PlayStation Plus games list, 50 Apple deals, 13 Google glimpses of the future and 1 piece of a great news

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• 🙌 Below, I have something for everyone* today

  • 🍎 Apple user? 50 discounts on iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods, iPhone, Mac, etc.

  • 🤖 Android user? 13 ways Google demoed the future this month in bullet points (a TLDR for you time-strapped headline-readers)

  • 🤷‍♂️*Everyone = OK, I said “everyone,” but if you’re still using Windows Mobile from 2016, sorry, I have nothing for you

  • 💿 PlayStation Plus Premium games list first 127 titles revealed

  • 🌟 Walmart PS5 restock guide – you need the paid version of Walmart Plus – get it now before June 2

  • 🛑 Exclusive: GameStop PS5 restock – date (bundle info, price and inventory count for subscribers)

  • 🟩 Xbox Series X price has stabilized. You can get it for $499 straight from Microsoft here

  • 🌟 Today’s best Walmart deals ramp up June 2-5, when summer deals launch exclusively for Walmart+ members (hence the June 2 PS5 push)

• 🎁 Congrats to the monthly subscriber winners of PS5 and Samsung SSDs:

  • Logan B.

  • Antonio P.

  • Chris K.

  • Miles W.

• Next giveaway is coming soon for all subscribers!

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These Samsung SSD deals were popular. Need help installing a PS5 SSD? I have a guide for that on The Shortcut!

🍎 50 Apple, Fitbit and Samsung deals

Apple’s WWDC 2022 keynote isn’t until June 6, but there are tons of iPad, iPhone, MacBook, Mac and Apple Watch deals this week. Here’s everything on sale – even AirPods. I’m adding new pages daily.

• 📱 iPad deals

• 📱 iPhone deals

• 💻 MacBook deals

• 🎧 AirPods deals

• ⌚ Apple Watch deals

• 📡 AirTag deals

• 📱 $1000 off Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra

• ⌚ Fitbit deals

• ⌚ Garmin deals

• ⌚ Samsung watch deals

• 🥽 PSVR 2 info and pre-order date tracker

• What else do you want me to track?

*These will be updated daily

💿 127 PlayStation Plus Premium partial games list

The Sony PS Plus Premium games list has been revealed – at least in part. Here are the first 127 of 740 games across PS5, PS4, PS3, PS2 and PS1 that will be a part of the PlayStation Plus Premium (and PS Plus Extra) subscription service.

PlayStation Plus Premium games list: PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4 and PS5 games revealed

🤖 13 ways Google offered a glimpse of the future

The Google IO 2022 keynote this month gave us insight into where the Mountain View company is headed with Google Assistant, Android and other devices and software.

• 🚀 13 products & services at the Google IO keynote, its annual conference

• ⌚ Pixel Watch, coming this fall, is the first Google-made smartwatch

  • Stylish circular display

  • Deep Fitbit integration

• 📱 Pixel 7 and 7 Pro phones, coming this fall, were teased

  • Similar but subtly better design, next-gen Tensor chip

  • Promises to set a “new standard for photography”

• 📱 Pixel 6a is $449 and pre-orders begin July 21

  • 6.1-inch OLED display, Google’s Tensor chip

  • More colors vs Pixel 5a: white, black and green

  • No headphone jack

• 🎧 Pixel Buds Pro is $199; pre-orders July 21; release July 28

  • First Pixel Buds with ANC (active noise cancellation)

  • Transparency Mode to let important outside sound in

  • Beam-forming mics to suppress needless noise

  • 11 hours of listening time, 7 hours with ANC

• 😎 Google AR glasses concept teased for the first time

  • Live translation aims to close language gaps

  • Text will appear in the glasses as a person speaks

  • This seems very early

• 🔈 Google Home Max updates: Look & Talk, Quick Phrases

  • Look & Talk uses face and voice match to know it’s you

    • Opt-in; video is processed on-device (not over the internet)

  • Quick Phrases expands without hot-words

    • No need to say “Hey Google” to set a timer or alarm, ask for the weather, turn on/off/dim the lights, etc

    • Works with certain phrases you enable (another privacy perk)

• 🔢 Everything else

  • 📱 Google Pixel tablet 2023 was teased, but very far off

  • 💳 Google Wallet is coming back with IDs, gym membership, vaccine cards, reservations, driver’s insurance, etc

  • 📡 Early Earthquake Warning on Android; Emergency SOS on WearOS

  • 💬 Phone hub on Chromebooks ports text messages and the clipboard from your phone/tablet (like Apple’s iMessage sync/Universal Clipboard)

    • Google 100% needs to make this for Macs, too, to lure users

  • 👀 Eye-spy: Scene exploration is Google Search on your camera!

    • Scan a grocery shelf to ID objects (which chocolate is nut-free, vegan, dark chocolate and highly rated? Your camera tells you)

  • 📝 Google Docs automated summarizations are the “tdlr” for long documents (coming to other products eventually, too)

    • Wild! Don’t we all need this for long, boring Google Docs?

  • 🗺️ Google Maps ‘Immersive View’ will allow you to explore a 3D world

    • Select 3D cities will simulate live traffic and weather data

    • Interior restaurant tours cobbled together by photos and AI

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