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The next Pokémon Presents livestream will take place on February 27th, aka Pokémon Day, at 9AM ET. The Pokémon Company hasn’t revealed what’s in store, other than to say in a tweet on its Japanese account that it’ll be a relatively brief affair clocking in at around 14 minutes and you’ll be able to watch on the official Pokémon YouTube channel.

Pokémon Day marks the anniversary of the first games in the franchise. Pokémon Red and Green were released in Japan on February 27th, 1996. The company has announced updates for titles including Pokémon Unite, Pokémon Go and Pokémon Cafe Mix in the lead up to Sunday’s festivities, as Polygon notes. 

It’s been a busy spell for The Pokémon Company on the games front. Not only did it release Pokémon Unite and Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl last year, Pokémon Legends: Arceus arrived less than a month ago. Meanwhile, the beta of a virtual trading card game, Pokémon TCG Live, was released in Canada this week. It remains to be seen whether the stream will offer details about what’s next for those titles, provide an early look at something new or even both.

If you still read a lot of posts and blogs that are hosted on Tumblr, there’s a good chance you are seeing quite a number of ads. Given that Tumblr is pretty much free to use, having ads is one of the ways the company is earning money to keep its operations running, which is completely fair.

As noted by The Verge, Tumblr’s founder David Karp was initially opposed to the idea of including ads on the platform, but since the company needed a way to pay for its operations, there was little alternative.

However, if you’d rather not see ads at all when you’re browsing Tumblr, then you might be interested to learn that Tumblr has since announced a new subscription service where for $4.99 a month, you will be able to remove ads from the posts and blogs that you are reading.

There will be a cheaper option priced at $39.99 if you’re willing to pay for an entire year’s subscription, which is roughly a 33% discount. This removal of ads will be applicable on desktop and mobile as long as you’re signed into your Tumblr account. According to Tumblr, this is a completely optional subscription and those who don’t want to pay don’t have to, but they’ll be seeing ads instead.

Tumblr Launches Subscription Service To Get Rid Of Ads

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Based on multiple benchmarks and reviews, Intel is lagging behind Apple in terms of performance where the Apple Silicon appears to be not only outperforming Intel’s CPUs, but have also shown to be more energy efficient. If anything, this justifies Apple’s decision to ditch Intel and go with their own hardware.

We imagine that Intel would be eager to get Apple back as a customer, or at the very least produce CPUs that can outperform Apple to show that they are still the best at what they do. Based on a leaked roadmap published by AdoredTV on Twitter, Intel plans to do that by late 2023.

It wasn’t a rumour, it was their plan. I talked with Intel engineers working on the project and I was also handed this slide a bit before then. If they are no longer doing TSMC 3nm its a decision made since the video. pic.twitter.com/zr0FojtCv6

— Jim (@AdoredTV) February 22, 2022

The roadmap suggests that the company believes that by late 2023 and with the launch of their Arrow Lake processors, they will be able to create a CPU that will be able to outperform that of Apple’s M1 Max chipset, which at the moment is the most powerful chipset Apple has made to date.

However, we have to question Intel’s alleged plans. Sure, it is possible that in 2023 they will have a processor that could outperform the M1 Max, but by then, we imagine Apple will have created the M2 Max which obviously would be more powerful than the M1 Max, so if anything this only feels like Intel is playing catchup.

It remains to be seen what kind of changes the M2 Max will offer, but the company is expected to launch the M2 this year so perhaps we’ll know a bit more by then.

Leaked Roadmap Reveals Intel’s Plan To Outperform Apple’s M1 Max By Late 2023

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“It sends a terrible message to our youth,” Democratic Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith told colleagues.

It’s probably safe to say Marvel has put out some reasonably good comics over the last 60 years. It’s probably also safe to say that it’s put out some of the greatest and most beloved comic stories of all time. We asked you, the readers, to give us your favorites, and here’s some of what you told us. Please note:…

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