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Garmin’s fitness-focused smartwatches head up any discussion of premium brands. With its rich assemblage of location, fitness and activity tracking, connectivity, music capabilities, and more, Garmin’s Fenix 5 model lineup lets you mix and match features, colors, watch face sizes and material, and much more. List prices for the Fenix 5 series start at $500 and head north to more than $1,100 for the Fenix 5X Plus with a carbon-titanium case and watchband, but Amazon slashed the price list for the full line just in time for Father’s Day....

In the race to pack more and more transistors into smaller and smaller silicon packages, AMD is set to pull ahead in 2019. With a release schedule that plans the debut of both 7nm CPUs and 7nm graphics cards for consumers within the next year, its products based on the TSMC FinFET process will for the first time in a long time be more compact at the die level than the competition’s best offerings....

An unofficial Season 3 survey among nearly 2,000Apex Legendsplayers revealed the characters that the community believes need to be buffed and nerfed the most, as well as the reasons behind the answers. Thesurvey, in which 1,936 players participated after it was shared across various online forums, asked questions on whether they think each of theApex Legendscharacters is overpowered, balanced, or underpowered, and to provide an explanation for their choice. Of the battle royale shooter’s 11 Legends, the survey reveals that players think the three characters that need buffs are Mirage, Bloodhound, and Crypto, with 91%, 82%, and 68% of respondents tagging them as underpowered, respectively....

For anyone that has an Apple device — be itiPhone,iPad, orMacBook— it’s natural to immediately consider Apple-branded headphones and earbuds to use alongside them. After all, any of the AirPods are designed to integrate seamlessly into the Apple ecosystem. But a product with Apple on its box isn’t the only option. Thanks to Apple’s purchase of Beats back in 2014, Beats earbuds like thePowerbeats Pro 2have the same native integration as theApple AirPods Pro 2....

Baldur’s Gate 3 players share love for “adorable” Owlbear cub moments The Baldur’s Gate 3 community discussed their favorite heartwarming moments from the game, and many of them shared a common component: the Owlbear cub. This animal companion canbe found in Act 1 of the gameand became a fan-favorite character thanks to its adorable looks and kind personality. With this kind of love, it’s not surprising that Baldur’s Gate 3 players have plenty of wholesome stories from their time playing thatinvolve the Owlbear cuband their interactions withother companions....

In late 2019, writer and director Rian Johnson’sKnives Outwas an unexpected hit. There aren’t a lot of comical murder mysteries burning up the box office the way that one did. That may be why Netflix pulled the trigger on twoKnives Outsequels, the first of which will arrive later this year. Now, Netflix has unveiled the first trailer forGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. FormerJames Bondstar Daniel Craig is reprising his role as detective Benoit Blanc....

A 16-year-old Malaysian boy is dead, and his cellphone, headphones, and charger appear to be the reason why. Mohd Aidi Azzhar Zahrin was found lifeless by his mother last week, the victim of electrocution,the New Straits Times reports. “She tried to wake him up and as she touched him, the boy’s body felt cold,” district police chief Deputy Superintendent Anuar Bakri Abdul Salam told the Malaysian newspaper “There was bleeding in the boy’s left ear....

Microsoft is one of the early backers of OpenAI, and has repeatedly hawked products like Copilot by touting their access to the latest ChatGPT models. Now, it seems Microsoft is looking to push its own AI models in the popular software suite, while also developing a rival to OpenAI’s reasoning models in the ”GPT-o” family. As perThe Information, employees at Microsoft’s AI unit recently concluded the training of “a new family of AI model” that are currently in development under the “MAI” codename....

Despite how frequently new, upgraded versions of smartphones are launched each year, they’re still relatively fragile devices. While there have been a lot of advancements when it comes to making them more secure, a good drop can still spell disaster for most screens if they don’t have any sort of protection. It seems like every smartphone purchase comespaired with a caseand screen protector these days, which some phone companies have taken notice of....

The massively popularFall Guys: Ultimate Knockoutis currently only available for the PlayStation 4 and PC, but it appears that the colorful battle royale may be making its way to more platforms soon. The officialFall Guysaccount on Twitter recently issued awarningthat ads for a mobile version of the game are scams. However, it appears that a legitimate mobile version is on the way, according to video game analyst Daniel Ahmad. https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1297205586350747648...

This article contains discussions of sex, sexual abuse, manipulation, coercion, and consent. Summary Fifty Shades of Grey’s ending raises many questions about Ana and Christian’s relationship as well as the ethics of the storyline. In 2015, Universal Pictures released a movie adaptation of the eponymous book, which started out as aTwilightfan fiction. The story follows a billionaire businessperson named Christian Grey who sets his sights on an undergraduate student named Anastasia “Ana” Steele, wanting to make her his sexual submissive....

It’s a new week, which means the next list ofFortnitechallenges is here for you to complete. This week’s challenges might cause a little trouble since they send you to specific, unmarked locations on the map. But fortunately, most of them can be completed fairly quickly if you know where to go. One that might cause you some trouble requires you to deploy alien nanites anywhere other than Holly Hatchery. If you’ve been playing recently, you might already know where to deploy alien nanites, while other players might not be as familiar....

Now that season 4 week 10 ofFortniteis live, you’ll have a new set of challenges to complete. One of them requires you to drive a boat from The Fortilla to The Authority in less than four minutes. This task seems daunting at first, but we’ve got all the details on how to complete it with plenty of time to spare, including the best path to take. Here’s how to drive a boat from The Fortilla to The Authority in less than four minutes inFortnite....