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Monthly Archives: August 2022
Image: Microsoft Microsoft’s official PC Game Pass Twitter account has been teasing the arrival of Death Stranding all week, and now it’s official: Death Stranding arrives on PC Game Pass on August 23rd. Spearheaded by Hideo Kojima, the developer best known for his work on the Metal Gear series, Death Stranding originally launched as a…
Microtraction, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in African startups at the pre-seed stage, is announcing that it has reached the first close of its second fund, Microtraction Community Limited. The fund doesn’t have a set target at the moment, the founding partners told TechCrunch, but it achieved the first close at $15 million. …
There’re plenty of tools out there competing to help people make their video calls breezier. Some, like voice transcription service Otter.ai, have been getting a boost from the COVID-19 pandemic and pulling in handsome investments. Now a brave new player called Airgram is charging into the race. Aside from transcribing Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft…
‘Beware in-app browsers’ is a good rule of thumb for any privacy conscious mobile app user — given the potential for an app to leverage its hold on user attention to snoop on what you’re looking at via browser software it also controls. But eyebrows are being raised over the behavior of TikTok’s in-app browser…
It’s been a long time since we set sail for Westeros, but the wait is almost over. On Sunday, House of the Dragon — the Game of Thrones prequel set 200 years before the events of the HBO mega-hit — will swoop its way onto our screens. Chances are you’ve seen some of the new…
You’ll find crumbs, dirt, dust and other debris everywhere, with one of our favorite leather wingback chairs accommodating quite a bit of it. Admittedly, we don’t clean it enough, which is kind of embarrassing, but it’s the reality we live in. Like many folk, we’re particularly time-poor in our household, and as a result cleaning…
Back at the Google IO 2022 developer conference in May, we heard that a premium Fitbit smartwatch running Wear OS is indeed on the way – and we just got a pretty big clue that this device is going to be launching sooner rather than later. The team at XDA Developers has been digging into…
India dropped its purchases of Russian crude in July by about 7.3% from June. Photo by ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP via Getty Images India cut its purchases of Russian crude in July and pivoted to Saudi oil for its cheaper prices. Its purchases of Russian oil dropped about 7.3% but increased its imports of Saudi crude by…
Good Friday morning! Jordan Parker Erb here, reporting to you from the Big Sky state. I’ve had a grand ole time in Montana, in part because I’m seeing my family and pets, but also because I got to drive around in a Tesla for the first time this week — but more on that in…