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Image: Square Enix Finding a place to call your own in Eorzea is a bureaucratic nightmare. Continue reading…
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Read MoreIllustration: Kristen Radtke / The Verge We’ve assembled a collection of some of our favorite tech to help you commit to improving yourself in the new year. Continue reading…
Read MoreAnimal Crossing: New Horizons | Image: Nintendo For as long as I had a GameCube, I don’t think I ever once beat a game. When my plane first landed on Isle Delfino in Super Mario: Sunshine in 2002, my main priority was finishing the tutorial. It was the one chore needing completion before I was
Read MoreCredit: Chase Bernath / Android Authority The new year is nearly upon us. As ever, our orbit around the sun breathes new life into the headphone market. It’s true — 2022 has been no exception to this rule. From Sony’s flagship WH-1000XM5 over-ear headphones to Apple’s AirPods Pro (2022), we’re spoiled for choice. But with
Read MoreWladimir Palant / Almost Secure: LastPass’ breach update was full of spin, omitted helpful but damning info, provided rosy interpretations hiding a failure to contain August’s breach, and more — Right before the holiday season, LastPass published an update on their breach. As people have speculated …
Read MoreSometimes, you just need an easy win, right? This is one of those projects. A couple months back, I was looking at my guitars and guitar accessories and thought, it is finally time to do something with the neck I’ve had lying around for years. In trying to decide a suitable body for the slapdash
Read MoreIntel famously stalled out at 14nm for many years, allowing AMD to leapfrog it in the process with technology from TSMC. Now it might be experiencing that issue once again trying to make the jump from 10nm to 7nm. Put another way, Intel is supposed to be launching its first tile-based CPU next year, aka
Read MoreThe Sinclair ZX Spectrum is fondly remembered by many for being their first introduction into the wonderful world of computing. Its advanced capabilities coupled with a spectacularly low price made it one of the great home computers of the 1980s, at least in the UK and nearby countries. What was less spectacular about the Spectrum
Read MoreApple is already late to the foldable phone market and developers aren’t convinced that their apps will benefit when it finally joins in, either.
Read More(Credit: RUNSTUDIO/Getty Images) (Credit: RUNSTUDIO/Getty Images)The Earth’s climate is warming, and the potential for serious consequences in the future is strong. Are things so dire that we need to start manipulating the atmosphere? One startup thinks so, and it’s moving forward with a plan that scientists have condemned. Make Sunrise has started releasing reflective particles
Read MoreCredit: Netflix-Disney-Plus-Amazon-Prime-Video 2022 saw streaming services add not just a ton of new shows for subscribers to binge-watch but also a lot of returning shows that had their best seasons yet. It took a while, but we managed to pick our favorite streaming TV shows of 2022, along with a few extra honorable mentions. It’s
Read MoreLet’s be clear – it’s not enough to have USB-C to USB-C cables. There’s a lot of cables that we might want to acquire for our day-to-day use, perhaps, for a transition period while we still own some amount of devices not adorned with a USB-C connector. However, the USB-C specification only accounts for a
Read More(Credit: Tesla)California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a new bill into law that effectively bans Tesla from advertising its cars as fully self-driving, Government Technology reports. The legislation stipulates that beginning Jan. 1, 2023, Tesla can no longer use the phrase Full-Self Driving, commonly abbreviated as FSD, to refer to a feature in its vehicles.
Read MoreA survey conducted by the National Retail Federation found that eCommerce product returns accounted for about 8 percent of all sales by respondents. With that figure amounting to about $260 billion in lost sales in the United States alone that year, any way of paring it down can bring in a substantial return of income (ROI). Entreprises
Read MoreApple’s iPad Mini launched at the end of 2021. | Photo: The Verge Apple is updating its iPad Mini with a new processor, says respected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The inbetweener is supposed to begin shipping by the end of 2023 or the first half of 2024. The iPad Mini received an all new design at
Read MoreIn 2022, the best albums were the ones that called people back out into the world.
Read MoreFrom Bad Bunny to Beyoncé, this year’s best albums dominated by delivering more than just TikTok hits.
Read MoreAsa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: After shortages, chipmakers face swelling inventories, mirroring the economy, as consumers cut spending; analysis shows falling lead times in recent months — Semiconductor companies slash production plans amid weak demand — The world is now awash in chips.
Read MoreIllustration by Micha Huigen / The Verge Disney Plus is my favorite streaming service. It lets me indulge my Broadway passions (Hamilton, West Side Story), revisit my childhood (Bambi, Snow White), and catch up on the complicated worlds of Star Wars and MCU. It’s also the easiest way for my son to indulge his Jessie
Read MoreJoe Rossignol / MacRumors: Kuo: Apple plans an updated iPad mini in late 2023 or H1 2024, with a new chip as its main selling point; a foldable iPad is unlikely to replace the mini — Apple is working on a new version of the iPad mini, with mass shipments expected to start towards the
Read MoreMicha Huigen / The Verge It’s been a roller-coaster year for video game releases. Early in the year, 2022 felt like it was shot out of a rocket with games like Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West. And then, suddenly, the release schedule fell off a cliff until the fall months. But on the whole,
Read MoreIt’s almost impossible to earn a living on the streaming service. Maybe it’s time to stop trying.
Read MoreFrom Magnifier to Lookout, here’s how you can benefit from features on Android and Apple devices.
Read MoreOpinion post by Calvin Wankhede In 2022, millions of people have experienced VR, thanks to the affordability of wireless and standalone headsets like the Meta Quest 2. And just about anyone that has ever sampled the technology will agree that it has the potential to add a brand new dimension to gaming and entertainment. Even
Read MoreFinancial Times: BAYC, Doodles, Pudgy Penguins, and other NFT projects are diversifying into real-world assets, including toys, albums, and sports teams, to generate new revenue — Creators of best-selling internet collectibles have responded to a crash in the value of crypto and digital assets by seeking new revenues …
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