Thursday
Apr152021

This Bang & Olufsen speaker looks like a book

Source: Bang & Olufsen

This new Bang & Olufsen speaker can hide quite well with your book collection. The new Beosound Emerge is designed to look like it'll belong in your library. But it's thinner in front or the spine-like part, and then it widens as you go deeper. 

As Mashable points out, this design should offer a better audio experience—with higher sound frequencies coming out through the front via a 14-millimetre tweeter and the lower frequencies are pushed by a 100-millimetre, side-firing woofer that's guided to the back. 

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Thursday
Apr152021

Sony Xperia 10 III is a mid-range 5G phone

 

Aside from introducing the flagship phones, the Sony Xperia 1 III and Xperia 5 III, the company also announced its first midrange 5G handset, the Xperia 10 III (read as "Xperia 10 Mark 3"). Like the premium devices, Sony didn't release pricing for the Xperia 10 III either.

But what you get with this phone is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 processor paired with Android 11, 6GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage. Its chipset is the same as the one powering the OnePlus Nord N10 5G. It also comes with a 6-inch OLED display protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 6 and an IP68 rating for its body.

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Wednesday
Apr142021

Zack Snyder's 'Army of the Dead' film for Netflix gets first full trailer

 

There's a new zombie flick coming to Netflix, and it's coming from Justice League director Zack Snyder. Army of the Dead is co-written and directed by Snyder. It follows a group of mercenaries trying to rob a casino in the middle of a zombie outbreak.

The film is coming to Netflix on May 21. It stars an ensemble cast that includes Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Tig Notaro, Hiroyuki Sanada, Omari Hardwick, Matthias Schweighöfer, Ana de la Reguera, and Theo Rossi. It's the first content of Snyder's planned Army of the Dead series coming to Netflix. An anime-style prequel entitled and a prequel film named are coming to the service, too, as part of a franchise Snyder plans for this universe.

Source: IndieWire 

Wednesday
Apr142021

Sony launches photography-centric Xperia 1 III, Xperia 5 III

Source: Sony

Sony has officially taken the wraps off two new smartphones: the Xperia 1 III (read as "one mark three") and Xperia 5 III. These are two smartphones focusing on bringing a better camera experience on smartphones. 

The Xperia 1 III's 12-megapixel, 24mm equivalent Exmor RS sensor still offers the fast 20 times per second burst mode. It's joined by a 12-megapixel ultra-wide camera, time-of-flight sensor, and a 12-megapixel telephoto camera, which Sony promises is the first phone with "true" optical zoom. 

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