Image: Blizzard Everybody mark your calendars: instead of the Christmas holiday season, it’s gonna be Mei. After a brief hiatus to fix a glitch that allowed Mei’s ice wall to boost players to places they shouldn’t be, today’s Overwatch 2 update added her back to the game alongside a host of other hero tweaks and…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Roku has announced that it’s laying off 200 US employees, or around 7 percent of its workforce, according to Variety. According to the company’s statement, the cuts are meant to reduce its “headcount expenses” by around 5 percent as it tries to spend less on operations in the…
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Wednesday launched the Women’s Entrepreneurship (WE) initiative to “inspire women and tap their potential to meaningfully increase equity, job creation, and economic prosperity.” The initiative is a collaborative effort with the United States Department of Commerce. “Unleashing the potential of women entrepreneurs is good for business,…
Enlarge / Winding up to catch a ninth (!) generation of Pokémon. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) The Pokémon franchise has been nudging closer and closer to a fully open world since Sword and Shield appeared on the Switch in 2019. Those games and their DLC packs introduced a few dedicated free-range areas where you could roam around…
Enlarge / Simulation of two black holes poised on the verge of a collision. (credit: Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) project) The advent of gravitational wave detectors—there are now four of them—has produced a steady flow of black hole mergers. As far as we can tell, almost all of them have behaved exactly as we would…
Experts suggest Qatar’s World Cup attendants use a burner phone. Deposit Photos The FIFA 2022 World Cup is set to begin in a matter of days, but European cybersecurity experts are urging sports fans traveling to Qatar to think twice before downloading the event’s official event apps. Authorities from Germany, Norway, and France have all…
Hyundai revealed Thursday a hydrogen fuel cell hybrid concept vehicle called the N Vision 74 that the company says demonstrates the performance sub-brand’s vision for electrification. The Hyundai N sub-brand, the performance-focused arm of the automaker, has been applied to a range of production vehicles since its founding in 2015 from the Hyundai Veloster N…
Stellantis plans to “explore alternative business models,” such as subscriptions and car sharing, when it launches its all-electric Fiat 500e in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2024, Fiat CEO Olivier Francois told TechCrunch at the 2022 Los Angeles Auto Show. The exec did not rule out limiting the 500e’s U.S. launch entirely to…
SAVE 53%: As of Nov. 17, Samsung‘s Galaxy Buds Live are on sale for only $79.99, which is a 53% discount from their MSRP of $169.99. Even though they may be old news when compared to the Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro, you really can’t beat the Galaxy Buds Live when it comes to price and…
We’ve gathered the best Walmart deals to shop on Nov. 17 — here are our top picks: BEST FLOOR CARE DEAL: Dyson V10 Absolute Cordless Vacuum — $399.99 $599.99 (save $200) BEST KITCHEN DEAL: Ninja OL501 Foodi 6.5 Qt. 14-in-1 Pressure Cooker — $129.50 $279.99 (save $150.49) BEST TECH DEAL: Samsung Galaxy Buds Live — $69…