As consumer social apps shift their focus to video for social expression and adopt more creative tools, like those for collage-making, Google Photos’ often more utilitarian app will now do the same. The company today announced an upgrade to Google Photos and its app for mobile devices that will better highlight users’ videos, create visual…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
A staff member at Northeastern University’s Holmes Hall was injured after opening an explosive package, the Boston Police Department reports. Holmes Hall is home to the university’s virtual reality center. Federal law enforcement sources told CNN that the package included a “rambling note” that disparaged Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the relationship between academia and…
Price-drops on computers and tablets, headphones, and smartwatches are included in the best deals on Sept. 14: BEST OVERALL DEAL: Samsung Galaxy Tab Active PRO (WiFi, LTE unlocked) — $499.99 $849.99 (save $350) BEST AUDIO DEAL: Bose QuietComfort 45 Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones – $249 $329 (save $80) BEST SMARTWATCH DEAL: Apple Watch Series 7 — starting…
You’ve got to give Brian Baumgartner credit— my guy really knows how to cash-in on an opportunity. I have no idea if the actor can make a decent chili, but because he played Kevin Malone in The Office, Baumgartner nabbed a book deal for chili recipes. Great hustle if you can get it. The book,…
Nvidia’s RTX 4070 may not be among the first batch of next-gen GPUs released, and if the rumor mill is right, we’ll get two different spins on the RTX 4080 arriving as well as the flagship RTX 4090. The latest chatter from the grapevine on Lovelace comes from multiple sources who VideoCardz spoke to, combined…
Temporally challenged PS5 shooter Deathloop looks set to hit Xbox consoles soon, marking an end to its PlayStation console exclusivity. A year after Deathloop launched as a PS5 timed exclusive, an advert for the game has appeared on the Xbox Series X|S home screen. In the ‘Store’ section of the dashboard, a tile shows a…
Beginning today, Memories on Google Photos will be getting a variety of cinematic-like changes that Google calls “the biggest update… since [the feature’s] launch”. Memories can be considered Google’s answer to Snapchat Stories; short videos made from pictures on your Photos account, although they don’t disappear. For the update, the focus is on fostering creativity…
European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen. Twitter/European Commission The European Commission wants to raise €140 billion ($139.7 billion) in windfall taxes from energy companies. The European Union’s executive arm wants to impose such a levy on low-cost electricity producers. Member states would use the money to aid consumers and businesses contending with high electricity…
Lauren Emily Whalen Seven years ago, I left my full-time job and pursued a few side-hustles. One was figure modeling. I pose nude for art studios and schools for $20 to $25 an hour. It’s been great for my body image. After an eight-week posing session, one artist even gave me her finished oil painting…
A Russian Su-27. RAF Two of Russia’s most modern fighters have led its air war over Ukraine: the Su-30SM and the Su-35S. They share a lineage with the large and powerful Su-27 jet that entered service late in the Cold War. Here’s how the various models of those Flankers have performed during the war so…