Month: May 2022
Apex Legends season 13 pushes teamwork with a new kind of hero and ranked mode changes
Over the last few seasons, the developers of Apex Legends have worked on opening up the game, both with a massive new map and adding a temporary game mode that swaps out battle royale action for a more traditional team deathmatch. On May 10th, they’re introducing another new legend to…
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The world’s most pointless keyboard now has a version 2.0
Audio player loading… Stack Overflow has released The Key v2.0, a sequel to the novelty keyboard it released last year in the wake of an April Fool’s joke. The popular programming resource’s first foray into the hardware market, ‘The Key’, apparently found a niche in the market, selling over 10,000…
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Google’s changing its performance reviews to waste less time
Google is hoping to make its performance reviews less of a burden to employees by making it so they only happen once a year instead of twice a year, requiring less paperwork, and changing the way employees are rated. According to a report from The Information, 47 percent of Google…
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How to track your menstrual cycles on a smartwatch
Although modern smartwatches and fitness trackers have been around for almost a decade, period tracking didn’t arrive until 2018. These integrations shared familiar features with your standard period-tracking app — but a big difference was that instead of having to pull out your phone, you could view or input data…
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The looming demise of Roe ties healthcare even more firmly to employers
Even before a leaked Supreme Court opinion threw the future of abortion in the United States into turmoil, major corporations were adding a new benefit for their employees: coverage for abortion and other medical travel. The latest company to add the benefit was Amazon, which announced earlier this week that…
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Google Cloud apparently has a security issue even firewalls can’t stop
Audio player loading… A misconfiguration in Google Cloud Platform has been found which could give threat actors full control over a target virtual machine (VM) endpoint, researchers have said. In a blog post published by cloud incident response experts Mitiga, the company noted that by (ab)using legitimate system features, potential…
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