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Square Enix’s ‘Forspoken’ mixes magical parkour with an unforgiving world
Judging from all the teaser videos released so far, Forspoken is promising a swathe of visually stunning elemental spells and a heroine that can dash, glide and traverse a fantasy world quicker than any Assassin’s Creed protagonist. But aside from magic parkour, what else is Forspoken’s Frey Holland capable of? How…
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The Morning After: Peloton’s unfortunate cameo in the ‘Sex and the City’ reboot
Warning: If you’re planning to watch the Sex and the City revival, And Just Like That, avert your eyes for this intro — spoilers are incoming. Peloton probably wished everyone did just that. Yes, the ubiquitous, expensive exercise bike featured in a major plotline in the first episode of the…
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NASA’s new sleeping bags could prevent eyeball ‘squashing’ on the ISS
Becoming an astronaut requires perfect 20/20 vision, but unfortunately, the effects of space can cause astronauts to return to Earth with degraded eyesight. Now, researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have developed a sleeping bag that that could prevent or reduce those problems by effectively sucking fluid out of astronauts'…
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Hitting the Books: How the Silicon Valley mindset damages rural American communities
America has always been a nation segregated into haves and have-nots with rampant inequity a seemingly natural aspect of our social order — the motif impacting towns and cities just as starkly as the people who live in them. But it doesn't have to be this way, argue authors UC…
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How a VR startup took the money and ran to the metaverse
The tech buzzword of the season is “metaverse.” Facebook kicked the craze into high gear at its Connect conference in late October, featuring an hour-long image-rehabilitation video where Mark Zuckerberg revealed the company’s new name, Meta, and showed off a vague digital-first future called the metaverse. Dedric Reid has been…
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Apple’s second-gen AirPods drop to $100, plus the rest of the week’s best tech deals
If you're still on the hunt for good tech gifts to give this year, you still have time to grab some that will arrive before the holidays. Apple's second-generation AirPods are on sale again for $100, while the Fitbit Charge 5 fitness tracker is back down to $130. Both Amazon's…
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