With Abir Gulaal, Fawad Khan returns to Bollywood after eight years, and Dia Mirza is pretty excited to see him back in Bollywood. …read more
Winning the Best Startup award at TiECON Udaipur is a milestone that reflects the growing recognition of chess as an impactful educational tool and the Kingdom of Chess’s role in leading that transformation. …read more
OnePlus has launched the 13T, which packs a larger battery than most Ultra flagships despite being barely bigger than an iPhone 16 or Samsung Galaxy S25.
OnePlus calls the 13T’s 6.32-inch OLED screen “small,” though it’s slightly larger than the displays in either the Apple or Samsung flagships. The 13T is bigger and heavier than those phones overall too, though not by much. Still, the panel is half an inch smaller than the standard OnePlus 13’s, and the phone is almost an ounce lighter, so this is definitely compact by OnePlus standards.
More impressive is the inclusion of a large 6,260mAh battery. That’s not only far bigger than either the iPhone 16 (3,561mAh) or Galaxy S25 (4,000mAh), but it’s actually more battery capacity than the larger OnePlus 13 (6,000mAh) and Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Ultra (5,000mAh). The battery boost comes thanks to using an updated version of the silicon-carbon technology found in the 13, which makes it possible to squeeze more capacity into smaller cells than traditional lithium-ion batteries allow.
OnePlus fans will also note that the 13T makes a major step change for the brand: the trademark alert slider is no more, replaced by a customizable …read more
If you were hoping to avoid the chaos that has accompanied the Switch 2 launch by pre-ordering directly from Nintendo, that may not make it arrive any faster. In an update on its website, Nintendo says that it’s seeing “very high demand” for the console, so “your invitation email may arrive after the Nintendo Switch 2 launch” set for June 5th. That may delay the shipment until after that date as well, the company said.
Nintendo opened the ability to “register your interest” for purchasing a Switch 2 earlier in Japan and a staggering 2.2 million people applied to pre-order the console. It’s now making the same offer to North American users and had initially promised to send out the first batch of pre-order invitations on May 8th. For at least some people, that may now slip nearly a month or more.
Nintendo suggested visiting its launch partners, but as we’ve seen so far, that process has also been challenging. So far, Amazon doesn’t even have an order page for the Switch 2 and customers are having trouble ordering from other retailers like Walmart, Target and Best Buy.
Should you wish to …read more
As nice as it is to have a projector wired up in your home cinema, the flexibility a portable model offers is equally valuable. It means you can set up an impromptu big screen in your back yard during those glorious long summer evenings. But portable projectors also carry that whiff of not being as good, or being compromised, with less powerful sound and vision. It’s this issue that Nebula is looking to tackle with its latest flagship portable projector, the X1, which is designed to offer the power of a home projector in the body of a movable one.
The X1 is a triple-laser unit promising 4K UHD, Dolby Vision video with 3,500 ANSI lumens that should easily fill a 300-inch screen. You can place it on a stand, table or the floor, with the array capable of tilting up to 25 degrees to find wherever you’ve placed your screen. There’s a 14-element glass array inside the body, which the company says should provide reliable image quality for the life of the unit. It’s flexible, too, with an optical zoom letting you cast on a screen up to 200 inches wide from between 13 and 22 feet away.
Anker’s new all-in-one Nebula X1 smart projector has everything you’d want from a “cinema-grade outdoor entertainment system.”
It produces a bright 4K image from a triple-laser light engine capable of 3,500 ANSI lumens, automatically finds the best place to project an image optimized for the environment, has Google TV built-in to unlock 4K Netflix streams, and features two battery-powered Wi-Fi satellite speakers to create a legitimate surround-sound experience. The only thing missing is a portable screen.
