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The Ports of Auckland in New Zealand has welcomed a new member to its maritime family. A bright green, electric tugboat named Sparky recently arrived in Auckland as “the world’s first full-sized ship-handling electric tug.” By delivering the same bollard pull as the Ports of Auckland’s strongest diesel tug, Sparky represents a future in which zero-emissions ship handling is possible around the globe. In 2019, Ports of Auckland signed a contract with Dutch maritime manufacturer Damen Shipyards to purchase a…

During yesterday’s (June 2) State Of Play stream, PlayStation announced that Marvel’s Spider-Man is getting a PC port later this year.  Marvel’s Spider-Man comes to PC on August 12 this year, whilst Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales will get a PC port in the autumn/fall. The ports will have ray-traced reflections, adjustable render settings and keyboard and mouse/gamepad support. The Insomniac Games title has been ported to be PC by Nixxes Software – a Dutch porting studio owned by PlayStation. More will be revealed…

On the technical side, any vertiport has a few key physical requirements: a stable electric grid for fast recharging, a hangar for maintenance and a system to move vehicles into it, and enough room around the takeoff and landing pad for the aircraft to maneuver. While Urban-Air Port’s design has a moving platform to lift vehicles to the roof of the building, Hermans explains that vertiports will require less clearance than helicopters, which land a lot less vertically than most of us imagine—eVTOLs, by comparison, do, as…

Plugable has today announced a new 14-in-1 USB-C docking station that features no fewer than 4 HDMI ports as well as support for 100W charging. The new dock, which will retail for $349 but is now available with a $20 discount, has more ports than most people will know what to do with — but those who need such things as four HDMI ports, gigabit Ethernet, and SD card readers will be in their element. The main claim to fame here is those HDMI ports, though. A universal docking station for laptops that extends your…

Gotta pump the brakes Publisher Nacon delivered a lot of good news during yesterday’s Nacon Connect presentation — including the reveal of a GreedFall sequel and a new WRC title — but this was slightly offset by the bum news that the next entry in the Test Drive Unlimited series, Solar Crown, would no longer be meeting its originally planned 2022 release date. “With so much support from fans of the series, we know many of you will be disappointed, but our goal with Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown is to make it the…

Plus 24 “immersive core” games At least eight new Take-Two remasters or ports are set for release, according to a new financial report (fiscal 2022 results) from the publisher. This is all part of a massive section of Take-Two’s “pipeline,” which extends all the way from this current fiscal year of 2023 to 2025. Take-Two not only shed some light on its plans to bring back the past, but what it’s doing in the future. Let’s take a brief look at its set of fully confirmed games. Here are the games Take-Two is touting…

AirPods, Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, Mouse, and MagSafe battery along with iPhone handsets would switch to USB Type-C in the foreseeable future, as per Ming-Chi Kuo. The Apple analyst said that this is possible because the Cupertino-based company is not yet primed to reach its goal of going completely portless. The development comes a few days after a report said Apple is gearing up to pack the USB Type-C port on its future iPhone models. However, these port changes may not take place until 2023.Kuo says that the portless…

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is currently testing iPhones that replace the Lightning connector with a USB-C port. Gurman claims that if even Apple does decide to go through with this change, it won’t happen until 2023 at the earliest. This might suggest that the iPhone 15 will be the first USB-C iPhone to hit store shelves. USB-C iPhones could arrive in 2023 Gurman’s report comes just a few days after analyst Ming-Chi Kuo shared similar news on Twitter. The responses to one of Kuo’s supply…

Western ports are bracing for increased congestion when China eventually lifts stringent Covid-19 restrictions in major cities, which could come just as many importers start to load up for the back-to-school and holiday shopping seasons.Import gateways such as California’s Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, which handle more than a third of all containers coming into the U.S., are still inundated with uncollected cargo more than two years into the pandemic. Once full export shipments resume in ports including Shanghai,…

Today's best Razer Leviathan V2 dealsRazer’s Leviathan V2 soundbar is the latest peripheral offering from the gaming and lifestyle brand. It’s an updated version of their original Leviathan soundbar, which debuted in 2014. The new V2 has a new, sleek design and has added RGB lighting underneath. Unlike the original, this soundbar supports THX spatial audio, a virtual surround sound featured in Razer’s Kraken V3 headsets, one of which is featured on our best PC gaming headsets list. The Leviathan also comes with a 55-inch…