Month: September 2021
Death Stranding Director’s Cut makes the most of the PS5
Okay, I’ll make the obvious joke: was there really anything cut from Death Stranding? For better and worse, Hideo Kojima’s deeply indulgent post-apocalyptic delivery simulator did not feel like it had been subject to heavy editing. But Kojima himself has said that he doesn’t like the name of this new…
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Instagram hits pause on kids version of app
Instagram is pausing work on a version for children younger than 13, called “Instagram Kids”, the Facebook-owned photo sharing app said on Monday. Instagram Kids was touted to require parental permission to join, and provide ad-free, age-appropriate content, but US lawmakers and advocacy groups alike have urged the social media…
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Bermuda Triangle mystery resolved?
A Science channel has reported that the mystery surrounding the Bermuda Triangle may have been solved. The region is located near North America and has seen the disappearance of countless aeroplanes and ships. According to a report, a group of scientists from the University of Colorado in the United States…
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Millions of Windows 10 PCs exposed by nasty security vulnerability Representational image depecting cybersecurity protection
Security researchers have found a flaw in Microsoft’s implementation of the Microsoft Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT) mechanism, which can be exploited to compromise computers running Windows 8 and Windows 10 operating systems. Microsoft describes WPBT as a fixed firmware Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) table that was introduced…
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YouTube Music’s new Wear OS app is coming to older smartwatches after all
YouTube Music’s Wear OS app is rolling out to a handful of older Wear OS 2 smartwatches from the likes of Fossil, Michael Kors, and Mobvoi starting this week, after previously launching exclusively on Samsung’s new Wear OS 3-powered Galaxy Watch 4 smartwatch. The app lets YouTube Music Premium subscribers…
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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 review: ninth time’s the charm
It makes me feel very old to say this, but we are on the ninth generation of Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Carbon. And there have been nine of these for a reason. The X1 Carbon has historically been one of the best business laptops you can get. And that remains the…
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