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OnePlus 9 series and Watch announced, Microsoft in talks to acquire Discord for $10bn, and a review

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Howdy folks, here is your newsletter for March 23. Please remember to help spread the word!

Today, OnePlus is announcing its OnePlus 9 series. The handsets have new camera systems, faster charging, better 120Hz displays on both models, a faster Snapdragon 888 chipset, and more.

Alongside its series of flagship smartphones, OnePlus is announcing its smartwatch today. It promises to complement OnePlus phones, gets two weeks of battery life, and it costs $159.

Just a few hours ago, a report claimed that Discord is looking for a buyer. Now, a new report has confirmed that Microsoft is on the list of companies trying to acquire the chat platform.

Microsoft has confirmed that it is dropping the "Xbox Live" brand name and will now refer to the underlying online service as "Xbox network" instead. Hints of this change began back in August 2020.

The 2TB 860 EVO SSD is currently discounted by 65% along with a bunch of other storage options including USB flash drives, microSD cards, and NVMe all seeing discounts in the Spring Sale.

This week, a number of popular franchises are on sale through the weekly Deals with Gold discounts. You can get Devil May Cry 5, Farming Simulator 19, Resident Evil 7, and many others for less.

Microsoft has released its weekly build of Edge Dev, bringing it to version 91.0.831. It includes new color themes, and new features on Linux like support for using the system theme and MSA sign-in.

From the forums

Reviews and features

Lenovo's new ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook Enterprise is a ThinkPad with Chrome OS, and it comes with AMD's Ryzen 3000C-series chips, ThinkPad build quality, up to 16GB RAM, and more.

On this week's episode, Rich and João talk about the highlights of the second half of Microsoft's Ignite event, the death of Edge Legacy and 3D apps in Windows 10, and new phones from BBK.

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This week's PC game deals include multiple new gaming bundles to peruse, free events for shooter and strategy fans, plus a whole lot of discounts from major publishers on their wares.

Software and driver updates

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