Month: December 2022
God of War Ragnarök is a story about letting go
This article contains spoilers for, well, pretty much the whole God of War series. Throughout the journey in God of War (2018), Kratos and Atreus hold on to the memory and literal ashes of a loved one. Her dying wish to be scattered at the highest peak propels them through…
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These new Google Meet filters are like something out of your worst nightmare
Audio player loading… Google Meet has, for some reason, unveiled three new face filters for its video conferencing software, and they’re all, without exception, pretty off-putting. Per a announcement (opens in new tab) on the Google Workspace Updates blog, Google Meet users can now, should they want to, choose to…
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The 80-plus best last-minute digital gift ideas you can still get
Waited until the very last minute to start your holiday shopping? Hey, we get it. Life gets busy sometimes, and judging by how long lines at stores tend to be on Christmas Eve, you’ve got company. If you don’t want to waste precious time in one of those lines, there…
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AI isn’t really helping coders write better or more secure code
Audio player loading… A paper (opens in new tab) by researchers at Stanford University has found that coders who employed AI assistants such as GitHub Copilot and Facebook InCoder actually ended up writing less secure code. What’s more, such tools also lull developers into a false sense of security, with…
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Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday broke some VMs, but there’s a fix
Audio player loading… Microsoft has released an emergency fix for its latest Patch Tuesday update, which stopped some users from creating new VMs in some Hyper-V hosts. The issue, which impacted users of Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022, stemmed from th KB5021249 (opens in new tab) or KB5021237 (opens in…
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Need a last-minute gift? Hasbro made me into a Star Wars action figure
Remember when Hasbro announced it’d let you put your 3D-printed face on a fully licensed Star Wars, Marvel, Ghostbusters, G.I. Joe, or Power Rangers action figure for $60 plus tax? Well, my Hasbro Selfie Series figure just arrived this week — and while it’s not a perfect resemblance, I’m still…
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