Some Comcast subscribers had early access to Peacock, so they’ve been able to watch films on the service for a few months. But it might seem odd that it’s jettisoning so many big movies so soon after the national launch.

Reps for NBCU haven’t yet confirmed to Engadget whether this is the case here, but it’s common for movies and shows to cycle in and out of streaming platforms, given various licensing agreements. That’s been the case for the likes of Netflix for quite some time. But even HBO Max and Disney+, whose parent companies own most of content on those platforms, have lost access to some films for a certain period of time.

There’s still plenty to keep you occupied on Peacock, given there’s over 13,000 hours of material on the free tier alone. Along with NBCU’s own properties, you can watch some movies and shows owned by ViacomCBS there too. But if you were looking to binge on the Matrix movies again ahead of the fourth installment, you’ll either have to act quickly to watch them on Peacock, or check them out elsewhere.

Arriving Just in time for next year’s holiday season, Microsoft’s next generation gaming console, previously known as Project Scarlett, will reportedly manage to pack four times as much processing power as its predecessor. There’s no word on pricing just yet but we do know that it will support up to 120 fps and 8K resolution.

Now, you’re probably asking yourself, “Wait, they made a third Matrix movie? Like, one after the one with the weird blonde twins?” They sure did! And come next May, Neo and the rest of the gang (aside from Carrie Anne Moss of course) will be back in theaters, fighting for the fate of humanity against their robot overlords.

The Forza franchise is taking a page from Fortnite’s handbook by rolling out a massive, winner-take-all multiplayer mode. Players will have to survive a series of increasingly challenging head-to-head races against as many as six dozen fellow competitors. And if you can’t keep pace with the leaders, you’ll have to hand over your car keys.

Netflix has a certifiable hit on its hands with Martin Scorsese’s latest crime saga. More than 26 million people tuned in to The Irishman in its first week of release. That figure is sure to rise over the next few weeks, potentially hitting more than 40 million views by the end of the month.

Naughty Dog is getting into the spirit of giving a little early this year. The company sold out of its PS2-era classic, Jak and Daxter, within hours of reissuing it and has announced that the proceeds from those sales will go to a worth cause (or seven). Naughty Dog hasn’t said how much, exactly, it will be giving away however.

There still isn’t much known about the plot of the fourth movie, although its cast is filling out. Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss are still the only returning actors known to have roles. Neil Patrick Harris, Jessica Henwick (Nymeria from Game of Thrones) and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Us and Watchmen) are also slated to appear. Co-creator Lana Wachowski is also involved, although she’ll share production and writing duties this time around. If there’s any certainty, it’s that expectations and anxiety are equally high. This could breathe new life into The Matrix and its visions of robot-controlled virtual worlds, or it could be another flawed attempt to cash in on a beloved classic.

The PowerWatch 2 is another wearable designed to sit in the space between a smartwatch and a fitness watch. It offers fitness tracking, smartwatch notifications, heart-rate monitoring and GPS. The company says it’s positioning the new PowerWatch as an alternative to high-end running watches, like Garmin’s Fenix 6 and Suunto’s 9. It’s ruggedized, for extreme marathoners, and is water-resistant to depths of 200 meters.

It’s also crazy big, the sort of big that means you need forearms the size of tree trunks for it to look in proportion. The case is 47mm wide and 16mm thick, clad in chunky steel and screws aping Casio’s G-Shock aesthetic. It has a full-color LCD screen, which also has serious Casio vibes. It’s perfectly readable in daylight but needs the backlight as soon as it gets dark.

The first thing I noticed when opening the box was the charging plate, something you may feel suspicious about. It’s just a thermal plate, though, and warms up as if it was your wrist, helping to power the watch if it gets seriously low. In almost a week of testing, I’ve not felt the need to use the plate, and I doubt others will unless they leave the watch on a cold shelf for weeks on end. There’s no suggestion about how long it’ll run before conking out in this state, either.

Setup takes about a minute. You just need to scan the QR code from inside the companion smartphone app and wait for things to set up. You add your vital statistics, then begin wearing it. Hit the down pusher, and you’ll be told how many steps you’ve taken, calories burned, your resting heart rate and the length of your sleep.

Hit the up pusher, and you can scroll through previews of the last seven messages your phone has received, like pretty much every watch. There’s no ability to respond on either iOS or Android, and there is limited overall Android support right now. The team says updates will improve the situation next year, including longer previews and sending pre-written responses.

The front screen is relatively information-dense, for a smartwatch, which is a refreshing change from the light screens you get on other watches. At a glance, you’ll see the time, date, step and calorie counts as well as any unread messages. You’ll also have a battery icon showing the watch’s stored power level, which is explained in the boxout.

The step tracking seems a little generous, counting around twice as many steps as, for instance, my phone. Sleep tracking, too, certainly needs adjusting, after I took it off to take a shower and then forgot to put it on for an hour, it started counting the stillness as sleep. This is the sort of thing you’d hope the company would fix before the watch reaches the user.

Now, let’s talk about that GPS, which is clearly the biggest and most exciting feature. After all, most GPS watches can run for the duration of a marathon (or two, depending on your time) before dying. Matrix’s claim that the PowerWatch 2 can run GPS functions without a battery has a couple of caveats, which we need to delve into.

First up, the company says you can use GPS for 30 minutes per day — and only 30 minutes per day. But, if you skip a day, you can “save up” that power, using it for 60 minutes the following day, 90 after that, and so forth. With my battery marker reporting full, I used it for 1 hr 47 minutes in a single go, only knocking about a fifth off the meter, so I assume Matrix has been very conservative in its estimates here.

I understand you could, actually, use this watch for much longer periods at a time, but you’ll need to be mindful of your energy consumption. If you want to go running (with GPS) for ten hours, that’s possible, but you’ll need to not tax the watch again until you’ve recharged its capacitor. And that could take several days, or weeks, so you need to be judicious about using and recovering your power.

Security researcher “Elliot Alderson” (aka Baptiste Robert) discovered that Tchap’s email address check wasn’t as stringent as it should be. He succeeded in signing up simply by attaching an @elysee.fr (the presidential palace) address to the end of the email address he intended to use — it sent the validation email to his actual account. From there, he could see public chats and theoretically start conversations with government workers.

This won’t be an issue going forward. The researcher got in touch with both the government as well as Matrix, the team behind the open source Riot software at the heart of Tchap. Matrix fixed the issue just in time for the launch, preventing a potential embarrassment.

DINSIC, the French government’s digital agency, promised that Tchap will go through “continuous improvement” in both security and functionality. It saw the last-minute fix as evidence of that approach in action, and planned to start a bug bounty program to incentivize security experts. You might not see officials shift many of their discussions to the app in the near future, then. Whether or not they do, this could help officials wean themselves off of general apps like Telegram (a favorite of President Macron) and reduce the chances of intruders eavesdropping on officials.