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Astronomers spot a super-rare class of black hole for the first time

Posted: 02 Sep 2020 05:00 AM PDT

Historically, the black holes that astronomers have found come in two distinct sizes: stellar black holes (aka collapsars), which are born from the implosion of dying stars and have a mass range of 5 to several tens that of their stellar mass, and su...

The Morning After: NVIDIA's RTX 30 Series is ready for 8K gaming

Posted: 02 Sep 2020 04:18 AM PDT

If you've ever guessed "dead or canceled?" when a celebrity's name trends, there's some good news. Twitter is trying to fix its trending topics by adding pinned explanations to some of them. That way, when you click on something odd, you won't have...

AlphaBay dark web moderator sentenced to 11 years in prison

Posted: 02 Sep 2020 03:40 AM PDT

Bryan Connor Herrell, a 26-year-old man from Colorado who served as a moderator for AlphaBay, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. His is the latest AlphaBay-related case to come to a close after authorities seized what was once the dark web's b...

Russian law could force Apple to cut App Store fee to 20 percent

Posted: 02 Sep 2020 03:15 AM PDT

A Russian lawmaker has proposed a bill that would see all app store transactions capped at 20 percent,  down from the usual 30 percent. Reuters is reporting that Fedot Tumusov, a member of the State Duma, Russia's lower house in its parliament, has t...

The first 'Avengers' DLC character will be Kate Bishop's Hawkeye

Posted: 02 Sep 2020 02:35 AM PDT

Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow and Ms. Marvel. These are the characters that will be immediately playable once Marvel's Avengers game goes on sale later this week. But who will be added post-launch? We only know that Clint Barton'...

Rocket Lab gains FAA approval to launch satellites from US soil

Posted: 02 Sep 2020 01:55 AM PDT

Rocket Lab is on a roll this week. After successfully returning to launch following a failure in July, the company announced that it has received FAA clearance to launch small satellites from its Electron rockets in the US. So far, all its missions h...

Samsung's Premiere 4K ultra short throw is the first projector certified for HDR10+

Posted: 02 Sep 2020 01:00 AM PDT

Samsung is skipping this year's IFA trade show in favor of hosting a virtual press conference of its own, and one of the new devices it has announced at the event is a 4K ultra short throw laser projector called The Premiere. It will come in two mode...

Amazon opens the first permanent online-only Whole Foods store

Posted: 01 Sep 2020 10:00 PM PDT

Earlier this year, Whole Foods temporarily converted a few of its locations into online-only stores to keep up with much higher grocery delivery demands brought about by COVID-19-related lockdowns. Its new location in Brooklyn isn't just a temporary...

LG teases a reveal of its dual-screen 'Wing' phone on September 14th

Posted: 01 Sep 2020 07:59 PM PDT

After months of leaks, it appears that we'll finally meet the LG Wing on September 14th. While Samsung is on the second generation of its Galaxy Fold series and Microsoft is lining up the Surface Duo, LG has so far opted to release two-screen phones...

DARPA's hypersonic weapons move closer to free-flight testing

Posted: 01 Sep 2020 05:59 PM PDT

According to DARPA, it's on track to perform "free-flight testing" for two variants of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) later this year. Travelling at speeds of Mach 5 and above, they could be capable of reaching anywhere on the glo...

AT&T reportedly backs away from selling Warner Bros. Interactive

Posted: 01 Sep 2020 02:51 PM PDT

For the time being, AT&T has reportedly decided against selling its Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment gaming division to another company. According to Bloomberg, the telecom concluded the unit was too valuable to ditch, even if a sale would...

B&H Photo knocks $250 off Lenovo's high-powered Legion 7 laptop

Posted: 01 Sep 2020 01:55 PM PDT

While the Razer Blade 15 with NVIDIA's RTX 2060 GPU is $400 off today, you may be itching for a gaming laptop with a slightly better graphics card. If that's the case, you can grab a Lenovo Legion 7 machine with an NVIDIA RTX 2070 GPU for $1,599 righ...

NVIDIA's Reflex technology promises to reduce input lag on your PC

Posted: 01 Sep 2020 01:23 PM PDT

If you've ever tweaked the settings of a PC game like Overwatch, you've probably stumbled on resources detailing how features like v-sync and triple buffering can add input lag to your favorite games. In the simplest possible terms, input lag is a me...

