The X TV app — teased earlier this yr — is out in beta on Amazon Hearth TVs, Google TVs and a few LG units. The quick teaser video included within the beta app announcement exhibits a typical-looking streaming video interface sewn into what seems like Google’s model of the X app. There are rows of hyperlinks to movies for the very small variety of unique movies on the platform, like content material from SpaceX, Tesla and… Tucker Carlson. Naturally, there may (ought to?) be an even bigger vary of video as soon as it will get out of beta, however in the event you’re not a Musk fan, you’re most likely lengthy divorced from X anyhow.
— Mat Smith
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The supply code is within the Android Open Supply Undertaking.
Unusually lacking from final month’s Google Pixel launch occasion, Android 15’s supply code is lastly out. Android 15 might be out there on choose Pixel fashions quickly, with assist for telephones from Samsung, Motorola, Nothing, OnePlus and Oppo coming within the subsequent few months. A number of the extra fascinating options embrace sensible quantity adjustment and improved split-screen app entry.
A grown-up, glowed-up foldable.
Google’s second foldable has arrived. The Pixel 9 Professional fold has refined {hardware}, superior cameras and a long-lasting battery. The Pixel 9 Professional Fold’s inner show has an nearly sq. 1:1 facet ratio, 8 inches extensive diagonally, bigger than its predecessor’s 7.6-inch panel. Google simply must iron out a couple of software program quirks — one thing we’re saying about most foldable.
Sony will refund everybody who purchased the staff shooter.
Developer Firewalk Studios says it’s taking Harmony offline on September 6, simply two weeks after its launch, to “explore options, including those that will better reach our players.” You possibly can now not purchase Harmony digitally, and Sony will refund everybody who purchased the $40 sport. Sport director Ryan Ellis wrote on the PlayStation Weblog that the staff acknowledged “aspects of the game and our initial launch didn’t land the way we’d intended.” There are many causes Harmony didn’t take off, from its so-so gameplay and lack of fascinating characters to heavyweight competitors from different free-to-play staff shooters, assume Overwatch 2, Apex Legends, Name of Responsibility: Warzone and Sony’s personal Future 2.
