Enlarge / Guests stand next to a Facebook Elections USA sign in the Facebook Lounge ahead of the first Republican presidential debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015. Facebook may finally be acknowledging
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As it turns out, “Netflix Gaming” isn’t a streaming service
Right now, the latest Stranger Things video game is available exclusively on Android handsets in Poland, and the below article walks you through how access currently works. Netflix You know how I know the van is conspicuous? The game told
Reddit takes a teach-the-controversy approach to pandemic and vaccines
Getty Images | Yuriko Nakao Reddit yesterday defended its stance on allowing pandemic misinformation after hundreds of subreddit moderators joined an open letter urging the company to “take action against the rampant Coronavirus misinformation on their website.” The open letter
30 years later, the baby on Nirvana’s Nevermind cover is suing for damages
Enlarge / Nirvana’s Nevermind album cover. DGC Records Nirvana’s 1991 album Nevermind is widely credited with bringing alternative and grunge rock into the mainstream, but now it’s in the news for another reason. Spencer Elden, the adult who was the baby depicted
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Halo Infinite will launch on Wednesday, December 8—in incomplete fashion [Updated]
Release date confirmed. Chief returns in Halo Infinite on Wednesday, December 8. If you don’t already have a Series X console, Microsoft is happy to sell you one covered in Halo iconography. Or you can pony up for the pricey
Silent changes to Western Digital’s budget SSD may lower speeds by up to 50%
Enlarge / Newer versions of Western Digital’s WD Blue SN550 may perform worse than older ones. Western Digital’s WD Blue SN550 budget SSD is a well-reviewed, popular NVMe device that has regularly shown up on various sites’ “best SSD” lists
Nude hunt: LA phisherman accessed 4,700 iCloud accounts, 620K photos
Enlarge / The Internet is unfortunately packed full of criminals seeking to steal sexual (or sexualizable) images from privately held cloud backup accounts. The LA Times reported this week that Los Angeles man Hao Kuo “David” Chi pled guilty to
Horizon Forbidden West delayed, leaves Sony with fall 2021 first-party gap
Aloy rides again in Horizon Forbidden West, coming to PS5 and PS4 consoles in February 2022. Another successful robo-safari for Aloy in Horizon Forbidden West. Raiders have learned how to tame and ride robo-saurs, much like Aloy mastered them in
As office returns get postponed, workers say they’d take pay cut to work from home
Enlarge / Apple’s global headquarters in Cupertino, California. As Apple and other big tech companies postpone their planned returns to physical offices, a survey has found that workers around the United States would give up a lot to stay remote.
Graphene veils may hold the secret to conserving priceless works of art
Enlarge / Detail from Matina Stavropoulou’s original painting, Triton and Nereid, one of several used for a series of experiments with graphene veils. Matina Stavropoulou Graphene is the thinnest material yet known, composed of a single layer of carbon atoms
FCC seeks $5M fine for robocalls telling Black people that voting helps “the man”
Enlarge / Police officers surround Jacob Wohl as he taunts protesters during a “Trump/Pence Out Now” rally at Black Lives Matter plaza August 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. Getty Images | Michael Santiago The Federal Communications Commission yesterday proposed a
COVID costs billions, so Delta to charge unvaxxed airline workers $200/month
Enlarge / Delta Air Lines plane taxis toward a gate between other Delta planes at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Monday, July 20, 2009. Covid-19 Coverage View more stories Hospital care for seriously ill COVID-19 patients
Documentary about Amiga classic Lemmings due for game’s 30th anniversary
The Amiga classic Lemmings turns 30 this year. To celebrate, current license holder Exient (who acquired the property from Sony) is producing a documentary titled Lemmings 30th: Can You Dig It?, which follows the series from its European PC origins to
Massive mine truck and a Baja off-road racer both find use for fuel cells
Enlarge / Anglo American and First Mode, among others, are converting a Komatsu 930E truck like this one to be powered by hydrogen fuel cells and batteries rather than diesel engines. Anglo American At first glance, an open-pit platinum mine
Misaligned factory robot may have sparked Chevy Bolt battery fires
Chevrolet GM announced last Friday that it was recalling every Chevrolet Bolt it had ever made, including the new electric utility vehicle model that debuted this year. After a string of fires affected Bolt models, the company traced the problem