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This Ghost in the Shell keyboard feels like it came from anime

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Iqunix’s special edition EV63 is decked out in ’90s anime charm.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
The CoD SSD.

SanDisk has a new 8TB PS5 drive, which will cost you a mere $2,959.99 (thanks, RAM crisis!). But that might not be enough for every game.

ItWasRamirez:

And the worst part is that Call of Duty still won’t fit

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Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
It’s now Sennheiser’s turn to release a pair of open clip-style wireless earbuds.

Following the recent debut of its Momentum 5 headphones, Sennheiser is joining companies like Bose and Sony with a new pair of open earbuds worn on the back of the ear. The Accentum Clip offer up to nine hours of battery, and while they won’t launch in the US, they’ll be available in Canada starting July 23rd for $269.95 CAD.

<em>The Accentum Clip will run for up to nine hours on their own, but that can be boosted to up to 36 hours with their charging case.</em>
<em>The earbuds each feature a 12mm driver that works alongside a dynamic EQ that automatically makes adjustments when volume is raised or lowered.</em>
<em>The Accentum Clip support Bluetooth 6.0 plus SBC, AAC, and high-res LDAC codecs.</em>
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The Accentum Clip will run for up to nine hours on their own, but that can be boosted to up to 36 hours with their charging case.
Image: Sennheiser
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Step into the Criterion Closet.

Developers Oliver and Patrick Evans have made a digitized 3D version of the famous movie closet that lets you explore 1,247 films distributed by The Criterion Collection. So now you can peruse the shelves and pull out titles to learn more about them, just like your favorite celebrities (kinda).

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Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Co-lead of Gemini joins OpenAI.

Noam Shazeer spent twenty years at Google before returning in 2024 after the Big G reportedly paid Character.AI — a company co-founded by Shazeer in 2021 — $2.7 billion to bring him and a team of researchers back home.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Valve’s big SteamOS 3.8 update is now available for everyone.

Three months after Valve’s doozy of an update arrived in preview — the first with support for the Steam Machine and a whole lot more — it’s getting a full stable release. Here’s the changelog. But when will the Steam Machine arrive? Valve’s had quite a few shipments now...

Lauren Feiner
Lauren Feiner
US cybersecurity coordinator finally got access to Mythos Preview, report says.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) gained access to the limited release cybersecurity-focused model last week, Nextgov/FCW reports. It’s just a little late, since the rest of the world has mostly moved onto the drama around the Trump administration’s block of the safeguarded public version of the model, Fable.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Another iPhone Air rumor.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that the next version of Apple’s ultra-slim device could arrive in spring 2027, echoing a previous report from The Information. Apple is reportedly working to improve the iPhone Air’s battery life and may add an ultrawide camera.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
OpenAI is sunsetting Pulse, which showed you custom daily digests in ChatGPT.

Alongside the announcement of an updated experience for scheduling tasks, OpenAI said that Pulse would be going away “in the next 14 days” and suggested using scheduled tasks for a daily briefing instead.

Pulse was short-lived: the company launched it in September.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s new trailer has the Hulk, and “a powerful villain no one can even see.”

With tickets going on sale today ahead of Spider-Man’s premiere on July 31st, Sony Pictures released a new nearly three-minute trailer to follow the March teaser that quickly racked up a billion views.

This new one still features a world that’s forgotten Peter Parker, and also highlights the movie’s villain, an invisible entity that seemingly takes over even Bruce Banner / Hulk.