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Just yesterday Nintendo officially announced the SNES Classic Edition, the successor to the NES Classic Edition that was recently discontinued. The console will only be released at the end of September, but it seems that pre-orders from various retailers have already sold out and in turn, have created a rather unfortunate scalping situation.

It seems that there are some opportunists who have started to list their pre-orders on eBay for as much as £299.99, claiming that this is a “guaranteed” pre-order (the listing has since been taken down). If you’re wondering why this sounds familiar, it is because the NES Classic Edition saw a similar situation where it was similarly jacked up in price once news had hit the internet that the console would be discontinued.

Now obviously no one should buy from these resellers since it would be impossible to confirm if they really do have the pre-order. Not to mention the release is still several months away and we’re not sure if paying more than double or triple its retail price is a smart idea. Nintendo has confirmed that they will be working towards making more units available than the NES Classic Edition.

However from what we can see from the pre-orders, they might have their work cut out for them. We suggest that gamers interested in buying the console contact local retailers to see if they might be getting more stock and try your luck then.

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When you think of Volvo, you think of cars. When you think of NVIDIA, you probably think of gaming like in terms of GPU technology and whatnot. So what happens when you combine the two together? A gaming car? Nope, try a self-driving one because that’s exactly what Volvo, NVIDIA, and car safety supplier Autoliv have announced collectively.

Now clearly NVIDIA is a company that does more than just making GPUs, so together with Volvo and Autoliv, these companies are going to work on developing on a system for self-driving cars which will use AI for object recognition around the vehicle, anticipating threats, and being able to navigate the roads safely.

We know that Volvo has been working on self-driving cars for a while now. In fact earlier this year the company even put a real-life family into one of its self-driving cars as a test and demonstration to show how far along they’ve come. The company is currently anticipating that they will have almost fully autonomous cars for sale by 2021, although we guess this will also be largely dependent on the laws around the world and the various regulations that govern such vehicles.

Volvo is definitely not alone in their efforts as a bunch of other carmakers are also working on the technology. Heck, even Apple’s CEO Tim Cook recently confirmed that the company was working on similar technology as well, although it will be interesting to see who will be the first to the market with a fully autonomous vehicle.

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The OnePlus 5 was announced last week and during the announcement, OnePlus confirmed that the phone would be available for purchase on the 27th of June. For those who have been eagerly anticipating the handset, the wait is over as it is now the 27th of June which means that you can pop on over to OnePlus’ website and get your hands on it.

As a quick recap for those who missed the announcement, the OnePlus 5 is the latest smartphone from the company, and no, they did not skip the OnePlus 4, but rather they chose to name it the OnePlus 5 as “4” in Chinese is usually seen as a bad omen. It packs some pretty high-end specs and looks like it can compete with the best phones out there in the market today.

This includes a 5.5-inch Full HD display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chipset, 6GB of RAM (there is an 8GB variant too), a dual camera setup on the back, a 3,300mAh battery, a fingerprint sensor, and will come with the latest OxygenOS build which is based around Android 7.1.1 Nougat.

While the handset does appear to be packing some high-end hardware, there has been a bit of controversy as the company was found to be “cheating” the benchmark results, although the company’s execs have since weighed in on the issue and claimed that they were merely trying to show the full potential of the phone. The handset is priced at $479 for the 6GB RAM/64GB storage configuration, and $539 for the 8GB RAM/128GB storage configuration.

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