Gloomhaven is like a ready-to-play Dungeons & Dragons campaign in a box. | Image: Cephalofair Games Amazon has billed today’s Deal of the Day as its “Epic Daily Deal,” and the shoe certainly fits when it includes one of the most epic RPG-in-a-box titles of all time. Gloomhaven is currently on sale, tying its all-time
Read MorePython 3.10, the latest in-development version of Python, has been released. Intrepid Python developers are encouraged to test their code against it, with proper precautions (e.g., using a virtual environment). There aren’t many truly new major features in Python 3.10, but of the few that we do have, one of them — structural pattern matching
Read MoreIf you’re running low, Amazon has some deals to stock up on storage before it’s time to capture all those holiday memories.
Read MoreThere’s no pricing, Apple Watch Series 6 is still here, and it all just feels weird. As soon as Apple announced Apple Watch Series 7 last month, things started to get weird. We knew things were off when Apple announced the new wearable but wouldn’t tell us when it would go on sale. Instead, all
Read MoreAt 11:39 AM EST this morning, someone at Facebook updated the company’s BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) records and knocked Facebook, Instagram, Oculus, and WhatsApp offline in the process. As of this writing, all three services remain offline. BGP is the protocol large organizations like ISPs use for sharing information on traffic routing. If a user
Read MoreThe problem relates to something called BGP routing, and it could take a while longer to resolve.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A prolonged, global outage of Facebook’s apps has the company’s engineers scrambling to fix the issue at one of its data centers in California, according to two people familiar with the situation. The outage, which began around 11:40AM ET on Monday, has brought down all of Facebook’s apps
Read MorePhoto by Allison Johnson / The Verge T-Mobile and Google have announced they’re offering an “exclusive” plan with 500GB of Google One cloud storage for T-Mobile customers starting October 12th. The plan will cost $5 per month, the latest addition in an ongoing partnership between the search giant and the mobile carrier. Google offers Google
Read MoreThe Information: Sources: Andreessen Horowitz is leading a ~$150M Series B for Sky Mavis, developer of NFT game Axie Infinity, at a valuation near $3B — Sky Mavis, the developer of the popular crypto-based online game Axie Infinity, is raising approximately $150 million in Series B funding …
Read MoreThe Epic Games Store is taking a bit step towards further competing with more established PC game stores like Steam next week with a proper achievement system (called, of course, “Epic Achievements”). To start, Epic Achievements will only be available on a few games, including Rocket League, Hades, Pillars of Eternity, Kena, Zombie Army 4,
Read MoreWhen creating an iconic horror villain who always seems to cheat death, one of the biggest things to consider is how they will look. A classic horror villain needs the right look to be intimidating and strike fear into the hearts of their victims. A mask and a sharp knife are good, but sometimes the situation calls for something
Read MoreFans of Strictly Come Dancing have taken to social media to praise the show for featuring its very first deaf contestant, Rose Ayling-Ellis. A few weeks ago, the show premiered the long-awaited season 19 and revealed all 15 celebrities and their dancing partners. Like last year, there are still some restrictions in place for the contestants to
Read MoreThough the DC Extended Universe tends to be full of characters secluded and depressed vigilantes, there are actually a surprising amount who do have a fun streak. When it comes to living with any one of them, there’d be some surprising outcomes. RELATED: Batman V Superman Reimagined As 10 Other DC Movies Between psychotic but entertaining
Read MoreNetflix has released an update on the status of Squid Game season 2, commenting on the chances and timeline for the smash-hit Korean series getting a second chapter. While Netflix has had significant international success in the past with non-English shows like Lupin and Money Heist, nothing has compared to Squid Game, which is set
Read MoreEvery winner of Big Brother has had to make big moves in order to come out on top. Indeed, most, if not all of the winners had to accomplish some type of feat to be in the final two, even if it was just winning the last competitions that helped get them there. RELATED: The
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is back online after a six-hour outage due to DNS routing problems. The outage took down Instagram, Whatsapp, Messenger, and Oculus VR as well. For some, those services are back online now; however, after a DNS issue like this, it could take hours for everything to work
Read MoreTom Strickx / The Cloudflare Blog: Cloudflare says Facebook appears to be reconnected to the internet with DNS working again, but services will take more time to be fully restored — Loading… Celso Martinho — “Facebook can’t be down, can it?”, we thought, for a second. — Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal
Read MoreGearing can make a huge difference to a cyclist, enabling even the least fit rider to climb a steep hill, albeit slowly. [Berm Peak Express] took that to the next level, creating a super-low geared bicycle capable of actually towing seriously heavy loads. The build consists of a custom 74-tooth sprocket for the rear wheel,
Read MoreToday you can get Apple’s premium wireless AirPods Pro headphones with a $70 discount from Amazon. This makes these high-end earbuds just $179.00, which is the lowest price we’ve seen on them to date. Apple AirPods Pro Wireless Earbuds for $179.00 from Amazon (List Price $249.00)Dell S3222DGM 31.5-inch 2K Curved Gaming Monitor for $369.99 from Dell
Read MoreI don’t know what else to call it: the Windows 11 upgrade situation is a confusing mess. Depending on when your PC was built, which components you chose, and how it was configured, there’s a decent chance Microsoft will try to scare you away from installing the free upgrade, which is available a day early
Read MoreEnsuring your organization’s IT environment is not only secure, but also patched regularly, can be challenging. Migrating to the cloud can help address these challenges in unique ways. CIS Hardened Images, which are virtual machine (VM) images built to defend against cyber threats, can help. CIS builds these securely pre-configured VMs to the secure configuration guidelines of
Read MoreAcer Acer has refreshed its Nitro 5 lineup of entry-level gaming laptops for the second half of 2021, and its new 17.3-inch model launching in mid-October seems particularly impressive given its $1,199.99 price. Its 1080p display has a 144Hz refresh rate, and it comes equipped with an 11th Gen Intel Core i7 processor and Nvidia’s
Read MoreCredit: Microsoft Microsoft just made the official Windows 11 downloads available. That’s a day earlier than expected. The originally announced launch date was October 5, 2021. If you have newer hardware, you might see the update available very soon. Older hardware might take a while. Months ago, Microsoft officially revealed it would launch the latest
Read MoreSocial media platforms Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were down for thousands of users on Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Users also reported issues with Facebook’s online messaging service Messenger. Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. As per downdetector, Facebook was the
Read MoreCybercriminals target public sector organizations every day. From ransomware attacks to data theft, systems need defense-in-depth best practices and modern computing solutions to fend off cyber threats. Luckily, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) participates in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Authority to Operate (ATO) program. ATO’s partner-driven process helps organizations converge common cloud security
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