Moving to a new area or working at a new job where you don’t know anybody can be seriously depressing, especially if you’re already introverted as it is. What are you supposed to do? Go sit at the bar by yourself? And talk to strangers? No thanks. Then comes the lightbulb idea: You can make…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Widgets! New fonts and colors! Emoji wallpaper! iOS 16 is finally giving the iPhone lock screen the attention it deserves. Apple‘s recent changes to the lock screen are more than skin deep as you can now link your lock screen to different focus modes. That means the settings you customize for each of the modes…
Remember how ridiculously high octane that Chris Hemsworth movie Extraction was? Well, it may have some competition. On Monday, Netflix dropped the trailer for Carter, Byung-gil Jung’s brutal thriller about a man (Joo Won) who wakes with no memory, but is told via an earpiece that he needs to transport a child to North Korea…
Elden Ring is mostly content to let players find their way into trouble and learn through failure. It’s evident right at the beginning: The starting area of Limgrave is situated immediately to the west of Caelid, a dangerous region that isn’t meant to be tackled until dozens of hours later. FromSoftware’s thoughtful map design subtly…
Is one Heardle a day not cutting it? There’s a nostalgic new clone for you. Heardle Decades takes the song-guessing Wordle variant to make individual music guessing games based on songs from the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. It’s not an official Heardle offshoot, so has nothing to do with Heardle‘s new owner, Spotify, but…
A recently-stolen database holding personally identifiable information on a billion Chinese citizens had been sitting online, unprotected by any credentials, and available for anyone who knew where to look, reports have claimed. The Wall Street Journal has said an investigation is currently underway to determine the circumstances leading up to the breach. Allegedly, the Alibaba…
Xbox players can jump into a bunch of classic Bethesda and id Software games for free right now, as Microsoft has rolled out a slate of new game previews for Xbox Insiders. If you’re signed up to Microsoft’s free beta platform, you can play The Elder Scrolls: Arena, The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall, Quake Champions, Wolfenstein…
Intel’s Raptor Lake flagship CPU has seen some further leaked benchmarks, and unlike the previous spillage, this is a juicier affair because they’re actual gaming tests. The game benchmarks come from the same source on Chinese video sharing website Bilibili who provided results for the likes of CineBench and Geekbench recently, as flagged up by @harukaze5719…
Some Fitbit Charge 5 users are having a rough time at the moment, with no fix in sight for a battery drain issue as well as previously-reported problems with the device’s Bluetooth connectivity. The battery drain issue first cropped up in 2021, as several people posted to Fitbit’s community forums complaining of the Fitbit Charge…
It’s like Radio 1’s Live Lounge (if you’re a Brit) or MTV’s Unplugged (if you’re old enough to remember the early ’90s) but this time, we get to enjoy it in Apple Music’s glorious, immersive, Dolby Atmos-enhanced Spatial Audio. What’s the deal? Good question – and if you’re an Apple Music subscriber, you need to keep…