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Amazon’s Prime Early Access Sale, a.k.a. Amazon Prime Day 2.0, has arrived, and with it comes the best discount we’ve seen yet on Apple’s newest AirPods Pro. Right now, you can buy them on sale for just $223.24 instead of $249. That’s a small price cut, true, but it’s also the steepest discount we’ve seen on the noise-canceling earbuds since they launched just a few weeks ago. While the second-gen AirPods Pro aren’t dramatically different from their predecessor, they do include new swipe-based controls and better noise…

via Warner Bros. As we get closer to the release of Black Adam, Dwayne Johnson has been gradually getting more and more open in teasing the potential Superman appearance we’ve been hearing about for years. The A-list superstar has clearly had his ear to the ground when it comes to giving the fans exactly what they want, as evidenced when he basically apologized for including a mere second or two of footage from Joss Whedon’s detested Justice League in a recent trailer, and that’s without mentioning the Henry…

Credit: 20th Century Studios The sequel trilogy to Matt Reeves’s Planet of the Apes films has seen its first look, as audiences can now get a glimpse of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. The sequel will feature an entirely new cast of characters, following on from the legacy of Andy Serkis’s Caesar. The Kingdom will start its reign with a cast featuring the likes of Owen Teague, The Witcher’s Freya Allan, Joe Hartwick Jr., and Jessica Jones alum Eka Darville. Set many years after War for the Planet of the…

After three years of planning, five expeditions, and a two-week trek through dense jungle, scientists have reached the tallest tree ever found in the Amazon rainforest, a towering specimen the size of a 25-story building.The giant tree, whose top juts out high above the canopy in the Iratapuru River Nature Reserve in northern Brazil, is an angelim vermelho (scientific name: Dinizia excelsa) measuring 88.5 meters (290 feet) tall and 9.9 meters (32 feet) around – the biggest ever identified in the Amazon, scientists…

Born in 1975, Shehan Karunatilaka is the Sri Lankan author of two novels. Chinaman (2010) won the Commonwealth book prize and was declared the second-best cricket book of all time by Wisden. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is set in war-torn Sri Lanka in 1989, and is about a dead war photographer trying to find out who killed him; last month it was shortlisted for the Booker prize (the winner will be announced on 17 October). Karunatilaka lived in London and New Zealand, among other places, before returning to Colombo,…

The race to market a truly portable, affordable, and long-lasting OLED laptop is on. Asus is currently the major player. Not only has it made several attempts this year, but it’s come the closest so far with its AMD-powered Zenbook S 13. But Acer, today, is throwing its hat in the ring. The new Swift Edge is a 16-inch, 3840 x 2400 OLED device that weighs just 2.58 pounds — which would make it the lightest 16-inch laptop in the current market (though LG’s Gram 16 is very close).And here’s the really good news: it’s got AMD…

This week, I played my first-ever round of Overwatch. I was immediately impressed by the game's synergistic class-based elements, and how a well-oiled machine of a team can quickly dismantle the opposition. I also loved the colors and art direction and the obviously thoughtful map design. It didn't take long for me to believe the hype--even if this much-anticipated sequel is perhaps too close to the original in certain ways. Still, for new eyes like mine, Overwatch 2 has been a revelation, but has also…

Sebastián Lelio has never knowingly made a movie about a man. The new Cassavetes (plus a bit of Malle and Bergman and Almodóvar) specialises in fierce women on the edge – not of their own sanity but society’s collective madness.A middle-aged divorcee in Gloria (2013) and its 2018 English-language remake, Gloria Bell. A bereaved trans singer in 2017’s Oscar-winning A Fantastic Woman. Orthodox lesbians in Hendon (Disobedience, 2018). A Yorkshire nurse battling Catholic fanatics in 19th century Ireland (The Wonder, his…

We really want to believe in Todd McFarlane’s Spawn movie, but we’ve been burned so many times on this project. The perpetually-in-development new movie about McFarlane’s hellbound antihero has been on the verge of going into production for years, but every time it looks as if there’s good news on the horizon the can gets kicked down the road and the waiting game begins anew. So don’t blame us for not being especially optimistic about McFarlane’s new tweet that there’s “huge” Spawn news coming today: The best…

Finally, Sonos has a subwoofer that's more affordable and practical for smaller spaces, the Sub Mini. It only took 10 years to get here. Sonos' original wireless Sub, which debuted in 2012, has always been targeted at its most hardcore users. With a launch price of $699, it was just as expensive as the company's flagship Playbar, and its enormous size made it overkill for apartments. (It's now $50 more after Sonos' recent price hikes.) Casual Sonos fans were basically out of luck, especially as the company released more…