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iPhone 18 Pro & Pro Max Review: THIS is What We’ve Been Waiting For! (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Features, Product Reviews, Videos,
Better battery life. When I polled my YouTube community on the one upgrade they wanted most from a new phone, that answer beat everything else by a mile, and the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are the first iPhones where I think Apple has delivered it. After a week with the 18 Pro Max, on days when I didn't top it up, I was ending the night in the high 20s to low 30s. That's while hammering it nonstop to prepare this review.
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Valve Leaked Its Own Left 4 Dead 2 Trailer To Get Around The ESRB
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Features, Video Games,
In October 2009, a few weeks before Left 4 Dead 2 shipped, a cinematic trailer for the game turned up online with nobody's name attached. Kotaku covered it on October 22 under the headline "Leaked Left 4 Dead 2 Trailer Full Of Joy, Gore." It was not much of a leak.
Chet Faliszek, a writer on both Left 4 Dead games, says Valve put it there on purpose because the ESRB would not clear it for release. "We leaked our trailer ahead of time, because they wouldn't let us release the trailer," he says in a YouTube video titled "Cutting Left 4 Dead Lines." "I'll just admit that. I think we can't get in trouble for that now. It's like 20 years ago."
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CD Revenue Jumped 58.6% in Six Months, and K-Pop Fans Get Most of the Credit
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Features, Misc. Tech, Music,
Nobody was supposed to be buying CDs in 2026. US CD revenue hit $171.1 million in the first half of the year, up 58.6% from $107.9 million in the same six months of 2025, according to the RIAA's mid-year report. Shipments rose 45.7% to 17.5 million discs. Labels moved $312.4 million worth of CDs in all of 2025, so the format cleared more than half of last year's entire haul before July.
That is a real number and a small one. Physical formats account for 12% of US recorded music revenue. CDs on their own are under 3%. Streaming took 82% of the money, and streaming's six-month increase of $219 million was bigger than the entire CD business. Keep the scale in mind. What changed is who is buying, and that has a specific answer.
Stealing a car in Grand Theft Auto has taken about as much effort as opening a door for two decades now. Walk up, hold a button, drive away. In Grand Theft Auto VI, that stops working on a lot of cars.
Rob Nelson, co-studio head at Rockstar North, told IGN the studio has "put some layers of stratification into the vehicles." Before, "you could just press triangle to automatically hotwire and steal any vehicle." Now certain parked cars stay shut to you "until you get a bit further along with the story and you acquire certain tools to get into them." Carjacking is untouched. In Nelson's words, "You can always carjack any driver you see."
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The Galaxy S26 FE Costs $50 More, and Only the Chip Really Changed
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Smartphones, Features,
The Fan Edition pitch has never been complicated. Samsung takes a flagship, shaves off the parts most people won't miss, and sells it for a few hundred dollars less. The Galaxy S26 FE, official as of August 27, keeps that pitch intact. It also raises the entry fee to $699.99, up $50 from where the S25 FE started last year.
For that you get a 6.7-inch FHD+ Dynamic AMOLED 2X running at 120Hz and rated for 1,900 nits, a 4,900mAh battery, 8GB of RAM, and 128GB or 256GB of storage. It arrives September 3 at select carriers and September 4 at Samsung.com and everywhere else, in Pistachio, Blueberry, and Graphite. Nearly all of that carried over from the S25 FE unchanged.
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Expensive Gas Just Did What EV Subsidies Couldn’t
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Features, Transportation,
Fifty countries just posted record quarterly EV sales at the same time, and it happened in a year when the overall car market shrank. The thing that finally moved people wasn't a tax credit or a better charging network. It was the price at the pump.
That's the read from a new International Energy Agency report on the second quarter of 2026. Sales of EVs and plug-in hybrids rose 4 percent year over year and jumped 35 percent from the previous quarter, and electrified vehicles are now on track to make up 29 percent of global car sales this year. Meanwhile, total car sales fell 5 percent in the first half.
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The Clayface Trailer Turns a Batman Villain Into a Full-On Horror Movie
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Features, Movies, Videos,
That is a genuinely strange pitch, and it might be the most interesting thing DC Studios has tried in a while. Clayface is a full R-rated horror origin story built around a classic Batman villain, and the trailer is far less interested in capes and punch-ups than in what it feels like to watch a person come apart from the inside out.
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Why the ASUS ProArt PX13 GoPro Is the Ultimate Field Laptop for Creators
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Features, PC / Laptop, Product Reviews,
Imagine a 13-inch laptop that costs $3,000 and doesn't even have a dedicated graphics card. Sounds like a tough sell. But somehow, this machine manages to trade blows with an RTX 4060.
This is the ASUS ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition. It goes way deeper than a simple brand collaboration. ASUS actually baked real software and hardware integration into this device. It is easily one of the most purpose-built machines for creators on the market today. Let's dive into what makes it special.
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Xiaomi 17 Review: The Compact Flagship That Forgot to Act Small
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Smartphones, Features, Product Reviews,
The global Xiaomi 17 arrives in a market where “small phone” usually means “some compromises included.” Smaller battery. Smaller camera ambition. Smaller sense of occasion. Xiaomi clearly did not get that memo. This thing shows up with a 6.3-inch display, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, three 50-megapixel rear cameras, and a 6,330mAh silicon-carbon battery, all in a body that still reads as compact by 2026 standards. It launched globally on February 28, starting at €999 and £899, which puts it directly in the ring with Samsung, Google, and Apple’s smaller flagships.
And that is the whole story of the Xiaomi 17. It is not trying to be the weird one in the lineup. It is not the camera monster, and it does not have the Ultra’s headline-grabbing hardware. It is the phone for people who want a top-tier Android device that still fits in a real pocket, and according to multiple reviews, it mostly nails that brief. The consensus is simple: excellent battery life, strong overall camera performance, a great display, and the usual Xiaomi software mess that stops the whole thing from feeling truly effortless.
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The Journey of Andru Edwards: A Tech Creator’s Impact on Brands and Millions at Forbes Creator Upfronts
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Announcements, Features, Videos,
If you look closely at the creator economy, you will find a few pioneers who helped build the foundation. For tech creator Andru Edwards, the journey started with a simple fascination. Tech has always felt like magic. Holding a thin piece of glass and seeing a face pop up from 3,000 miles away is incredible. Sharing that magic has grown into a community of nearly a million people.
Let's look at how tech content creation evolved from early web trends into a massive driver for global brands.