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Though WWE Network was previously its own streaming service priced at $9.99 per month, Peacock subscribers now have access to all of that content starting at just $4.99 per month with a Peacock Premium subscription. There s even a wide variety of shows and WWE content you can watch just by signing up for a free account, though you won t be able to watch any live events this way. For an ad-free experience, you ll want to upgrade to the Peacock Premium Plus tier at $9.99 per month. With Premium Plus, select content is also available to download for offline viewing.
By joining Peacock Premium today, you ll be able to stream Wrestlemania 37 live this weekend when it airs on Saturday and Sunday at 8pm ET. Of course, there s also a lot more than WWE content to watch on Peacock. Along with access to a range of iconic TV series, you can watch films from studios like Universal, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features as well as general sports coverage and live sports talk.
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I’m guessing by now you’ve heard that carmakers have had to slow down or in some cases even stop production because there’s a global shortage of microchips of all kinds. Modern cars are crammed full of these silicon thinking-flakes, so if there aren’t any around, cars won’t get built. This is a strange situation, to be sure, and it’s worth digging into
why it’s happening. So let’s do that.
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There’s been a number of explainers out there, and they all generally arrive at the same conclusions, because, well, everyone can pretty clearly see what went wrong. And unsurprisingly, a lot of the blame can be placed squarely on the thing that we can blame for so much of life’s current shittiness: COVID-19.
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Based on new leaks, Google’s upcoming Pixel Buds A will look almost exactly the same as last year’s model but with a slightly different paint job.
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The pandemic has thrown gadget release schedules all out of wack, so while we wait for new devices to officially be announced, leaks today suggest Google’s next two products could be a new Nest security cam and updated Pixel Buds.
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In an FCC filing spotted by 9to5Google, a new “wireless streaming device” with the model number G3ALP has appeared sporting a similar description to previous Google products, like the Nest Mini and Chromecast with Google TV.
Monster Hunter Rise is wonderfully, perfectly tedious
The pleasures of the
Monster Hunter franchise can be kind of difficult to describe to outsiders. Sure, there’s the obvious stuff hit dinosaur with hammer, take parts from dinosaur to make better and shinier hammer, hit meaner dinosaur with above, repeat but the ritual drudgery that Capcom’s series revels in as a matter of pride can be a difficult obstacle to surmount, let alone justify. Even 2018’s
Monster Hunter: World, which was a radical step forward in accessibility for a franchise that never met a crafting system or obscure power-up technique it couldn’t jam in
The second thing to note is that Honda has kept the CR-V in this style for a long, long time. The CR-V on sale at this moment is the fifth generation of CR-V, which debuted back in late 2016 in Detroit but not at the city’s annual auto show. I think the reason for the sideshow fanfare was that the new CR-V looked pretty much identical to the one before it, the fourth-gen.
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In turn, the fourth-gen only looked like a revised version of the third-gen CR-V, the one that had the false roofline and an underbite. That CR-V went on sale in 2006, so we’re nearly a decade and a half into the history of the CR-V looking plain bad.