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The Morning After: OnePlus is getting some photography help for its new flagship phone

Posted: 08 Mar 2021 04:55 AM PST

You might be excited to hear about the OnePlus 9 when it launches later this month, but OnePlus phones are rarely a surprise. The company has long suffered from a cat that's always getting out of the bag, with phone specs, renders and in-the-wild pho...

Google tests a beefed-up YouTube Android app for Chromecast

Posted: 08 Mar 2021 04:09 AM PST

Google might be working on a new version of YouTube for Android that significantly improves the Chromecast experience, 9to5Google has reported. Currently, casting to a Chromecast-connected TV using the YouTube app is a minimalistic experience, with y...

Comets may have seeded Earth with life-supporting carbon

Posted: 08 Mar 2021 04:01 AM PST

NASA's airborne telescope has made another major discovery just months after it confirmed the presence of water on the Moon's sunlit surfaces. SOFIA's latest find relates to the essence left by an icy comet that zipped past Earth in 2016...

Microsoft's $7.5 billion ZeniMax acquisition approved by US and EU regulators

Posted: 08 Mar 2021 02:50 AM PST

Microsoft's $7.5 billion acquisition of Bethesda parent ZeniMax Media has cleared its regulatory hurdles. On Friday, the European Commission (EC) quietly approved the deal without applying any conditions to the merger. It concluded that the pendi...

Porsche now owns almost a quarter of EV car maker Rimac

Posted: 08 Mar 2021 02:23 AM PST

Porsche has invested an additional €70 million ($83.3 million) in Rimac, boosting its stake in the hypercar manufacturer and EV component supplier from 15 to 24 percent, Rimac has announced. Porsche joins Hyundai as a major investor in Rimac, after t...

Super Nintendo World will open March 18th with strong COVID-19 measures

Posted: 08 Mar 2021 01:12 AM PST

After the planned February 4th launch was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Super Nintendo World will open on March 18th, Universal Studios Japan has announced. The park, located at Universal Studios in Osaka, will welcome a limited number of vis...

The OnePlus 9 series will debut with Hasselblad-tuned cameras on March 23rd

Posted: 07 Mar 2021 10:00 PM PST

OnePlus will unveil its latest flagship smartphones — the OnePlus 9 5G series — during a streaming launch event at 9 AM Eastern on March 23rd. And when those phones make their debut, they'll pack cameras tuned by 180-year-old Swedish camera maker...

China five-year plan aims for supremacy in AI, quantum computing

Posted: 07 Mar 2021 02:56 PM PST

China's tech industry has been hit hard by US trade battles and the economic uncertainties of the pandemic, but it's eager to bounce back in the relatively near future. According to the Wall Street Journal, the country used its annual party m...

'Watch Dogs: Legion' PC multiplayer delayed indefinitely due to bugs

Posted: 07 Mar 2021 01:33 PM PST

Watch Dogs: Legion's multiplayer mode is imminent for console players after months of delays, but PC gamers will have to wait a while longer. Kotaku reports that Ubisoft has delayed Legion's PC multiplayer indefinitely to address crucial bugs...

Russia is using online disinformation to trash rival COVID-19 vaccines

Posted: 07 Mar 2021 11:45 AM PST

Russia's internet disinformation efforts extend well beyond election interference. State Department officials talking to the Wall Street Journal say Russia is running a disinformation campaign using at least four online publications and a host of...

Xbox test brings Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge browser to consoles

Posted: 07 Mar 2021 10:27 AM PST

You might finally have a good reason to use the web browser on your console for more than the bare necessities. The Verge reports that Microsoft has started testing a version of its Chromium-based Edge browser on the Xbox One and Series X/S. Particip...

Russian, Chinese hackers may have stolen European vaccine data

Posted: 07 Mar 2021 09:19 AM PST

State-backed hackers' attempts to steal COVID-19 vaccine data might be farther-reaching than you think. According to Reuters, sources for Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant claim (subscription required) that Russia and China both launched cyberattacks...

Learn eight different languages with a lifetime subscription to Speakly

Posted: 07 Mar 2021 07:55 AM PST

The promise of speed and convenience is all too common in marketing copy, but few and far between are the tools that can actually deliver on that promise. Speakly is one of those services: by combining science and computational algorithms, the develo...

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