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Monthly Archives: August 2022
The starlight version of the M2-powered MacBook Air is $100 off at B&H Photo and Amazon. | Image: Apple Heading back to school soon? If you’re in the market for a new laptop, you can save $100 on Apple’s new M2-powered MacBook Air, which is our top pick for most people when it comes to…
Supergiant Games If you have a Game Pass subscription and have somehow, inexplicably, never gotten around to playing what was arguably the best game of 2020, your time is running out. Xbox has announced that Hades, along with a treasure trove of games — some of the best on the service — are leaving on…
Google’s Pixel 6 Pro. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Google announced on August 15th, 2022, that it would begin rolling out the Android 13 update to its portfolio of Pixel devices. As is usual with Android updates, however, this doesn’t mean that even if you have a qualifying Pixel device (a Pixel…
Former Amazon CEO and current Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos. (credit: Dan Farber) Amazon has accused the US Federal Trade Commission of harassing its top executives, including founder Jeff Bezos and chief executive Andy Jassy, as part of a probe into the ecommerce group’s Prime membership scheme. Since March 2021, the regulator has been investigating whether…
Enlarge (credit: P. Gyory et al., 2022) What’s a frustrated game designer to do when stuck at home during a global pandemic? If that designer is Peter Gyory, a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, you figure out how to make a game out of the piles of discarded cardboard lying around the…
Enlarge (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Of all the species that humanity has wiped off the face of the Earth, the thylacine is possibly the most tragic loss. A wolf-sized marsupial sometimes called the Tasmanian tiger, the thylacine met its end in part because the government paid its citizens a bounty for every animal killed. That end…
Omicron is responsible for much of this summers new cases. DepositPhotos Health officials in the UK have just made the country the first to approve a new bivalent COVID-19 vaccine that targets both the omicron variant and original virus. The Biden administration is currently working on its own booster campaign for next month and the…
The sharpest heat increase will be felt in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Pexels This summer is already marked by megadroughts and extreme heat waves across the globe. A new report on extreme heat events from the First Street Foundation, a New York-based nonprofit that studies risks associated with climate change, shows how this summer is just the beginning. …
Apple Maps, Books, and Podcasts could be the next apps to be hit with ads. Deposit Photos Last year, Apple introduced a new feature within its iOS 14.5 update called “App Tracking Transparency.” The feature allows users a simple way to finally opt out of targeted, in-app ad campaigns. Since then, Apple estimates that roughly…