Blizzard president blames ‘mass DDOS attack’ for keeping you from playing Overwatch 2

Mercy in Overwatch 2. | Image: Blizzard Overwatch 2 launched today — in theory, at least. The game’s servers clicked on this afternoon, but for the last few hours, many people trying to check out its removed 5v5 team shooter action are seeing nothing but this screen. Image: Richard Lawler Overwatch 2 “server connection failed…retrying”…

Amazon gives up on the Glow, its kid-focused video calling device

It’s no longer available on Amazon’s website. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Amazon is discontinuing the Amazon Glow, its video calling / interactive gaming device designed to let families interact remotely with each other, as reported by Bloomberg. The device is already unavailable on Amazon’s website. “At Amazon we think big,…

2022 Nobel Physics Prize goes to seminal tests of spooky action at a distance

Enlarge / The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger, “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.” (credit: Niklas Elmehed/Nobel Prize Outreach) Cornell University physicist N. David Mermin once described quantum entanglement as “the closest thing we have…