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Ecovacs’ latest mopping robovac may not need to take charging breaks while cleaning your home. The company says its new Deebot X11 Omnicyclone uses GaN-enabled fast charging to power up every time it returns to its base station for mop rinses, allowing it to keep cleaning without stopping to charge.

The X11 Omnicyclone robovac comes with 19,500Pa of suction power and an upgraded roller mop that extends up to 15mm to reach corners. It’s capable of traversing thresholds, rugs, doorframes, and uneven surfaces using a 4WD system with “mechanical climbing levers” that automatically engage when it detects flooring changes. Ecovacs says the robovac can “reliably” handle up to 4cm shifts, while its mop lifts up to 10mm.

The robovac’s base station ditches disposable dust bags for an auto-empty technology that “delivers consistent suction and multi-stage filtration,” according to Ecovacs. It’s also capable of cleaning the nylon mop roller with hot water, as well as drying it.

The Deebot X11 Omnicyclone robovac costs $1,499 and is available for purchase on Ecovacs’ website and Amazon in the US and Canada.

Govee has launched a new TV backlight kit for folks who like to add immersive lighting that syncs with whatever is playing on the display. The Govee TV Backlight 3 Pro features an “industry-first HDR triple-camera wide-area color matching system,” according to Govee, which is designed to capture the colors on your TV screen with greater accuracy than other cameras in the smart-lighting company’s older kits.

“For the first time, this innovative system integrates a groundbreaking image sensor that features HDR capture capability, delivering high-fidelity 105dB dynamic range imaging for superior signal-to-noise performance,” Govee said in its press release. The TV Backlight 3 Pro light strip that attaches to the back of displays has also been upgraded to be 30 percent brighter than its predecessors, and it uses an “AI intelligent color mixing system” that automatically adjusts the backlight’s white balance and saturation settings.

The Govee TV Backlight 3 Pro will be available sometime in September, with the price and size models to be announced later. Pricing for the Lite version of the Govee TV Backlight 3 started at $90 when it launched in 2024, so we’ll have to see how the Pro model stacks up in comparison.

Baseus has announced a new accessory that can wirelessly charge a Qi2-compatible smartphone directly on an outlet, making it useful as a hands-free wall mount. It’s reminiscent of a similar wireless charger that Zens released last year, but Baseus’ new EnerGeek GT01 has additional functionality, including a 10,000mAh battery that can be separated from the adapter’s AC plug for use as a portable power bank and wireless charger, leaving behind a simple 27W USB-C charger still stuck in the wall.

Wireless charging is limited to Qi2 rates so your phone will only charge at 15W instead of the faster 25W that you’ll get from new Qi2.2 chargers. If you’re in a hurry to revive a dying phone, or want to charge a device that’s not Qi-compatible, the EnerGeek GT01 also has a USB-C port that outputs 45W on the device’s power bank half. The Qi2 pad and both USB-C ports can all be used simultaneously when the two halves are connected, but while wireless charging will maintain a steady 15W rate, the two USB ports will dynamically share the remaining available power.

Rounding out the novelties is a small LCD display on one side that shows the battery’s remaining charge level and an estimate of how many hours and minutes are left before it’s fully depleted based on what’s currently drawing power.

It’s expected to launch later this year for $89.99, which is a bit pricey for a 10,000mAh power bank — even with wireless charging capabilities (Anker has one for $60). You’re paying a premium for the convenience of fewer cables and adapters.

TCL has been making its E Ink-inspired Nxtpaper phones for years, but it’s taken the company until now to realize that parents are a likely demographic for it. That’s finally been remedied with the Nxtpaper 5G Junior, a kids phone launching in Europe with a focus on eye health and screentime, which arrives alongside the more mainstream Nxtpaper 60 Ultra.

The Nxtpaper 5G Junior has been announced at the IFA trade show, but it won’t go on sale in Europe until December and will cost £159 / €249 (around $250). It will also include a protective case. So far, there are no plans for a US launch.

Like other recent Nxtpaper phones, the key selling point is a dedicated button that activates Max Ink Mode, which switches the matte display to a monochromatic mode that looks a lot like E Ink and is easier on the eyes for reading. The appeal to parents will be an extra way to manage screentime: not just a binary on / off, but an in-between option that’s better for kids’ eyes and not particularly well-suited to playing Fortnite. It extends the device’s battery life, too.

The phone includes a variety of parental controls powered by Google’s Family Link, along with a “Digital Detox” mode to encourage healthy phone use. TCL has also created a range of cutesy characters called the AI Genius Squad, which look like they’ve been lifted from a slightly subpar Pixar movie.

