| YouTube finally delivers HDR videos on the Xbox One Posted: 22 Jan 2021 03:40 AM PST  You can finally watch YouTube videos in HDR on last-gen Xbox One S and One X consoles, along with the latest Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X models, according to Google. As spotted by Flat Panels HD and confirmed by Engadget, opening a YouTube HDR vi... |
| Touchless tech mimics the ability to ‘press’ an elevator button Posted: 22 Jan 2021 03:05 AM PST  In their COVID—19 information page, both the CDC and the WHO warn people against touching their faces with unwashed hands, since the virus can survive on surfaces. There's been a rise in the use of touchless technologies as a result, and Singaporean... |
| Tucows closes its once-popular software download site Posted: 22 Jan 2021 02:30 AM PST  It was inevitable, really. In the early days of the internet, Tucows was known as a reliable place to find and download new software. Today, however, most people are happy to use a modern App Store — Microsoft and Apple both run their own — or naviga... |
| The View40 is Honor's first phone after splitting from Huawei Posted: 22 Jan 2021 01:31 AM PST  Honor has unveiled the flagship View40 5G, its first phone since it was sold off by Huawei, Engadget Chinese has reported. Released in China as the V40, it could well come to Europe and elsewhere at a later date under the View brand. The V40's headli... |
| Google says it will disable Search in Australia if it's forced to pay for news Posted: 21 Jan 2021 09:43 PM PST  Google has been at odds with the Australian government ever since the latter started working on a mandatory code of conduct that would require Facebook, Google and others to pay news outlets for using their content. Now, according to The Sydney Morni... |
| 'Uncharted' movie release date slides to February 11th, 2022 Posted: 21 Jan 2021 06:47 PM PST  Word of an Uncharted movie started floating around even before the second game in the series came out. We've been talking about it since at least 2008, many years before filming supposedly wrapped in October of last year. However, in the era of COVID... |
| Alphabet will 'wind down' Loon's internet-broadcasting balloons Posted: 21 Jan 2021 05:43 PM PST  In 2013 Google shocked us by announcing Project Loon, an effort to distribute wireless connections from balloons floating 20km above the Earth. Now, as first reported by Wired, Google's parent company Alphabet is pulling the plug on it, apparently be... |
| Elon Musk announces $100 million prize for new carbon capture tech Posted: 21 Jan 2021 04:11 PM PST  Things we already know: The world is growing uncomfortably warm due to humanity's insistence on burning fossil fuels. Elon Musk is currently the wealthiest human on the planet. Yet for being among the wealthiest people on the planet, Musk's philanthr... |
| Intel's PC business is up 33 percent thanks to cheap notebooks Posted: 21 Jan 2021 03:27 PM PST  We already know that 2020 was a huge year for PC shipments, now Intel is confirming that report with explosive fourth quarter earnings results. The chipmaker says its PC business was up 33 percent compared to last year, with notebook revenue in parti... |
| 'Re:Verse' lets you play as your favorite Resident Evil character online Posted: 21 Jan 2021 02:57 PM PST  A playable demo of Resident Evil Village you can download today isn't only surprise Capcom had to share during its recent showcase. The publisher also announced Resident Evil Re:Verse, a new multiplayer game that pits some of the franchise's most ico... |
| 'Resident Evil Village' hits Xbox One, Series S/X, PS4, PS5 and PC May 7th Posted: 21 Jan 2021 02:42 PM PST  Resident Evil Village, the direct sequel to 2017's Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, will come out on May 7th, and it's hitting more platforms than first announced.Village will land on Xbox Series X, Series S, PlayStation 5 and PC, as first promised, but i... |
| Microsoft Edge will notify you if your passwords have been compromised Posted: 21 Jan 2021 02:23 PM PST  Even if you use a password manager and two-factor authentication, there's a good chance some of your login credentials have been exposed in the past thanks to hacks and leaks. Microsoft is introducing a new feature to Edge called Password Monitor so... |
