YouTube Music finally gets a Wear OS app

If you're a YouTube Music user and have a smartwatch running the latest Wear OS 2 version, you can finally listen to YouTube Music on the wearable. It's possible to stream over LTE or Wi-Fi without your smartphone. You can download songs to it to listen to while offline, control playback, manage downloads, and like songs all from your wrist. The YouTube Music tile will act like a quick-launch remote for recently played playlists, and you can also browse the main page of the app.

If you're a premium subscriber, you won't have to endure ads and get access to that download function. It will also start aggregating new playlists based on your listening history.

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Acer brings stereoscopic 3D to its new SpatialLabs external monitors

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Acer has a couple of new external monitors with what is typically deemed "gimmicky" features. The new SpatialLabs View and View Pro are standalone 15.6-inch 4K monitors with glasses-free stereoscopic 3D technology. Acer has previously included this tech in ConceptD notebooks, but it hasn't brought it to this format yet.

The standard SpatialLabs View is designed for entertainment use, while the Pro is for commercial users. The former gets the SpatialLabs TrueGame portal for playing 3D games. The app gives each of the 50 or so 3D-compatible games a pre-configured profile to help the games feel more immersive. You can expect some of the big titles: Forza Horizon 5, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and God of War.

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Marvel's 'She Hulk' to premiere on Disney+ on Aug. 17

Marvel's ingesting a bit more comedy into its cinematic universe with the upcoming She-Hulk series. Disney just dropped a new trailer for the Disney+ show and revealed it will premiere on the streaming service on August 17. Canadian actress Tatiana Maslany stars as Jennifer Walters, the titular superhero making her live-action debut. MCU star Mark Ruffalo will reprise his role as Bruce Banner, a.k.a. the Hulk and Tim Roth will make his return as the rival green monster. Walters, in the comics, becomes She-Hulk after receiving an emergency blood transfusion from her cousin, Bruce Banner.

The show's head writer is Jessica Gao, known for her Emmy-winning Rick and Morty episode "Pickle Rick." Kat Coiro, who has directed episodes of Modern Family and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, is in charge of several episodes.

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HP's Omen 16 gaming laptop gets improved cooling

HP has just refreshed the Omen 16 almost a year after it was introduced. Now, it gets thermal upgrades. It adds a fifth heat pipe and a fourth outflow vent. Adding these can reduce GPU hinge and bottom SSD temperatures by 3% and 14%, respectively, while making the laptop 5% quieter. HP claims GPU and CPU performance has been boosted, too.

There's also now a Dynamic Power feature in the Omen Gaming Hub. The company uses a built-in IR thermopile sensor to monitor CPU and GPU capacity in real-time and allocate power when needed. This should optimize in-game framerates and boost CPU performance by up to 36% compared to the 2021 model. 

The Omen 16 can house up to an Intel Core i9-12900H series processor or AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX mobile processor. As for graphics, it can support up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti or AND Ryzen RX 6650M. You can max out RAM up to 32GB (DDR5) and storage up to 2TB SSD.

For the display, you can top it up at a 1440p 165Hz IPS display with a 3ms response time and 100% sRGB colour gamut. Its keyboard gets a per-key RGB lighting and a white colour option for the shell. Pricing starts at US$1,200 (around CA$1,540).

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