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HyperX revealed a new, limited edition product line of gaming peripherals that feature two popular characters from the popular manga and anime series, Naruto: Shippuden. There are two sets, each based on Naruto Uzumaki and Itachi Uchiha, that are styled in their trademark color palette with a bold orange for Naruto and a darker red based on Akatsuki member Itachi. They include a gaming keyboard, gaming mouse, gaming headset, and mousepad. Both sets can be purchased individually on September 21 in the US: the mechanical keyboard is $119.99, the headset is $109.99, the mouse at $59.99, and the mousepad at $39.99. Does this collection hold up on its own?  While choosing Naruto for one set is a no-brainer due to his main character status, Itachi as the pick for the villainous side is a bit stranger until you remember how his popularity eclipses most of the other bad guy roster.  Regardless, the gaming collection seems to be of high quality as it’s from HyperX’s already great gaming p

Wisp is a reproductive health-focused telehealth company. | Image: Wisp Reproductive health-focused telemedicine company Wisp is expanding abortion pill access to six additional states, it announced Monday. The company launched abortion care in August with a program in California, and the service will now be available in Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, New York, and Washington. Wisp is able to offer abortion pills via telehealth because of new rules introduced by the Food and Drug Administration during the pandemic. Prior to the public health emergency, people had to see providers in-person in order to get mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in a medical abortion. The agency relaxed the rules early in the pandemic and then permanently lifted them at the end of 2021 . “We believe abortion is a critical aspect of healthcare, and we are committed to providing this as an option for our patients, in the states where it is legal, so that they can take ownership of this aspect

The Caper Cart has sensors that can detect what you put in it, plus a touch screen and built-in payment system for self-checkout. | Image: Instacart Instacart gig workers have a smartphone app with scanning tools at their disposal to fulfill delivery orders — but what if regular shoppers could also use them? The grocery delivery service plans to get regular everyday shoppers into “Connected Stores,” where they’d use a rolling smart cart with built-in support for lists, order deli meats or baked goods, finding items, and self-checkout. The star of the show is Instacart’s upgraded “Caper Cart,” a smart cart that can detect what items in your list are placed in — based on computer vision and weight — and checks them off in your app. It’s got a big touchscreen that syncs your grocery list from your app and an attached payment terminal so you can self-checkout without waiting to use a terminal. The previous versions are in operation at select Kroger stores , but those were made before

The Govee M1 LED strip is flexible and can be tucked away unobtrusively for accent lighting or featured prominently to form a pattern or design. | Image: Govee Basic strips of cheap LEDs are commodity items these days, but Govee has a new premium smart LED strip that is promising new levels of brightness and sound-reactive light shows. The Govee LED Strip Light M1 is a five-meter / 16-foot RGBIC Plus-powered light that can produce 16 million colors and has a built-in mic for syncing to music and movies. It also has 11 music modes and additional light settings like fade, twinkle, stream, and flow that you can dial in through the Govee Home app — with some controls accessible via voice command when synced to Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. The Govee M1 is available now on Amazon and Govee’s online store for $99.99, and it seems aimed squarely at Philips Hue’s gradient light strips. Govee claims the M1 can output more than twice as many lumens as the Hue strip offerings and that it

The new notch-busting Dynamic Island is one of the most eye-catching new features on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max – and while you won't find it on the cheaper iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus , it looks likely that the shape-shifting cut-out will appear on every iPhone 15 model. That's according to well-respected analyst Ross Young (via 9to5Mac ), someone with a better reputation than most when it comes to predicting what Apple will do in the future – so we're inclined to believe that this will indeed come to pass. However, Young says that the other Pro display upgrades – the 120Hz refresh rate and the LTPO technology that enables the always-on display – are unlikely to make it to the iPhone 15 and the iPhone 15 Plus (if that is indeed what they're called). Life with the island As enabled by iOS 16 , the Dynamic Island expands and contracts around the physical holes for the selfie camera and forward-facing sensors: it can show information about media th

The Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 Pro. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The iPhone 14 has only been out for a few days, but that isn’t stopping the rumor mill from churning out predictions about Apple’s next iPhone. Supply chain analyst Ross Young says on Twitter that he expects Apple to include the Dynamic Island — the notch successor that currently only comes on the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max — on all iPhone 15 models, not just the Pro variations ( via MacRumors ). If true, this would make the Dynamic Island the standard across all new iPhones, allowing it to fully replace the notch that Apple first introduced with the iPhone X in 2017 (at least until Apple comes up with another design). Young also indicates that the base iPhone 15 still won’t come with an 120Hz LTPO display that enables the iPhone 14 Pro’s always-on display and snappy ProMotion feedback, citing that the “supply chain can’t support it.” Yes, Dynamic Island expected on standard models on t

GTA V was released almost nine years ago. | Image: Rockstar Footage of Grand Theft Auto VI , Rockstar’s next entry in its open-world franchise, appears to have leaked online. PC Gamer reports that a user on the GTA Forums has posted a 3GB file full of 90 videos of GTA VI footage. It’s not exactly clear how the footage was obtained, but the “teapotuberhacker” poster claims to be behind the unrelated Uber hack late last week, and says they may “leak more data soon” including GTA V and GTA VI source code, assets, and testing builds. The massive leak lines up with some earlier reporting on GTA VI , showing a female playable character in some clips. Bloomberg reported earlier this year that GTA VI would include two female protagonists influenced by Bonnie and Clyde. The leaked videos are currently being posted to YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and many gaming forums online. In one video, a playable female character named Lucia is seen robbing a restaurant and taking hostages. Ther