It’s Saturday, and you know what that means for Quordle players! Not much, because there’s a new game every day! Today’s is a little tricky, because a common strategic hiccup in Quordle gameplay is unusually persistent in today’s puzzle. Is that vague? Good. I don’t want to give anything away in this opening paragraph. Well,…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Full spoilers follow for The Rings of Power episode 3. The Rings of Power got off to an intriguing and meticulously paced start when it finally debuted on Prime Video on September 2. Amazon’s live-action Lord of the Rings adaptation spent much of its opening two episodes – read our spoiler-free review if you haven’t…
The fight to be the best video conferencing platform now has a new competitor after RingCentral launched new AI capabilities that it hopes will improve accessibility and make video calling more inclusive. The company already boasts a range of communications, video meeting, and collaboration tools, which it is says are now being improved in response…
The US government plans to make it easier for American firms to participate in international standards activities by relaxing restrictions on sharing technology with ‘blacklisted’ firms such as Huawei. Washington blacklisted Huawei on national security grounds back in 2019, preventing any US firm from doing business with it unless they were able to obtain a…
Nvidia’s RTX 4090 graphics card appeared in some leaked renders a couple of days back, but it turns out these are fakes – and indeed the Twitter account which shared them is a complete work of fiction. So, what’s the story here? The account in question, @QbitLeaks, posted the renders which were then flagged up…
It’s high fantasy season on streamers right now, with the likes of House of the Dragon and The Rings of Power dominating most of the cultural conversation – but if swords and sandals aren’t your thing, this weekend’s arrivals should provide some welcome respite. Leading the charge over the next few days is Pinocchio on…
Meta will soon make the Oculus Quest 2’s experimental 120Hz refresh rate option a fully-fledged feature An official date hasn’t been announced yet, but the change to the VR headset will most likely come in the next Oculus Quest 2 update. Whenever it does arrive, the roughly year-old setting will go from optional to something…
Cisco has said it won’t be issuing any further updates for three vulnerable routers which could apparently allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication controls and access the IPSec VPN network. Customers of the networking giant should check out if their set-ups include the RV110W Wireless-N VPN Firewall, the RV130 VPN Router, the RV130W…
Users of Microsoft Outlook will soon be able to customize their interface with a nod to the past thanks to a new update. The email service will soon support two new types of “ribbons” – the menu bar where options and tools are displayed. The two new ribbon types are named “simplified” and “classic”, and…
Another victory has been claimed in the (mostly quiet these days, actually) HDR format battles – Amazon Prime Video has begun to support Dolby Vision HDR. Previously, Prime Video had used the rival HDR10+ format, while Dolby Vision is used by… basically every other streaming service, including Netflix and Disney Plus. However, there are two…