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Elon Musk wants to own Twitter after all. The Tesla CEO has decided he wants to go ahead with the deal he originally struck to buy the social media company for $54.20 a share, Bloomberg reports.

News of the proposal comes less than weeks before the two sides were set to go to trial in Delaware’s Court of Chancery over Musk’s attempt to get out of that deal. He has cited concerns about the number of spam and bot accounts on Twitter, and later added allegations from the company’s former head of security turned whistleblower to his suit.

Twitter didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. But CNBC reported that trading of Twitter’s shares was halted following the report. 

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Today, on the Nintendo Twitter account, we got the first look at the upcoming Mario movie via its movie poster, as well as a drop date for the upcoming trailer, and… wait… what’s going on with Mario’s butt?

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Gatorade has designed a smart water bottle to help you determine and maintain your baseline hydration level and monitor your post-workout recovery. A ring of LEDs that runs around the Smart Gx Bottle’s cap should allow you to monitor you daily hydration, and gently nudge you to drink more when necessary. You can recharge the bottle using a USB cable. A Gatorade spokesperson told Engadget the bottle is dishwasher safe, but the cap is not. 

Naturally, your hydration levels can be tracked through Gatorade’s iOS-only Gx App, which features nutrition and training programs as well as recovery recommendations. As for what happens when you drink water from another source and how the app will track that, Gatorade says that’s “on the roadmap for launch.”

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Meanwhile, Gatorade’s Sweat Patch, which the company debuted last year, is a single-use wearable that can help you create a “sweat profile” in the app and help track your perspiration. You’ll need to use the Sweat Patch to get a hydration report for the Smart Gx Bottle. Alternatively, you can weigh yourself before and after your workout.

To that end, Gatorade sells pods that can be mixed with water to help replenish electrolytes and carbohydrates. They’re compatible with the Smart Gx Bottle and regular Gx Bottle, each of which has a piercing mechanism for the pods. In addition, the company offering gummies that it claims can help with recovery and boosting your immune system.

Smart water bottles that can track hydration levels have been aroundfor years, but Gatorade is stepping into the space as a well-known brand. Folks might be more inclined to try one out from a company whose products they’ve used for years than one that started life as a crowdfunding project.

Engadget Deputy Editor Cherlynn Low has been checking out the Smart Gx Bottle using pre-release software. We’ll need to test it out a bit longer to determine how effective it is in tracking hydration levels. It’s similar to Gatorade’s other bottles in terms of squeezability. However, Cherlynn found that the cap leaks, which isn’t a great look. Also, in case you’re wondering, Cherlynn says the recovery gummies taste better than expected.

The Smart Gx Bottle is available from Gatorade’s website starting today. It costs $70. Gatorade will toss in a Sweat Patch and a pack of four pods of your choice at no extra cost. In case you’re interested in the gummies, those will run you $26 for one batch or $46.80 for a bundle.

Today in Munich, Xiaomi unveiled its latest flagship, the Xiaomi 12T Pro, and its sibling, the Xiaomi 12T. The manufacturer touts the 200MP f/1.69 primary rear shooter with OIS as the “ultimate camera,” making that feature the show’s star. The 12T features a lower resolution 108MP f/1.7 primary sensor with OIS (optical image stabilization). Both are complemented with an 8MP f/2.2 ultra-wide sensor and a 2MP f/2.4 macro camera.

The previous flagship, the Xiaomi 12 Pro, featured three 50MP sensors, an f1/9 wide (primary), a 2X f1/9 short-zoom, and an f2/2 ultra-wide. Xiaomi opted to replace the zoom camera with a macro camera for the 12T Pro. It seems the choice of lower resolutions for the companion lenses allowed Xiaomi to put more resources into the massive resolution sensor for the primary camera.

Both new devices’ 6.67” 1220p AMOLED displays are almost the same, the 12T Pro features slightly better color and display quality, with Dolby Vision and SGS Low Visual Fatigue certifications. Both displays deliver a maximum 120 Hz refresh rate, with AdaptiveSync switching from 30Hz to 60Hz to 90Hz and 120 Hz depending on the usage. Both provide a 900 NITs peak brightness that we measured.

On the design side, it is almost impossible to differentiate the 12T from the 12T Pro, the latter has a slightly thicker camera bump. We had to label them to make sure we recognized each model.

Both models feature identical excellent battery specs with 5000 mAh and a fast 120W charger included (a $45+ value), but the computing platform is different. Xiaomi claims a 100% charge in 19 minutes, we will surely measure the charging speed to confirm the claim for our upcoming review.

On the Soc side, the 12T Pro gets the latest Qualcomm flagship, the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 while the 12T features a MediaTek Dimensity 8100-Ultra processor. According to Geekbench 5, the 12T Pro is ~17% faster (multi-core Geekbench) than the 12T.

Both devices are certified Dolby Atmos, and the 12T Pro has additional sound tuning by Harman Kardon.

The Xiaomi 12T is available now in blue, silver, and black, from the Xiaomi website. The price for the 8GB RAM and 128GB of storage is 599 euros, some countries like Germany or France only offer the 256 GB version for 649.90 euros

The Xiaomi 12T Pro is available now in blue, silver, and black, from the Xiaomi website. The price for the 8GB RAM and 128GB of storage is 749 euros, some countries like Germany or France only offer the 256 GB version for 799.90 euros.

Xiaomi 12T Pro and 12T Launched in Munich

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