About three hours into my preview of Diablo IV, I stumble upon the body of a dead priest. The discovery adds a quest to my journal to visit nearby Margrave. A short while later, I find a small village worn down by constant snowfall and all the monsters and bandits that lurk outside its palisade…
Monthly Archives: December 2022
A US government attempt to compensate publishers for web links has fallen apart, as Congress has cut the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) from the annual national defense spending bill. The measure would have made temporary exceptions to antitrust law letting media outlets negotiate revenue sharing deals, such as receiving a cut of ad…
Google Maps, we’d literally be lost without it. But, aside from navigating from one destination to another, there are loads of handy features in the app. One such feature is the ability to drop a pin. This is extremely useful when you’re trying to direct someone to a remote location, that doesn’t have a street…
Thanks to a recent change in Android 13 for Pixel phones, when a user toggles Airplane mode, you can now have it so that your WiFi connection will stay put. Before this recent change, Airplane mode would disable your cell connection and WiFi connection, but now, you can choose what happens. To get this up…
I had my doubts. I had questions circling in my head since I first played Diablo 4 at BlizzCon 2019 – was it really that long ago? – and I’ve had questions about the need for a big new Diablo at all. But after 10 hours with it from the beginning of the game, I…
Cast your mind back to the early 90s and you may recall two aliens with a love for funk music crash landing on earth. These aliens were ToeJam and Earl, and their initial crash landing here (all via the Sega Mega Drive) resulted in their names being elevated to somewhat of a cult status in…
Google’s Threat Analysis Group describes a new 0-day vulnerability attributed to North Korean government-backed actors known as APT37. Read More
From beauty product to bot. Zechen Xiong/Youtube Although many modern robots often take inspiration from the natural world around us, one of the newest examples derives its movement from a small, ubiquitous styling option: the common hair clip. Designed by scientists at Columbia University and subsequently highlighted by New Atlas, the research team recently…
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single topic, think about a question, and unpack the rest. This week, Natasha chatted with Alex about ego, how recent news from…
Auditing firm Mazars has released a report about Binance’s BTC reserves. The auditing firm has reached the same conclusion as Binance itself. As of November November 22 at 23:59 UTC, Binance held enough bitcoins and wrapped bitcoins to cover all users’s balance on the exchange. Binance had already launched a proof-of-reserves website nearly two weeks…