Disney Plus’ convenient feature is an excessively bright intrusion. | Screenshot: Disney Plus Disney Plus, I hate your damn Skip Intro feature, and I wish I could stop its annoying, bright, immersion-breaking icon from popping up at the start of every show. It’s assaulting my eyes every week when I sit down to watch Andor,…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
The ZV-1F’s tiny wind screen is included with the purchase. | Image: Sony Sony has announced a new point-and-shoot camera centered on vlogging, and it is targeted at beginners with a low price point. The ZV-1F is an offshoot of its ZV-1 camera from 2020, but unlike that model, it’s not a twist on the…
Adderall is hard to find. | Image: Patrick Mallahan III For weeks, pharmacists around the United States have been struggling to fill prescriptions for Adderall, and on Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration confirmed the nationwide shortage. “There is not sufficient supply to continue to meet US market demand,” the agency said in a statement….
The game will be available on Steam and the Epic Games Store. | Image: Sony Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales for PC will be released on November 18th, Insomniac Games announced on Thursday. You can preorder the game now on Steam and the Epic Games Store for $49.99. Similar to Sony’s other PC ports, Miles Morales…
Kristen Radtke / The Verge Soon, Apple Card users will be able to open a “new high-yield Savings account,” Apple says. There’s just one hitch: Apple won’t say what interest rate it’s offering. There’s also no specific timeline for when consumers can access these savings accounts. Apple has been moving into fintech with the Apple…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today issued a precedential decision in part reversing and in part affirming a district court’s dismissal of an inventor’s patent infringement suit against Google under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure12(b)(6). Judge Hughes dissented in part from the majority’s opinion, which was authored by Judge Stoll,…
Enlarge / Microsoft wanted people to have zero reasons not to upgrade to Windows 95. That meant making sure SimCity Classic worked, with some memory-reading workarounds. (credit: Chris Hsia / Flickr) It’s still possible to learn a lot of interesting things about old operating systems. Sometimes those things were documented, or at least hinted at,…
Enlarge / Nick Clegg, Meta’s vice president of global policy. (credit: NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto) When adult entertainers initially filed a lawsuit alleging that OnlyFans bribed Meta to block competitors on Instagram by flagging their content as terrorism, it was not clear who at Meta was being accused of accepting bribes. That changed this…
Brandt Ranj / Popular Science. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Videoconferencing has become a weekly (if not daily) part of the lives of millions of people, which is why having a good webcam is essential. The camera built into the lid of a laptop…
The deflated skin may have been key in allowing the dinosaur corpse to mummify. Paleoart by Becky Barnes, CC-BY 4.0 In case a tarantula nebula and a skeleton galaxy weren’t enough spookiness for one Halloween, scientists are learning more about dinosaur mummies. About 67 million years ago, a duck billed dinosaur called Edmontosaurus was going…