Apple's Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering confirmed that the company has officially scrapped the AirPower wireless charging mat. "After much effort, we've concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards and we have cancelled the project. We apologize to those customers who were looking forward to this launch. We continue to believe that the future is wireless and are committed to push the wireless experience forward."

// via Instagram Apple's Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering confirmed that the company has officially scrapped the AirPower wireless charging mat. "After much effort, we've concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards and we have cancelled the project. We apologize to those customers who were looking forward to this launch. We continue to believe that the future is wireless and are committed to push the wireless experience forward."

Apple has officially announced the second generation of their popular AirPods, which will include a wireless charging case and a new H1 chip. Apple claims the new chip offers improved battery life specifically, an extra hour of talk time, which Apple says is a 50 percent increase. Connection times are also twice as fast when switching between devices and “Hey, Siri” support has been added to trigger the virtual assistant without pressing a button. Otherwise, these new AirPods look virtually identical to the original model, except for a small LED light on the wireless charging case to indicate battery life. Apple will be selling the new AirPods in two options: with the wireless charging case for $199 or with the standard case for the same $159 price as the previous generation. The company will also sell the wireless charging case separately for existing AirPod owners for $79.

// via Instagram Apple has officially announced the second generation of their popular AirPods, which will include a wireless charging case and a new H1 chip. Apple claims the new chip offers improved battery life specifically, an extra hour of talk time, which Apple says is a 50 percent increase. Connection times are also twice as fast when switching between devices and “Hey, Siri” support has been added to trigger the virtual assistant without pressing a button. Otherwise, these new AirPods look virtually identical to the original model, except for a small LED light on the wireless charging case to indicate battery life. Apple will be selling the new AirPods in two options: with the wireless charging case for $199 or with the standard case for the same $159 price as the previous generation. The company will also sell the wireless charging case separately for existing AirPod owners for $79.

Today Google announced a streaming game service called Google Stadia, designed to run on everything from PCs to smartphones and even a Chromecast. Google Stadia will stream games from the cloud to your Chrome browser powered by the company's massive global infrastructure of data centers. Google's incredibly powerful servers are the key factor of Stadia, as lower latency is essential to streaming games effectively across the internet. Google will support up to 4K at 60 fps at launch, and is planning to support up to 8K resolutions and 120 fps in the future. One of the first games to launch on Google’s Stadia will be Doom Eternal, which will support 4K resolution, HDR, and 60 fps game play. Google Stadia will launch at "some point in 2019" in the US, Canada, UK, and Europe.

// via Instagram Today Google announced a streaming game service called Google Stadia, designed to run on everything from PCs to smartphones and even a Chromecast. Google Stadia will stream games from the cloud to your Chrome browser powered by the company's massive global infrastructure of data centers. Google's incredibly powerful servers are the key factor of Stadia, as lower latency is essential to streaming games effectively across the internet. Google will support up to 4K at 60 fps at launch, and is planning to support up to 8K resolutions and 120 fps in the future. One of the first games to launch on Google’s Stadia will be Doom Eternal, which will support 4K resolution, HDR, and 60 fps game play. Google Stadia will launch at "some point in 2019" in the US, Canada, UK, and Europe.

We are still so early in the “gaming smartphone” category that we’re not even sure if has been a success. Well it must be going pretty good for Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi because there aren’t even sales numbers for their first attempt, and the company has officially announced their second gaming smartphone called the Black Shark 2. The Xiaomi Black Shark 2 features the new Snapdragon 855 processor, comes in your choice of an 8GB of RAM/128GB storage option or a massive 12GB of RAM/256GB storage option. It also features a 6.39″ AMOLED display, a 20MP front-facing camera, a 12MP standard lens and a second 12MP lens with 2x optical zoom, plus a 4,000mAh capacity battery. Xiaomi has said to help keep the device cooler during longer gaming sessions, the Black Shark 2 uses the world’s first “direct touch multi-layer liquid cooling system” and claims it helps keep the CPU 14-degrees cooler. The phone will go on sale in Shadow Black and Frozen Silver color options. Pre-orders begin later today

// via Instagram We are still so early in the “gaming smartphone” category that we’re not even sure if has been a success. Well it must be going pretty good for Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi because there aren’t even sales numbers for their first attempt, and the company has officially announced their second gaming smartphone called the Black Shark 2. The Xiaomi Black Shark 2 features the new Snapdragon 855 processor, comes in your choice of an 8GB of RAM/128GB storage option or a massive 12GB of RAM/256GB storage option. It also features a 6.39″ AMOLED display, a 20MP front-facing camera, a 12MP standard lens and a second 12MP lens with 2x optical zoom, plus a 4,000mAh capacity battery. Xiaomi has said to help keep the device cooler during longer gaming sessions, the Black Shark 2 uses the world’s first “direct touch multi-layer liquid cooling system” and claims it helps keep the CPU 14-degrees cooler. The phone will go on sale in Shadow Black and Frozen Silver color options. Pre-orders begin later today

Tesla has officially launched the Model Y at an event in Hawthorne, California. The Model Y’s design is based on Model 3 and meant to be a crossover/compact SUV version of the popular sedan. However, the taller and slightly wider size enables an optional third row for up to 7 seats. The long range versions of Model Y can travel up to 300 miles on a single charge while the high performance version can travel 0-60 mph in 3.5 seconds. These two versions are going to come first in Fall 2020 starting at $42,000. The standard range version can travel up to 230 miles on a single charge and will arrive in 2021 with a price tag of $39,000.

// via Instagram Tesla has officially launched the Model Y at an event in Hawthorne, California. The Model Y’s design is based on Model 3 and meant to be a crossover/compact SUV version of the popular sedan. However, the taller and slightly wider size enables an optional third row for up to 7 seats. The long range versions of Model Y can travel up to 300 miles on a single charge while the high performance version can travel 0-60 mph in 3.5 seconds. These two versions are going to come first in Fall 2020 starting at $42,000. The standard range version can travel up to 230 miles on a single charge and will arrive in 2021 with a price tag of $39,000.

According to sources, Microsoft's disc-less Xbox experiment is nearly ready for the prime time. The company is reportedly set to call the disc-less console the "Xbox One S All-Digital Edition," with preorders aiming for mid-April and general availability coming in early May 2019. Dropping the disc drive should make it the cheapest Xbox console yet and thus could be more embraced by consumers.

// via Instagram According to sources, Microsoft's disc-less Xbox experiment is nearly ready for the prime time. The company is reportedly set to call the disc-less console the "Xbox One S All-Digital Edition," with preorders aiming for mid-April and general availability coming in early May 2019. Dropping the disc drive should make it the cheapest Xbox console yet and thus could be more embraced by consumers.