Antstream Arcade, a massive library of retro games available to Xbox owners and PC gamers for an annual fee of $30/year, is adding 14 new titles to the service this month. The app launched in July 2023 and provides subscribers with instant access to over 1,300 classic titles. The games range from the Atari, through
Read MoreGoogle offers 15 GB of free storage with every account, but many users are hitting the limit. Use these tips to clear some room, and tidy your inbox while you’re at it.
Read MoreThe actions of certain large social networks have recently highlighted how a small number of people possess significant power over the masses and how this power is sometimes misused. Consequently, there has been a surge in the development of federated (or decentralized) services, such as Mastodon and Matrix. But what about development? While GitHub and
Read More“Pornhub has disabled its site in Texas,” reports the Hill, “to object to a state law that requires the company to verify the age of users to prevent minors from accessing the site.” Texas residents who visit the site are met with a message from the company that criticizes the state’s elected officials who are
Read MoreVideo may have killed the radio star, but cell phones and smart phones all but killed the pager. They still exist, of course, but only in very niche applications. [João Santos] wanted a pager-like experience for himself, though, so he enlisted an Arduino and got to work. Watch a video of the system working below.
Read MoreBest Buy has issued $450 to $600 price drops on Apple’s M1 iMac 24-inch, delivering the lowest prices on record for the closeout models. The flash sale ends tonight, though, so don’t delay. Pick up the M1 iMac 24-inch for $849.99 at Best Buy, a discount of $450 off retail, and the cheapest price available,
Read More“The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development,” argues Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and business school ethics professor, saying that since the early 2010s, “something went suddenly and horribly wrong for adolescents.” The Atlantic recently published an excerpt from his book The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of
Read MoreA few months ago, Google introduced a feature called Live Caption on its Chrome web browser. The feature is very helpful since it automatically generates captions for your videos, podcasts, games, live streams, video calls, or other audio media. If you’re using the latest version of Google Chrome on your desktop, the Live Caption feature
Read MorePi was calculated to 100 trillion decimal places in 2022 by a Google team lead by cloud developer advocate Emma Haruka Iwao. But 2024’s “pi day” saw a new announcement… After successfully breaking the speed record for calculating pi to 100 trillion digits last year, the team at StorageReview has taken it up a notch,
Read MoreThe paused courtroom fight between Apple and Epic Games in Australia is set to resume, but with a similar lawsuit against Google being incorporated into the same trial. Still from Epic Games ‘Free Fortnite’ video As part of its global legal battle against Apple over the popular game “Fortnite,” Epic Games attempted to bring the
Read More“Multiple users around the world have started to notice new Microsoft Bing pop-up ads that look a lot like malware…” reports Lifehacker, describing the adds as “very low quality” and “extremely pixelated…” “It’s just Microsoft doing a bad job of trying to get you to switch to its products.” The Register explains: [W]hile using Google’s
Read MoreNewsweek points out that a Chinese government post arguing the bill is “on the wrong side of fair competition” was flagged by users on X. “TikTok is banned in the People’s Republic of China,” the X community note read. (The BBC reports that “Instead, Chinese users use a similar app, Douyin, which is only available
Read MoreFor months, there has been a rising fear that we may have to say farewell to the Voyager 1 spacecraft after it began to send back garbled data. Now, in a sudden twist, Voyager 1 sent back a read-out of the Flight Data Subsystem (FDS) memory after a “poke” command, which both gives some hope
Read MoreThe paused courtroom fight between Apple and Epic Games in Australia is set to resume, but with a similar lawsuit against Google being incorporated into the same trial. Still from Epic Games ‘Free Fortnite’ video As part of its global legal battle against Apple over the popular game “Fortnite,” Epic Games attempted to bring the
Read MoreNewsweek points out that a Chinese government post arguing the bill is “on the wrong side of fair competition” was flagged by users on X. “TikTok is banned in the People’s Republic of China,” the X community note read. (The BBC reports that “Instead, Chinese users use a similar app, Douyin, which is only available
Read More“Multiple users around the world have started to notice new Microsoft Bing pop-up ads that look a lot like malware…” reports Lifehacker, describing the adds as “very low quality” and “extremely pixelated…” “It’s just Microsoft doing a bad job of trying to get you to switch to its products.” The Register explains: [W]hile using Google’s
Read MoreNewsweek points out that a Chinese government post arguing the bill is “on the wrong side of fair competition” was flagged by users on X. “TikTok is banned in the People’s Republic of China,” the X community note read. (The BBC reports that “Instead, Chinese users use a similar app, Douyin, which is only available
Read MoreNewsweek points out that a Chinese government post arguing the bill is “on the wrong side of fair competition” was flagged by users on X. “TikTok is banned in the People’s Republic of China,” the X community note read. (The BBC reports that “Instead, Chinese users use a similar app, Douyin, which is only available
Read MoreApple services use a variety of ports and connections that may not be immediately accessible when used on a corporate network. Here’s how to access them on enterprise networks. 16-inch MacBook Pro Security is a big issue when using devices to connect to Apple Services – especially for enterprise networks. In enterprise, security is a
Read MoreStarship Home, a cozy mixed-reality game for the Meta Quest 3, is trying to get to the heart of “what makes a game meaningful in mixed reality.” That’s according to developer Doug North Cook, who wrote on Reddit that the game, which turns your environment into a custom spaceship and you into an intergalactic horticulturist,
Read MoreApple services use a variety of ports and connections that may not be immediately accessible when used on a corporate network. Here’s how to access them on enterprise networks. 16-inch MacBook Pro Security is a big issue when using devices to connect to Apple Services – especially for enterprise networks. In enterprise, security is a
Read MoreFull disclosure: [Óscar] isn’t nine now, but he was in 1988 when he wrote LOCS, a drawing program in Z80 assembly modeled after Logo. You can see a demo of the system in the video below. You might wonder why you’d want to study a three-decade-old program written for a CPU by a nine-year-old almost
Read More“A pet company has twice sent back dog breed results for human swab samples,” reports the Guardian, “prompting doubts surrounding the accuracy of dog breed tests.” On Wednesday, WBZ News reported its investigations team receiving dog breed results from the company DNA My Dog after one of its reporters sent in a swab sample —
Read MoreImage SpaceX’s Starshield unit has had a classified contract with the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) since 2021 to build a network of “hundreds” of spy satellites for the agency, Reuters reports today, citing unnamed sources “familiar with the program.” A Wall Street Journal report in February listed a classified $1.8 billion SpaceX contract with
Read More“Engineers have sent a ‘poke’ to the Voyager 1 probe,” reports CNN, “and received a potentially encouraging response…” “A new signal recently received from the spacecraft suggests that the NASA mission team may be making progress in its quest to understand what Voyager 1 is experiencing…” [T]hey hope to fix a communication issue with the
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