Image: Blizzard Yesterday, the first round of Overwatch League play in 2023 concluded with the league’s first-ever pro-am tournament. Seven amateur teams from the North American and EMEA regions qualified for the right to play against the professional Overwatch teams of the west. I love me some Tier 2 Overwatch (better known as Overwatch Contenders).
Read MoreNobody likes getting zapped from an electrostatic discharge, no matter whether you’re a fragile ASIC or a bag-of-mostly-salty-water humanoid. To prevent this, ESD wrist straps and similar are essential tools, as they prevent the build-up of a charge on your humanoid’s skin, essentially like a very large electrolyte-filled capacitor. Yet you can buy wireless ESD
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Update, April 10, 2023 (03:16 PM ET): This hub has been updated to include information about potential features gathered from APK teardowns. Original article: The Google Pixel 7 series made quite the splash in October 2022, earning both our Editor’s Choice and Reader’s Choice awards in 2022. We can
Read MoreNew York Times: In a lawsuit, former Twitter executives say they spent $1M+ on legal expenses related to shareholder lawsuits and government probes, including one by the US DOJ — The focus of the inquiry was unclear, but several former executives said they had racked up more than $1 million in expenses dealing with it
Read MoreWhile Dyson makes some good products, they aren’t known for being economical. Case in point: [Integza] spent $500 on a hair dryer. While he does have a fine head of hair, we suspected he wasn’t after it for its intended purpose, and we were right. It turns out he wanted to make it into a
Read MoreA row of Bitcoin mining machines at the Whinstone US Bitcoin mining facility in Rockdale, Texas, on October 9th, 2021. | Image: MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images Bitcoin mines in the US have had a tremendous impact on power grids, a New York Times investigation reveals. The mines — which are giant data farms
Read MoreOnePlus 11 Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Google is launching a new auto-archiving feature for Android. Auto-archiving can free up to nearly 60% of an app’s storage space. Only developers using App Bundle can add support for auto-archiving to their apps. If your phone has ever run out of storage space, then you know
Read MoreAmanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Some Twitter users have warned for days that Circle tweets, meant to reach a select group, are being suggested in the For You feeds of users outside that Circle — PSA: do not post your deepest darkest secrets on your Twitter Circle. — Numerous Twitter users are reporting a bug in
Read MoreTesla Shanghai and Lin-gang Special Area administrators sign the project off in a ceremony. | Image: Tesla Tesla’s building a new “Megafactory” in Shanghai, the automaker announced yesterday at a signing ceremony. The facility will be designed to manufacture Tesla’s commercial Megapack battery energy storage units, with the goal of eventually producing about 10,000 systems
Read MoreScreenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge The New York Times has announced a new math-based puzzle game, Digits, and you can play the beta test right now at this link. In Digits, you’re given six numbers that you can add, subtract, multiply, or divide together to reach a goal number. You’re not just limited
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube’s introducing an “enhanced” 1080p HD video quality for Premium subscribers — but it’s only available on iOS for now, with the option coming to web soon. According to YouTube, the new 1080p Premium option is “an enhanced bitrate version of 1080p” that’s supposed to make things look crisper,
Read MoreThere’s something very tantalizing about an augmented reality (AR) overlay that can provide information in daily life without having to glance at a smartphone display, even if it’s just for that sci-fi vibe. Creating a system that is both practical and useful is however far from easy, which is where Aedan Cullen‘s attempt at creating
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority The April 2023 Android security patch is here! If you own a recent Google Pixel smartphone, you can perform a software update check now in System Settings to grab it. You can also update manually or simply wait for the OTA notification. We expect the next big Pixel feature
Read MoreMorgan Sung / TechCrunch: Sex workers and others criticize Meta’s Verified program for requiring creators to use their legal name as their profile display name without a way to change it — “For $15, it’s doxxing you.” — With Meta Verified, users can pay for an enviable blue check next to their name.
Read MoreFinancial statements are important to have in any transactional activities involving money. Hence, whether running a non-profit organization or a for-profit business, it’s best to prepare financial statements. Creating a financial statement works well for your accounting and accountability. It helps you keep tabs on your progress, year in and year out. The objective of
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Google has stopped pushing updates for some third-party smart displays, reflecting a broader shift away from Assistant products. On a support page spotted by 9to5Google, the company says it will no longer provide software updates for the Lenovo Smart Display, JBL Link View, and the LG Xboom AI ThinQ WK9 Smart Display.
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority OnePlus is opening up preorders for its first Android tablet. Preorders require a deposit of $100 to hold your place in line. Those who put down a deposit will get a free gift. The OnePlus Pad is getting close to its full launch. Before that happens, the company is
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Juice jacking is on the rise. This hacking method uses publicly available outlets to skim data from smartphones. The FBI is now recommending travelers completely avoid outlets in airports. If you’ve traveled recently, you’ve likely noticed plenty of free outlets scattered around airports. As our lives increasingly rely on
Read MoreImage: The Verge Mastodon has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of Twitter’s ongoing meltdown, and since I started seriously using it late last year, it’s won me over. While I still use Twitter for monitoring news and talking to the occasional source, Mastodon is my new home for shortform posting. But Mastodon has one
Read MoreThe Super Mario Bros. Movie made $140 million, and now you can save $20 on his games. | Image: Universal There are a bunch of deals on first-party Nintendo games right now, coinciding with all the hype and opening weekend success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Retailers like Best Buy are selling various Nintendo
Read MoreApple’s Mac shipments plummeted by more than 40% in the first quarter of 2023 according to new research.
Read MoreDavid Pan / Bloomberg: Memo: Digital Currency Group’s Foundry plans to begin levying a pool fee for its bitcoin mining service, which had been free since Foundry’s 2019 launch — Crypto-mining firm Foundry, which is owned by embattled conglomerate Digital Currency Group, is going to start charging users a fee for its Bitcoin mining services.
Read MoreThe Pixel 7A is expected to be announced at Google I/O next month. | Image: MySmartPrice / OnLeaks We’re getting closer and closer to Google I/O 2023, and it’s looking like this year’s event will come with new hardware in tow. Google is expected to announce its latest midtier phone, the Pixel 7A, at the
Read MoreIf you’ve seen the John Wick movies, you’ve probably had to suspend your disbelief about many things, but the bulletproof suits are perhaps the hardest thing to swallow. They look like stylish suits but are impervious to just about anything at any range. What’s more is when you are hit, they seem to absorb all
Read MoreDomino’s Pizza now lets you order your food using CarPlay.
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