Images leaked earlier this week showed the box art for the game collection and now, thanks to a trailer from developer Nighthawk Interactive, we know more about what the games will have and what platforms we’ll be able to play them on. Both games will be included in the Disney Classic Games Collection, which arrive on PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and Steam. As for when they’ll be released, all we know is “Fall....
While the idea of a 16K monitor is almost laughable, the increased bandwidth – 80 Gbps, up from the 32.4 Gbps – will allow a variety of new monitor configurations. Here are some of them: Single display resolutions -One 16K (15360×8460) display @60Hz and 30 bpp 4:4:4 HDR (with DSC) – One 10K (10240×4320) display @60Hz and 24 bpp 4:4:4 (no compression) Dual display resolutions – Two 8K (7680×4320) displays @120Hz and 30 bpp 4:4:4 HDR (with DSC) – Two 4K (3840×2160) displays @144Hz and 24 bpp 4:4:4 (no compression) Triple display resolutions – Three 10K (10240×4320) displays @60Hz and 30 bpp 4:4:4 HDR (with DSC) – Three 4K (3840×2160) displays @90Hz and 30 bpp 4:4:4 HDR (no compression)...
Dropbox’s new screen and video capture tool is simply called Capture, and it’s launching today in beta. It lets you record your screen, and even provide video commentary with it, so you can easily explain concepts and ideas to your teammates. The new tool lets you also capture GIFs, audio recordings, and just you on the camera. The company’s idea behind this is to avoid unnecessary meetings when you can easily send video messages....
First things first: this is a Dyson product, so it’s expensive. $499.99 expensive. If that price doesn’t phase you though, Dyson thinks it can make the expense worth it thanks to some fancy technology built into the cordless straightener. The star of the show is the aforementioned flexible heating plates. While flat hair irons tend to only apply tension and heat to the thickest part of the hair tress and tend to cause flyaways, Dyson’s flexible magnesium copper plates are able to precisely adapt to your hair with each pass....
The big idea behind Neuralink is the development of a brain implant that will allow everybody to control computers with their minds. But more than this, Musk claims it will eventually allow computers to control our minds. He says the device will be capable of “curing” depression, Alzheimer’s and myriad other brain-based conditions. This would be accomplished through targeted stimulation and interference in what would otherwise be unfettered brain activity....
Still, it’s kind of cool to think about what would happen if Tesla did enable V2G tech. Despite not being that keen on the idea in the past, Tesla seems to have made some of its vehicles capable of bi-directional charging, otherwise known as vehicle-to-grid charging. During a reverse engineering vehicle tear down, an engineer that works for a Tesla competitor found that their Model 3 came equipped with a charging controller capable of both taking on electricity and dishing it back out, Electrek reports....
The digital certificates will be available from May 17, the same day that the country lifts its ban on non-essential travel. Holidaymakers who don’t have a smartphone will be able to request a paper version by calling the NHS helpline on 119. “The certification, being able to show that you’ve had a jab, is going to be necessary for people to be able to travel,” Hancock told Sky News. “So, we want to make sure people can get access to that proof, not least to show governments of other countries that you’ve had the jab if they require that in order to arrive....
Is this just another crash in the volatile cryptocurrency market, or is this the beginning of the end for this alternative asset class? When bitcoin was first introduced in early 2009, it was a new type of asset. While trading was thin initially, price appreciation drove its value to nearly US$20,000 in late 2017. This happened as more retail investors were drawn to cryptocurrencies as a supposed hedge or safe-haven versus other asset classes....
The leak breaks Facebook’s own rules over access to personal information. Since 2018, the platform has automatically blocked developers from getting people’s data if they haven’t interacted with the app in the last 90 days. Once that time limit expires, developers have to again ask users for permission to access their data. But in this case, the lock-out system failed. “We discovered that in some instances apps continued to receive the data that people had previously authorized, even if it appeared they hadn’t used the app in the last 90 days,” said Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, Facebook’s VP of Platform Partnerships....