One immediate downside is that this is a pretty big phone. With a 6.7-inch screen and the included case, this will be a bulky, heavy device that might be a little tricky for smaller hands. It comes with 256GB of storage — enough for plenty of apps and games — and dual rear cameras.

TCL is also launching the Nxtpaper 60 Ultra, the first phone to ship with the latest Nxtpaper 4.0 tech, with reduced glare and display flicker. It’s even bigger, with a 7.2-inch display and has a triple rear camera, including a 50-megapixel telephoto lens, plus optional stylus support. It’s launching today in Europe from €449 (around $525), as well as Asia and Latin America.

For serious gamers, a stable, high-speed internet connection is essential for competitive gameplay, seamless live streaming, and real-time server communication. Intel provides many of the building blocks for gamers, making reliable connectivity a core part of the gaming experience.

To give gamers deeper insight into the quality of their internet connection and help them avoid lag, connection drops, or poor streaming quality, Intel integrates Speedtest Custom™ from Ookla into its Intel® Killer™ Performance Suite, providing gamers with a reliable way to measure, validate, and troubleshoot their connectivity in real time during gameplay, when every millisecond matters.

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Gaming today isn’t just about graphics or processing power; it’s about the overall performance of your connection. While download and upload speeds remain critical for gaming—especially for game updates, patches, and streaming—latency and jitter are also key metrics that directly impact both casual and competitive gaming experiences. High levels of either often result in delayed reactions, missed targets, and frustrated gamers.

Live streaming adds another layer of complexity, with platforms like Twitch and YouTube Gaming requiring substantial upload bandwidth to maintain high bitrates and smooth frame rates. Meanwhile, the typical gaming household rarely does just one thing at a time. Users increasingly multitask across bandwidth-intensive activities—gaming while streaming video, using voice chat, or sharing files—creating network congestion that can impact performance.

Without immediate visibility into what’s happening on their network, gamers are often left guessing when performance issues arise during critical moments.

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Mighty Mega Evolution Pokémon ex are coming to the Pokémon Trading Card Game in a big way in the upcoming expansion, Mega Evolution. We wanted to share an early look at two of those new cards, Mega Venusaur ex and Mega Kangaskhan ex, along with some of the other cards that will be available in this exciting collection of cards. How will these Pokémon and their new attacks change the game? Start formulating your strategies now, then test them out when Mega Evolution arrives on September 26, 2025.

This bold, beautiful special illustration rare card shows off Mega Venusaur ex in all its botanical glory. It’s not just pretty though—this Mega Evolution Pokémon is ready to throw down. Your opponent will take quite a hit from Mega Venusaur ex’s Jungle Dump attack. At a cost of four Energy, it may take a little effort before you can use it, but once you do, the attack will do 240 damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon and heal 30 damage from Mega Venusaur ex. Plus, its Solar Transfer Ability can help get all that Energy onto this card. The Ability allows you to move a Basic Energy from one of your Pokémon to another as often as you like during your turn. That powerful Jungle Dump might be ready to use before your opponent knows it!

Mother and child are rarin’ for battle on this Mega Kangaskhan ex special illustration rare card. You can feel the explosive energy blasting forth, which should come as no surprise considering the potential power of its Rapid-Fire Combo attack. For the cost of three Energy, this attack does an already impressive 200 damage, but it also allows you to flip a coin until you get tails. For every heads you get, the attack does an additional 50 damage. With a bit of luck, this combo could be truly devastating. Not only that, but Mega Kangaskhan ex’s Run Errand Ability lets you bolster your hand once each turn by allowing you to draw two cards if the Pokémon is in the Active Spot.

The lovable Celebi may not be a heavy hitter with this card (its Solar Cutter attack only does 30 damage), but its Traverse Time attack could prove invaluable for quickly getting the cards you need in your hand. For just one Energy, this attack lets you search your deck and bring three in any combination of Pokémon and Stadium cards into your hand. You’ll have your team ready to go in no time with the help of this cheerful little Mythical Pokémon.

If you thought that Celebi card was adorable, you are absolutely not prepared for a grinning Pachirisu bounding through tree branches that are covered with delicate pink blossoms. For such a cutie, though, this Pokémon packs quite a bite. Pachirisu’s Electrified Incisors attack may not look like much at first—it only does 10 damage—but it hides a devious aftereffect. Whenever your opponent attaches an Energy card from their hand to the Defending Pokémon during their next turn, that Pokémon gets hit with eight damage counters. Ouch!

