2 place 106 fresh
The 2024 Roku Ultra is the latest update to the streaming player, announced today at the company's developer conference. The original version of this device was one of our top picks for a streaming device. The new model promises some nice quality of life upgrades, such as 30 percent faster performance in content loading and interface navigation thanks to a new quad-core processor. It comes with Dolby Atmos audio and Dolby Vision for 4K and HDR10+ picture quality. The Ultra now supports Wi-Fi 6 and can also.
A newsletter a day!
You may get 10 most important news around midday in daily newsletter. Press the button and we will send you the most important news only, no spam attached.
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
The widely-expected Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 remaster has popped up in a now-deleted PlayStation Store listing, ahead of Sony's State of Play broadcast tonight. Read more Read more ›
5,834 fresh
Mark Zuckerberg just joined Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in the $200 billion club after adding $72 billion to his net worth this year on Meta's stock surge. Read more ›
5,306 fresh
The replenishment oiler USNS Big Horn was involved in what the latest reports say was an "allision" in the Arabian Sea on Monday, an official said. Read more ›
1,110 fresh
Microsoft’s Xbox Elite Wireless Controller goes translucent | Screenshot: YouTube Microsoft went and made its pricey Xbox Elite 2 controller part of the resurgent transparent tech trend with some fetching new see-through “Cipher Series” color options in its Xbox Design Lab custom controller shop. In addition, the company announced new chromatic options for the D-pads and paddles. Prices start at $149.99 for a custom design, but you’ll pay extra for... Read more ›
824 fresh
The US Department of Commerce has proposed a ban on Chinese and Russian tech in internet-connected cars. Read more ›
822 fresh
Apple on Monday seeded the second beta of HomePod software version 18.1 to developers for testing, but it has since pulled the beta. Across the MacRumors Forums and X, some users complained that installing this beta on their HomePod mini resulted in the speaker going into a "bricked" state, meaning that it no longer functioned. A few users said they were eventually able to restore the HomePod mini using the... Read more ›
772 fresh
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticized Donald Trump's running mate over his stance on the Russia-Ukraine war in a New Yorker interview. Read more ›
688 fresh
If you are keen to play God of War Ragnarök on PC, but have been put off by Sony's PSN linking requirement, there is now a mod that will sort that out for you. Read more Read more ›
678 fresh
Microsoft has shared an update on its sustainability efforts on Xbox from the past three years. In that time, the company has reduced its emissions by over 3bn car miles - that's over 1.2m metric tons of CO2e. Read more Read more ›
636 fresh
A couple on a Cathay Pacific flight to London heckled a woman in front who declined to straighten her seat. The airline put them on its no-fly list. Read more ›
617 fresh
"The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" was Hulu's most-watched unscripted premiere of the year, the streamer says. Here's what we know about a season two. Read more ›
597 fresh
Ryan Murphy's "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story" was faced a backlash because it insinuates the brothers had an incestuous relationship. Read more ›
561 fresh
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge iPhone users who’ve upgraded to iOS 18 now have the option to record videos while audio is playing, as MacRumors spotted. If you’ve got music playing through the iPhone’s speaker, it’s a quick and dirty way to add a soundtrack to a video instead of bringing a clip into an editor, but audio quality does take a hit. Previously, in older versions... Read more ›
550 fresh
Hezbollah has reportedly learned valuable lessons from Russia that it could deploy against Israel. Read more ›
547 fresh
Japanese carrier SoftBank quietly unveiled a new Motorola flip foldable, the Moto Razr 50s. However, this appears to be just a local variant of the regular Razr 50 that has been around since June. The launch in Japan is set for September 27 (this Friday). The phone has a 6.9” inner display (1,080 x 2,640px) and a 3.6” cover display (a nearly square 1,056 x 1,066px), both OLED panels. The... Read more ›
545 fresh
"The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" star Taylor Frankie Paul, the face of Mormon MomTok, had a rocky relationship with her boyfriend Dakota Mortensen. Read more ›
534 fresh
Kaspersky antivirus abruptly uninstalls itself and installs UltraAV without asking customers. Read more ›
522 fresh
Get your Hero Wars: Dominion Era adventure off to an epic start with exclusive free goodies... Read more ›
353 fresh
Image: Netgear Netgear announced three new entries to its Nighthawk Wi-Fi 7 router collection today: the RS600, RS500, and RS200. The company says all three routers, which range in price from $229 to $499, will be available today. The two pricier options, the $499 RS600 and the $399 RS500, are very similar: both are tri-band routers with 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz wireless connections. They each offer 320MHz channel bandwidth on... Read more ›