While linking phone numbers to user IDs is bad enough, in some cases the data included the user’s real name, gender, and country. The exposed server was not protected with a password, and TechCrunch says it verified some of the numbers in the document. When the publication contacted the database’s web host, the information was taken offline. Facebook told TechCrunch “the data set is old and appears to have been obtained before [the company] made changes last year to remove people’s ability to find others using their phone numbers....
How many times have you actually used the Discover tab? If you’re like me, probably not much at all; I’d frankly all but forgotten it was there. Instead, you now simply have one tab for your chats, and another for People which highlights your contacts’ Stories. I’m not much of a Stories person either, but I guess they’re popular or something. Chatbots, while not completely removed from the app, are being hidden away....
Fitbit is trying to fill this gap with its new $150 Luxe tracker. As one might presume from the name, it aims to be Fitbit’s most stylish tracker yet. It offers a svelte, polished design that, at a glance, does look a bit nicer than most of Fitbit’s current lineup — though we’d have to see one in person to really know. At the very least, it’s Fitbit’s thinnest design yet, created with an injection-molded design that the company claims is inspired by the process of creating jewelry....
According to NBC News, Judge Robert Hinkle blocked the law — just before it was scheduled to come into effect today. He said that the law would violate the free speech rights of social media platforms. Hinkle’s best line from the ruling was, “This is an instance of burning the house to roast a pig.” That’s t-shirt worthy. He added that the proposed law was “viewpoint-based,” indicating it was motivated by trying to combat the perceived liberal bias of tech platforms....
Up front: The dream has always been to make personal assistants accessible to everyone. Since most of us can’t afford our own human assistant, big tech decided to combine chatbots and natural language processing (NLP) to create a virtual version of the real thing. So why on Earth would anyone want to get rid of them? Because you deserve so much better. Background: Virtual assistants were supposed to evolve over time....
With shareholder expectations on the line, companies have sought to distill the startup mentality into a few ideals and mimic those tactics which have made startups so successful. The problem is that while having the startup mentality and pace in a larger company is sexy as an ideal, the reality is that “move fast and break things” does not work well with many established company norms and there is no place where this is more apparent than hiring....
Koster’s previous credits include Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies. Koster recently revealed he’s working on a new MMO that’ll capitalize on modern technology to create more immersive worlds. “We haven’t seen the fruition of true alternate worlds that you can escape to,” he told TNW. While in the course of asking him questions about this new venture — and him being appropriately tight-lipped considering the game is early in development — I decided to pick his brain a bit about the current climate in gaming....
Labor Day is about two things: celebrating America’s workforce and getting some sweet deals online. But rather than frivolously spending on random knick knacks and trinkets, why not buy something that’s going to benefit you down the road? To that end, we’ve gone ahead and rounded up 4 deals on eLearning resources that can fast track you to a new, lucrative career. And, on top of that, take advantage of the Labor Day Sale to shave an extra 15 percent off your total by entering the code SAVE15TODAY at checkout....
I woke up this morning to a horrifying email from Netflix: my account had been hacked. Someone had weaseled their way in while I slept peacefully and changed the account email. I was shocked as I had taken all the right precautions — not shared or reused passwords, etc. — but then discovered an annoyingly simple way I could’ve prevented it. So let me share it with you and save you the pain....
A tipster named Anthony, who owns the GaloxYT YouTube channel, showed off some images of these upcoming devices, in what looks like Samsung’s own promo material. The video highlights a two-tone finish and a more squared-off look for the Z Flip 3 — and in my opinion, it looks gorgeous. Plus, the tipster noted that the body of the phone is covered by Corning’s Gorilla Glass Victus, making it tougher and more likely to withstand falls....
Yesterday, the company began alerting users that a “technical issue” in Google Takeout — an app that lets you download backups of your data from other Google software — caused videos stored in Photos to be “incorrectly exported” to other people’s archives, 9to5Google reports. For the record, the Big G insists the issue solely affected users requesting Takeout exports between November 21 and 25 last year. Pretty gnarly. On the bright side, the issue has since been resolved....
