COURTESY OF NETFLIX Earlier this year, Netflix dropped a Dragon Age-shaped bomb on me when it announced that it was producing a new miniseries in collaboration with BioWare taking place in the Dragon Age universe. That miniseries, Dragon Age: Absolution, is almost here, due to hit the streaming service on December 9th, and we have…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Image: KFC Fast food chain KFC sent customers in Germany a message encouraging them to “treat [themselves]” to the restaurant’s food to mark the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the coordinated anti-Jewish attacks by the Nazi Party many consider to be the beginning of the Holocaust. BITTE WAS SOLL ICH MIR GÖNNEN? @KFCDeutschland pic.twitter.com/jNVPmbawH8 — Björn (@BjrnHfer)…
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk sent his first email to Twitter employees on Wednesday evening, warning of a “challenging economic climate” ahead and the need for the company to launch Twitter Blue verified subscriptions to help “survive the upcoming economic downturn.” After laying off half of Twitter’s workforce and…
Canon’s webcam software supports 42 different camera models, including the G7X Mark III pictured here. | Image: Canon It felt like companies were offering some goodwill during the pandemic when they released free software that allowed a camera you already own to work as a webcam, but now, Canon’s looking for some of that sweet…
Over the last 15 years, the United States Supreme Court has mutated patent eligibility into an impossibly complex and confusing mess. The Court’s current eligibility test strays far from Congress’s original intent, erodes trust in predictability, and has left many remarking that innovation in the United States is falling behind due to uncertainty of patent…
Enlarge / The Play Games available for Windows will often walk you through your uncommon keyboard/mouse controls—real classy-like, sometimes. (credit: AKPublish pty ltd / Kevin Purdy) First Microsoft and Amazon conspired to make Android on Windows happen, and now Google’s staking its own claim. Starting today, some US Windows users can try a beta of…
Enlarge / Rewind reportedly lets you search your Mac’s usage history for what you’ve seen, said, or heard. (credit: Rewind AI) Yesterday, a company called Rewind AI announced a self-titled software product for Macs with Apple Silicon that reportedly keeps a highly compressed, searchable record of everything you do locally on your Mac and lets…
Enlarge (credit: Scharon Harding) It’s no secret that mechanical keyboards provide some of the best tactile typing experiences available. It’s also not a secret that wireless keyboards can be a productivity boon, reducing workspace clutter and easily connecting with numerous device types. Thankfully, wireless mechanical keyboard selection has grown so much in recent years that…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto) Elon Musk reportedly told Twitter staff in an email Wednesday that he is banning remote work and that any exceptions to the ban must be approved by Musk himself on a case-by-case basis. The new rules “will expect employees to be in the office for at least 40 hours…
Enlarge / Don’t let the blue check mark fool you; “Nintendoofus” is not an official account… Twitter has begun rolling out its $8-a-month Twitter Blue subscriptions, complete with “verified” checkmarks for paid users. But the social network is also fighting to suspend a wave of accounts that are exploiting confusion over those checkmarks, imitating major…