Nintendo’s excellent Gold Points reward program is going the way ofUltimaon March 24. The program first launched in March 2016 and allowed customers to earn points for purchasing both physical and digital games, and those points could be used toward future purchases. Earned points were equivalent to roughly 5% of the price, so a $60 purchase would give the shopper around $3. That said, you can still use any Gold Points you have saved up, and you can continue to earn them until March 24....

OnePlus showed off the OnePlus 10 Pro’s design as part of CES 2022 on January 3, and has now revealed the basic specification of the forthcoming phone. OnePlus’ strategy for the phone seems to be developing into an information drip-feed, as the launch event isn’t until January 11, giving it plenty more time to send out more snippets about it in the meantime. For now, though, we’ve got the chance to go over the general specifications of the OnePlus 10 Pro 5G, starting with the camera....

Overwatch 2 director outlines upcoming Colosseo & Numbani map overhauls Overwatch 2’s director has outlined some of the changes coming to the Colosseo and Numbani maps that are set to roll out over the next few seasons. Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller elaborated on upcoming changes to those two maps specifically in an interview with Dexerto last week. This information coincides with the announcement that the game will be reworking multiple maps in upcoming seasons....

Roborock is responsible for many of the best robot vacuums, and this year is shaping up to be another big one for the company. A whole fleet of robot vacuums were on display at CES 2024, including the highly automated S8 MaxV Ultra and S8 Max Ultra — both of which can connect to your home drainage system to automatically empty and refill their water reservoirs. The Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra is the most luxurious of the bunch, offering a self-maintained cleaning system that will empty water tanks, refill water tanks, dispense detergent, wash its mop with hot water, and dry its mop with warm air....

Summary Ryan Gosling’s upcoming sci-fi movieProject Hail Maryhas begun filming, with co-director Christopher Miller posting a behind-the-scenes image of production starting. Based on a novel by Andy Weir (The Martian), the movie stars Gosling as Ryland Grace, an amnesiac astronaut in the deep reaches of space trying to find a way to save humanity from an approaching disaster.Project Hail Mary’s storyis being tackled by Miller and Phil Lord, best known for their work directingThe Lego Movieand writingSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse....

Sinners will be available to watch on this streaming platform first Sinnersis already one of the hottestnew movies of 2025, earning a rare perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes – and if you want to watch it on streaming, there’s one place it’ll drop first. Directed by Ryan Coogler (Black Panther, Fruitvale Station), it stars Michael B. Jordan in two roles: Smoke and Stack, twin brothers who attempt to leave their “troubled lives” behind and return to their hometown, where an “even greater evil is waiting” for them....

If you were hoping to cut the cord by signing up withSling TV, we’ve got some bad news: Thelive TV streaming servicehas justannounced a price increasethat bumps itsSling Orange and Sling Blue packagesto $35 per month — $5 more than their previous $30 per month level. The combo Sling Orange + Blue package is also going up by $5 to $50 per month. The increase only affects new subscriptions for now, as the company’s one-year price guarantee means existing customers can hold onto the lower prices until the end of July 2021, as long as their subscription remains active....

TCL Communications has announced a multiscreen software platform, calledMulti-Screen Collaboration, for theTCL 20 Pro 5Gsmartphone, which will arrive as an update for the recently announced device in the near future. It opens up the ability for the phone to integrate with a compatible television, tablet, or computer. Think of the functionality as being similar to Huawei’s Huawei Share, Samsung’s DeX, and even Google’s Chromecast. Pair the TCL 20 Pro 5G toa TCL televisionusing DLNA or Miracast, and the system makes it easy to display the photos stored in the gallery....

Amazon and Google might dominate the smart home market, but that doesn’t mean they’re the only companies churning out high-end products in that category. Companies like Wyze, Arlo, and even Apple have shown time and again they’re capable of competing with the two well-known companies — and they’ve got plenty of highly rated products to prove it. If you don’t want to pick up smart home products from Amazon or Google (or their subsidiaries), here are the best smart home products to buy....

The2021 iPad Probrings with it a series of updates, including features like Center Stage and 5G support. But perhaps the most talked-about changes to the iPad Pro are that it comeswith a new M1 chipand boasts Apple’s Liquid Retina XDR display tech. The M1 chip has made tons of headlines, and for good reason. It’s an incredibly high-performing chip, and absolutely raises the bar for the iPad. But the iPad Pro already performed like a beast, and frankly, I don’t notice a difference in performance between mylast-gen iPad Proand the new one....

The Way Home star reveals crushing update about Season 4 amid fan concerns The chances of The Way Home Season 4 are looking extremely precarious as Season 3 nears its end. If you look closely, Ponderers have already been hit with another crushing blow by one of its stars. Slowly but surely, we are starting to get to the bottom of Port Haven’s mysteries.Sam clearly isn’t who he says he is, Casey is definitely from the future, and Colton has been traveling back to 1814 to teach his now-adult sonJacobhow to farm....

This year’s Cyber Monday set a new record for online shopping in the U.S. Customers spending a whopping $10.8 billion, making it the largest online shopping day in the nation’s history, according to data from Adobe Analytics. The spending marked an increase of 15.1% on last year’s Cyber Monday, and followsa record-breaking Black Fridaythree days earlier that saw shoppers fork out a total of $9 billion via online purchases, an increase of 21....

When I was a kid, I wasn’t exactly tuned into politics. I wrote it all off as boring adult stuff, focusing my attention on important things like games and edgy humor. What I didn’t realize at the time is how much the tense political climate happening in the late 1990s and 2000s was quietly shaping me. I may have been too young to full understand the War on Terror when it began, but many of my views would end up shaping around it....