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This week in games: Hollow Knight gets a sequel, Neill Blomkamp makes a live-action Anthem trailer -

What did I miss? Sorry, I’ve been locked in a room for the last week or so, finishing up our reviews of Metro Exodus
Best smart lock for a keyless home - Keys are yesterday’s tech, your smart home needs a smart door lock.
Buy this $45 Netgear modem and stop paying your Internet provider's sky-high monthly rental fees -

Paying your internet service provider to rent a modem gets pretty expensive as the months roll on—but it doesn’t have to. Using your own modem lets you kick those fees to the curb. Today, a discount-coupon co
Solid-state drive prices get even more ridiculous: This 240GB SSD is just $30! -

Sweet holy moly the prices of SSDs just keep on dropping! Right now, Amazon is selling a Kingston A400 240GB 2.5-inch SSD drive for $30. This deal has been around for a few weeks
The ultra-thin Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e has an OLED screen, Android Pie and no S Pen for $400 -

Forget folding phones, Samsung might have finally made an Android tablet you want to buy. Instead of updating last year

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Rumor: AMD Ryzen 3000 "Matisse" Launching July 7 - Paul from Red Gaming Tech claims AMD is launching its next-generation Ryzen 3000 "Matisse" processors and the X570 platform on July 7. Navi may also land on this date, although his source is less certain about the GPU, echoing recent reports of TSMC
Samsung Quits Blu-ray Player Market - Another blow for physical media: Samsung has announced it won't be bringing any new 1080p or 4K Blu-ray players to the US market. The reason is supposedly related to technical oversights and/or market share vs. competitors, but streaming could very
Star Citizen Developer Calls Real-Time Ray Tracing "A Massive Headache" - Will Star Citizen support ray tracing? The answer is an unsurprising "no." Cloud Imperium developer Ben Parry suggests implementing the technology would be a "massive headache and time sink," as it would break the game in its current form and c
"Conviction": District 9's Neill Blomkamp Releases Live-Action Anthem Prequel Trailer - EA and BioWare have partnered with Neill Blomkamp and Oats Studios (his experimental short-film company) to promote Anthem, which is now available for select EA or Origin Access subscribers. "Conviction" is a prequel that sees hub-world Fort Tarsis
Plans for First Chinese Solar Power Station in Space Revealed - The Chinese are reportedly working on experimental solar power stations that would be launched into space to generate electricity. Planned for launch as early as 2021, they will provide "an inexhaustible source of clean energy for humans," reliably

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