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Monthly Archives: August 2022
Image: Netflix Netflix introduces us to Cyberpunk: Edgerunners’ six title characters — David, Maine, Dorio, Kiwi, Pilar, and Rebecca — in a chaotic new trailer. The anime, which isn’t expected until September, expands on the Cyberpunk universe in a new standalone story that takes place in Night City. While I don’t set my expectations particularly…
The Xbox Series X is now fairly easy to get, the PS5 is not quite the same. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Back in June, Amazon began offering invite requests for an opportunity to buy the hard-to-get PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles — allowing anyone to try their luck without…
Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Once upon a time, phones such as the original Motorola Droid had interchangeable batteries. You could keep an extra charged battery on hand and swap them out when needed. It was a lot more convenient and lightweight than dragging around a heavy battery pack, and it kept the…
Image: Pinterest Today, Pinterest has released a new app on iOS called Shuffles — a collage-style social app where users can create a digital mood board and collaborate with others on the platform, TechCrunch reports. As of today, Shuffles is available via invite, but you can request to be on the app’s wait list. In…
Dude Perfect is just one of the “multiple” alternate streams that will be available. | Image: Amazon Beginning this season, Amazon Prime Video will be the exclusive home for the NFL’s Thursday Night Football. But if you don’t want to watch the main show featuring two of the biggest names in sports broadcasting, the company…
Enlarge / It’s quiet… too quiet… Over the weekend, players in the Destiny 2 community started to notice a game-breaking bug that could be activated just by sending in-game chat messages to other players. Bungie responded on Saturday by temporarily disabling all in-game chat while it investigates the issue. “The team is aware of the…
A large-scale study of Facebook data sheds new light on the ties between Americans — and how those relationships in turn shape economic outcomes. A research team led by Harvard economist Raj Chetty published the results today across two papers in the journal Nature, exploring how social connections lead to economic opportunity. The researchers examined…
Military vehicles carrying HHQ-9B surface-to-air missiles participate in a military parade at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on October 1, 2019, to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China. GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images The White House said China could respond in various ways to a potential Taiwan trip by…
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