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💻 Apple finally unveils the refreshed MacBook Pro
📱 This amazing fan-made phone glows in the dark
🎵 Sonos Arc Ultra soundbar first impressions
📺 Deadpool & Wolverine streaming date announced

🕹️ Another AAA game is coming to Mac

 

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COMPUTING

 

Refreshed MacBook Pro comes with new M4 Max chip

 

The entry-level machine has the same price tag as its predecessor

 

Apple’s refreshed MacBook Pro models feature the new M4 family of chips. The M4 Pro and M4 Max chips promise significant performance improvements over their predecessors. The M4 Max, in particular, is designed for high-end tasks, offering enhanced graphics capabilities and faster processing speeds.

Apple has also upgraded the machine’s webcam to a 12MP camera and is now offering a nano-texture glass option for the display, which continues to come in 14- and 16-inch sizes.

Pricing starts at $1,599 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M4 chip, and the entry-level model is available in Space Black for the first time. The new MacBook Pro can be preordered now and will be in stores from November 8 ...

 
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MOBILE

 

This amazing phone glows in the dark and was created with the help of fans

 

Nothing invited fans to create a future phone release based on the Nothing Phone 2a Plus, and this awesome device is the result

 

The Nothing Phone 2a Plus Community Edition is a fan-made smartphone born out of a fun project launched by the tech company in March, Digital Trends reported.

The winning concept for the Community Edition’s look was based on “phosphorescence,” and various elements under the phone’s transparent rear panel have been coated to give them a soft glow-in-the-dark finish. It’s powered by only by light, and the glow lasts for hours before fading. Fans also created six original wallpaper designs as well as the phone’s packaging, which has a reflective finish to match the handset's glow-in-the-dark feature.

Due to its special nature, only 1,000 Community Edition phones will go on sale ...

 
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AUDIO / VIDEO

 

Sonos Arc Ultra first impressions

 

After just a few hours comparing the Sonos Arc Ultra with its predecessor, the differences are obvious

 

Digital Trends has just received the new Arc Ultra soundbar from Sonos, and ahead of an in-depth review, it’s shared some first impressions about the new bit of kit.

Right from the off, the Ultra produces “a noticeably clearer and better-defined sound than the regular Arc,” according to Digital Trends. “For both music and movie content, there’s an audible precision to the way mid- to high-frequency sounds are projected forward and to the sides. Dialogue is crisper and more intelligible, and that’s without enabling the Ultra’s speech enhancement mode (which has three selectable levels).”

Read on to discover if the fancy new “Sound Motion” driver delivers the goods when it comes to bass ...

 
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ENTERTAINMENT

 

Deadpool & Wolverine to begin streaming soon

 

After a record-setting run in theaters, Deadpool & Wolverine is about to land on Disney+

 

Marvel Studios has just announced that Deadpool & Wolverine will begin streaming on Disney+ on Tuesday, November 12.

The superhero movie premiered in July before raking in $1.3 billion globally to become the 20th-highest-grossing film of all time, the highest-grossing R-rated film ever, and the second-highest-grossing film of this year.

Starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, the movie features Deadpool being offered a place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by the Time Variance Authority. But he instead recruits a variant of Wolverine to save his universe from extinction ...

 
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GAMING

 

Mac is getting another AAA game release with Cyberpunk 2077

 

With M3 and M4 Apple Silicon, Mac gaming is heading to new heights

 

CD Projekt Red has revealed that Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition, which comes with the Phantom Liberty DLC, will be the latest AAA title playable on Apple Silicon.

The video game developer said it’s targeting a 2025 release that’ll support features such as path tracing, which offers a similar effect as ray tracing; frame generation for increased frame rates; and built-in spatial audio.

The game will be available on the Mac App Store and Steam, and if you already own a copy of the game for PC on Steam, it'll carry over to your Mac. Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition is also available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One ...

 
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