Month: January 2022
Xbox dev mode isn’t going anywhere, despite emulation concerns
Audio player loading… A Microsoft representative has said that the company has no intention of disabling developer mode for Xbox console owners. Jason Ronald, the director of program management, explained in a series of tweets that the company believes in supporting a “healthy independent app and game development community on…
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New privacy tool prevents data brokers from hoarding your data
Audio player loading… Surfshark has announced the launch of its new privacy tool that can help prevent users’ personal information from being stored and sold by data brokers. Data brokerage firms currently own data on hundreds of millions of consumers with some of the top names in the industry boasting…
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Nab free AirPods when you buy a MacBook in Apple’s back to school offer
Audio player loading… If you were planning on buying a MacBook before heading back to uni this year, Apple has just launched a sweet offer that can get you a pair of AirPods for free when buying select products. The deal gets you AU$219 off Apple’s AirPods when you buy…
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NASA is taking Cisco Webex to space
Audio player loading… Lockheed Martin, Amazon and Cisco have announced a new collaboration that will see Cisco Webex and Amazon’s Alexa integrated into NASA’s Orion spacecraft. This innovative payload, dubbed Callisto, will fly on board the Orion spacecraft which was built by Lockheed Martin for the US space agency’s Artemis…
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Black + Decker’s $300 Bev vacuums up a Keurig-shaped hole in the robot bartender space
What if instead of coffee, your Keurig dispensed alcoholic drinks? Well, Keurig actually made a gadget like that — a $300 cocktail-making pod machine called the Drinkworks Home Bar that turned disposable pods into cold beverages. Only Keurig and Anheuser-Busch mysteriously shut down that venture just three weeks ago, going…
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AMC Networks’ Sentai acquisition is the latest sign that anime is big business
AMC Networks (not the movie theater chain) has acquired the anime distributor Sentai from the Cool Japan Fund investment fund, the company announced Wednesday. As a result of the deal, AMC Networks will now own the anime-focused streaming service Hidive, which will join the company’s roster of targeted streaming services…
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