The X1 can project a 200-inch image from a distance of 13 to 22 feet thanks to its optical zoom. It’s also fitted with a gimbal that can tilt the output up to 25 degrees to automatically find the best placement on a screen or wall where the image is keystone corrected, focused, and adapted to the ambient light and surface color. A button on the remote control can initiate all that spatial adaptation whenever you want and the X1’s memory feature can preserve settings for repeat locations. And its 5,000:1 native contrast and Rec.2020 color support should help make the X1’s Dolby Vision certification more than just a marketing …read more
Perplexity’s iOS App just got an update enabling support for the company’s conversational AI voice assistant. Now Apple users can activate the assistant in the app and ask it to perform tasks like writing emails, setting reminders, and making dinner reservations.
You can even navigate away from the app and continue to speak to Perplexity, although it doesn’t yet support screen sharing like it does on Android. Meanwhile, some of the conversational AI stuff Apple has promised for the Apple Intelligence-powered Siri could still be more than a year away. And unlike Apple Intelligence, Perplexity’s assistant can do these things on older devices, like my iPhone 13 mini.
When the Android version launched in January, Perplexity’s spokesperson told The Verge that it would come to iPhones and iPads once “Apple gives us the right permissions,” and apparently that has been …read more
The PlayStation 5 is getting a software update that brings back the looks of yesteryear. After fans applauded the move to apply the appearances of past Sony generations to their consoles’ home screens during the PlayStation 30th anniversary last year, the company said it was working on making those permanent aesthetic options. That promised return of the four retro UI looks is the highlight of the upcoming PS5 update.
Unfortunately, the start-up audio chimes that accompanied each generation are not coming back. But the visual part can be changed at will under the Appearance tab of the Settings menu.
The other big component of the upcoming software update is a feature called Audio Focus that can help increase immersion during a play session while using headphones or headsets. With these presets, players can choose to boost the voice, the low pitch sounds, the high pitch sounds or the quiet sounds. You can also set whether the amount of amplification is weak, medium or strong.
The PS5 update will begin its global rollout on April 24.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/playstation/retro-playstation-ui-options-return-permanently-to-the-ps5-230337414.html?src=rss …read more
Anker has announced its first Thunderbolt 5 dock. At roughly 5.2 inches wide and 3.4 inches tall, the Anker Prime TB5 Docking Station is not as compact as some competitors, like CalDigit’s Element 5 Hub. But inside its aluminum alloy housing is an integrated GaN power supply delivering up to 232W of combined power output, so you won’t have to deal with a chunky power brick or a bulky adapter.
The Prime TB5 Docking Station has 14 ports, according to Anker, including the SD and microSD memory card slots on the side. Along with those you get two 10Gbps USB-C ports, three 10Gbps USB-A ports, HDMI, DisplayPort, a 2.5Gbps ethernet port, a headphone jack, two downstream USB-C Thunderbolt 5 ports offering up to 120Gbps speeds with a Bandwidth Boost option, and an upstream USB-C Thunderbolt 5 port that can deliver up to 140W of power to a host computer.
<img src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/ankertb5_2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=14.060166666667,0,71.879666666667,100" alt="The Anker Prime TB5 Docking Station pictured from the front and back against a white background." title="The Anker Prime TB5 Docking Station pictured from the front and back against …read more
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent Apple CEO Tim Cook a letter asking for information regarding Cook and Apple’s conversations with President Donald Trump’s administration about tariffs and any special exemptions from the tariffs, Bloomberg reports.
Warren’s letter, obtained by Bloomberg, points out that Apple “appeared to have invested heavily in influencing the Trump Administration” through things like Cook’s $1 million donation to Trump’s inauguration and Cook’s presence at the inauguration. It discusses The Washington Post’s recent report about Cook’s discussions with White House officials, including a reported conversation with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about how tariffs could impact the price of iPhones.
It also notes Trump’s tariff exemptions for smartphones and other electronics and quotes WaPo saying that “Apple appears to be the only company that benefits from virtually all of [them].”
Warren’s letter concludes with a list of questions for Apple, which includes inquiries on things like the nature of Cook’s discussions with the Trump administration, when Apple learned about the exemptions, and asking about the “the value of the additional profits that Apple will obtain as a result of President Trump’s tariff exemption.”
The letter does not include a deadline for …read more
