Netflix purchases Next Games studio, the team behind its 'Stranger Things' game

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Netflix wants you to know it's serious about its gaming ambitions. The company announced its plans to acquire Next Games, the Finnish mobile game developer that created its RPG-based Stranger Things game. The streaming service will purchase the studio for about €65 million (around CA$91.5 million), with its paperwork expected to be finalized by the summer. According to Netflix VP of Games, Michael Verdu, Next Games will become its "core studio" that will expand its internal game studio capabilities. 

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These earbuds offer built-in temperature monitoring

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One of the new products Chinese brand Honor introduced at MWC 2022 is a pair of unassuming earbuds. But what makes the Earbuds 3 Pro earbuds unique is their built-in temperature monitoring technology. As we live through this pandemic, monitoring our temperature has become essential. And with infrared ear thermometers widely available, it isn't surprising that this feature exists. 

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Sonos Roam SL is the mic-free version of the original

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Sonos updates its Roam speaker to release a version without its built-in microphone. The Sonos Roam SL looks identical to the original but costs US$20 less than it. This small speaker can still connect to your Wi-Fi network and be included in a Sonos multi-room audio system. It has a built-in battery and Bluetooth capabilities. And it is waterproof and dust-resistant (IP67 rated), with a battery life of up to 10 hours.

Since it doesn't have a microphone, it loses the Auto Trueplay feature, which uses the mic to tune the speaker to sound better in the room you've placed it in. As Engadget pointed out, it makes sense the feature isn't available since the Roam SL is designed to be taken around with you. In some markets, the Sonos Roam SL is now available for pre-order on the company's website, and it'll launch on March 15.

The Samsung Galaxy Note brand is no more

The Galaxy Note is dead; long live the Galaxy Note. Well, it still lives in the form of the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, but Samsung's smartphone chief Roh Tae-moon confirmed with reporters at Mobile World Congress 2022 that the "Galaxy Note will come out as Ultra."

It's an unsurprising move given the last Galaxy Note device was the Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra released in 2020. And before this confirmation, this year's Galaxy S22 Ultra has an integrated S Pen. As The Verge pointed out, the Samsung Galaxy Note series was Samsung's experimental brand for big-screened devices. But when it started to share more and more similar features with the Galaxy S series, and then they developed larger displays with its foldable devices, the Note got lost in the fray.