| Stream's first digital tabletop festival kicks off this month Posted: 01 Oct 2020 05:15 AM PDT  Valve is launching a new Steam event tabletop gaming fans might love, especially now it's not wise to play in person with a bunch of people. The first ever Steam Digital Tabletop Fest, a joint project between Valve and Auroch Digital, centers around... |
| The Morning After: Google unveiled new Pixels, Chromecast and more Posted: 01 Oct 2020 04:22 AM PDT  Thank you, Google, for keeping your remote press conference mercifully short and to the point. Oddly, the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G phones — don't confuse them — were given equal weighting with a new, prettier Chromecast dongle (with remote) and a new... |
| Tesla Model 3 earned a mediocre score in Europe's new assisted driving test Posted: 01 Oct 2020 04:07 AM PDT  Europe's New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) has released its second series of assisted driving grades, and despite having the best technology, Tesla's Model 3 came away with a mediocre score. The reason? Driver engagement is a key factor and Tesla's A... |
| Figo's connected sous vide promises to chill, seal and cook your meals Posted: 01 Oct 2020 03:10 AM PDT  A company called Eat Figo has started crowdfunding for the Figo, an all-in-one connected sous vide that promises to vacuum-seal, refrigerate and cook your food. The idea is that you can prepare and season your meals, vacuum seal them and drop them in... |
| GitHub can actively look for security holes in your code Posted: 01 Oct 2020 02:35 AM PDT  GitHub, the Microsoft-owned code repository, has announced something that will hopefully make all our software much more secure. The platform has, after several months of testing, now launched code scanning, a system that will read through software l... |
| US court agrees with SEC that Kik's $100 million coin offering violated the law Posted: 01 Oct 2020 01:55 AM PDT  A US district judge for the Southern District of New York has agreed with the Securities and Exchange Commission's assessment that Kik's $100 million initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017 was a securities sale. Judge Alvin Hellerstein has granted SEC's... |
| Roland's portable TR-6S replicates classic '80s drum machines on a budget Posted: 01 Oct 2020 12:19 AM PDT  Roland has unveiled a pair of drum machines that recreate sounds from classic models like the TR-606 and TR-909, updated with modern features like real-time recording. The first model is the $400 TR-6S Rhythm Performer (above), essentially a smaller... |
| Astro's first wired earbuds are aimed at mobile gamers Posted: 01 Oct 2020 12:01 AM PDT  Competition in the headset arena has gotten pretty fierce the past few years but, for many gamers, Astro is still the name they trust the most. However, while the company's reputation for high-quality gear has earned it plenty of fans among PC and co... |
| Twitter removed 130 Iran-linked accounts during last night's debate Posted: 30 Sep 2020 10:14 PM PDT  Twitter has removed 130 accounts that appeared to originate from Iran and were attempting to disrupt public conversation around the 2020 US Presidential debate. The social network's Support account has revealed the deletion on the platform. It also p... |
| Google's 'Hold for Me' Assistant feature appears first on new Pixel phones Posted: 30 Sep 2020 08:03 PM PDT  When the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G arrive, they'll include an early preview of Google's new feature for the Phone app, the Duplex-powered "Hold for Me." Mentioned during the Launch Night presentation and explained in a blog post, it lets Google Assista... |
| Facebook has removed more than 6,500 militia groups and pages Posted: 30 Sep 2020 05:23 PM PDT  Facebook has removed more than 6,500 pages and groups associated with "militarized social movements," since the company announced it would crack down on QAnon and militia movements on its platform last month. Under the new rules, Facebook said it wou... |
| Verizon's mmWave version of the Pixel 4a 5G costs $100 extra Posted: 30 Sep 2020 03:19 PM PDT  Earlier today, Google announced the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G, both of which Verizon (Engadget's parent company) will carry. But if you want to purchase the latter through the carrier, you'll have to pay $600 or $25 per month on a two-year Verizon Devi... |
