Month: June 2023
Sennheiser SoundProtex Plus review: Concert earplugs that don’t kill the vibe
I nearly destroyed my hearing during my 20s. I went to a lot of shows in tiny venues with way-too-loud PA systems. Occasionally, I’d remember to grab a set of cheap foam earplugs from a gas station beforehand, but more often than not I just went without. Thankfully, I was…
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I made my PS5 Fire Orange and Atomic Purple with Dbrand’s transparent Darkplates
Would you agree technology peaked in the days of candy-colored gadgets in see-through hues like “Atomic Purple” and “Bondi Blue”? If so, Dbrand would greatly enjoy weaponizing your nostalgia against your bank account. They come in transparent orange, light blue, black, and purple, with the first three a “deadmatch against…
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Meta is adding public text-based chat to Horizon Worlds
Meta is introducing a public, text-based social feature to its Horizon Worlds VR platform. The new “world chat” feature resembles that used by online multiplayer games like World of Warcraft, allowing users to send messages to other people within the same world session. Meta says that world chat is currently…
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Saturn’s moon Enceladus could support species similar to Earth
Saturn’s moon Enceladus has phosphorous. The finding came from recently analyzed icy particles emitted from the natural satellite’s ocean plumes, detected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The discovery means Enceladus has all the chemical building blocks for life as we know it on Earth. “This is the final one saying, ‘Yes,…
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Yuzo Koshiro on remastering Etrian Odyssey’s music and having fun with old hardware
There are few video game composers that are well known by name — and even fewer with as eclectic a catalog as Yuzo Koshiro. He’s best known for the iconic soundtracks of the Streets of Rage series but has worked on everything from Revenge of Shinobi to Ys to ActRaiser.…
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Apple’s new 15-inch MacBook Air is already $65 off at Amazon
After what feels like years of “will they / won’t they” speculation, Apple’s long-awaited 15-inch MacBook Air has officially arrived. However, despite having just recently launched, Amazon is already dropping the price of the base model with 8GB of memory, 256GB of storage, an eight-core CPU, and a 10-core GPU…
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