Month: August 2023
The incandescent light bulb still isn’t dead — but ‘normal’ ones are now truly banned
(1) Appliance lamps; (2) Black light lamps; (3) Bug lamps; (4) Colored lamps; (5) G shape lamps with a diameter of 5 inches or more as defined in ANSI C79.1-2002; (6) General service fluorescent lamps; (7) High intensity discharge lamps; (8) Infrared lamps; (9) J, JC, JCD, JCS, JCV, JCX,…
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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is coming to PS4 and Xbox One
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor will be released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, EA CEO Andrew Wilson announced during the company’s Q1 earnings call on Tuesday. The game launched in April on PS5, Xbox Series X / S, and PC but skipped Sony and Microsoft’s older hardware, so with this…
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Windows 11 third-party apps break the Start Menu and Microsoft refuses to fix it
Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 11 version 22H2 update, which will be introducing several new features to the Start Menu interface, can also break said Start Menu if certain third-party apps are also installed on the OS. Windows 11 update 22H2, which will most likely be coming out sooner rather than later…
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A new Samba de Amigo game is coming to Apple Arcade this month
Samba de Amigo is coming to Apple Arcade. Sega’s classic maraca-shaking rhythm franchise is seeing a renaissance this year as the new installment arrives on Apple platforms and Nintendo Switch on the same day. A VR port for Meta Quest, announced in early June, is also scheduled to launch sometime…
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Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kyncl is coming to the Code Conference
The music industry was reshaped by streaming. So earlier this year, Warner Music Group put a streaming executive in charge. The company’s new CEO, Robert Kyncl, was most recently the chief business officer of YouTube, where he helped transform the platform into one of the biggest names in creator monetization…
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Facebook and Instagram start blocking news in Canada
Meta has begun blocking all news content on Facebook and Instagram in Canada, a change it expects all users in the country to see within “the next few weeks.” That’s in response to the country’s Online News Act, which would require tech companies like Meta and Google to negotiate with…
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