A little after the launch of the rest of the Pixel 10 family, Google’s new foldable is here. The Pixel 10 Pro Fold is a beast — which may not be the first thing you want to hear about a foldable.
It’s perceptibly thicker than its biggest rival, Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7. But avoiding the race for thinness gives Google’s new foldable some advantages. The Pixel 10 Pro Fold has the best cameras of any foldable and enhanced hardiness with the top dust resistance rating. And remember: This thing is $1,800. There’s more: It has PixelSnap, Google’s version of MagSafe, and a bigger battery compared to its predecessor. Make sure to check out our full review right here.
It’s a week of heavy-duty gadgets, and I don’t mean CAT-branded phones and off-road EVs. We’ve also tested out Razer’s updated 18-inch laptop. Predictably, perhaps, it has all the power you’d want as well as the PC maker’s excellent build quality. It’s got lots of ports too. Rejoice! Prices start at $2,799.
— Mat Smith
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A week of confusion.
Nintendo spent the week confusing its fans with a teaser video on its Today app. The Pixar-tinged animation focused on a baby playing with toys and a magical pacifier (dummy) and not much explanation about what game (or toy) it was teasing. Fortunately, more recently the games maker released a second version of the animated short, but this time you can clearly see widdle Pikmin creatures moving a baby’s building blocks and pacifier around. Yeah, it’s a Pikmin thing. Now, is it a movie or a game? Regardless, it’s cute.
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Say hello to Project Amethyst.
Sony just dropped a new video with Mark Cerny, who was the lead designer for the PlayStation 4 and PS5, and Jack Huynh, senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s Computing and Graphics Group. They chatted up a storm about a series of technologies, collectively dubbed Project Amethyst. It is very early days, however, as the technologies “only exist in simulations.” They teased upscaling, better ray tracing and other machine learning-based rendering techniques. One of the more intriguing new concepts is Universal Compression, which builds on the PS5’s existing Delta Color Compression technique. It will theoretically allow Sony’s next console to compress everything that goes through its graphics pipeline, reducing the amount of memory bandwidth needed and even potentially cutting power consumption.
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The original has grossed nearly a billion dollars globally.
A Minecraft Movie was a box office hit. So you know what that means in Hollywood? Sequels! Variety reports that Warner Bros. has penciled in the sequel for a July 23, 2027, premiere date, just two years after the original. When you know something can print money, you make more of it.
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