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EA and Respawn are stepping up their esports ambitions for Apex Legends. They’ve announced a Preseason Invitational that will represent the largest volume of talent amassed for a competitive Apex Legends event, with 80 teams of three (that’s 240 people) competing…
Hulu's live TV service is coming to Android TV
July 30, 2019
You don’t have to make do with on-demand video if you watch Hulu on an Android TV device. Hulu is rolling out support for its Live TV service to Google-powered devices in early August, including TV sets from Sony and Hisense as well as set-tops like NVIDIA’s…
Late last year, we uncovered evidence that Huawei was working with Google’s Fuchsia, even working to bring the OS to their own Honor Play gaming phone. Over two months after the company was hit with sanctions preventing them from working with US tech, the Chinese giant is apparently still interested in working with Fuchsia.
Before Huawei developers worked to support the Honor Play, Google…
While rumors pointed that Samsung was planning to announce its upcoming Galaxy Tab S6 at the August 7 Galaxy Unpacked event alongside the Note10 line, the company just made it clear that that will not be the case. Instead, Samsung is planning to hold a pre-event on its…
The past couple of weeks have seen quite a few leaks of an upcoming watch and tablet from Samsung which we all assumed would debut alongside the Galaxy Note 10. However, that’s not the case, as Samsung has today officially confirmed that the Galaxy Tab S6 and Galaxy Watch…
The Nintendo Switch Lite is now available for preorder on Amazon in gray, turquoise, and yellow, as well as the Pokémon Sword and Shield special edition consoles, via a tweet from Wario64. It costs $199.99 and will release on September 20th in the US, the same day that The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening hits shelves.
Whether the Switch Lite is your first Switch or your on-the-go option…
LG rolling out HomeKit and AirPlay 2 support with update for select 2019 TVs, more to come this fall
July 30, 2019
After initially slating a July 25 date to enable HomeKit and AirPlay 2 support for some of its 2019 TVs, LG has officially started rolling out software updates for its OLED and NanoCell 4K UHD TVs with ThinQ AI. While the company’s UK press team said last week that 2018…
Nintendo revealed a cheaper, handheld-only version of its ultra-successful Switch a couple of weeks back. The Switch Lite won’t ship until September 20th, though you can pre-order one as of today.
You can stump up $200 for the device in grey, yellow or turquoise on…
Samsung isn’t waiting until its Galaxy Note 10 event on August 7th to show all the hardware it’s releasing later in 2019. The company has teased online reveals for its latest Galaxy Tab (believed to be the Tab S6) and the Galaxy Watch Active 2 on July 31st and August 5th respectively. The accompanying video only offers furtive glances at both, but it’s easy to pick up on some…