| Watch Capcom's Resident Evil Showcase at 5PM ET Posted: 21 Jan 2021 01:31 PM PST  Capcom is about to show off some new gameplay footage for the latest installment of its venerated Resident Evil horror shooter franchise, "Resident Evil Village." The online event includes a tour of the village, guided by Brittany "@blondenerd" Bromb... |
| Instacart lays off 1,900 workers, including the 10 who formed a union Posted: 21 Jan 2021 01:25 PM PST  In a move first spotted by Motherboard, Instacart is laying off 1,877 workers who were classified as employees at the company. Among those included in the layoffs are 10 workers in Illinois who in 2020 were the first to unionize within the company. I... |
| President Biden names Jessica Rosenworcel acting FCC chair Posted: 21 Jan 2021 01:12 PM PST  President Joe Biden has named a new chair to head up the Federal Communications Commission. Jessica Rosenworcel, the FCC's leading Democrat, will serve as acting chairwoman, replacing Ajit Pai. Rosenworcel is known as defender of net neutrality polic... |
| Amazon can keep Parler's servers offline, judge rules Posted: 21 Jan 2021 12:36 PM PST  A judge has denied Parler's attempt to get Amazon Web Services to restore its service. A federal judge cited "dwindling slight" evidence for Parler's antitrust claims, as well as the dangers posed by "inflammatory rhetoric." The ruling is yet another... |
| Netflix picks up an animated movie from 'Into The Spider-Verse' producers Posted: 21 Jan 2021 11:41 AM PST  Netflix has added another movie to the mammoth slate of original films it's releasing this year. It scooped up the worldwide rights (excluding China) to animated flick The Mitchells vs. The Machines, which was previously called Connected.Sony Picture... |
| House oversight chair asks FBI to investigate Parler Posted: 21 Jan 2021 11:33 AM PST  Parler may still be (mostly) offline, but the company may face new investigations into its role in the deadly riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, the chair of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher W... |
| YouTube rolls out hashtag landing pages to all users Posted: 21 Jan 2021 10:20 AM PST  Since Twitter and Instagram helped popularize them, hashtags have been one of the consistent ways you've been able to navigate different platforms. But for as long as YouTube has been around, it's never really made extensive use of them. That's about... |
| 'Call of Duty: Warzone' is about to get a big esports push Posted: 21 Jan 2021 09:30 AM PST  The folks pulling the strings of the Call of Duty League have a singular goal in mind: grow. The CDL is expanding its Path to Pro system, boosting the production value on pre-recorded videos, and dabbling with new titles from the Call of Duty univers... |
| Facebook's Oversight Board will review Trump's suspension Posted: 21 Jan 2021 09:22 AM PST  Facebook's Oversight Board will decide whether to restore Donald Trump's access to that platform and Instagram. Both services locked the former president out of his accounts for 24 hours earlier this month over policy violations in the wake of the US... |
| Put Bernie Sanders almost anywhere with this Google Street View app Posted: 21 Jan 2021 09:11 AM PST  President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris might have been the headliners of Wednesday's inauguration, but Sen. Bernie Sanders stole the show just by sitting on a chair in his winter gear. A photo of an isolated, masked Sanders wearing mitt... |
| Spotify signs an exclusive podcast deal with filmmaker Ava DuVernay Posted: 21 Jan 2021 09:00 AM PST  Spotify has added another prominent creator to its podcast stable. The company has signed a multi-year deal with Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay, the director of Selma and 13th, to produce exclusive shows.DuVernay and her arts and social impac... |
| You can run Linux on an M1 Mac if you have the patience Posted: 21 Jan 2021 08:27 AM PST  Yes, you can natively run operating systems beyond macOS on Apple's M1 Macs — if you're willing to put in some extra work. As AppleInsider noted, the team at Corellium has outlined how it ported Ubuntu Linux to the M1 chip. While the M1 is a 64-bit A... |
| Russia bans 'Death Note' and other 'violent' anime Posted: 21 Jan 2021 08:15 AM PST  It seems a Russian court has started to scribble the names of anime series in a mysterious black notebook. A district court banned Death Note, Tokyo Ghoul and Inuyashiki on certain streaming websites over worries that teens are recreating violent act... |
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