Author: Zach_Wilson
Multifunctional smartwatch bands should be more of a thing
It’s no surprise that most fitness trackers have swappable straps these days. Watches — smart or otherwise — are a fashion statement, people have different needs from their wearables, and everybody’s skin reacts differently to certain materials. But after trying out Nomad’s new glow-in-the-dark Apple Watch strap and Samsung’s hybrid…
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How to turn off and delete your YouTube watch history
Many app homepages have gotten incredibly busy, filled with suggestions and ads, many based on your previous searches or stuff you’ve read / written / watched in the past. YouTube is certainly no exception — in fact, it’s one of the worst offenders — but recently, Google’s video service announced…
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Overwatch 2 needs a win — the Invasion event, at best, is a draw
Overwatch 2’s Invasion event, which goes live today, is the game’s biggest update since penciling in the “2” in October of last year. The event, which coincides with season 6 of the battle pass, offers a new hero, a new game mode, and, perhaps most importantly, new story missions that,…
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Top open source project Moq slammed for secretly collecting user data
Popular open source (OS) project Moq just got updated to include a not-so-open-source addition in the form of a series of DLLs designed to collect hashes of user email addresses. The changes were first reported on by BleepingComputer, which notes that the project sees around 100,000 daily downloads on average,…
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter just isn’t scary enough to live up to Dracula’s legacy
There have been so many cinematic adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and movies inspired by the 1897 novel over the years that it’s actually quite easy to understand some of the logic behind Universal’s The Last Voyage of the Demeter from director André Øvredal. There’s an undeniable brilliance behind the…
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ChatGPT is a bad knowledge base, confirms new study
There’s been (probably a little too much) chatter on the internet about how OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and similar artificially intelligent (AI) chatbots, are going to change the way we approach work. There’s also some doom associated with this: are AI chatbots going to make a mockery of academia? Do away with…
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