In something out of Black Mirror meets Queen’s Gambit, a chess robot accidentally broke the finger of its seven-year old opponent during an exhibition in Moscow, The Guardian reported. The child apparently moved his piece too soon and the robot grabbed his finger and squeezed it, causing a fracture before help could arrive. “The robot…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Daredevil will return to our TV screens in spring 2024 with Disney+ and Marvel Studios to make a new season. Called Daredevil: Born Again, it will once again pit the man without fear against Kingpin in a show more closely tied into the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Here’s everything we know about it so far….
Netflix is rolling out an update for its iPhone and iPad apps which will allow new subscribers to choose a plan and subscribe through a link to its own website. In previous years, it’s a feature Apple wouldn’t allow Netflix to take advantage of, since it would mean circumventing the in-app purchase link that works…
Despite Halo Infinite being unsupported on Steam Deck due to “anti-cheat”, by using a new driver one owner has managed to get Master Chief’s latest outing up and running on the portable PC. Sharing some gameplay on reddit, DanTheBloke (via exputer) explained that the latest update to Proton GE has allowed them to get online…
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 has leaked a week before its release date. It’s officially due out on 29th July on Nintendo’s Switch, but already some players have got their hands on copies and are leaking spoilers across the internet. What’s more, a ROM of the entire game has leaked, making the game playable on the Steam…
If you’re choosing a smartphone camera then you might have noticed that some boast a feature called OIS. We’re here to explain exactly what that is. There are many different features you’ve got to get to grips with when comparing the quality of smartphone cameras, and one of these is named Optical Image Stabilisation, or…
Two rumored Xiaomi phones have been described in more detail in TENAA certifications. The two phones are Xiaomi’s second foldable phone and what could be its first phone with a 200MP camera. The Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 (22061218C) will have 12GB of RAM and either 512GB or 1TB storage, according to the TENAA listing. This…
A stock photo of a chess-playing robot in Shanghai — unconnected to this incident. | Photo by Gao Yuwen/VCG via Getty Images A chess robot broke the finger of a seven-year-old boy playing in a tournament in Russia, according to reports from local news outlets (seen via The Guardian). The incident happened last week at…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has settled its lawsuit with Chicago over the city’s so-called “Netflix tax,” according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter. The tax placed a 9 percent levy on “amusements that are delivered electronically” — essentially targeting streaming services. The exact terms of the settlement weren’t made public….
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