It’s an interesting time for the Call of Duty franchise – its latest instalment, Modern Warfare 2, is smashing records and has already made publisher Activision more than $1 billion since release, even before its microtransaction store goes live. However, there are strong rumours that 2023 will be the first time the franchise doesn’t get…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Today brings our final big information dollop for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet ahead of their release next week – and our first look at a feature in the game which has remained under wraps until now. Each game will feature a separate book of expedition records with rare Pokémon to track down, letting you retrace…
Apple in October introduced an updated version of the Apple TV 4K, which is available as of today. We picked one up to take a look at the new features and to determine whether it’s worth the upgrade for MacRumors readers who already have an Apple TV 4K. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks On November 4, just hours after Elon Musk fired half of the 7,500 employees previously working at Twitter, some people…
Photo by Loren Grush / The Verge A vocal Tesla critic is alleging that Twitter rejected an anti-Tesla ad from his safety advocacy group, claiming that the ad violates the company’s policy against “political” advertising. The Dawn Project, an anti-Tesla advocacy group fronted by software developer Dan O’Dowd, claims that Twitter rejected its attempts to…
Enlarge (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) Porsche provided a flight from DC to Milan and back, plus two nights in a hotel so we could see its new Formula E car, as well as get briefed on VW Group’s next EV platform, which you’ll be able to read about next week. Ars does not accept paid editorial…
TFW all those tweets just disappear. Cottonbro / Pexels There are lots of reasons why you’d want to delete some or all of your tweets. You might want to make yourself look more professional to potential employers, or maybe you’re unsure about Twitter’s direction after the platform’s recent ownership change. Whatever your reason, deleting tweets…
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Josie Norton TEAM USA basketball players had at least one thing in common between 1936 and 1976: They all wore high-top Chuck Taylor All-Stars. A blend of flat rubber soles and canvas that rises above the ankle, these sneakers dominated the hardwood and other American athletics until the debut of more tech-y performance trainers. The heir…
As Twitter users fret over the direction that new owner Elon Musk is taking the company, masses of users have hopped over to Mastodon, an open-source Twitter alternative. Since October 27, when the SpaceX and Tesla CEO formalized his Twitter takeover, Mastodon has gained nearly 500,000 new users, effectively doubling its user base. But what…