352 fresh
Microsoft is continuing on with its mission to provide us with as many different Xbox controller variants it can. Read more Read more ›
340 fresh
Cards Against Humanity is the latest entity to take on Elon Musk in court. The irreverent party game company filed a $15 million lawsuit against SpaceX for trespassing on property it owns in Texas, which happens to sit near SpaceX facilities. According to a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Texas, Musk's rocket company began using its land without permission for the last six months. SpaceX took what was... Read more ›
497
Microsoft is in the midst of a deal that would bring the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear power plant back to life, according to reporting by The Washington Post. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because the Pennsylvania plant was home to a partial meltdown of one of its reactors back in 1979. The deal would make Microsoft the plant’s sole customer for 20 years, meaning it’ll hoover up 100... Read more ›
305
Kremlin-affiliated Russian troll farms are running disinformation campaigns that aim to interfere with this year's US presidential elections, and according to Microsoft, they're focusing their efforts on discrediting Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. The company has published a new report detailing the movements of two troll farms being monitored by the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center. These Kremlin-backed actors apparently struggled to find the right approach shortly after President Biden stepped... Read more ›
235
The rollout of Apple Intelligence will be fairly slow-paced, with Apple gradually adding new features and support for more languages over the coming months. The company has now confirmed support for several more languages as Apple Intelligence will be available in German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese and Vietnamese in 2025. That’s in addition to previously announced support for Chinese, French, Japanese and Spanish. Apple will initially offer Apple Intelligence in the... Read more ›
162
It seems that Qualcomm sees Intel’s struggling business as a potential opportunity. The San Diego-based chipmaker has reportedly expressed an interest in taking over Intel “in recent days,” according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. Though the report cautions that such a deal is “far from certain,” it would be a major upheaval in the US chip industry. It would also, as The WSJ notes, likely raise... Read more ›
160
Rumors emerged last year of a collaboration between former Apple designer Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, but the two have until now kept quiet about it. In a profile by The New York Times that was published this weekend, though, Ive confirms his company LoveFrom is leading the design on an AI product being built with Altman. Also on board are Tang Tan and Evans Hankey, both of... Read more ›
159
Sony pushed a PS5 system update on Friday that Square Enix says is a response to Final Fantasy XVI bugs created by the console’s last firmware update. The publisher addressed the update on X (Twitter). “In response to the crashes and graphical bugs that were occurring on the PlayStation5 version of Final Fantasy XVI, [Sony Interactive Entertainment] have released a new system update,” the account posted. “Please try downloading and... Read more ›
125
A lawsuit on behalf of five unnamed contestants who participated in YouTuber MrBeast’s Beast Games was filed on September 16 in Los Angeles against MrBeast as well as Amazon, which plans to distribute the show. It’s also seeking class-action status. Beast Games is the brainchild of Jimmy Donaldson, also known as MrBeast. This game show had participants go through challenges for a shot at $5 million in cash. There would... Read more ›
93
A documentary on Oprah Winfrey is no longer coming to Apple TV+. Why, you might ask? Well, Winfrey, herself, bought back the rights to it, PageSix reports. Allegedly, Winfrey and filmmaker Kevin Macdonald clashed on the final product, with the latter not making requested edits. A spokesperson for Winfrey put things a bit nicer: "As the Apple TV+ deal was coming to an end, Ms. Winfrey bought back the rights... Read more ›
89
Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair in Tokyo. Pocketpair is the Japanese video game developer behind Palworld, a game people have been describing as a Pokémon parody, featuring cute gun-toting monsters. The game, released in Early Access form on January 18, was an instant hit, selling 15 million copies on Steam and crossing 25 million players within just a month. The Pokémon Company... Read more ›
88
Most popular sources
Business Insider | 34% 7 |
Eurogamer.net | 12% 8 |
Gizmodo | 8% 11 |
The Verge | 7% 4 |
MacRumors | 7% 2 |
View sources » |
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
24.09.2024 12:37
Last update: 12:31 EDT.
News rating updated: 19:31.
What is Times42?
Times42 brings you the most popular news from tech news portals in real-time chart.
Read about us in FAQ section.