Félix “xQcOW” Lengyel — former pro Overwatch player and currently one of the top streamers on Twitch — has been temporarily banned from the site for cheating at Twitch Rivals, a site-sponsored tournament series. Lengyel was playing this summer’s breakout smash Fall Guys, when he stream-sniped an opponent live on air and sent them home
Read MoreRon Miller / TechCrunch: Cloudbolt, which helps companies manage hybrid cloud environments, raises $15M in equity and $20M in debt, bringing its total raised to $61M — Cloudbolt, a Bethesda, MD startup that helps companies manage hybrid cloud environments, announced a $35 million Series B investment today. Cloudbolt, which helps companies manage hybrid cloud environments,
Read MoreThe PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X might delivery better graphics and faster load times, but did you ever stop to think about how your next-gen gaming experience sounds? Both consoles support 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound from speakers or sound bars, as well as virtual surround sound through headphones. And turning… Read more… How
Read MoreNew versions of Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox browsers dropped yesterday, and if you haven’t yet updated, now’s as good a time as any: Visit the “About Chrome” or “About Firefox” portion of your browser, both under each browser’s help menu, and it will start updating automatically. While that’s chugging along,… Read more… Our Favorite
Read MoreBluepoint added a number of features to allow more people to play ‘Demon’s Souls’ but they also considered FromSoftware’s intent with the game. ‘Demon’s Souls’ devs considered, and ultimately left out, an easy mode. Here’s why. Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreWelcome to Neural’s guide to the glorious future of AI. What wonders will tomorrow’s machines be capable of? How do we get from Alexa and Siri to Rosie the Robot and R2D2? In this speculative science series we’ll put our optimist hats on and try to answer those questions and more. Let’s start with a
Read MoreThe tree was compared to “the apocalypse we’re living in,” and many thought it reminded them of Charlie Brown’s. Rockefeller Center’s scraggly Christmas tree is deemed ‘a metaphor for 2020’ Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreWe’re all familiar with a typical configuration sequence for a new mass-market IoT device. Turn it on for the first time and it exposes a temporary Wi-Fi network, connect to that network and open a Web page for device configuration. Wouldn’t it be useful to be able to incorporate that functionality into your own projects
Read MoreEducation technology company Campuswire has introduced a platform that allows professors from around the world to deliver their live online classes to anybody on the internet. Campuswire Invites Instructors to Make Best Courses Available to World — and Collect a Fee Source: Campus Technology
Read MoreGoogle has released a prototype AI app that turns your sketches into fantastical monsters — with varying degrees of success. The Big G developed the Chimera Painter to produce an endless stream of creatures for a fantasy card game in which the different monsters battle. The system is powered by generative adversarial networks (GANs), which create new
Read MoreTony Romm / Washington Post: Apple agrees to pay $113M to settle an investigation into iPhone throttling brought by 34 states and District of Columbia — Apple will pay $113 million to settle an investigation by nearly three dozen states into the tech giant’s past practice of slowing customers’ old iPhones in an attempt to
Read MoreShopify has added a new Alipay payment gateway to its ecommerce platform after the success of this year’s Singles Day. Shopify signs Alipay partnership to allow more purchases across the world Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreThe cure for the common gaming PC Continue reading… AMD Radeon RX 6800 review: entry-level 4K Source: New feed
Read MoreApple will pay $113 million to settle an investigation by nearly three dozen states into the tech giant’s past practice of slowing customers’ old iPhones in an attempt to preserve their batteries. Apple to pay 3 million to settle state investigation into iPhone ‘batterygate’ Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreIt all started with an 88-ton Arburg RP300 injection molding machine in the basement, and a bit of inattention. Larry Berg wanted a couple custom plastic plugs for his Garmin GPS, so he milled out a mold and ran a few. But he got distracted, and came back an hour later to find that his
Read MoreImage: Google Google has announced new family-oriented updates for Assistant and Fi, which can be potentially useful whether you’ve all been under the same roof for the duration of the pandemic or you’re making plans to visit for the holidays. Assistant’s changes are primarily focused on smart displays like the Nest Hub Max, in which
Read MoreIf you haven’t noticed, this Thanksgiving is not going to be a normal one. Stuffing a bunch of people into your home is simply not an option, but shoving a bunch of people into a four-walled tent isn’t any better. (What good is being “outside” if you’re inside a plastic room?) Read more… Celebrate Thanksgiving
Read MoreWe should be able to use a dating app without fear of winding up in a military database. We Should Be Able to Use Apps Without Fear of Government Surveillance Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google announces a major redesign for Google Pay for iOS and Android and is partnering with 11 banks to launch Plex, mobile-first bank accounts, in 2021 — Google is launching a major redesign of its Google Pay app on both Android and iOS today. Like similar phone-based contactless payment services …
Read MoreChris Welch / The Verge: Google rolls out update to Chrome, with pages now loading up to 7% faster, CPU usage reduced by up to 5x by throttling background tabs, and reduced usage of RAM — The last Chrome update for 2020 is all about efficiency — Google is wrapping up 2020 with what it
Read MorePhoto by Alexander Kramer for The Verge Saving money on new Apple products is usually out of the question, but the new 13-inch MacBook Pro that has Apple’s powerful M1 silicon is already $50 off at Amazon. Instead of costing $1,299 for the base model with 256GB of storage and 8GB of RAM, you’ll pay
Read MoreAdam Satariano / New York Times: Over 200 Facebook contract moderators sign an open letter criticizing Facebook, Accenture, and CPL for ending WFH policies and call for better protections — Here’s what you need to know: — Facebook moderators forced back to the office raise alarms about Covid-19 protections. Over 200 Facebook contract moderators sign
Read MoreImage: Google It will include tap-to-pay, peer-to-peer, personal finance aggregation, customizable deals, and even full banking services Continue reading… Google Pay’s massive relaunch makes it an all-encompassing money app Source: New feed
Read MoreCommentary: As the Netflix series creeps ever closer to the present day, my relationship with the show is deepening. The Crown's Diana depiction has me revisiting my British childhood – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePanopto and Webex users will now be able to transfer their video recordings to their media library. Panopto produces video management applications; Webex is a videoconferencing program. Panopto Adds Webex Integration Source: Campus Technology
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