Three characters from New Tales from the Borderlands. | Image: Gearbox via Xbox Wire Gearbox’s new Tales from the Borderlands game, which is just called New Tales from the Borderlands, will be released on October 21st, the studio announced Tuesday at the Gamescom Opening Night Live event. The game will be available on PlayStation, Xbox,…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
During Gamescom’s Opening Night Live event, Sonic Frontiers got a release date and a new trailer. What was previously announced as winter 2022 now has a firm date of November 8th, making it yet another unfortunate game that has to share a release month with God of War: Ragnarok. The trailer features Sonic rescuing a…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), in a precedential decision issued today, affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) finding that claims to a computer system for identifying eligibility for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits are invalid as patent ineligible. The opinion was authored by Judge Chen. The case…
Enlarge (credit: simonkr | Getty Images) The past two election cycles have seen an explosion of attention given to “echo chambers,” or communities where a narrow set of views makes people less likely to challenge their own opinions. Much of this concern has focused on the rise of social media, which has radically transformed the…
Enlarge / NASA’s SLS rocket will power the Artemis I mission to the Moon. (credit: NASA) NASA’s imminent launch of the Artemis I mission to the Moon—the US space agency’s first in a series of missions to return humans to deep space—will garner widespread attention in the United States and abroad. No humans have launched…
Amanda Reed Smartwatches are a great way to look at the time, send messages, and get health insights while keeping your phone in your pocket. The Amazfit Bip U Pro, a far more affordable alternative to the Apple Watch, is on sale for $56.99 on Amazon, down from $69.99. Soon the summer heat will break,…
Do you use a period tracking app? See how it ranks privacy-wise in this report. DEPOSIT PHOTOS In a report released last week, Mozilla, makers of the privacy-focused browser Firefox, found that 18 out of 25 reproductive health apps and wearable devices that it investigated had insecure, insufficient, or outright exploitative privacy and security practices….
Meta, formerly Facebook, has officially rolled out what it’s calling Meta accounts and Meta Horizon Profiles. The global launch will be gradual, but both “accounts” are to be used in place of the personal social media account logins — Facebook and Instagram — once used to log in to the company’s virtual reality (VR) system. …
In the wake of major crypto firms Celsius and Voyager freezing assets and filing for bankruptcy, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler took to The Wall Street Journal’s op-ed pages to reiterate that securities laws still apply to new technologies like digital assets. But some in the crypto industry have expressed frustration about…
Google may be working on a handful of new features for its live TV streaming service, YouTube TV. According to Protocol, the feature is called “Mosaic Mode” and would let viewers watch up to four live streams at the same time. Google did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment. The company declined to…