Month: July 2022
Now Meta wants to change the fabric of time as we know it
Audio player loading… Meta has proposed doing away with “leap seconds”, offering to support an industry effort to stop any future usage of the confusing and potentially dangerous practice. A leap second is a measure used to combat the long-term slowdown in the Earth’s rotation (opens in new tab), caused by…
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Yes, it’s weird for the two-year-old Meta Quest 2 to go up in price
Meta just made the surprising announcement that it will be raising the price of its Quest 2 virtual reality headsets by $100 next month. If you did a double take upon seeing that news, we commiserate — it’s weird for a two-year-old consumer tech product to suddenly go up in…
Read MoreWe went to the new London Apple Store and all we got was a bag of seeds
Audio player loading… Apple has proven itself resistant to the economic challenges a lot of consumer technology companies have faced of late and the opening of a new flagship retail store in one of London’s most affluent areas embodies its ongoing success pretty perfectly. We got an early peek inside.…
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Next-gen Nvidia and AMD graphics cards are one step closer to release
Audio player loading… Two new filings with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) revealed that the next-gen Nvidia and AMD graphics cards will most likely be launched soon. These include the oft-rumored RTX 4090 and RTX 4090 Ti models. According to the filings that were reported by Digital Trends not only…
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Facebook wants to kill the leap second – a scoundrel messing with our lives
Audio player loading… Until today, I bet you never heard of leap seconds — seconds, not years. Ever since 1972, we’ve been occasionally adding a second to our global clock to account for variations in the speed of the earth’s rotation. As it slows down, we add a second. So…
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Discord voice chat is now available for Xbox beta testers
Discord and Microsoft announced Discord voice chat last week, making it available initially to invite-only Alpha and Alpha Skip-Ahead Xbox testers. The new feature is now available to Xbox Insiders in the Beta ring, which doesn’t require an invite. Microsoft is releasing a new Xbox dashboard update for beta testers…
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