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Image: Nintendo The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Explorer’s Guide , an official guide for the game, is now available as a free PDF that you can download from Nintendo’s Zelda website ( via Polygon ). The guide was originally bundled with the “Explorer’s Edition” of the game, but now you can peruse it even if you don’t own that specific version. The Explorer’s Guide is jam-packed with screenshots and tips to help you make the most of exploring the vast land of Hyrule, which could be handy if you still haven’t played The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild or are doing a new run ahead of the launch of the game’s nearly-here sequel, Tears of the Kingdom . (That launches on May 12th .) But the guide is also fun to look through as a refresher on what’s... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/21/23650473/nintendo-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-explorers-guide-free-download

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Water resistance and lengthy battery life are now standard Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/23022617/best-bluetooth-speakers

Image: Ford Ford’s third-ever all-electric vehicle is a Europe-only crossover SUV with one of the automaker’s most popular nameplates. The Explorer EV will also be the first in a wave of new plug-in vehicles for the automaker’s overseas lineup, as it works toward an electric-only portfolio in Europe by 2030 . The Explorer EV may carry a familiar nameplate, but it will be built on top of an unfamiliar platform — for Ford, at least. The automaker is using Volkswagen’s flexible MEB architecture for the new EV , which will be built at Ford’s factory in Cologne, Germany. The Explorer EV will be the first of two vehicles from Ford that will utilize VW’s electric platform as part of an agreement that was established when the two companies formed a global... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/21/23649924/ford-explorer-ev-europe-photos-price-specs

The Oppo Find X6 Pro in black, brown, and green. | Image: Oppo Oppo has joined the likes of Xiaomi and sister-company Vivo by including a massive 1-inch-type camera sensor in its latest smartphone, the Find X6 Pro, which also doesn’t skimp on the telephoto and ultrawide camera specs. It’s launching in China today alongside the regular Find X6. In China, the Find X6 Pro starts at 5999 yuan (around $872) for 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, rising to 6999 yuan (around $1017) for 16GB RAM and 512GB of storage. Meanwhile the non-Pro Find X6 starts at 4499 yuan (around $654) for 12GB RAM and 256GB of storage. A spokesperson for the company was unwilling to confirm whether the X6 phones will see a broader international release in the future. The Find X6 Pro’s primary camera is the star of the show, and... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/21/23648689/oppo-find-x6-pro-1-inch-type-camera-sensor-price-release-date-specs-features

Photo by VES 2021 via Getty Images Zack Snyder, known for films like 300 and the four-hour “Snyder Cut” of Justice League , is working on an RPG set in the universe of his forthcoming Netflix sci-fi movie Rebel Moon , he teased in a podcast interview on Sunday. “The one thing that I’m really having a really good time with is — and I don’t even know if I’m supposed to talk about it — this RPG that we’re doing that is just literally insane and so immersive and so intense and so huge,” Snyder said in an interview on The Nerd Queens podcast . Snyder didn’t share many details beyond that and the Rebel Moon connection — he doesn’t even specify what kind of RPG it is, though it seems like a video game — but he mentioned that he didn’t want to make a “causal” game and that he... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/20/23649237/zack-snyder-rebel-moon-rpg-ridiculous-scale-netflix

Image: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is rolling out a fix for a bug that made Pixel Watch alarms go off at the wrong time. The Clock app update will be delivered via the Play Store, according to a statement from the company provided by spokesperson Sofia Giovannello. Reports of the problem started cropping up last month , with users reporting that their smartwatch alarms would sometimes go off a few minutes early or late. Apparently, they could miss the mark by up to 10 minutes, which could be the difference between making a meeting and missing it. Both 9to5Google and Gizmodo speculated that the issue may be related to Bedtime mode, but tests were inconclusive, and Google hasn’t confirmed either way. The patch notes for its March 2023 Pixel Watch update, shared by 9... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/20/23648990/google-pixel-watch-alarms-late-early-fix

The Vergecast logo is old, but Overcast, the app it’s playing on, has been charming us for years. | Image: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge For the last four weeks, Ashley Esqueda has joined The Vergecast each Monday to talk with someone making something really cool on the internet all by themselves. She’s talked with the maker of Hive , the indie developer of the game Birth , the maker of tiny artisan keycaps , and even the person who built the McRib Locator . It felt fitting that, for the final episode of this miniseries, Ashley would talk to one of the original app makers. Marco Arment has been solo building really cool stuff on the internet for years. While he was the CTO of Tumblr, he launched Instapaper in 2008. He left Tumblr in 2010, sold a majority share of Instapaper in 2013, and then turned his focus to Overcast, one of the absolute best apps you can use for tracking... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/20/23648650/marco-arment-overcast-so...