Evil Dead: The Game and Dark Deity are next week’s free Epic Store games

Another Thursday means another glimpse ahead at the Epic Games Store’s next set of weekly freebies, with Evil Dead: The Game and tactical turn-based RPG Dark Deity both now confirmed to be free from Thurday, 17th November. Evil Dead: The Game, which released as an Epic exclusive back in May, is developer Saber Interactive’s spin…

Click & Grow 25 smart indoor garden produces farmers-market-quality greens in your kitchen

Enjoy the freshest and most nutritious greens at home with the Click & Grow 25 smart indoor garden. Coming with an app, this garden takes care of watering, lighting, and most important gardening aspects automatically. Additionally, the app helps you track your plants and receive tips on how to grow the most bountiful greens. In…

A wrongfully terminated Chinese-American scientist was just awarded nearly $2 million in damages

It’s been almost a decade since the Chinese-American hydrologist Sherry Chen’s life was turned upside down by an unfounded accusation of spying, and this week, she finally received something like justice.  Today, Chen’s lawyers announced that the scientist won a historic $1.8 million settlement from the US Commerce Department for her wrongful prosecution and subsequent…

Tumblr will sell you two useless blue check marks for $8

You actually get two of these. | Image: Tumblr Tumblr has been enjoying a resurgence thanks to some recent policy changes and ongoing chaos at Twitter, and that’s drawn a few real-world celebrities like Ryan Reynolds and Lynda Carter to the platform. Unlike most big social networks, though, Tumblr doesn’t verify high-profile accounts’ authenticity. That’s…

In Defense of Patentability of Mathematical Formulas and Relationships

“Mathematical Formulas and Relationships” fall under the “Abstract Idea” exception to the categories of patentable subject matter. Characterizing the “Mathematical Formulas and Relationships” as “Abstract Ideas” has led to misrepresentation of mathematical concepts in patent law. A “Mathematical Formula or Relationship” is a means of expression and should be inspected to extract what it expresses….

OpenSSL 3 patch, once Heartbleed-level “critical,” arrives as a lesser “high”

Enlarge / The fallout of an OpenSSL vulnerability, initially listed as “critical,” should be much less severe than that of the last critical OpenSSL bug, Heartbleed. An OpenSSL vulnerability once signaled as the first critical-level patch since the Internet-reshaping Heartbleed bug has just been patched. It ultimately arrived as a “high” security fix for a…

AMD’s next-gen Radeon RX 7900 XTX and XT launch December 13 for $999 and $899

Enlarge / AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XTX, floating in a red-tinged room somewhere. (credit: AMD) AMD is gearing up to launch its next-generation Radeon RX 7000-series GPUs next month, and today the company shared more details about the cards’ pricing, performance levels, and the new RDNA 3 GPU architecture that will power all of its…

Twitter security execs quit amid worries that Musk will violate FTC settlement

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto ) Some of Twitter’s top privacy and security executives resigned this week amid worries that Elon Musk’s rapid changes may cause violations of the company’s recent settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. “The privacy staffers said they were most concerned by the rapid rollout of new features without the…