Month: August 2023
Baldur’s Gate 3 PC players have already been playing for 22,000 years combined
Baldur’s Gate 3 players have collectively already played over 22,000 years since the game launched on PC. Larian Studios officially released the first major patch for its turn-based RPG today, which includes a massive amount of fixes that address everything from bugs to story progression glitches, and the ability for…
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Baldur’s Gate 3 patch 1 is live, rolls out “Short King Summer” and over 1,000 fixes
Baldur’s Gate 3’s first major patch is now live, and just as promised, it includes over 1,000 fixes for various problems, including bugs and balancing issues. It’s fixed so many things, in fact, that the patch notes don’t actually fit within Steam’s news post character limit. Given the enormity of…
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Why note-taking apps don’t make us smarter
This is Platformer, a newsletter on the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy from Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer. Sign up here. Today let’s step outside the news cycle and turn our attention toward a topic I’m deeply invested in but only rarely write about: productivity platforms. For decades now, software tools…
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Hulu and Disney Plus have a new Korean thriller series that’s the next Squid Game
The new Squid Game is here and you can stream it now on Hulu and Disney Plus. The new series is called Moving and it’s a star-studded spy thriller from Korea that has become the most-watched Disney series in the Asia Pacific region right now. It’s also the biggest series…
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All colors of the Beats Studio Buds Plus are $40 off (including the clear ones)
It was a big deal when the Beats Studio Buds Plus fell to a new all-time low last week, but I think it’s an even bigger deal now that all three colors are available at that price — since the coolest earbuds by far are the see-through version. You can…
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These earbuds for kids look like colorful AirPods and now I desperately want them
If you’re looking for kid-safe earbuds that your little ones will actually want to wear, MyFirst may have just the thing. The MyFirst CareBuds look like colorful AirPods but they’re much cheaper and include built-in hearing protection. The CareBuds are limited to 85dB as per World Health Organisation recommendations and…
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