Month: December 2022
Cooler Master has a big ‘immersive’ gaming pod too
Why settle for a desk and an ultrawide monitor when you can buy a multi-purpose computing pod? That’s the question Cooler Master hopes the Orb X, its newly announced semi-enclosed work and gaming station (via Gizmodo), will prompt you to ponder. While the Orb X won’t completely isolate you from…
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This sci-fi horror game is trying to make Area 51’s little grey men scary again
Audio player loading… Sci-fi is one of the lesser-sung subgenres in horror games, at least in comparison to the wealth of zombie-infested titles out there. These numbers will be going up in 2023, however, when some little grey men come to town. Refugium Games’ trailer for upcoming survival horror game…
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Microsoft Teams might start telling on you to your parents
Audio player loading… The days of bringing home a note from your teacher to your parents (or vice versa) will soon be at an end thanks to a new update to Microsoft Teams. The video conferencing service is working on a new feature that will make parent-teacher communication much more…
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Meta is expanding its use of AI face scanning to verify users’ age on Facebook Dating
Facebook is testing ways for people to verify their age when using the platform’s dating app, including using an AI face scanning tool. In a blog post today, Meta announced it would start prompting users on Facebook Dating to verify that they’re over 18 if the platform suspects a user…
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PC sales slumped in the US – but it wasn’t bad news for everyone
Audio player loading… New research has claimed computer sales have fallen as we head into the festive period, but there can be some positives which may indicate an overhaul to the way we think about computing. Findings from analyst firm Canalys suggest that US shipments of desktops, notebooks, and workstations…
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Monday’s top tech news: OpenAI’s chatbot doesn’t have all the answers… yet
“Metaverse” lost word of the year to “goblin mode.” In what can only be bad news for Mark Zuckerberg’s virtual-reality dreams, the publisher behind Oxford English Dictionary announced the results of its word of the year poll. In a three-way matchup between “metaverse,” “goblin mode,” and “#istandwith,” metaverse took home…
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