Month: September 2023
PlayStation bought elite hi-fi maestro Audeze, but its CEO says audiophiles don’t need to worry
If you followed the news about the new PlayStation Earbuds and headset coming soon, you may have seen that they contain some surprisingly audiophile-level sound technology, in the form of high-end planar magnetic drivers. Quite quickly, we got a hint about where this elite tech may have come from, because…
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Tales of Arise is getting an expansion two years after its launch
Tales of Arise is getting a surprise, new expansion called Beyond the Dawn, two years after the game launched. Bandai Namco unveiled the expansion during the September 14 State of Play livestream, where we got our first look at the upcoming expansion in a new trailer, as well as a…
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The Online Safety Bill is just the tip of the UK Surveillance State iceberg
It all starts in 2019. The Online Harms whitepaper marked the first step into the government’s mission of making the UK “the safest place to be online,” building the premises for the debut of the Online Safety Bill two years later. Now, after surviving three prime ministers, two government crises,…
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Spider-Man 2 is following the Sony sequel playbook, and I’m not mad about it
Spider-Man is easily one of the most recognizable fictional characters of the last 50-plus years, appearing in countless iterations across comics, movies, cartoons, video games and other media I am surely forgetting. Fans will argue about the best iteration — but for my money, the Spider-universe Insomniac Games introduced in…
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Cisco pulls its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure products
Cisco has confirmed that it has discontinued its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure products due to market trends (via The Register). Hyperconverged infrastructure combines data center elements, including storage, compute, networking, and management, into one unified system. The San Jose-based company blamed “evolving customer needs and market dynamics” for its decision. In…
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Horizon Worlds’ avatars now walk among the virtual universe with their own legs
Virtual avatars in Meta’s Horizon Worlds universe have gained legs, according to UploadVR. You should now see them when looking at other users or checking out your own avatar in a mirror, but your own avatar’s legs aren’t visible from a first-person perspective. Legs proved to be a technical challenge…
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