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Sony is sharing new details about some of its upcoming gaming-focused hardware, including pricing and August launch dates for its FlexStrike fight stick and its 27-inch monitor. The FlexStrike fight stick will be available starting August 6th - the same day as the new PlayStation-published fighting game Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls - and will cost $199.99. Preorders begin on June 12th at 10AM ET. Initially, the FlexStrike will work just on PS5, but Sony says that PC support will be rolled out sometime after launch. The stick will come with a sling carry case and a built-in rechargeable battery. Sony goes into more detail about the fight st … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/games/941031/sony-playstation-flexstrike-fight-stick-gaming-monitor-pulse-elevate-speakers-launch-date-price

Apple isn't just looking to take on Meta in the smart glasses market; it's looking to upend eyewear as a whole, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. When the Apple Watch launched, it wasn't simply competing against the Pebbles and the Motorolas of the world. The company also had Swatch, Fossil, and Seiko in its crosshairs. Similarly, Apple's smart glasses will be positioned not just against Meta and Samsung, but against Oakley, Ray-Ban, and Warby Parker in the $200-$500 range. Apple Watch generates an estimated $17 billion annually, but eyewear is a potentially even bigger prize. Where the watch market is worth an estimated $132 billion , a … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/tech/940572/apples-strategy-smart-glasses-smart-watches

Watch the stream below. | Image: NVIDIA NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang is set to take the stage for his GTC Taipei keynote at 8PM PT / 11PM ET. You can watch all the announcements here and embedded below. Rumors have been flying about what to expect from today's presentation, but the big one is the possibility of a partnership with Microsoft and a renewed Windows on ARM push. Microsoft has been teasing a " new era of PC " for its Surface lineup, and expectations are that new ARM processors from NV IDIA, dubbed the N1 and N1X, will be powering these yet-to-be-announced computers. Microsoft actually tapped NVIDIA's Tegra ARM CPUs for the Surface RT way back in 2012. But that machine was l … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/tech/940540/how-to-watch-nvidias-computex-keynote

Squared. Get it? | Image: Mojang The A Minecraft Movie sequel officially has a title: A Minecraft Movie Squared . What's more, we now know that Kirsten Dunst will star as Alex, the game's female character option, and that Matt Berry is set to play an even bigger role in this film. He voiced Nitwit in the first movie, but in this one, he'll be playing a human character. Who exactly he'll be hasn't been revealed yet, but in the clip below, he can be heard dismissing a costume choice because "Steve would not be wearing that," suggesting he might be playing the Herobrine , a creepy pasta evil counterpart to Jack Black's Steve . The director, Jared Hess, and Mojang Chief Creative … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/940523/minecraft-movie-squared-sequel-kirsten-dunst-alex

Even the cover revels in a low-bit digital aesthetic. | Image: Saddle Creek / Feeble Little Horse From the opening moments of bitknot , it's obvious that Feeble Little Horse has found an entirely new gear. Where on Girl with Fish the blown-out textures were more '90s indie rock and shoegaze, on their latest LP, there's a more modern edge to the distortion and the riffs cut cleaner. Similarly, where the digital glitchiness was mostly relegated to window dressing on their sophomore record, on bitknot it's integral to the arrangements and a core part of their emerging, distinct sound. We got a preview of this new direction on the one-off single, and one of my favorite songs of 2025, " This Is Real ." It blended blast beats, Sonic Youth-esque … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/940449/feeble-little-horse-bitknot-music-album-review

This is The Stepback , a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about gadgets and smartphones, follow Dominic Preston . The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here . How it started In 2023, the European Union agreed on two landmark pieces of legislation mandating how portable tech products with batteries must be designed, aiming to improve longevity, repairability, and recyclability. Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/1670 came into force last year and applies specifically to smartphones and tablets, while Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 takes effect next year … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/column/939026/user-replaceable-batteries-eu-european-union-legislation