Month: August 2022
Galaxy Buds 2 Pro review: Big sound in a tiny package
At this point, Samsung has a lot of experience making true wireless earbuds. While the company flexed its design muscle early with the Galaxy Buds line, it hasn’t always nailed the details. It rebounded quickly with its second installment, the Galaxy Buds+, and since then Samsung has continued to refine…
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Google’s Pixel Buds Pro drop to $175, plus the rest of the week’s best tech deals
Labor Day deals are already starting to pop up across the web. Both Ooni and Solo Stove have early holiday sales that slash prices of some of their most popular machines, so now’s the time to consider getting a pizza oven or a fire pit while you can save some…
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Gmail really wants Spaces to be as good as Slack
Audio player loading… Tracking down that important message or finding the right group chat could soon be a lot easier thanks to a new Gmail update. Google Workspace is getting a new feature that will allow users to find and join group chats, known as Spaces, through the Gmail online search…
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‘Mario Kart’ is 30 years old, if you can believe that
Released a few years after Super Nintendo, Super Mario Kart was an odd proposition: Nintendo mascot Mario, his brother, friends and enemies get in go-carts, racing around flat, pseudo-3D tracks based on some very familiar Mario worlds. The weapons included turtle shells, fire flowers and, er, bananas. They’re all linchpins…
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No more paywalls for public research, says White House
The White House has instructed federal agencies to make publicly funded research freely available immediately after publication, ending a loophole that let journals put it behind a paywall for a year. The updated guidance will take effect by the end of 2025, and it expands rules first announced in 2013…
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More PyPl packages hacked following phishing attack
Audio player loading… Scammers have tricked PyPI Python package maintainers into giving away their login credentials, then used the passwords to log in and taint the packages with malware, experts have claimed. The news was confirmed by Django project board member Adam Johnson, after being attacked himself, with “hundreds” of…
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