We love retractable cables, so it’s great to see Ugreen double down on the design. The company already offered wall and car chargers with pull-out cables, but now adds faster charging 65W and 145W versions, along with a 20K power bank and a 100W-rated USB-C cable.
That’s where Wimbledon organizers placed the blame after the Hawk-Eye electronic line-calling system failed to call a ball out yesterday. It turns out it had somehow gotten switched off.
New to Wimbledon this year, but in place across almost every other tennis tournament, the system’s accuracy has also been questioned by players. A spokesperson says the tournament still has “full confidence” in the tech, the data from which now underpins the sport.
Google first announced an overhauled Spotify app for Android Auto back at I/O 2025, and 9to5Google reports that it’s now arrived. Spotify Premium users can start Jam sessions in their cars, allowing even free users to join in and add songs to a shared queue.
The app’s had a wider redesign too, with a more prominent section for downloaded tracks and proper support for Spotify’s search functionality.
Survival Unit is a “survival horror strategy” game for smartphones. That’s about all we know so far, apart from this teaser image that reveals it’ll be set in the timeline’s early days while the Umbrella Corporation is still around.
It’s being co-developed by Aniplex Inc and Joycity Corporation, and we’ll find out more when the trailer drops at 6PM ET on July 10th, including whether it’ll tie into next year’s Resident Evil Requiem.
BioWare’s much-maligned live service shooter is shutting its servers on January 12th, 2026. It’ll be playable until then, though you can no longer purchase in-game premium currency, and it’ll disappear from EA Play on August 15th. EA says there have been no layoffs as a result, though jobs were lost at BioWare in January.
The publisher gave up on fixing Anthem with new content in 2021, and the writing’s been on the wall ever since.
[ea.com]
Elon Musk’s AI company has been granted a permit for 15 natural gas turbines to power a Memphis data center, along with limits on their emissions, which include smog-forming nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide.
The company has been accused of running the generators without permits for almost a year, and the Southern Environmental Law Center claims there are many more than that — raising the question of whether xAI will really stop at 15 now.
The company’s second US chip plant — initially planned for a 2024 start — has been delayed to 2026, which Nikkei Asia reports is down to a lack of local customers. The company was just awarded $4.7 billion in US funding from the CHIPS Act.
TSMC suffered its own problems opening a plant in Arizona, but lack of customers wasn’t one of them — it has deals with Nvidia, AMD, Amazon, and Google, including Nvidia’s Blackwell AI GPUs.
