In China, an extremely important market that accounts for nearly one-fifth of Apple’s global revenues, the Apple Watch has sold more than one million units, according to a new estimate by a Chinese company called TalkingData. The numbers,sharedby Business Insider, indicate that sales of the Apple wearable in the 1.33 billion people market have exceeded 1.07 million total devices. It’s important to note that TalkingData’s analysis is just an estimate because Apple doesn’t report Apple Watch sales for competitive reasons and instead lumps that sales data into a larger category which also includes Beats and accessories, the Apple TV and content sales....

With Apple’s Glowtime event in the books, it feels like there’s a lot to be let down by. While the baseAirPodsandiPhonereceived significant updates, their “Pro” counterparts have both been left in the dust. The reveal of the AirPods 4th-gen was already fantastic to see, but the wireless earbuds were swiftly followed by a slightly better AirPods 4th-gen model that includes ANC and transparency mode. Adding to this, the most significant new hardware and software changes coming to the iPhone this year aren’t exclusive to theiPhone 16 Pro, with the iPhone 16 set to have both the camera control button and Apple Intelligence....

RTX 4090 laptops deliver exceptional performance, especially forgamingor resource-intensive tasks like 3D rendering. While the laptop version of the RTXk 4090 may not quite match the performance of its desktop counterpart due to the limitations of heat and power, it still reigns supreme in the realm of mobile power. Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 MSI Raider GE78 HX 17.3 Gaming Laptop Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 8 Razer Blade 18 Gaming Laptop (RTX 4090) Asus ROG Strix Scar 16 Gaming Laptop Gigabyte Aorus 17H Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 6 Laptop Acer Predator Triton 700 PT715-51-71W9 Tips to get the most out of your new Nvidia RTX GPU So you’ve just got yourself a shiny RTX card....

Back in the 2000s and 2010s, it was incredibly rare to see any video games about samurai come to the West. While there would be the occasional title like Way of the Samurai, most of the time samurai representation in video games came in the way of giving a modern-day character a katana or inserting a samurai-like character into a fantasy world. PlayStation Plus Extra May 2024 Lineup Adds Beloved Rockstar Game PlayStation Plus Extra also adds Crime Boss: Rockay City and The Sims 4 City Living expansion pack....

World of Warcraft’slatest expansion, The War Within, is here, and we get it: you’re in a rush to get all of your characters to level 80 before the first season of raiding and Mythic+ begins (that’s on September 10, by the way). World of Warcraft: 6 New Features in The War Within Expansion Before diving into the world of Khaz Algar, here’s what you should know about World of Warcraft’s newest expansion....

Season 3 of Call of Duty: Vanguard & Warzone adds a new batch of soldiers to the diverse selection. Special Operations Task Force orS.O.T.F. 008 “Harpy"consists of three operators whom you can play as and customize to your liking. Here’s a list of the new operators coming in the Season 3 update. Mateo Hernandez Mateo Hernandez was initially seen in multiple Vanguard Campaign missions. He was the tail gunner for pilot Wade Jackson, another Task Force operator and one of the protagonists of Vanguard’s Campaign....

Sandfall Interactivehas confirmed the obvious: they’re working on a new title following the success of the RPGClair Obscur: Expedition 33. Sandfall Confirms New Project Is in the Works In an interview,COO Matthieu Meurisserevealed that the team already has ideas for what’s next. Speaking toGamesIndustry, Meurisse said he can’t wait to dive deeper into those plans—though he gave no specific details other than saying they’re “big ideas,” and the team is better prepared now thanks to the experience gained fromExpedition 33....

Do Smart Switches Work Without Wi-Fi? As part of their quest to make their homes more intelligent, many people install smart switches. With a smart switch, you’re able to use a smartphone app or voice assistant to control your lighting remotely, and in some setups, even certain appliances. Besides lighting, there are several otherclever ways you can use smart switches around your houseto simplify your daily routine. If you have installed smart switches in your home, you depend on them to work as needed....

Fans of Todd Phillips’Jokerare unquestionably happy thatJoaquin Phoenixbecame the cackling Clown Prince of Crime in DC’s Elseworlds. However, there was a time when the Academy Award-winning actor was seemingly just an Infinity Gauntlet-snap away from becoming the Master of the Mystic Arts in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And judging from whatDoctor StrangedirectorScott Derricksonrevealed in a new interview, Phoenix was in the running to portray Stephen Strange when it seemed Benedict Cumberbatch couldn’t appear in the 2016 film....

Documentarian and movie director Kenneth Lauren “Ken” Burns is well-known for his style of using archival footage and photographs and giving them life by slowly zooming in on subjects of interest and panning from one subject to another. This technique became known as ‘The Ken Burns effect’ and you’ll find it in Apple’s iPhoto, iMovie and Final Cut Pro X apps and many other software applications. Today, Ken’s out with a new namesake iPad app,now available free in the App Store, which gives you access to streaming videos containing extras, behind-the-scenes and other footage from all 25 of his films, such asThe Civil War,BaseballandProhibition…...

AsDune: Part 2is taking over theaters in the world, Funcom took the opportunity to host their firstDune Awakeningdirect, sharing more information about their upcoming Survival MMO. That is the first takeaway in many senses that I had from watching the 30-minute event, that it’s attempting to bridge both survival and MMO genres. Funcom’s Chief creative officer, Joel Bylos explained a bit about it: Funcom as a company has been on this journey for a long time, creating multiplayer worlds where players can live out their dreams and fantasies....

Competition in sports games were once a major part of pushing the genre forward. In the last ten years, this hasn’t really been the case outside of soccer titles and the occasional NBA game. 2K absorbed HB Studios a few weeks ago as The Golf Club was converted over to the official PGA Tour 2K series. After EA decided to drop Tiger Woods in 2014, EA released one PGA title in 2015 with Rory McIllroy....

A new free game has arrived on theEpic Games Store. Along withEvoland Legendary Edition, Epic Gamesusers can claimFallout 3: Game of the YearEditionfor free this week. Outside of this time-limited sale, it usually retails for $19.99 USD.Fallout 3andEvolandwill remain free until October 27 at11:00 AMET. Fallout 3: Game of the Year Editioncomes bundled with a variety of additional content. This includes all five of its add-on packs: Operation: Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel, Point Lookout, and Mothership Zeta....