Month: August 2022
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II beta is coming in September
The beta for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II is set to arrive next month, with PlayStation players getting access first, followed by those on Xbox and PC. Infinity Ward shared the news at its CDL Champs (Call of Duty League Championship) tournament. As with its previous betas, the dates…
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Hackers might have figured out your secret Twitter accounts
A security vulnerability on Twitter allowed a bad actor to find out the account names associated with certain email addresses and phone numbers (and yes, that could include your secret celebrity stan accounts), Twitter confirmed on Friday. Twitter initially patched the issue in January after receiving a report through its…
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Meta is shutting down one of its biggest VR games — but only for Quest 1 owners
Around the same time Meta hiked up the price on its Quest 2 headsets, it also announced that it’s ending Quest 1 support for Population One, a popular battle-royale shooter set in virtual reality. BigBox VR, the Meta-owned developer behind the game, shared the update in a post on its…
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Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti slashed by $1,000 in another clear sign that GPU prices are tumbling
Audio player loading… EVGA has just reduced the price of its base RTX 3090 Ti graphics card to $1,000 below the MSRP in the US, in a clear sign that high-end GPU prices are still coming down rapidly. Yes, an eagled-eyed denizen of Twitter spotted that there’s a clear thousand…
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Hitting the Books: How much that insurance monitoring discount might really be costing you
Machine learning systems have for years now been besting their human counterparts at everything from Go and Jeopardy! to drug discovery and cancer detection. With all the advances that the field has made, it’s not unheard of for people to be wary of robots replacing them in tomorrow’s workforce. These…
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DeWalt gave my power tool battery the power of USB-C
Your leaf blower battery should be able to charge a laptop. Your drill battery should charge your phone. And while we’re at it, why shouldn’t our ever-more powerful USB-C power adapters be able to charge those power tool batteries as well? Fundamentally, there’s not much difference between a battery bank…
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