rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2022-01-01 01:43 The Games We Played and Would (Mostly) Recommend in 2021 As the end of the year rolls around, it’s a time to reflect — in this... rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-30 01:45 Riot Games Will Pay $100 million to Settle Discrimination Lawsuit Inside one of Riot Games’ offices. (Photo: Hughes Marino)Current and... rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-30 01:41 Active Cooling Solutions Emerge for Upcoming PCIe 5.0 SSDs (Image: Ithome)We love SSDs for so many reasons: they’re silent, they move... rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-29 22:54 Alexa Almost Tricked a Kid into Starting a Fire with Risky ‘Outlet Challenge’ Virtual assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant are supposed to...
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-29 22:40 Google’s Child Abuse Detection Tools Can Also Identify Illegal Drawings of Children (Photo by Alexander Pohl/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Apple was hit with a wave of criticism earlier this year when it announced plans to scan iPhones to stop the distribution of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)....
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-29 01:43 Habitat for Humanity Deploys First 3D Printed Home (Photo: Habitat for Humanity Peninsula and Greater Williamsburg )Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit that builds and repairs homes in partnership with lower-income families and individuals, has officially signed over...
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-29 01:37 LG Announces Monitor with Crazy 16:18 Aspect Ratio If you’re the type of web content consumer who likes your monitor rotated vertically so you don’t have to scroll as much, the new LG DualUP (28MQ780) should be right up your alley. Instead of the typical...
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-28 23:19 NASA Launches James Webb Space Telescope, but Success Is Not Assured A render of Webb's final configuration. After 20 years of work, the James Webb Space Telescope is finally in space. NASA and the ESA successfully launched the next-generation observatory on Christmas Day, fulfilling...
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-28 23:12 China Appears to Have Blocked the Global Steam Store Valve’s Steam storefront has been nominally available in China for years, but the company launched a China-specific store earlier this year. Now, the other shoe has dropped. Chinese authorities appear to have...
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-28 23:01 Micron confirms DDR5 Memory Shortages If you were considering upgrading your gaming rig to Intel’s new Alder Lake platform, and dropping in some DDR5 memory modules, memory manufacturer Micron has some bad news for you. The company confirmed in an...
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-27 22:24 Ubisoft is Hemorrhaging Developers (Photo: Ubisoft)During these unprecedented times, Ubisoft has found itself joining the ranks of many other shocking firsts. The video game studio is losing employees much faster than it can hire them, and for uglier...
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-27 22:05 Former Googler and Facebooker Launches COVID Testing Startup The world is currently reeling from the rapid expansion of yet another COVID variant, but the timing couldn’t be better for a startup called Detect. The company, helmed by former Google and Facebook executive Hugo...
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-27 22:04 Astronomers Detect an Exoplanet’s Magnetic Field for the First Time All we can say about most of the 4,000+ known exoplanets is that they exist. Their physical characteristics are unknowable with current technology, but a few have given up some secrets. Astronomers using the Hubble...
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-27 21:54 Nikola Hit with $125M Fine For Lying to Investors (Photo: Nikola)Electric truck maker Nikola has been slammed with a $125 million fine by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for lying to investors and falsely inflating its stock price. Following a...
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-24 03:41 NASA Delays James Webb Space Telescope Launch Due to Weather Stop me if you’ve heard this one, but the James Webb Space Telescope launch has been delayed. This time it’s not a matter of engineering, assembly, or transport — it’s the weather. NASA had planned to launch...
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-24 02:46 SpaceX Nails 100th Falcon 9 Landing It used to be big news every time SpaceX landed a Falcon 9 booster because, of course, no one had ever done such a science-fictional thing with rockets before. Now, it’s becoming so commonplace that it’s easy to...
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-22 19:30 Intel CEO: The Chip Shortage Will Last At Least Until 2023 Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger spoke publicly about the ongoing chip shortages that are ravaging the consumer electronics industry recently, and he didn’t exactly have bright and cheery words of optimism about what the...
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-22 01:31 New Haptic Vest Lets You Experience Getting Shot, Virtually Ask any gamer what they want right now and most will say a GPU, but when you say, “besides that” most will state they always want more immersion. It’s why we have ultra-wide monitors, 3D audio, and...
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-21 22:30 After 50 Years, Scientists Set to Open Sealed Apollo Soil Sample Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan on the Moon. (Photo: European Space Agency)The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing to open a very special time capsule: a 50-year-old Moon soil sample.The sample has been largely...
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-21 21:00 Nobody Is Buying Ubisoft’s Dumb In-Game NFTs It has been 15 years since The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion got horse armor, and games have never been the same. Almost every release from major publishers like EA and Ubisoft have microtransactions, which can let them...
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-21 19:00 Facebook/Meta Earns Worst Company of the Year Award in Yahoo Finance Poll It’s that time of year where we find out who has been naughty, and who has been nice. According to Yahoo Finance readers, there is one company that is unquestionably at the top of the naughty list: the company...
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-21 17:30 Microsoft Advances its Plan to Kill the Control Panel with Latest Developer Build Microsoft has been a bit schizophrenic for the past few years when it comes to the Windows Control Panel and the new Settings app. While it has moved a lot of stuff into Settings, the Control Panel still exists as...
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-21 02:31 Some Products Claiming to Block 5G Are Dangerously Radioactive Mobile carriers around the world are busy plowing resources into 5G networks that could vastly increase connection speeds. That’s not going to happen overnight, though. Some 5G networks are actually slower than the...
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-21 01:37 Giant Ship-Dragging Kites Head for Sea Trials (Photo: Airseas)A slice of the shipping industry is preparing to deploy massive ship-dragging kites in an effort to reduce freight’s environmental impact. Seawing, a 500-square meter parafoil kite developed by...
rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com 2021-12-20 21:05 Boeing Wants to Design Planes in the Metaverse (Photo: Boeing) The word “metaverse” has been uttered more times in the last few months than any of us would have expected, but Facebook — sorry, Meta is a powerful force on the internet. If Mark Zuckerberg...