The mining of technology nostalgia is unrelenting. Earlier this week, we had an unofficial return of the iPod, not to mention Tamagotchis and now Discman. Well, not an actual Discman, which is a Sony brand, but the portable CD player is back.<\/p>\n
Audiophile brand FiiO has launched the DM13, a portable CD player with modern touches, like high-fidelity wireless and a built-in battery. No more AAs! The CD Player will go on sale in September for $179 (\u00a3179 in the UK). It begins shipping only in a silver finish, but FiiO says red, blue, titanium and black variants will arrive later in the year \u2013 enough time to find my folder of NOW compilation CDs.<\/p>\n
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Bangladesh is experiencing a \u2018near-total\u2019 internet shutdown amid student protests<\/a><\/p>\n Netflix will drop a new multiplayer game when Squid Game season 2 premieres this year<\/a><\/p>\n How to install the iOS 18 public beta<\/a><\/p>\n \u200b\u200bYou can get these reports delivered daily direct to your inbox. <\/em>Subscribe right here!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Unable to get into Outlook this morning? You\u2019re not the only one. Microsoft has also suffered an outage with its Azure services and Microsoft 365 app suite. Then, a faulty update from security giant CrowdStrike forced PCs and servers into an unrecoverable boot loop. The issue forced Delta, Frontier and other airlines to ground flights and impacted the UK\u2019s London Stock Exchange and Sky broadcaster.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have widespread reports of BSODs on Windows hosts, occurring on multiple sensor versions,\u201d CrowdStrike wrote in a pinned Reddit post. \u201c[We have] identified a content deployment related to this issue and reverted those changes.\u201d It\u2019s a great Friday morning for all involved.<\/p>\n Continue reading.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Apple launched public betas across all its platforms, and while you\u2019ll have to wait for the official release in fall, lots of features are stable enough for most folks to play with. While I got to grips with everything out there on iOS 18, there was a big missing piece: Apple Intelligence.<\/p>\n Arguably the most interesting things Apple showed off at WWDC hinged on AI, but none of those features are available for testing yet. Read on for what we like so far.<\/p>\n Continue reading.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n It\u2019s not a Pixel leak without Google following up with fewer images and less information. Following a couple of leaks on four Pixel 9 phones apparently coming up, Google revealed the camera unit on the Pixel 9 Pro, and it is chonky<\/em>.<\/p>\n Continue reading.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Back in 2013, Microsoft decided to create a live-action Halo television series \u2014 back when Halo was one of the biggest gaming properties in the world. It took about ten years to happen, but only two years \u2014 and series \u2014 for Paramount+ to cancel it. According to an unnamed Variety<\/em> source, the show creators plan to shop the project around and search for a new home for Master Chief.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s a massive Microsoft Windows BSOD (blue screen of death) outage.<\/h3>\n
Waiting on Apple Intelligence for the true upgrade.<\/h3>\n
Google just confirmed it.<\/h3>\n
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