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Andrew Liszewski

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    The new Kindle Scribe without Front Light finally releases on June 10th.

    The new black-and-white Kindle Scribe without a glowing display has been MIA since it was announced last September. But according to an updated listing on Amazon’s store, it will finally be available starting on June 10th at 10AM ET for $429.99, giving the recently-announced Remarkable Paper Pure some more competition.

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    A person annotates a document on the Kindle Scribe.
    Nearly 8 months after it was announced, the Kindle Scribe without Front Light will be released in June.
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    Andrew Liszewski
    Watch this artist reveal all the hidden details of the Mandalorian’s starfighter.

    I can still be easily sucked into a book of cross section artwork, so it’s fascinating to see the process of how the complex illustrations are made. Artist John R. Mullaney condensed the long process of creating a cross section of The Mandalorian’s N-1 Starfighter into a timelapse that’s four minutes well spent.

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    Andrew Liszewski
    The 8,278-piece Minas Tirith is Lego’s largest Lord of the Rings set.

    Available starting on June 1st for Lego Insiders or June 4th for everyone else, Lego’s $650 Minas Tirith is larger and more expensive than its $500 Rivendell and $460 Barad-dûr LOTR sets. Up front it’s a micro-scale recreation of the fortified city but on the back you’ll find scenes scaled up for the set’s 10 included minifigures.

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    Narwal’s new mopping robovac launches next week for under $600.

    The Narwal Freo Z10 Turbo uses a laser mapping system instead of a camera to navigate your home, but it includes a base station that empties dirt and sterilizes the mopping pads, and a mode that deep cleans carpets with boosted suction and multiple passes. It will be available on May 18th for $899.99 and discounted to $599.99 until the end of the month.

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    <em>The Freo Z10 Turbo offers up to 25,000 Pa of suction power and a special mode for thoroughly cleaning carpets.</em>
    <em>The base station empties the robot’s dust bin and compresses the dirt so there’s minimal maintenance for up to 120 days.</em>
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    The Freo Z10 Turbo offers up to 25,000 Pa of suction power and a special mode for thoroughly cleaning carpets.
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    Andrew Liszewski
    GuliKit’s TMR joysticks for the Switch 2 let you get ahead of drift issues.

    The Switch 2’s Joy-Cons use the same joystick tech as the originals, but for $19.99 you can upgrade them to drift-resistant TMR joysticks using GuliKit’s new kit. However, while the replacement TMR sticks can be installed without any hardware modifications, opening up the Switch 2’s Joy-Cons is a fairly complicated process.

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    The Nintendo Switch 2 with its Joy-Con controllers detached and GuliKit TMR joysticks sitting near them.
    GuliKit’s Switch 2 TMR joysticks are a drop-in replacement that don’t require any Joy-Con modifications.
    Image: GuliKit