Just what is Grafaiai contemplating as it strokes its chin and furrows its brow? We suspect trouble, but maybe it’s just thinking about its next masterpiece. Whatever its intentions, you can be sure that the Toxic Monkey Pokémon will annoy your opponent to no end with its Miraculous Paint attack. For one and one Energy, the attack does 90 damage and also has you flip a coin. If the coin lands on heads, you can choose a Special Condition to inflict upon your opponent’s Active Pokémon. Will you pick Asleep, Burned, Confused, Paralyzed, or Poisoned? Whatever your decision, your opponent is unlikely to be pleased.

You’ll find these and over 180 other cards when the Pokémon TCG: Mega Evolution expansion releases on September 26, 2025.

A good streaming device can revamp an older TV for much less than it would cost to replace the set all together. One of our favorites in the Google TV Streamer 4K, and you can pick it up for 20 percent off right now. It’s on sale for $80, which is close to a record-low price and a few dollars less than it was during Prime Day this summer.

The TV Streamer 4K topped our list of the best streaming devices. It’s a smartly-designed product that just works. We enjoyed the clean interface and the fantastic remote that ships with the device.

The processor is speedy and this thing can stream content in 4K at 60FPS. It integrates with HDR, HDR10, HDR10+ and Dolby Vision. On the audio side of things, it supports formats like Dolby Digital and Dolby Atmos. It can even handle spatial audio, so long as you’re wearing the Pixel Buds Pro earbuds.

The interface includes a smart home control hub, which we praised in our official review. This lets users easily control smart lights and thermostats, among other gadgets. The TV Streamer 4K also offers voice control, which we found to be useful.

There are only two minor knocks with this one. The original asking price is on the higher end, but this sale alleviates that concern. The unit also includes some fairly useless AI integration, but it’s 2025 so what else is new?

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Nvidia announced last month that it’s planning to upgrade its GeForce Now cloud gaming service to RTX 5080 GPUs. Now, we have a date for that upgrade: September 10th. The upgrade will allow GeForce Now subscribers to rent what’s effectively an RTX 5080 in the cloud, with a huge 48GB of memory and DLSS 4 support.

Nvidia’s RTX 5080 upgrade for GeForce Now will include support for 5K resolutions at 60fps and 120fps, or 1440p at 240fps and 1080p at 360fps. You’ll also be able to enable full ray-tracing support in games with Neural Rendering and Multi Frame Generation, all at the same $19.99 a month for GeForce Now Ultimate.

The reveal of the upgrade date for GeForce Now is part of Nvidia’s weekly GeForce Now announcements, which include 17 games set to be added to the service this month. Hollow Knight: Silksong arrives on GeForce Now today, with Borderlands 4, Dying Light: The Beast, Jump Space, Endless Legend 2, and Cloverpit all debuting on the streaming service later this month.

“On Wednesday, September 10th, Nvidia Blackwell RTX is coming to GeForce Now,” says Nvidia. “To celebrate, next week’s GeForce Now announcements will come a day earlier to usher in the Blackwell era of GeForce Now.”

Nvidia is also bringing back the ability to install games on GeForce Now without waiting for Nvidia to formally curate them. This new “Install-to-Play” feature will greatly improve the GeForce Now library.

Adobe is planning to bring its video editing software, Premiere, to the iPhone. The company has listed the app on the App Store with a pre-order link and an expected release date of September 30.

The company said that Premier on iPhone will let users edit videos and export them without any watermarks. The app will have some of the same features as its desktop version, including the ability to trim, layer and fine-tune frames. It will also have automatic captions with stylized subtitles, support for video, audio, and text layers, as well as support for 4K HDR.

And in keeping with its efforts elsewhere, Adobe is bringing AI features powered by its Firefly models to the app: Premiere on iOS will let users generate images, audio or videos using text prompts. The company is also opening up access to its stock library of music, sound effects, photos, graphics and videos, along with fonts and presets from its photo editing app, Lightroom. The app also has an “Enhance Speech” feature that suppresses background noise when you record a clip in loud environments.

Premiere on iPhone will be free to use, but users will have to pay for using AI credits and cloud storage. An Android version is already in development, though the company did not mention a release date.

The company’s move to bring its flagship video editing app to iPhones comes amid increasing competition for attracting creators who make short videos for TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts. Earlier this year, Meta released a video editing app called Edits, while a16z-backed Captions switched to a freemium model to reach a wider audience.

Adobe has focused on bringing more of its creative apps to mobile platforms. The company launched Photoshop for iOS in February and released a beta version of the app for Android in June. It has also released a separate app for Firefly on both iOS and Android in June.