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The iPhone 12 and 12 Pro are now available. Here’s how to buy them both
Despite a bit of a false start where the Apple September event was concerned, the Apple iPhone 12 has finally been announced. However, while four models may have been announced, only two are currently available for sale. Pre-orders for the 6.1-inch iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro launched on October 16 and are now available […]
Ford is making new Broncos; mockumentary John Bronco has its ideal pitchman
The trailer for Hulu’s John Bronco. John Bronco—Hulu’s new sub-40-minute mockumentary about a “lost” “Ford pitchman”—is a good idea, well-executed. What if you took the competent-idiot Southern charm of Justified‘s Boyd Crowder, but, instead of an Appalachian criminal, made the character the unlikely pitchman for a beloved classic SUV, who oozes over-the-top marketable machismo a la […]
NASA says it collected a large sample from the asteroid Bennu. Maybe too large.
The spacecraft that reached out and grabbed a sample from an asteroid earlier this week may have collected so much material it prevented the lid of the sample holder from closing properly, allowing some of the precious dust and rocks to leak out, NASA officials said Friday evening. Now the space agency is faced with […]
OnePlus 8T vs. Google Pixel 5: Which new flagship comes out on top?
2020 is almost drawing to a close, but the smartphone industry still hasn’t run out of eye-catching flagships to launch. October saw the release of (among others) the Google Pixel 5 and the OnePlus 8T, both of which offer a range of enticing features at a reasonable price level. The Pixel 5 continues Google’s fine […]
How to get special items in Pokémon Go
Heading outside to collect your favorite items in Pokémon Go used to be a great way to get some exercise and fresh air while playing a great Pokémon game, but new social distancing guidelines make it more difficult for a lot of people to play their favorite augmented reality game. While you might not how […]
He’s a former QAnon believer. He doesn’t want to tell his story, but thinks it might help.
Jitarth Jadeja was already deep into conspiracy theories when he first heard of Q. One day in December 2017, he tuned into Infowars, the media outlet run by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Two guests on the radio show were talking about the “calm before the storm,” a reference to an absurd theory that President […]
Unity promises initial OpenXR platform support by the end of 2020
You can’t solo security COVID-19 game security report: Learn the latest attack trends in gaming Access here When the Khronos Group released OpenXR — a royalty-free standard designed to make cross-platform VR and AR app development easier, supporting multiple platforms — it was backed by many of the mixed reality industry’s biggest names, including Epic […]
How to delete a page in Word
Blank pages in a document can make an unprofessional impression on editors or potential employers. Microsoft Word is known to create blank pages in a document. Before you hit the send button, you can delete blank pages. Our goal is to relieve others of the frustration associated with blank pages. Since Microsoft Word is the […]
How Indiana Jones, Rambo, and others ended up in 1980s Czechoslovak text-adventures
Enlarge / The loading screen of the browser-friendly version of Indiana Jones in Wenceslas Square, converted by Jaroslav Švelch and 8-bit veteran Martin Kouba. (Let’s officially consider this canon over Crystal Skull.) Indiana Jones is caught behind the Iron Curtain. Specifically, the globe-trotting archeologist is in the former Czechoslovakia, a Soviet satellite state, and he’s […]
Why AI live fact-checked the 2020 US presidential debates
Many news organisations, including the BBC, have dedicated fact-checking services to help audiences make sense of the world and spot lies and misinformation. Normally this is done manually and may take the humans behind service several hours to confirm the answers. But one company, which has been monitoring the recent US election debates, has been […]
AI Weekly: Constructive ways to take power back from Big Tech
The audio problem Learn how new cloud-based API solutions are solving imperfect, frustrating audio in video conferences. Access here Facebook launched an independent oversight board and recommitted to privacy reforms this week, but after years of promises made and broken, nobody seems convinced that real change is afoot. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is expected […]
The best data recovery software for 2020
If you accidentally delete important files or photos, all hope is seemingly lost. Fortunately, if you lost files due to a failing hard drive or accidentally deleted them, data recovery applications may help get them back. Before downloading and running any recovery software, you should stop using the faulty drive, if possible. The only time you […]
Today is iPhone 12 and iPad Air launch day, but don’t expect speedy shipping
The iPhone 12 Pro. Form factor and screen size are nearly identical on iPhone 12 Pro. Features. Is that enough screen for you? Even more camera sensors than your average iPhone 12. The new 12MP Wide sensor on iPhone 12 Pro. Prices. Host not necessarily scaled to the size of the phones. Screen stats. iPhone […]
Here are all the games that support Nvidia’s RTX ray tracing
With Nvidia’s new RTX 30 Series finally here, knowing what PC games actually support RTX-based ray tracing is important to help take advantage of all that new powerful hardware. This lighting technique is the closest approximation we have for modeling the way light behaves in the real world, and it looks beautiful on both RTX […]