Final Fantasy VI. | Image: Square Enix As I installed the original Final Fantasy, a game that first came out when I was three years old, on Sony’s most advanced console to date, I came to a realization: almost everything I’ve played this year has been old. Between the remakes, rereleases, and retro collections, it’s
Read MoreApple Arcade and Netflix Games are two services that offer a similar product – gaming subscriptions. But which is the best offering for iOS users?
Read MorePew Research Center: Survey of 11,004 US adults: 62% believe AI will have a major impact on workers, 28% think AI will impact themselves; 71% oppose AI use in final hiring decisions — 62% believe artificial intelligence will have a major impact on jobholders overall in the next 20 years, but far fewer think it
Read MoreDitch your single-use products and cut down on waste. Here’s some of our favorites, from water bottles to menstrual products.
Read MorePlus: Samsung enters the news game, Humane reveals a wearable virtual assistant, and Snapchat gets chattier.
Read MoreMaddy Crowell / Columbia Journalism Review: A profile of Runa Sandvik, who started Granitt in June 2022 to help journalists, lawyers, activists, and other at-risk people keep their data safe from hackers — Runa Sandvik has made it her life’s work to protect journalists against cyberattacks. Authoritarian regimes are keeping her in business.
Read MoreWe’ve got Earth Day discounts on reusable water bottles and bike helmets galore.
Read MoreAs NFC chips proliferate, so do the antennas they require for operation, and since many NFC-enabled items are single-use, this means there’s an opportunity to put them to other uses. It’s an avenue pursued by [Brother-live], as he strips the antennas from spent metro tickets and gets experimenting. The antenna in an NFC-enabled card is
Read MoreWelcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 241st edition here with Pixel Tablet price leaks, a possible Pixel Fold launch date, new launches from Xiaomi and vivo, Android’s smart solution for crashing apps — oh, and the end of Netflix’s
Read MoreThe animals evolved into ultra-resilient, disease-free predators while isolated on Auckland Island. Now people want to breed them for organ transplants.
Read MoreThe R1S is one of the most comprehensively well-designed and engineered vehicles ever. A trip to Big Bear in Rivian’s electric SUV showcases why it’s one of the most compelling vehicles on sale. As a first effort from a new automaker, it’s even more impressive. Continue reading…
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority A short OPPO Find X6 Pro hands-on is enough to know an excellent hardware package when you see one, perhaps even a contender for one of the best smartphones around. The wonderful display, super-fast charging, pleather finish, and solid triple camera setup show tremendous promise. However, the last-minute swap
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources and analysts share insights on Apple’s plans in financial services, as the company lays the technical groundwork for taking a bigger share of the market — The tech giant’s ventures into financial services signal greater ambitions to take on Wall Street
Read MoreImage via Kuba Wojciechowski You’ve seen renders and perhaps even a plastic mockup, but real-life footage of Google’s first foldable phone? Unless we’re getting the wool pulled over our eyes, behold the Pixel Fold! pic.twitter.com/zTpEo18K4y — Kuba Wojciechowski :3 (@Za_Raczke) April 22, 2023 It’s true, there’s not a lot to distinguish this as the Google
Read MoreAndrew Pollack / Bloomberg: Silver Lake agrees to buy Germany’s Software AG, a developer of business and application integration software, for €30 a share, valuing the company at ~€2.2B — Private equity firm Silver Lake Management has agreed to acquire Germany’s Software AG for €30 a share in cash …
Read MoreSociety and governments are struggling to adapt to a world full of cybersecurity threats. Case in point: the EU CRA — Cyber Resilience Act — is a proposal by the European Commission to enact legislation with a noble goal: protect consumers from cybercrime by having security baked in during design. Even if you don’t live
Read MoreBlake Brittain / Reuters: A federal jury in Texas orders Samsung to pay $303M to computer memory company Netlist for infringing five patents related to improvements in data processing — Computer-memory company Netlist Inc (NLST.PK) convinced a federal jury in Texas on Friday to award it more than $303 million …
Read MoreSergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: On April 7, Google patched the GhostToken GCP vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to backdoor Google accounts using malicious OAuth applications — Google has addressed a Cloud Platform (GCP) security vulnerability impacting all users and allowing attackers to backdoor …
Read MoreMaintaining or administering a computer system remotely is a common enough task these days, but it’s also something that can go sideways on you quickly if you aren’t careful. How many of us are guilty of executing a command, having it fail, and only then realizing that we weren’t connected to the correct computer at
Read MoreRashi Shrivastava / Forbes: The proliferation of AI-generated content on marketplaces like Upwork is causing transactional disputes and increasing mistrust between clients and freelancers — While some freelancers are losing their gigs to ChatGPT, clients are being spammed with AI-written content on freelancing platforms.
Read MoreWhile air hockey is a fine amusement, it isn’t much fun if you can’t find someone to play against. Unless that is, you build a mini table with a robotic defender. [Vaib], [Nathan], and [Navish] can show you how. There is a video you can see below that shows two players using the table without
Read MoreThe real historic water building faces the Guadalupe River; an artist took some liberties. | Image: Google Google has been gobbling up bigger and bigger patches of Silicon Valley for as long as we’ve reported on the company, but it may be pulling back from its biggest development yet — after razing small parts of
Read MoreRichard Lawler / The Verge: WhatsApp introduces Keep in Chat, an option that allows recipients of disappearing messages to save them if the sender consents — Something to consider before sending a risky text via WhatsApp is that now, disappearing messages are a bit more optional. Mark Zuckerberg is announcing …
Read MoreRichard Lawler / The Verge: WhatsApp introduces Keep in Chat, an option that allows recipients of disappearing messages to save them if the sender consents — Something to consider before sending a risky text via WhatsApp is that now, disappearing messages are a bit more optional. Mark Zuckerberg is announcing …
Read MoreLauren Feiner / CNBC: The US Department of Homeland Security announces a task force to explore potential uses of AI to protect the country, including better cargo screening systems — – The Department of Homeland Security will establish a new task force to examine how artificial intelligence technology can be used …
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