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Archives for July 2024

Batman: Caped Crusader is a pulpy throwback to the golden age of DC animation

Amazon’s new Batman show is a jazzy blend of style, substance, and nostalgia.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Hisense’s ultra-short throw laser projector is now Xbox certified.

The company claims its triple laser PX3-PRO is the world’s first UST projector to be “Designed for Xbox.” What that means isn’t entirely clear given the Xbox can’t take advantage of the projector’s 240Hz maximum refresh rate.

More useful may be the $3,499.99 PX3-PRO’s ability to automatically optimize its settings for gaming when it detects a console powering up.

A gamer playing Halo projected on a large screen using the Hisense PX3-PRO UST laser projector.
The Hisense PX3-PRO has a maximum refresh rate of 240Hz, but the Xbox doesn’t support it.
Image: Hisense
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Nothing teases camera upgrades for its budget Phone 2A Plus.

The company will officially reveal the new addition to its A-series lineup on July 31st at 5AM ET, but continues to tease new features on X.

After revealing the 2A Plus will be using a faster MediaTek Dimensity 7350 Pro processor last week, yesterday Nothing confirmed the Plus’ front camera will get a bump to 50-megapixels, up from 32-megapixels on the 2A.

A photo of the Nothing 2A Plus’ rear cameras.
The front-facing selfie cam on the Nothing 2A Plus will get a bump from 32-megapixels to 50.
Image: Nothing
Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel
Down the stack, baby.

One thing about having the idea of AI clones attending meetings in Zoom presented to you for the first time in a conversation with the CEO on your podcast is that other people get to react to said idea in a much funnier way, like Angela Collier does here.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
The Starbucks app’s online ordering feature is back after some downtime.

A little over a week after the CrowdStrike outage brought down mobile orders at Starbucks, the app had some trouble again today.

For most of the morning, around the globe weren’t been able to place orders, with the app saying, “We’re having trouble with store locations right now.” It looks like the feature is back online now though, so we won’t have to wait in line for our drinks.

Update, July 30th: Noted that mobile ordering works again.

A screenshot showing an error in the Starbucks app
The Starbucks app couldn’t pull up nearby locations.
Image: The Verge