Month: September 2020
Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit brings the franchise from the TV to your living room floor null
For kids both young and young at heart, Nintendo is releasing a new toy to fulfill the childhood fantasy of turning your living room into a Mario Kart race track. It’s all thanks to a new partnership with smart toy company Velan Studios that Nintendo has put in charge of…
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Logitech G’s new Playmaster software is here to help you get good at Counter-Strike
Logitech G has announced a new esports training program for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive called Playmaster, which is designed to help assess your skills and help you practice specific techniques, like tracking players, moving, and (of course) shooting. The company is taking this seriously, too. It’s built custom maps and levels…
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Pinterest users won’t see ads when they search for election-related content
Ahead of November 3rd, Pinterest is implementing new policies to limit the amount and spread of misleading information related to the upcoming US presidential election. To start, when you search for topics like how to vote in two months times, you'll… Source
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You can now download your Twitter data again and see what hackers could’ve nabbed
If you’re curious what kind of data Twitter stores on you — and what those hackers could have stolen during their big bitcoin scam — you can now find out once again. Twitter has reenabled the ability to download archives of “Your Twitter Data,” nearly two months after shutting off…
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Justice Department reportedly plans to file antitrust case against Google as early as this month
The Department of Justice is preparing to file antitrust charges against Google’s parent company Alphabet possibly as early as this month, The New York Times reported. Attorney General William Barr is moving forward with the case despite the objections of Justice Department lawyers who say they need more time to…
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Proposed COVID-19 testing strategy faces pitfalls
When someone gets a COVID-19 test, the result does one thing: tells that person if they have the coronavirus in their body. Some researchers, though, are trying to get tests to do more — and reframing the goal of testing as a result. Instead of simply finding people who are…
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