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ModRetro Chromatic Transparent review: a gorgeous new look at a more attractive price
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🏆 Review Score: 5/5 – ‘Outstanding‘
🏅 Editor’s Choice Award
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👀 Gorgeous transparent shell
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💰 More affordable than before
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🏆 Still the best way to play Game Boy an...
Apple announces ‘Welcome home’ event for HomePad on October 13 in NYC
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🍎 Apple has officially announced its next event scheduled for October 13
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🏠 It’s tagline? “Welcome home”
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🚀 We expect this to be Apple’s biggest foray into smart home devices in years
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📺 The event will l...
PSVR is over as Sony reportedly transfers its patents to Meta
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🪦 Sony has reportedly sold all 419 of its VR, AR, and XR patents to Meta, virtually ending hopes for a PSVR 3
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💰 Meta purchased the patents to bolster its continuing VR/AR investments, including upcomi...
Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro gives you the ‘iPad Pro experience’ for half the price
The Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro impresses with a glare-free and inky black screen for just $549 (credit: Kevin Lee / The Shortcut)
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📣 Amazon’s new, sleeker Alexa tablets ditch Fire OS for Android
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📱 Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro is a...
Surface Laptop Ultra hands-on review: reinventing the PC as we know it
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💻 Surface Laptop Ultra is the most excitingly powerful Windows 11 laptop in years
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🪙 Wrapped in a premium aluminum chassis that feels like one solid block of metal
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📺 2000-nit 15-inch mini...
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I write The Shortcut, a Substack newsletter that's meant to simplify your life. I'm here to tell you what tech to buy and how to save money and time.
Adam is Senior Editor at The Shortcut and was previously the Gaming Hardware Editor at TechRadar. He's also worked at Nintendo of Europe as a Content Marketing Editor where he helped launch the Switch (he has a poster to prove it).
A technology journalist since 2015. Find me listening to Frank Sinatra, floating in a kayak, or embarking on a quest through the written word (a.k.a. reading a book).
As Creative Director I oversee all video content on The Shortcut's YouTube and social channels and dabble in some editorial writing too. Catch me on X and Instagram @baggingpsam.
Reece Bithrey is a journalist with credits in Trusted Reviews, Digital Foundry, PC Gamer, TechRadar and more. He also has his own blog, UNTITLED and graduated from the University of Leeds with a degree in International History and Politics in 2023.
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