Watch us unbox Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold 2 live at 4PM ET

Posted: 01 Sep 2020 12:04 PM PDT

The Galaxy Z Fold 2 is officially official, but it'll be a few weeks before Samsung starts shipping to the masses and we know some people just can't wait that long. Since you've decided to click on this story, we're assuming that means you, so why no...

Movies Anywhere's lending feature is now available to all US users 

Posted: 01 Sep 2020 11:40 AM PDT

Screen Pass, the Movies Anywhere feature that allows you to lend a digital film you own to a friend or family member, is now available to all users in the US. When you share a movie with someone (which you can do over text, email or instant message),...

Facebook and Twitter caught Russian trolls running a literal fake news site

Posted: 01 Sep 2020 11:37 AM PDT

Facebook and Twitter have, again, caught Russian trolls trying to meddle with their platforms. Both companies disclosed that they had suspended a handful of accounts linked to the Internet research Agency, the Russian troll farm behind Russia's 2016...

Alienware rolls out laptops with 360Hz displays

Posted: 01 Sep 2020 11:02 AM PDT

Alienware has applied its 360Hz refresh rate technology to its latest and greatest laptops. The Alienware Area-51m R2 and m17 R3 will both support 360Hz FHD panels, bringing that esports vibe to mobile players. The Area-51m R2 runs on 10th Gen Intel...

Acer unveils a 360Hz NVIDIA-powered gaming monitor

Posted: 01 Sep 2020 11:00 AM PDT

At CES 2020, NVIDIA showed off the "world's fastest" esports display, the ASUS ROG Swift 360, a monitor with a 360HZ refresh rate. That display should go on sale this September, and NVIDIA is already announcing another super-fast gaming monitor. Acer...

Alienware introduces its first gaming monitor with a 360Hz refresh rate

Posted: 01 Sep 2020 11:00 AM PDT

Today, Alienware is unveiling a handful of new gaming gear and updates. Most exciting is the new Alienware 25 Gaming Monitor, which comes with a 360Hz refresh rate for super-fast gaming. It also supports NVIDIA's Reflex Latency Analyzer to give users...

Alexa can now pay for gas at Exxon and Mobil pumps

Posted: 01 Sep 2020 10:31 AM PDT

The next time you need to fill up your car, you might pay for your gas using your voice. Amazon, ExxonMobil and payment provider Fiserv have announced that you can pay with Alexa at some pumps. The Alexa skill was announced at CES in January, and it'...

Twitter will pin tweets to explain trending topics

Posted: 01 Sep 2020 10:30 AM PDT

Twitter is trying to make its trending topics easier to understand. The company will soon add pinned to tweets and descriptions to some of its trends in an effort to explain how and why trending topics become trends."Starting today, some trends will...

'Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War' will have ray-tracing support

Posted: 01 Sep 2020 10:16 AM PDT

When Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War drops on November 13th, you'll be able to play it with ray-tracing turned on. Support for ray-tracing was confirmed during NVIDIA's event today, during which it revealed new GeForce RTX graphics cards.According t...

Apple releases iOS 13.7 with Exposure Notifications Express framework

Posted: 01 Sep 2020 10:15 AM PDT

Apple is now rolling out what could be the last major version of iOS 13 before iOS 14 arrives later this year. Among the updates in iOS 13.7 is access to the COVID-19 exposure notification API Apple and Google released for iOS and Android. The Exposu...

Influential indie studio Vlambeer is shutting down after a decade

Posted: 01 Sep 2020 10:01 AM PDT

The first time Rami Ismail and Jan Willem Nijman spoke to one another, it was early morning in 2008 and they were riding the train to the Utrecht School of the Arts, where they both studied game design. Ismail was holding court with a group of friend...

Microsoft will identify manipulated media with a confidence score

Posted: 01 Sep 2020 09:57 AM PDT

The pandemic and upcoming US presidential election have made misinformation even more dangerous than usual. So, as part of its Defending Democracy Program, Microsoft is rolling out new tools to combat misinformation, specifically deepfakes.The new Mi...
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