A screenshot from Call of Duty: Warzone, Activision Blizzard’s free-to-play FPS game. | Image: Activision Everything you need to know about gaming’s biggest acquisition yet Continue reading…
Read More(Photo: Brittany Colette/Unsplash)Maybe you anticipate more coughs and sneezes around the office during the winter. Maybe your mom once insisted you bundle up in socks and a beanie (even indoors!), and now it’s a habit. Perhaps you’re afraid to open your windows when it’s chilly outside for fear of catching a cold. But why? What
Read MoreMotorola skipped a 2022 edition of the G Play and is pole-vaulting straight into 2023. It’s an easy bet that most new phones announced in 2023 will come with 5G, but there’s going to be at least one LTE-only device on shelves next year: the $169 Motorola Moto G Play (2023). It’s the latest edition
Read MoreHere’s how to use Apple’s new Advanced Data Protection for iCloud, which adds end-to-end encryption to almost all your data.
Read MoreAn Apple patent points to a simple clip-on fix for Apple Glasses wearers who need prescription eyewear.
Read MoreAs creative problem solvers, we like to “think outside the box,” and we should strive for that. But what happens if your strange idea isn’t kept in check by cooler heads? There is a real danger — especially if you work alone — to falling so in love with your idea, that you lose sight
Read MoreImage: Amazon Amazon is the latest tech company to take a page out of TikTok’s playbook. The e-commerce giant announced it was launching a new feed in the Amazon app with photos and videos of items users can purchase, first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The feed, which Amazon is calling Inspire, is the
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google is implementing two new features that will help save battery and memory. The two features are rolling out for Chrome on desktop. The update will hit globally for Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS over the next several weeks. It’s no secret, despite how much you may like using Chrome
Read MoreKristen Radtke / The Verge Big tech companies including Microsoft, LexisNexis, and Palantir have helped fuel the militarization of local police forces and the Department of Homeland Security’s demand for high-tech surveillance, according to a new report from The Action Center on Race & the Economy (ACRE), LittleSis, MediaJustice, and the Surveillance, Tech, and Immigration
Read MoreThis is what Google’s foldable Pixel smartphone might look like. | Image: OnLeaks and HowToiSolve New leaks appear to reveal what to expect from Google’s long-rumored foldable phone. Leaker OnLeaks has teamed up with the website HowToiSolve to share renders, a 360-degree video, and measurements of the foldable Pixel device. According to OnLeaks and HowToiSolve,
Read MoreCredit: Samsung The Discover Samsung event is back for one last 2022 deal bonanza. With daily and flash deals springing up all over the place, it’s a fantastic opportunity to round off the holiday shopping for the techy in your life. From today through December 15, there are new daily deals each day on everything
Read MoreFadeke Adegbuyi / Every: Some Twitch streamers are migrating to other services, burned out by earnings coupled to hours streamed, parasocial pressure from subscribers, and more — In October 2022, popular streamer Sweet Anita posted a message in her Discord community and then to Twitter: she needed to take a break from Twitch.
Read MoreStephen King has granted Mike Flanagan the rights to create a TV show based on his The Dark Tower book series. | Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images Rights to adapt Stephen King’s The Dark Tower books into a TV series have been acquired by director Mike Flanagan and producer Trevor Macy, according to
Read MoreFrederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google announces Chrome will get a Memory Saver mode, which promises to cut memory usage by up to 30%, and an Energy Saver mode, rolling out in the coming weeks — Google today announced two new performance settings in its Chrome browser: Memory Saver and Energy Saver.
Read MoreKPOP cast members Min, Abraham Lim, and Luna take their bows on Broadway. | Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images A Broadway musical tried to court extremely online fans of artists like BTS and Blackpink. It didn’t quite succeed. Continue reading…
Read MoreMany of the cars on the road today have rudimentary self-driving capabilities, but Tesla pushes the autonomous envelope with Autopilot and the spendy Full Self-Driving upgrade. It was one of the first to take self-driving features seriously, outfitting its vehicles with a raft of sensors to make it happen. After removing the radar modules, Tesla
Read MoreDead northern giant hornets, queens, lined up on top and smaller workers below — all samples brought in for research — are displayed with a field notebook on May 7th, 2020, in Blaine, Washington. | Photo by ELAINE THOMPSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Good news! The invasive insect formerly known as the “murder hornet” might soon
Read MoreJoseph De Avila / Wall Street Journal: Disney rolls out ad-supported Disney+ for $7.99 per month; the ad-free version will now cost $10.99 per month, up from $7.99 — The overhaul of Disney+ comes after a slowdown in subscriber growth for streaming services — Walt Disney Co. DIS .68%increase; green up pointing triangle rolled …
Read MoreCredit: Adam Birney / Android Authority The new and cheaper Disney Plus Basic plan that includes ads is currently not available on Roku-based devices. There’s no word on why this situation has happened, nor when it might be corrected. Disney Plus Basic is also not available on its Windows-dedicated app. Today, Disney Plus launches its
Read MoreLogitech’s MX Keys Mini for Mac offers comfortable typing in a small package without ruining the Apple aesthetic of your workspace.
Read MoreIf there’s one thing that for decades of desktop PCs have given us, it’s a seemingly endless supply of relatively capable power supplies. If you need 5 volts or 12 volts at a respectable current they’re extremely useful, so quite a few people have used them as bench power supplies. Some of these builds box
Read MoreSebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: Amazon rolls out Inspire, a TikTok-like feed in its app that lets customers “like” and buy products, to select customers in the US — The tech giant joins Facebook, Google in seeking to capitalize on popularity of short-form video format — Why Amazon Sometimes Unveils Products You Can’t Actually
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority It’s been about a year since Samsung officially discontinued the Galaxy Note series and two years since the last one came out due to Samsung skipping the high-end device in 2021. For some, the disappearance of the Galaxy Note has been a hard pill to swallow. Despite the
Read MoreGoogle is introducing new Memory Saver and Energy Saver modes to its Google Chrome web browser. | Image: Google Google’s Chrome desktop web browser has two new performance modes — Memory Saver and Energy Saver — available starting today. The new modes allow users to reduce Chrome’s memory usage by up to 30 percent and
Read MoreMallori Johnson as Dana James in Kindred. | Image: FX FX’s new adaptation of Kindred gets utterly lost as it tries to update Octavia Butler’s classic story for a modern-day audience. Continue reading…
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