PDT  YouTube is announcing some new features for search to make it easier to find what you're looking for amid the huge amount of content on the platform. One helpful update is that YouTube will show video chapters right in search results, which should make it easier to jump to the exact part of a video that might be most helpful to you. Instead of having to tap into a video and scroll through the chapters just to find exactly the information that you're looking for, you'll be able to see the chapters from a search so you can navigate to certain spots in a video more easily. YouTube is also adding video previews to search results on mobile, meaning you can see a short clip of a video before you tap into it.  |
| There’s finally a new Densha de Go! train controller, and it’s awesome Posted: 17 Aug 2021 07:30 AM PDT  Imagine if you were really into a video game series, but no one released a controller that let you play it properly for 14 years. Unfortunately, that's exactly the situation that fans of Densha de Go! found themselves in until recently. Taito's quirky train-driving franchise has been around since the mid-'90s across countless systems and devices, but it just isn't the same if you can't slam the brakes with a giant lever as you pull into the station 17 seconds late. This month, though, a company called Zuiki came to the rescue with the release of an officially licensed Densha de Go! controller for the Nintendo Switch. It works with the latest version of the game, Hashirou Yamanote-sen, and it marks the first console controller to be...  |
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