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ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 review: a $3,300 CES concept you can own.
We’ve collected 30-odd items designed to make student life that much easier (and far more enjoyable).
A collection of 15 shows will be available on HBO Max, Vulture reports, including the Ricky Gervais-led version of The Office. They’ll be available until the end of September.
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Here’s the entire court filing:
Google LLC (“Google”) has filed an emergency motion for an administrative stay of the district court’s permanent injunction, entered October 7, 2024, pending Google’s forthcoming motion to stay the injunction pending further appellate proceedings. Google’s emergency motion (Dkt. Entry No. 201) is granted. Google should file its motion to stay the injunction pending further appellate proceedings no later than August 8, 2025.
Google previously had two weeks to begin complying. Now it has three weeks, or longer — depends whether these judges think the full Ninth Circuit or Supreme Court will want to weigh in on the permanent injunction against Google.
2K isn’t denying Jason Schreier’s story: “We are working hard to set BioShock up for the best possible future. Right now, we have a good game, but we are committed to delivering a great one,” the publisher tells him.
2K created a new studio specifically for the game, Cloud Chamber, in 2019. Studio drama is nothing new for BioShock, but ousted leader Kelley Gilmore was the first female studio head in 2K history.
After last week’s hack, the app has been breached again.
It’s a relatively narrow legal defeat, though. The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court ruled that X — Twitter, at the time of the lawsuit — isn’t protected by Section 230 for failing to report known child sexual abuse material to authorities, nor for designing a bad system to let users flag it. (It hasn’t been held liable for either; that will be argued later.) But the court found Section 230 blocked claims that it “amplified” CSAM by failing to scrub offending hashtags, and it said the controversial FOSTA exception didn’t come into play.
Can we trust Boeing to actually regulate itself?
Hope you weren’t banking on a particular price for your next camera, because Trump’s new-and-improved tariffs have other plans. My former colleague Chris Welch reports the majority of Fujifilm cameras now cost more, and Canon has signaled higher prices too; Sigma has agreed to absorb the extra 5 percent tariffs that Trump just added to Japan.
Fuji prices could go higher still: PetaPixel says they’re based on 10 percent Japan tariffs, not the new 15 percent. Moment has an updated Fujifilm price list.
A Quiet Place is about to become a trilogy, as John Krasinski has confirmed he’s returning to write and direct a third entry that’s expected to hit theaters on July 9th, 2027.
The Victrix Pro BFG Reloaded looks similar to the original released in 2022, but PDP is now owned by Turtle Beach which has updated the controller with Hall effect triggers and joysticks in its swappable modules.
The Reloaded also features a reconfigured fight stick module with six buttons “ergonomically optimized for gamers to place their wrist on the controller’s grip.” It’s available for preorder now for $209.99 in Xbox and PlayStation versions with shipping expected in late September.
Foundation and Strange New Worlds return, while Alien: Earth and Eyes of Wakanda will make their debuts.
I’m already a big fan of Franklin Sensors’ ProSensor M210 Stud Finder, but its $24.99 12-inch iLevel just became a must-have addition to my toolbox, as spotted by Core77.
It includes both horizontal and vertical bubble dials, but the entire thing glows using internal LEDs that change color from red to green once it’s perfectly horizontal or vertical, making the tool easier to use from afar, or in dark spots where you can’t see the bubbles.
2027 will mark the 50th anniversary of Star Wars: A New Hope’s debut, and to celebrate the occasion, Lucasfilm is putting the movie back in theaters beginning May 4th of that year — just a couple of weeks before Star Wars: Starfighter’s premiere.
