Some of the top-of-the-line robot vacuums are seeing their first big price cuts this holiday shopping season. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy ‘Tis the season to find some serious bargains on smart home gear. Black Friday and its close cousin, Cyber Monday, have long been prime times to nab a deal on smart lighting,
Read MoreA pokémon trainer enjoying a sandwich while a Miraidon stares at the food, demanding a piece. | Image: Nintendo For years, Pokémon fans have wondered whether the franchise’s lack of regular animals meant that humans in the Pokémon world sometimes ate the pocketable creatures for sustenance. While the jury’s still out for places like Kanto
Read MoreThis could be you. For free. | Image: EA / Motive Studios If you haven’t sampled the delights of Star Wars: Squadrons, the space dogfighting game from EA’s Motive Studio, you might be interested to know it’s available free on the Epic Games Store for the next week. That’s down from its regular price of
Read MoreFor those unfamiliar with the details of the expansive work of fiction of Harry Potter, it did introduce a few ideas that have really stuck in the collective conscious. Besides containing one of the few instances of time travel done properly and introducing a fairly comprehensive magical physics system, the one thing specifically that seems
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Read MoreAn image generated using Stable Diffusion Version 2. | Image: Stability AI Users of AI image generator Stable Diffusion are angry about an update to the software that “nerfs” its ability to generate NSFW output and pictures in the style of specific artists. Stability AI, the company that funds and disseminates the software, announced Stable
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Read MoreCredit: Disney Plus Season one of Andor has now come to an end on Disney Plus, with an explosive finale to match a brilliant run so far. So, will we get more of the standout Star Wars series, and what can we expect from Andor season 2? See also: The best original streaming series on
Read MoreJames Vincent / The Verge: Stable Diffusion 2.0 makes it harder to mimic some artists’ styles or generate NSFW output; Stability AI says NSFW images were removed from its training data — Users of AI image generator Stable Diffusion are angry about an update to the software that “nerfs” its ability to generate NSFW output
Read MoreA promotional image for Battlefield V. | Image: EA As Sony fights tooth and nail to get regulators to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, poor Battlefield is getting caught in the crossfire. In a filing with the UK’s competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Sony argues that Call of Duty is a
Read MoreApple’s Beats Solo3 headphones have fallen to a new all-time low price of $79.99
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Read MoreIt’s the best all-ages movie in years—and it’s ready to stream. Watch it this week with your own cartoonish family.
Read More(Photo: Olga DeLawrence/Unsplash)Filing your taxes is already stressful enough without the worry that your data will end up in the wrong hands. Thanks to several tax websites’ newly-discovered data sharing practices, this concern is likely to be prevalent during the 2023 tax filing season. H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer have been found to send users’
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: UK police, Europol, Dutch police, and others dismantle online spoofing service iSpoof and arrest 146 people, including the suspected mastermind — The ‘iSpoof’ online spoofing service has been dismantled following an international law enforcement investigation that also led to the arrest of 146 people …
Read MoreDiego Luna as Cassian Andor. | Image: Lucasfilm / Disney Plus The final episode of Andor’s first season brought everything full circle, and was a powerful reminder of what Star Wars has always been about. Continue reading…
Read MoreZoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer: Source: Twitter abruptly fired around 50 engineers and warned dozens more on the evening before Thanksgiving; some were told their “code is not satisfactory” — Hearing that roughly 50 Twitter engineers were abruptly fired last night and dozens more received warnings: https://twitter.com/…
Read MoreThe Noc Design / The Verge Happy Thanksgiving, folks! Want to get a head start on your holiday shopping before the Black Friday madness officially begins tomorrow? Despite the fact the annual shopping holiday is another day away, many major retailers are already offering a number of early Black Friday sales. So if you need
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Read MoreA new report claims that Apple wants to buy English Premier League side Manchester United with CEO Tim Cook reportedly keen on the move.
Read MoreNicole Sperling / New York Times: Sources detail Netflix’s internal debate over embracing theatrical releases for big-budget movies, something Ted Sarandos and Reed Hastings call a distraction — The company agreed to some exclusive theatrical distribution for “Glass Onion” and “Matilda the Musical,” but it’s not clear exhibitors will get much more.
Read MoreBuying an iPhone 14 Pro could get even more difficult with Foxconn’s iPhone City factory in meltdown over pay and COVID-19 restrictions.
Read MorePokémon Scarlet and Violet, the latest entries in Nintendo’s long-running franchise. | Image: Nintendo Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet, the first new mainline entries into the Pokémon series since 2019, have become the fastest selling games in Nintendo’s history, the company has announced. The two games sold 10 million units between them globally in their
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