Last week, the Supreme Court refused certiorari in yet another patent eligibility appeal. I’ve lost count as to how many times the Court has refused to provide clarity to the fundamental question of patent eligibility since it last muddied the waters in Alice back in 2014. I stopped counting several years ago, when the number…
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Enlarge / Sodium metal will react with something in just about any environment it encounters on Earth. Here, a fresh cut shows how extensive its reactions with air are. (credit: Getty Images) Lithium-based batteries are great, with different electrode chemistries allowing them to be slotted into a variety of uses. The problem with them has…
Apple, in its recent announcement, has confirmed that MacBook Air (2022) with M2 chip will be available for orders starting July 8. Meanwhile, the launch for MacBook Air (2022) is set for July 15. The upcoming MacBook Air is coming in four colour variants — Midnight, Silver, Space Grey, and Starlight.Read More
Ubisoft has officially announced The Division Resurgence, a free-to-play mobile game that it hinted was in the works last year. The company says it’ll be an open-world, third-person RPG shooter like the mainline games, with single-player and co-op modes that let players face off against the environment in story missions and other “PvE activities.” Resurgence…
Walmart’s InHome delivery costs $138 annually with Plus. | Image: Walmart Walmart is making its InHome delivery service available to Walmart Plus subscribers for an extra $7 per month or $40 per year. The service, which brings groceries and other goods from your local Walmart to the inside of your home, was previously available as…
The joy of Summer Games Done Quick raising $3.01 million for Doctors Without Borders has been marred with a bit of controversy. During the charity marathon, Mekarazium, a Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance runner, faked his run of the Revengeance Blade Wolf DLC, playing a spliced video instead of running the game live. The fake run…
A scene from Forza Horizon 5 on xCloud as seen with a Windows User-Agent string… Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming appears to dip to a lower visual quality setting when running on Linux. The apparent downgrade across operating systems was noted by a Reddit user over the holiday weekend and confirmed in Ars’ own testing this…
In this excerpt from her upcoming book, writer and historian Alyse Knorr talks about some of the design decisions that made Goldeneye 007 stand out from other ’90s first-person shooters, and why that design endures to this day. The book is currently looking for backers on Kickstarter. When [game designer David] Doak first joined the…
Apple announced its plan to release a new feature called Lockdown Mode this fall that aims to add a new layer of protection for human rights advocates, political dissidents and other targets of sophisticated hacking attacks. Lockdown Mode will come to Apple’s iPhones, iPads and Macs this fall and turning it on will block most…
Apple announced its plan to release a new feature called Lockdown Mode this fall that aims to add a new layer of protection for human rights advocates, political dissidents and other targets of sophisticated hacking attacks. Lockdown Mode will come to Apple’s iPhones, iPads and Macs this fall and turning it on will block most…