Month: April 2024
Europe’s warming up at nearly twice the global average, says new report
Europe is warming up at twice the global average, leading to deadly heatwaves and severe flooding, according to the European State of the Climate (ESOTC) report for the year 2023, released Monday. According to the report, temperatures in Europe are rising 2.3 degrees Celsius (or 4.1 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial…
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Some Samsung Galaxy owners are getting screen replacements to fix major issue
Last week, several Galaxy owners took to the internet to complain about seeing a distracting green line going down their phone’s screen. It was unclear if Samsung would address this issue or ignore it. As it turns out, the tech giant is going to help people fix the problem, but…
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Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets
On the theme of opening up, Meta is also pushing for more ways to discover alternative app stores. It’s making its experimental App Lab store more prominent and even inviting Google to bring the Play Store to its operating system, which is now called Horizon OS. In a blog post, Meta…
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Is your PC having trouble? Your smart TV might be to blame
It turns out your TV can actually mess up your computer — at least if you’re using a Hisense TV and Windows. Kevin Snow, a video game narrative designer, wrote on Cohost that they’d been having trouble with their PC. The “Display Settings” menu didn’t open. The “Task Manager” started…
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An Xbox VR headset is on the way, but it’s a ‘limited edition’ Meta Quest
Microsoft is teaming up with Meta to create a limited edition Meta Quest VR headset that’s “inspired by Xbox.” While both Microsoft and Meta aren’t sharing full details on this VR headset, it sounds like it’s simply going to be a skinned Meta Quest 3 (or future unannounced version) that…
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Ecosia launches plant-friendly cross-platform browser
Ecosia, an environmentally conscious search engine company that prides itself on both transparency and its efforts to curb environmental damage, has lifted the wraps off a new cross-platform browser designed to cater to sustainable audiences. Having already planted north of 205 million trees as a result of users’ online browsing…
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