| Peter Parker has been recast in ‘Marvel’s Spider-Man: Remastered’ Posted: 30 Sep 2020 02:50 PM PDT  Developer Insomniac Games says the forthcoming Marvel's Spider-Man: Remastered for the PS5 will be different from the 2018 original in multiple ways. While we could have predicted changes like a higher frame rate and the addition of new spider suits,... |
| Here's everything Google announced at its Pixel 5 event Posted: 30 Sep 2020 02:26 PM PDT  Between pre-release leaks and information Google shared ahead of today, there weren't many surprises at the company's Launch Night event. We knew the Pixel 5, Pixel 4a 5G, 2020 Chromecast and Nest Audio were coming, but that didn't make seeing Google... |
| How and where to pre-order the Google Pixel 5 Posted: 30 Sep 2020 01:05 PM PDT  After months of rumors, Google's Pixel 5 smartphone is here. The company announced the handset during an event this afternoon and, as we expected, it's quite different from the flagship smartphones we've seen as of late. Instead of introducing yet an... |
| Yale's smart robotic fabric is as flexible as you need it to be Posted: 30 Sep 2020 12:54 PM PDT  Soft robotics is a rapidly growing field with applications ranging from prosthetics to space exploration. Now a research team out of Yale University has taken the technology one step further with the invention of smart, robotic fabric that can change... |
| Google Photos for Android has a powerful new editor Posted: 30 Sep 2020 12:28 PM PDT  Android's machine learning renaissance is coming to the Photos app, company executives announced during Wednesday's gloriously brief Pixel 5 live stream event.To start, Google plans to augment its already useful image auto-enhance feature with machin... |
| Windows 10 for ARM will support 64-bit x64 apps through emulation Posted: 30 Sep 2020 12:14 PM PDT  There still aren't too many Windows 10 PCs or laptops on the market with ARM-based processors, but folks who do have those machines will soon be able to run 64-bit x64 apps on them. Microsoft says it will at last roll out 64x emulation to Windows Ins... |
| The Pixel 5 vs. the competition: Ultrawide cameras all around Posted: 30 Sep 2020 12:01 PM PDT  It's time for the fall phone launch season to begin and, unlike previous years, the first flagship out of the gate is the Pixel 5. At $599, it certainly undercuts its major competition on price. But how much power does Google's new handset actually o... |
| Google Chromecast (2020) hands-on: A helpful new remote and Assistant Posted: 30 Sep 2020 11:30 AM PDT  Seven years ago, Google launched the original Chromecast -- a $35 HDMI dongle that you could plug into any TV to get your streaming apps on a big screen. Since then, smart TVs, gaming consoles, set top boxes and other streaming gadgets have made watc... |
| Google's Pixel 5 includes 5G and an ultrawide camera for $699 Posted: 30 Sep 2020 11:22 AM PDT  It's October, so despite the weird year we're having, Google is hosting a (virtual) event to show off its latest smartphone, the Pixel 5. And yes, it has 5G connectivity on board. It's also a lot cheaper than last year's phone, starting at $699.As us... |
| Google's $499 Pixel 4a 5G is almost as powerful as the Pixel 5 Posted: 30 Sep 2020 11:21 AM PDT  As promised, Google is expanding the Pixel 4a family to include a 5G-capable model. The Pixel 4a 5G borrows features from both its namesake and the more expensive $699 Pixel 5 Google announced moments ago.At the heart of the 4a 5G is the Snapdragon 7... |
| Google's latest smart speaker is the $100 Nest Audio Posted: 30 Sep 2020 11:13 AM PDT  Google's Nest Audio was all but revealed already when it appeared in a Walmart a week ago, but now it's official. The company just announced its latest Google-powered speaker at its annual Pixel event. As you can tell from the pictures, the Nest Audi... |
| Google’s new Chromecast has a proper OS and remote control Posted: 30 Sep 2020 11:08 AM PDT  Google's original Chromecast is seven years old, and despite multiple iterations since, it still runs the basic Cast interface from 2013. Today, the Chromecast is getting its biggest update, with the introduction of a built-in OS called... Google TV.... |
| Google TV is back, and it runs on Android TV Posted: 30 Sep 2020 11:05 AM PDT  A year after it launched the original Chromecast, Google debuted Android TV with the Nexus Player in 2014. The OS eventually found its way onto devices by a dozen companies like Sony, TCL, Xiaomi, NVIDIA, Philips and Sharp, and offers a library of 6,... |
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