If you have been on Steam, the world’s largest PC gaming platform, you might have noticed an anomaly on the chart of the top 20 most popular apps: Wallpaper Engine. The software is pretty cool—it lets you download animated and interactive wallpapers for your machine’s monitor—but it’s hard to explain why an obscure wallpaper app…
Today, two astronauts will be conducting a fairly standard spacewalk on the outside of the International Space Station, but the pair of spacewalkers is a bit unusual. The duo consists of cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev of Russia’s Roscosmos and Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency, spacefarers from two countries that do not typically…
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. | Image: Amazon Rivian’s R1T electric trucks are becoming increasingly visible across the US, and now Amazon reveals the electric delivery vans it’s buying from Rivian are ready for a nationwide rollout. Amazon says these new trucks have 360-degree visibility with exterior cameras that link to…
Characters from the popular Neopets game | Image: Neopets A hacker claims to have stolen information from Neopets, the long-running virtual pet website, affecting 69 million users of the service. The hack was confirmed by posts from the official Neopets Twitter and Instagram accounts on July 20th, with a tweet informing the public that the…
Martial arts game Sifu is on sale for $31.99 (20 percent off) as part of the PlayStation Summer Sale. If you’ve recently managed to secure a PlayStation 5, you can enjoy your new console while saving on a number of titles thanks to Sony’s Summer Sale promotion in the PlayStation Store, which lasts until August…
Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19, the White House announced today. Biden is experiencing mild symptoms and has started taking Paxlovid, an antiviral treatment. The news comes amid a wave of COVID-19 infections sweeping the country, driven by the highly transmissible BA.5 variant. Biden spent part…
Enlarge / When all you have is a sledgehammer, everything looks like a sledgenail. In the late aughts and early 2010s, the Saints Row series offered gamers an even more over-the-top take on the open-world third-person action-adventure genre dominated by Grand Theft Auto. This zany approach reached its apex with 2013’s Saints Row IV, in which…
Enlarge / Ford’s electric F-150 Lighting (L), eTransit (M), and Mustang Mach-E (R) battery-electric vehicles have all been such successes that they’re all sold out for the rest of the year. (credit: Ford) On Thursday, Ford Motor Company announced that it has secured 60 GWh of battery cells that will allow it to build 600,000…
Our philosophy has always been one of experimenting, learning, and adjusting. As we began to roll out our new pricing plans a couple of months back, we took note of the feedback you shared. What we heard is that some of you missed the more granular flexibility of our previous plans. Additionally, the features you…
When Kristy Kim started TomoCredit in early 2019, she was on a mission to help international students more easily obtain credit. Three and a half years later, that mission has evolved. TomoCredit, which aims to help young adults who are in good financial health but have no credit score, is no longer just focused on immigrants….