Monthly Archives: October 2022

Social Media in Government: Benefits, Challenges, and Tactics

Social media and the government go together like peanut butter and jelly. Why? Because social media is an excellent place to communicate with constituents, launch campaigns, build awareness around initiatives, and is an essential tool in crisis communications. At Hootsuite, we work with many levels of government and fully understand how social media has risen…

It’s not just you — Slack says it’s having issues with threads, channels, and more

No, boss, I’m not slacking… and that’s the problem. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’ve been having some issues with Slack, you’re not alone — the service’s status page reports that “something’s not quite right” with messaging, apps, integrations, APIs, and connections. The issues, which seem to affect threads, channels, notifications…

Huge Elden Ring update will seemingly make players a lot harder to kill

Image: FromSoftware Elden Ring, the game that feels like it was released several years ago but was in fact launched just this February, has announced a massive update. According to Bandai Namco on the game’s website, the patch intends to “encourage more versatility in terms of gameplay” — if “encourage” also means “make you a…

Nvidia’s ‘priority access’ program is one way to get your hands on an RTX 4090

Some lucky shoppers will get to buy these early. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge In a recent post on the GeForce forums, an Nvidia community manager announced that the company is testing a new program called “verified priority access.” The program will give some potential shoppers the opportunity to reserve a GeForce…

Microsoft mixed reality headsets nauseate soldiers in US Army testing

Enlarge / The US Army is testing a custom headset based off of Microsoft’s HoloLens. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft and the US Army are continuing to explore how to make mixed reality an aid rather than a hindrance for soldiers. A US Army report that Bloomberg and Business Insider claim to have accessed indicates that Microsoft’s HoloLens-based headsets,…