Month: February 2022
The US is testing robot patrol dogs on its borders
The latest addition to the United States’ border force could be robot dogs. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released new details this week of trials of quadrupedal robots on the southern border. The machines are being tested in a variety of surveillance-focused roles, and although the DHS has shared…
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Realme 9 Pro launch confirmed, and big changes are in store for the cheap phones
Audio player loading… Realme’s numbered series of cheap phones were always interesting budget blowers, but the company rarely made a song and dance around them like it did its GT series of mid-rangers – that seems to be changing though. The brand has been gradually building hype about the Realme…
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Today I learned a handy trick to zoom in and out of Google Maps
Did you know that Google Maps has a nifty little trick that lets you adjust zoom with just one finger? Because I sure as hell didn’t until yesterday, when a tweet from Sketchfab CEO Alban Denoyel alerted me to its existence via a years-old YouTube video from 2013. The shortcut…
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The Nintendo Switch has now outsold the Wii
The Nintendo Switch had a relatively strong holiday quarter, with 10.67 million units shipped between October and December despite the global semiconductor shortage. That brings the system’s lifetime total to 103.54 million units shipped, meaning it took just under five years to overtake the Wii’s 101.63 million. Shipments were still…
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Best shows and movies like All of Us Are Dead: Kingdom, Train to Busan and more
Audio player loading… Following the worldwide success of Netflix’s Squid Game, the streaming giant is back with another South Korean genre show in the zombie-centric All of Us Are Dead, which is already the service’s #1 trending series in many of its territories. Of course, with Netflix‘s practice of releasing…
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Why These Influencers Are Breaking Up With Instagram
At the end of 2021, influencer and blogger Jess Ann Kirby announced that she would be taking a two-week break from Instagram, the platform where she makes the majority of her business income. She was tired of the Instagram creator game — how she always felt like she had to…
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