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By John Biggs Remember the third party controller your sibling/cousin/friend made you use when you visited his or her house in the NES days? Remember the pain you felt when the joystick wasn’t quite right and they were hosing you on Mortal Kombat while you were busy trying to figure out why your character kept…

By Ty Pendlebury Klipsch has added two new Dolby Atmos speakers to its lineup designed to make the atmospheric standard more attractive to new buyers. …read more Source:: cnet Digital Cameras

By Darrell Etherington Facebook is reportedly working on dedicated video chat hardware, per a new report by Bloomberg. The device is said to be the inaugural major product from Facebook’s hardware-focused Building 8 product development lab, and will include a notebook-sized display. It’s intended to make video chat participants separated geographically feel like they’re together…

By Michelle Fitzsimmons Hold onto your seats: SNES Classic Mini pre-orders go live at the tail-end of August, Nintendo announced today. “We … can confirm that it will be made available for pre-order by various retailers late this month,” the gaming giant posted on Facebook regarding the SNES Classic a short time ago. Nintendo acknowledged…

By Darrell Etherington Microsoft has redesigned the USB dongle used to connect your Xbox One controller to your Windows 10 laptop, and thank goodness for that. The formerly hulking black slab is now a much more modestly sized black slab, which is roughly the size of most flash drives, and won’t stick out like a…

By Darrell Etherington Nintendo’s next hot retro console, the SNES Classic, is going to be available for pre-order late in August at a number of retailers, the company confirmed today. It’s good news for people left wondering when the console pre-orders would arrive – including the many disappointed fans who thought they’d secured one from…

By Anthony Ha We’ve written several times about Kuri, a self-driving robot that responds to voice commands. But there’s a big question that still hasn’t been answered. As Chris Matthews, vice president of marketing at Mayfield Robotics put it: “What does Kuri do?” In other words, we know that Kuri is cute and fun, but…

By Wayne Cunningham Although the EPA only credits it with 125 miles, our testing showed the e-Golf easily hitting 145 miles, and at a bargain price. …read more Source:: cnet Camcorders

By John Biggs Last week Arduino AG, the holding company for the open source Arduino project, announced that CEO Federico Musto stepped down, to be replaced with Mr. Massimo Banzi as new Chairman and CTO of Arduino and Dr. Fabio Violante as CEO. The move comes after the maker community found troubling discrepancies in Musto’s…

By David Carnoy The new Powerstation USB-C XXL features USB-PD technology, allowing it to charge USB-C laptops at a rapid charging rates up to 30 watts. …read more Source:: cnet Cell Phones

By John McCann Crash Bandicoot is one of my all time favorite game franchises. I owned the main trilogy as well as Crash Bash and Crash Team Racing (CTR), and plowed countless hours, days, weeks, probably months, into them. So when I heard that the original trilogy was being remastered in 4K for PS4 I…

By Darren Allan There’s more good news for esports fans in the UK, as BT is joining BBC Three in broadcasting pro gaming action from the Gfinity Elite League Series One, which is currently in mid-season. BBC Three (which is now an online channel, as you’re probably aware) began broadcasting live action from the league…

By Brian Heater Fire TV owners could already control their set with voice commands, but doing so used to mean having to pick up the remote. Now that Amazon’s set top box can be paired with an Echo, the company has brought users another step closer to never having to lift a finger. Starting today,…

By Jon Porter Last week a pretty substantial price hike hit the UK’s PlayStation Plus service, mirroring a similar increase that hit the service’s US customers last year. Sony didn’t announce any changes to the service alongside the price change, but could bundling in a PlayStation Now subscription be an option for Sony to explore…

By Kevin Lee The SteelSeries Sensei is one of the most popular gaming mice in history next to the legendary Logitech MX518. Over the last decade it’s been updated with the addition of its own CPU, and has seen a wireless edition released alongside the traditional wired version. However, this year we’re getting a completely…