Image: Blizzard From now until January 3rd, Overwatch 2 players can get a pretty sweet (heh) Gingerbread Bastion skin for the low, low, low price of one Overwatch coin. While the skin is yet another example of the Overwatch design team really nailing it, players might find themselves balking at the price. Not because it’s
Read MoreImage: Krafton PUBG Mobile’s latest major addition isn’t a new weapon, map, or crossover but an entire music label made just for the game. The new label is called “Beat Drop,” and while that’s an admittedly clever pun, we still don’t know much about what it will actually mean for artists or players. Big live
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple’s self-service repair program has just been expanded to include the company’s lineup of M1-powered desktop Macs. As noted by Six Colors, customers in the US can now order genuine repair parts for the iMac, Mac Mini, and Mac Studio. The Studio Display has also been added
Read MoreSara Fischer / Axios: Insider Intelligence: Google will capture 28.8% of US digital ad revenue in 2022 and Meta will get 19.6%, for a combined 48.4%, down from a 54.7% peak in 2017 — Google and Meta, known together in the ad industry as the “duopoly,” are expected to bring in less than half of
Read MoreUnless you are an audiophile, you likely think of tubes as mostly relegated to people who work on old technology. However, photomultiplier tubes are still useful compared to more modern sensors, and [Jaynes Network] has a look into how they work, especially with scintillating detectors. The RCA photomultiplier he examines has ten stages and can
Read MoreMarta Belcher / CoinDesk: Sen. Warren’s Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act would be a disaster for civil liberties, effectively adding surveillance for all blockchain participants — The proposal would turn blockchains into permissioned ledgers surveilled by centralized gatekeepers.
Read MoreWho doesn’t like free Wi-Fly? | Photo by Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images Delta Air Lines is reportedly planning to make in-flight Wi-Fi free on a “significant portion” of its planes starting early next year, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The company has reportedly been running tests where anyone who’s a member
Read MoreA 3M plant during the pilot installation of a PFAS purification method in Antwerp on September 27th, 2022. | Photo by Nicolas Maeterlinck / BELGA / AFP via Getty Images 3M plans to phase out “forever chemicals” over the next few years, the manufacturing giant announced today. The announcement comes as the company faces a
Read MoreAll of the 2022 models will use built-in GPS sensors 100 percent of the time, even if you have your iPhone on hand. If you’re thinking of buying a new Apple Watch, there’s something you should know about the GPS tracking. Apple has confirmed that the Apple Watch Series 8, second-gen SE, and Ultra won’t
Read MoreThe USPS’s “Next Generation Delivery Vehicle” built by Oshkosh | Image: USPS The United States Postal Service said that it will add 66,000 fully electric delivery vehicles to its aging and polluting fleet of trucks. The mail agency agreed to spend $9.6 billion on 106,000 “next generation delivery vehicles,” which includes $3 billion secured through
Read MoreViola Zhou / Rest of World: Sources: Foxconn workers in Zhengzhou say they got COVID-19 at the plant in December and some were asked to keep working; one said he was dissuaded from testing — Sick workers say they’re being asked to stay on the assembly line as Foxconn ramps up iPhone 14 Pro production.
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI releases Point-E, an open-source ML system that generates and displays 3D objects from a text prompt in one to two minutes on a single Nvidia V100 GPU — The next breakthrough to take the AI world by storm might be 3D model generators. This week, OpenAI open-sourced Point-E …
Read MoreImage: Hyundai More weird cars? Yes. More weird cars, please. The Hyundai Kona is a small crossover that could never really be described as “weird.” But practical and economical? Certainly, even in all-electric form where it undercut the larger Hyundai Ioniq 5 EV by tens of thousands of dollars. Now, it’s getting some downright cyberpunk
Read MoreRecent years have passed by in a blur, and 2022 is no exception. It was a year of evolution rather than revolution for most smartwatch players, with nips, tucks, and iterative changes dominating. But despite the many cautious wins firms racked up in 2022, there was no shortage of misses either. Below, we recap some
Read MoreThere’s two cases when hackers have to think about USB-C connector mechanics. The first is when a USB-C connector physically breaks, and the second is when we need to put a connector on our own board. Let’s go through both of them. Clean That Connector What if a socket on your phone or laptop fails?
Read MoreSecuring your PDF document with a password is a great way to control who can access your files. The easiest way to password protect your PDF files from any browser is with Adobe; they did invent the PDF file format, after all. Here are a few methods to create a PDF password. Read more: 15 best
Read MoreApple has won a patent for a Gyroscopic Precession Engine for head-mounted displays, likely for its upcoming VR headset.
Read MoreAlex Stamos / @alex@cybervillains.com: Elon Musk is amplifying false claims the FBI “paid Twitter millions” to “censor info from the public”; law enforcement reimburses companies for data requests — This claim is false. Law enforcement has the ability to get stored communications from companies like Twitter under 18 USC 2703(d).
Read MoreBloomberg: The European Union opens an investigation into Broadcom’s proposed $61B VMware acquisition, after EU regulators warn over its impact on prices and innovation — Broadcom Inc.’s proposed $61 billion takeover of cloud-computing company VMware Inc. faces an extended European Union review …
Read More(Photo: Erik Mclean/Unsplash)(Image: IGDB)Epic Games, the developer and distributor best known for Fortnite, has found itself in the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) bad graces. The consumer protection agency has charged Epic $520M for multiple privacy violations and for “tricking” users into making purchases they didn’t actually want. According to the FTC, Epic violated the Children’s
Read MoreMicha Huigen / The Verge In 2022, Apple introduced iOS 16, which brought with it vastly improved lock screens — and made the iPhone so much better. With iOS 16, you can now set things on your lock screen, like different clock fonts, lock screen widgets, and new wallpapers, in just a few taps. Anytime
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon and European Union regulators have reached an agreement over two long-running antitrust cases, the European Commission has announced, which it’s hoped will help make third-party sellers more competitive on Amazon’s marketplace. The agreement means Amazon will avoid fines that had the potential to stretch into the billions
Read MoreThe Centerpiece’s screen appears to dynamically respond to keypresses. | Image: Finalmouse Boutique gaming mouse manufacturer Finalmouse has big plans for its first foray into the mechanical keyboard market. Its Finalmouse Centerpiece is an eye-catching $349 keyboard that has a screen embedded underneath its transparent keycaps and switches. The effect is that it looks like
Read MoreThe 8BitDo Pro 2 is the best pro controller for the Nintendo Switch and a number of other consoles. | Image: Sam Byford If you’re in the market for a versatile controller that doesn’t cost a grip, 8BitDo currently has a couple of models on sale you might be interested in. On sale for $39.99
Read MoreMy first love was a black wedge. It was 1982, and I had saved up to buy a Sinclair ZX81. That little computer remains the only one of the huge number that I have owned over the years about which I can truly say that I understood its workings completely; while I know how the
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