Month: March 2023
A VR Game Pass might be coming to your Oculus Quest 2, but it’s not what we wanted
Audio player loading… It looks like Meta is planning to launch its own version of Xbox Game Pass for the Quest 2 and Quest Pro that will give you access to free VR games and apps every month while you are subscribed. Unfortunately, it’s not shaping up to be the…
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Uber’s new pickup directions and walking ETAs can finally help you escape the airport
We’ve somehow gone years without Uber holding our hands from the gate to the baggage claim area, out the door, and to an Uber pickup zone where a normal reserved Uber X ride is waiting for us. Now the company is making all of that possible: giving users full walking…
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Lots of laid-off tech workers are starting their own businesses
Audio player loading… According to a new Clarify Capital (opens in new tab) study, almost two-thirds (63%) of recently laid-off tech workers have started their own companies amid re-employment difficulties, despite some reports late last year suggesting that tech workers were in high demand. The research involved 1,000 participating tech…
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Fairphone 2 gets its final software update, seven years after original release
After over seven years and 43 software updates, Fairphone’s second-generation Android smartphone is finally reaching the end of its software support period. The company says today’s software update for Android 10 will be the phone’s last, capping off a remarkably long support period for a phone that originally ran Android…
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WhatsApp is ready to help most of you silence annoying spam calls
Audio player loading… WhatsApp is taking a more proactive approach to filtering out spam as it may soon begin automatically silencing calls from unknown numbers. The feature is fittingly called Silence Unknown Callers, according to WABetaInfo (opens in new tab), giving users the choice of whether or not they want…
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Alex Gibney is making a documentary about Elon Musk
Right now, the project is just titled Musk, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Other than the name and the general vibe that it’ll be taking a hard look at one of the world’s richest men and most famous tech CEOs, there currently aren’t a lot of details about the documentary.…
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