Month: August 2022
The shift to electric vehicles is about to overwhelm meager US mining operations
Electric vehicles are very helpful for fighting climate change. But EVs need batteries, and batteries need minerals like nickel, cobalt, and lithium. The US has some of these minerals underground, and it wants to dig them up, expeditiously, so that it doesn’t have to rely as much on other countries,…
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Pixel Watch could cost less than an Apple Watch but more than a Galaxy Watch 5
Audio player loading… It’s looking more and more likely that the Google Pixel Watch may fall short of its premium-pricing expectations. We were shown the Google Pixel Watch at Google I/O earlier this year, but the event left us surprisingly light on details. Rumors consistently hinted that this would be…
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Samsung’s first QD-OLED gaming monitor arrives later this year
Earlier this year, the first gaming monitor with a Samsung QD-OLED panel arrived. We called the Alienware AW3423DW an ultrawide marvel, praising it for its bright and beautiful screen. When Samsung showed off QD-OLED at CES 2022, it promised the new panels would be available in more than one monitor,…
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This James Webb telescope image may be hiding more than just the stars
Audio player loading… A new phishing campaign is taking advantage of interest in the images captured by the James Webb telescope to infect victims with malware, analysts have warned. A report (opens in new tab) from security firm Securonix found cybercriminals are embedding malware capable of bypassing antivirus filters into…
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A ‘high severity’ TikTok vulnerability allowed one-click account hijacking
A vulnerability in the TikTok app for Android could have let attackers take over any account that clicked on a malicious link, potentially affecting hundreds of millions of users of the platform. Details of the one-click exploit were revealed today in a blog post from researchers on Microsoft’s 365 Defender…
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‘The Last of Us Part I’ is a gorgeous, faithful, expensive remake
Ever since Sony and Naughty Dog announced The Last of Us Part I, a $70, ground-up PS5 remake of the classic 2013 PS3 game, there’s been an intense discussion around whether this even needs to exist. After all, Naughty Dog remastered the original game in 2014 for the PS4, giving…
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