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Google’s Phil Harrison told employees of Stadia’s shutdown minutes before the public

Today, Google announced that it would be shutting down Stadia, its game streaming service from 2019. However, Stadia’s Phil Harrison only told employees about the shutdown minutes before the public learned. At 9:15 a.m. on September 29, Google made a public announcement that Stadia has begun the process of winding down its services, with a full shutdown set to occur in January. The news came…
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Google Play Store redesign for Wear OS rolling out [U]

As telegraphed by September’s Google Play system update, the Wear OS Play Store is beginning to get its new redesign. Update 9/29: The Play Store redesign is now rolling back out. We’re seeing this server-side update with version 32.3.44-26+. The design appears…
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PSA: Don’t try to use iOS 16’s iCloud Shared Photo Library yet

Apple is close to launching a major new feature in the Photos app that makes it much easier to share photos and videos with loved ones. iCloud Shared Photo Library lets you automatically or manually share your whole library or parts of it. But while the feature is available in the iOS 16.1 public and developer beta, you can’t share with anyone running the public iOS 16.0.2 release or…
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Intel claims its Arc A770 and A750 GPUs will outperform NVIDIA's mid-range RTX 3060

Ahead of bringing its Arc desktop GPUs to everyone in a couple of weeks, Intel has revealed more details about what to expect from the graphics cards in terms of specs and performance. The A770, which starts at $329, will have 32 Xe cores, 32 ray-tracing units and a 2,100MHz graphics clock. In terms of RAM, it comes in 8GB and 16GB configurations, with up to 512 Gb/s and 560 Gb/s of memory…
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Apple releases iOS 15.5 and iPadOS 15.5

Today Apple has updated its mobile devices to iOS 15.5 (for iPhones) and iPadOS 15.5 (for iPads), respectively. As the .1 incrementation implies, this one isn’t a big update, but it still manages to pack in a couple of new features. First up, the Wallet app now enables…
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Oppo Reno8 series listed online, Reno8 Pro+ handled on video

Oppo’s Reno8 series is launching next Monday on May 23 and the leaks just keep coming. The series is actually listed on Oppo China’s online store revealing three models – Reno8, Reno8 Pro and Reno8 Pro+. We now have detailed official images of all three phones…
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Huawei officially confirms Mate Xs 2, Watch GT3 Pro going global tomorrow

Huawei is holding a launch event tomorrow and we finally got official confirmation that we’ll see the global launch of the Mate Xs 2 and Watch GT3 Pro as well as more products. The event kicks off at 2PM CET tomorrow and we’ll be there to cover all the announcements. Unfolding the next generation innovation of #HUAWEIMateXs2 , #HUAWEIWATCHGT3Pro and more. Join us tomorrow at 14:00 CET for the…
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