Sailors and Marines from USS Arlington and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit train with the Greek military on May 17, 2022. US Navy photo US sailors and Marines aboard USS Arlington visited the Greek port of Alexandroupoli in late May. They appeared to enjoy their stay — local media reported that they overwhelmed many restaurants. The…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
With NBA 2K23’s 9th September release date rapidly approaching, publisher 2K has shared a closer look at this latest series instalment’s new features – including a new trailer – playing up the concept of “authenticity” across its defensive and offensive tool kit. It’s an extensive list of new features, as detailed in a lengthy new…
There’s something about puzzle-based games. They get you thinking outside the box and make you use your knowledge in ways you normally wouldn’t. In fact, they’re like stretches for the brain, and—just like those yoga poses—they’re energizing and feel-good. Puzzles feature large in this week’s Top Games of the Week blog, with quiz-based word puzzles…
Scale up your rosin production with the ROSINBOMB M-60. This rosin extractor lets you easily and safely create high-quality essential oils at home. Even better, its patent-pending technology enables continuous pressing, so you don’t have to stop and scrape. You want to increase your homemade rosin extract production, and who could blame you? This cannabis…
OnePlus unveiled the 10T today, a phone that will sit alongside the 10 Pro in the company’s portfolio as it’s not a successor to that model, but more of a weird side-grade, with some pluses but also some minuses. While that may be rather confusing, what’s not is the pricing – the 10T is the…
At a press conference last week, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urged the country to conserve energy in every way possible, including taking off ties to stay cool. | Photo By Eduardo Parra/Europa Press via Getty Images As Europe grapples with a scorching summer and skyrocketing energy prices, Spain has become the latest government to…
Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge Luxury electric vehicle maker Lucid Motors is slashing its production forecast for 2022 for the second time this year. The Newark, California-based company announced it was revising its production expectations to between 6,000 and 7,000 vehicles. Lucid originally said it would make 20,000 vehicles in 2022, but that…
This morning, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2022, S.4734, which would amend the U.S. Patent Act to clarify the application of 35 U.S.C. Section 101 to certain technologies. While the bill was welcomed by many in the intellectual property (IP) community, since it would abrogate or weaken many of…
Enlarge / Former Google engineer Blake Lemoine. (credit: Getty Images | Washington Post) Google has fired Blake Lemoine, the software engineer who was previously put on paid leave after claiming the company’s LaMDA chatbot is sentient. Google said Lemoine, who worked in the company’s Responsible AI unit, violated data security policies. “If an employee shares…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Diy13) Attorneys general from all 50 states have created an Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force “to investigate and take legal action against the telecommunications companies responsible for bringing a majority of foreign robocalls into the United States,” they announced yesterday. In the task force’s first action, it “issued 20 civil investigative…