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Sean Hollister

Sean Hollister

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    What if AMD gaming tablet, but hugely more powerful plugged in?

    Asus thermal engineer Sam Jiun-Wei Hu has revealed he’s been working on an unannounced ROG Flow Z13 gaming tablet for 2025 that would contain the unannounced AMD Strix Halo chip — with an incredible 80W of power for its integrated GPU alone, and 30W more for the CPU.

    The previous-gen housed up to a 65W RTX 4070 Mobile, but limited it to 35W on battery power.

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    Sean Hollister
    Here’s an hour of shimmering water droplets exploding from a balloon in ultra slow motion.

    When you slow down escaping water to 82,000 frames per second, it looks unreal — like magic pixie dust glittering in the light. Here’s an entire hour of that. I’m mesmerized.

    Just the latest example of a slow-mo camera unlocking the fourth dimension; in this case, it’s a Phantom TMX7510 operated by The Slow Mo Guys.

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    Sean Hollister
    AMD announces Fluid Motion Frames 2: less lag, less jitter when it’s faking more frames for you.

    You can try the technical preview now if you’ve got RX 7000 or RX 6000 series discrete GPUs; it looks like it’ll also come to some laptops and handhelds with 780M integrated graphics.

    Like Nvidia’s DLSS 3, AMD’s AFMF imagines new frames between existing ones for higher FPS — with many tradeoffs and caveats. AFMF 2 may reduce them.

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    Sean Hollister
    I tried the Sharge Pouch: a power bank, charger, cable, and fashion accessory in one.

    $99 is pricey — and at 36Wh capacity and 40W PD output, it’s for small gadgets (1.5 charges for Z Flip, nearly full charge for Switch Lite). It only charged a Steam Deck 25 percent while playing 40 minutes of Animal Well. And the cable’s bead-like port covers kind of bang around.

    But where else can you get charger, battery and cable in a single tangle-free package? Nice strong magnets, too.

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    Sean Hollister
    I haven’t charged my wireless gaming mouse in two and a half years.

    That’s no exaggeration, it’s just me checking in on my 2022 story about the Logitech Powerplay Wireless Charging System, now on sale at Amazon for its best price in two years.

    Mind you, that price is $94, not including a compatible mouse... but in hindsight, I’d gladly pay it.

    Note: If you buy something from this link, we might get affiliate revenue.

    A Logitech G502 Lightspeed mouse on Logitech’s epic wireless charging mousepad.
    A Logitech G502 Lightspeed mouse on Logitech’s epic wireless charging mousepad.
    Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge
    Asus ROG Ally X review: the best Windows gaming handheld by a mile

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    In some ways, it’s even better than Deck.

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