This year’s Meta Connect was all about the Quest Pro, but the company shared a handful of products and updates that also deserve attention. Beyond introducing a new virtual reality device, Meta detailed all the ways it was trying to expand the metaverse: Through partnerships with other tech companies, licensing deals with media conglomerates, and…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
No gaming setup is complete without a great monitor, and great monitors come from those who know exactly what gamers need from their setup. GIGABYTE has been building some of the best gaming hardware for decades, so it was only natural that they would create some of the best gaming monitors on the market. GIGABYTE…
Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, kicked off Cloud Next 2022 by promising to provide the most open, extensible and robust data cloud.Read MoreRead More
The star of Tuesday’s Meta Connect, the so-called “state of the union” for the company formerly known as Facebook, was Meta Quest Pro. Meta’s newest virtual-reality headset clocks in at a whopping $1,499.99. That’s a significant price jump from its previous iteration, Meta Quest 2, which could be yours for $399.99—not exactly cheap, but still…
AirConsole running on BMW’s latest curved display. | Image: BMW BMW is the latest automaker trying to get gaming to happen on vehicle infotainment screens while you’re charging or otherwise waiting around in your car. The company plans to add AirConsole, a party game service that normally runs on devices like Android TV or PC,…
The United Negro College Fund and Deloitte Digital have embarked on an ambitious effort to reimagine online education for historically Black colleges and universities. Here’s how they’re leveraging technology to put community at the center of the online HBCU experience.Read More
Last month, London’s National History Museum announced the photographers who were “highly commended” in their annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition: a collection of stunning, and occasionally harrowing, images of nature worldwide. Today, the winners of the competition are being crowned. Photographers from around the globe are being commended for capturing the depths of…
Gen Xers’ share of total household wealth is barely half of that held by baby boomers, and impacts brought on by the coronavirus pandemic haven’t helped this financially unstable cohort. In the Gen X amid the Pandemic Report, Insider Intelligence assesses US Gen Xers’ finances and how they’ve been affected by the pandemic. Do you work…
Karine Aigner/Wildlife Photographer of the Year The London Natural History Museum announced the 2022 winners of its Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest. The 20 winners were selected from more than 38,000 entries. The winning photos include a frenzied ball of bees, a dancing sea star, and the brushy mouth of a whale. As a…
Developer Volition has detailed its Saints Row reboot’s first major update, saying that while it would have “preferred to be talking about roadmaps and expansions” at this juncture, it will initially be prioritising “improvements over new features”. Saints Row released to a middling reception in August, with its enjoyable open-world zaniness rather dampened by its…