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Amazon unearths the Echo Spot from the dustbin of its product line
08 Jul

Amazon unearths the Echo Spot from the dustbin of its product line

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Amazon has revealed an all-new Echo Spot ahead of Prime Day. It’s very much like the original Echo Spot that came out in 2017 and was discontinued two years later except the front face is now split between a hemispherical display and speaker.Amazon says the new model comes with better sound and a sharper display. Time will tell if the reboot suffers from the same screen flicker issues as its predecessor. Otherwise, the conceit is more or less identical: it's a bare-bones smart alarm clock that, via Alexa integration, can manage a few simple tasks like providing the weather forecast…
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Boeing agrees to plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud the US government
08 Jul

Boeing agrees to plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud the US government

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The US Department of Justice and Boeing have reached an agreement that the latter will plead guilty to a conspiracy to defraud the US government charge stemming from two fatal crashes that killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019, the New York Times reports.In May, the DOJ announced that Boeing violated its 2021 deal to pay penalties and compensation, as well as implement major safety changes — just four months prior, a cabin panel blew off an Alaska Airlines flight while it was at 16,000 feet in the air. The DOJ offered the company a plea deal on June 30,…
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Nothing’s budget-friendly brand CMF announced three new products, including a $200 smartphone
08 Jul

Nothing’s budget-friendly brand CMF announced three new products, including a $200 smartphone

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CMF, a budget-friendly sub-brand Nothing announced last August, has officially unveiled a trio of new products. There’s a smartphone, a watch and earbuds, all of which seem to be modest in both price and features.Let’s start with the smartphone. Nothing made a splash with its original smartphone, the Nothing Phone 1, and the appropriately-named CMF Phone 1 hopes to follow suit. It wouldn’t be a Nothing-adjacent product without some quirky design elements, and the CMF Phone 1 certainly has its share. CMF by NothingThe back cover is interchangeable, so users can swap out to different colors and designs on the…
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Angel Pop brings cutesy chaos to Playdate in a highly addictive bullet hell
07 Jul

Angel Pop brings cutesy chaos to Playdate in a highly addictive bullet hell

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This is it, the first game to nearly make me throw my Playdate against a wall. Angel Pop, a bullet hell shoot ‘em up that landed on the Playdate Catalog last month, is utter chaos. Playing as an adorable little girl, you must fend off a nonstop barrage of enemy fire over the course of 50-or-so levels, trying to clear each stage of all enemies within a limited span of time as projectiles bombard you from every direction. It moves at breakneck speed, and at some points, there may be as many as 1,000 objects on the screen. Basically, it’s…
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Check out NASCAR’s first electric race car prototype
07 Jul

Check out NASCAR’s first electric race car prototype

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unveiled its first prototype electric racer this weekend at the Chicago Street Race. The $1.5 million electric crossover (per ) was developed in partnership with ABB, Chevrolet, Ford and Toyota to call attention to sustainability efforts under the NASCAR Impact program and show what EVs are capable of. It doesn’t mean NASCAR is moving away from gasoline-powered race cars just yet, but rather that it’s trying to “gauge fan interest in electric racing,” people involved with the initiative told AP.NASCAR’s head of sustainability Riley Nelson told AP that the series and its partners “want to represent electric vehicles, and more…
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ESA’s new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, is poised to launch for the first time on Tuesday
07 Jul

ESA’s new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, is poised to launch for the first time on Tuesday

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Ariane 6, the European Space Agency’s next-gen heavy-lift rocket, is expected to take its inaugural flight on July 9, ending a yearlong gap in Europe’s ability to access space on its own. The launch vehicle, made by ArianeGroup, replaces Ariane 5, which was retired last July following its 117th mission. The launch window opens at 2PM ET on Tuesday (8PM CEST).Ariane 5 was in operation from 1996 to 2023 and was ESA’s main launch system. Ariane 6 was supposed to take over right away after its predecessor’s retirement, but years of delays in its development meant it ultimately wasn’t ready…
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Apple Watch Series 10 expected to boast larger displays, while a plastic SE may be in the works
07 Jul

Apple Watch Series 10 expected to boast larger displays, while a plastic SE may be in the works

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Bigger screens are coming to the Apple Watch, according to ’s Mark Gurman. In the Power On newsletter this week, Gurman writes that the Series 10 models will sport larger displays than we’ve seen in past versions of the regular Apple Watch, with one of the options likely to be close in size to the Apple Watch Ultra. The Apple Watch Series 10 is , too, as Gurman previously reported.Apple has also been working on more advanced health features for its smartwatches, but it seems some of these may not be ready in time for the next release. That includes…
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Lego is releasing a Jaws set in August that recreates the final showdown on Quint’s boat
06 Jul

Lego is releasing a Jaws set in August that recreates the final showdown on Quint’s boat

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In case you missed it, we’re officially getting a this summer. The company unveiled the upcoming 1497-piece set this week alongside a 90-second mini-movie that reimagines the film in Lego brick form. The Jaws set includes the boat (the Orca), the shark, and minifigures of the protagonists Martin Brody, Matt Hooper and Sam Quint, plus a number of key items from their hunt, like a harpoon and a few bright yellow barrels. LegoIt’ll be available to the general public on August 6 for $150, but anyone enrolled in the Lego Insiders loyalty program will be able to purchase it earlier,…
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Volunteers who lived in NASA’s Mars simulation for over a year will finally emerge today
06 Jul

Volunteers who lived in NASA’s Mars simulation for over a year will finally emerge today

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After 378 days inside a mock Mars habitat, the four volunteers for NASA’s yearlong simulation of a stay on the red planet are coming home. The crew — Kelly Haston, Anca Selariu, Ross Brockwell and Nathan Jones — is scheduled to exit the 3D-printed habitat in Houston this evening. You can watch the livestream of their return on NASA TV (below) starting at 5PM ET.This marks the end of NASA’s first Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) mission. There are plans already for two more one-year missions, one of which NASA recently accepted applications for.The Mission 1 crew entered…
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Salad Fingers turned 20 this week and there’s a new episode out to commemorate it
06 Jul

Salad Fingers turned 20 this week and there’s a new episode out to commemorate it

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It pains me to say this, but it’s been 20 years since David Firth’s Salad Fingers made its debut and irrevocably altered the humor of the internet. The first episode of the web series hit Newgrounds on July 1, 2004. To mark this milestone birthday, Firth dropped a 20th anniversary special earlier this week that sees the titular Salad Fingers taking a walk down memory lane, bringing us all the way back to those early moments that seared the phrase “I like rusty spoons” into the collective consciousness of an entire generation of internet users.Things won’t be exactly as you…
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