An eye-catching Superman demo, made in Unreal Engine 5 and widely circulated online earlier this year, has been taken and sold on Steam as an $11 game. The original proof-of-concept demo – titled A Superman Style Flight Experience (UE5) – was created by Toybox Games’ Tyson Butler-Boschma, utilising the City Sample from Epic Games’ The…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Uplift your culinary skills even more with the KitchenAid 7 Quart Bowl-Lift Stand Mixer. This mixer comes with 2x the power in the bowl than the Tilt Head Stand Mixer. Additionally, the professional design packs a 3-point locking bowl for mixing heavy and dense ingredients. It also includes 11 distinct speeds. So no matter if…
Google has reportedly paid almost $400 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging the company tracked user locations, even when they had made efforts to turn the feature off. The reported $391.5m settlement (via New York Times) is almost five years in the making and comes after an Associated Press investigation found that Google…
Apple today released a new firmware update designed for its AirTag item trackers, with the firmware featuring an updated build number of 2A24e, up from the 1A301 firmware that was released back in April. Apple does not provide release notes for AirTag updates, so we do not know what’s new in this update. It is…
The Orion capsule and Space Launch System on November 13th, 2022. | Photo by Red Huber/Getty Images NASA’s Artemis I mission is still set to launch this week after its Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft were buffeted by high winds during Hurricane Nicole. The rocket and spacecraft suffered only “very minor damage,” according…
The new Archer BE900 has a touchscreen and LED lights that can display stats and fun things like emoji. | Image: TP-Link Before you can even get tired of hearing about Wi-Fi 6 and 6E, TP-Link is announcing a slew of new “world’s first” Wi-Fi 7 routers based on the upcoming IEEE specification. The company…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today issued a precedential decision affirming the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) on two mixed inter partes review (IPR) decisions involving American National Manufacturing and Sleep Number Corp. that found some, but not all, of the challenged claims not unpatentable. The IPRs on appeal…
Enlarge (credit: PETER PARKS / Contributor | AFP) Elon Musk has seemingly decided that one way to inspire confidence in Twitter as an advertising platform is to become an advertiser himself. Yesterday, CNBC reported that SpaceX purchased one of Twitter’s premium advertising packages—when typically SpaceX rarely invests in Twitter advertising—as Musk’s other company plans to…
(credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Labs) Last week, researchers published the results of a clinical trial that used CRISPR gene editing to create a large population of cancer-targeting immune cells. The trial was short, and the reprogrammed immune cells weren’t especially effective against the cancer. But the technology, or something similar, is likely to be used…
Amazon’s Sparrow robot could potentially rollout as early as next year. Amazon Last Thursday, Amazon announced the introduction of Sparrow, its first robotic system designed to identify, select, and handle millions of individual warehouse inventory items. At the same time, Sparrow supposedly minimizing employees’ repetitive tasks and improving worker safety. Utilizing a combination of AI,…