Month: June 2023
Foundation’s season 2 trailer is a battle 100 years in the making
The new season takes place a century after the previous one and has the Empire, led by a menacing Lee Pace as Brother Day, preparing for an all-out conflict with the titular Foundation, a group led by Hari Seldon (Jared Harris). Here’s the basic setup: As the Cleons unravel, a…
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Meta’s Horizon Worlds is getting a text-based ‘world chat’ feature
After introducing mini-games and allowing access to younger teens, Meta is trying to make its VR-based Horizon Worlds more social. In its latest update, the company released a new feature called world chat that lets users send messages to anyone else in the same world session. At the same time,…
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The best smart plugs in 2023
Smart plugs are among the simpler smart home devices, giving you voice and app control over appliances like lamps, fans, humidifiers and basic coffee makers. You can create schedules and routines, too, either through a plug’s proprietary app or through your preferred smart home platform. But much like other IoT…
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Microsoft Azure outage caused by “huge spike”, that could have been a DDoS attack
Microsoft has attributed the recent connectivity issues on its Azure Portal to a “traffic spike” – however a cybercrime group has also claimed responsibility for causing the outage. In an update posted to the Azure status page, the company explained that the spike “impacted the ability to manage traffic to…
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Stack Overflow survey finds developers are ready to use AI tools — even if they don’t fully trust them
A survey of developers by coding Q&A site Stack Overflow has found that AI tools are becoming commonplace in the industry even as coders remain skeptical about their accuracy. The survey comes at an interesting time for the site, which is trying to work out how to benefit from AI…
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Telo is the adorable little electric truck America needs to want
Telo is a new American EV company setting out to build a small, modular, electric truck in a country filled with monolithic workhorses like Ford’s F-150 pickup. But even though Telo’s truck will be mini and cute, it’s still apparently work-capable — the company claims it’s got “Toyota Tacoma capability,”…
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