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Destiny 2 will be Google Stadia’s first completely free-to-play game, no subscription required

In Google Stadia’s biggest player outreach to date, Destiny 2’s base game is becoming entirely free-to-play — no subscription required — to match other platforms. For the past year, Stadia has offered Destiny 2: The Collection — which includes the base game and its first two major expansions Forsaken and Shadowkeep — for free to Stadia Pro members, a deal which is set to be…
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Google Doodle honors Victorian artists’ muse Fanny Eaton

Today’s Google Doodle in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand celebrates Fanny Eaton; one of the faces that helped redefine Victorian beauty standards. Fanny Eaton was born in Surrey, Jamaica on July 13, 1835 before moving with her mother to Britain in the early 1840s right on the cusp of the Victorian Era in Britain. It wasn’t until her early 20s that Eaton began modeling for portrait artists…
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Oppo unveils rollable smartphone concept

Oppo is no stranger to shaking up the smartphone design status quo. Back in 2013, the Oppo N1 had a rotating camera followed by 2018’s Find X which got rid of the notch thanks to its slide-out cameras. Now the maker is yet again redefining the norms with its Oppo X 2021 rollable concept phone. The biggest wow factor with this device is that it doesn’t have a fixed display size as it can…
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Oppo announces AR Glass 2021

Last year at its Inno Day event, Oppo unveiled AR glasses, and this year it’s back with a much improved version. While the previous iteration seemed to model VR glasses in design, this time around, with the Oppo AR Glass 2021, we’re getting something that’s much closer…
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OnePlus 9 also spotted on Geekbench

Yesterday we saw the OnePlus 9 Pro in a Geekbench listing, flexing its Snapdragon 875 chipset and 8GB RAM. That phone had the LE2117 model number and now we have its non-Pro counterpart with the LE2113 codename in another Geekbench test run. OnePlus 9 on Geekbench The new…
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Samsung Galaxy M12 renders show an A42-like design

Samsung is working on an entry-level Android with a massive 7,000 mAh battery. It will likely be named “Galaxy M12”, though F12/F12s is also a possibility. Anyway, we saw live photos of an unfinished back panel earlier this month, now @OnLeaks has filled in the blanks with CAD-based 3D renders of the phone. The design is very similar to the recently announced Galaxy A42 5G. The screen will be…
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