Welcome to another Weekly, the show where we recap Eurogamer for you. Remember, premium supporters of Eurogamer get these episodes every Friday, when they’re freshest. Everyone else listens from Monday. Today on Weekly, I’m joined by reviews editor Chris Tapsell and managing editor Matt Reynolds – no relation to Ryan Reynolds – and our major…
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is rolling back a planned change to block Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default in a variety of Office apps. Announced earlier this year, Microsoft had been planning to prevent Office users from easily enabling certain content in files downloaded from the internet that include…
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) yesterday afternoon announced that USPTO Director Kathi Vidal will be accepting amicus briefs in the Director Review of both OpenSky Industries, LLC v. VLSI Technology LLC, IPR2021-01064 and Patent Quality Assurance, LLC v. VLSI Technology LLC, IPR2021-01229, both of which have been the subject of scrutiny by members…
(credit: Aurich Lawson) It’s been quite a while since we last put together a desktop PC-building guide, partly because trying to fight your way through bots and scalpers to pay twice the retail price for a graphics card was a miserable experience that we wouldn’t want to inflict on anyone. But even as 2022 has…
Enlarge / SpaceX’s Ship 24 rolls to the launch site in South Texas this week. (credit: SpaceX) Welcome to Edition 5.02 of the Rocket Report! Just as a heads up, I would like to note that it is now more than just theoretical that SpaceX’s Starship and NASA’s Space Launch System rocket could make their orbital…
The idea for my middle grade debut emerged from a lesson in my own fourth grade class. My teacher, whom I’ll call Ms. K, had a large collection of New Yorker magazine covers that she handed out as inspiration for creative writing assignments. Each cover was its own work of art—illustrated and free of text—and…
You have approximately thiiiiiiiiiis much space. Clay Banks / Unsplash Every time my neighbors walked by the cacophony of clatter and power tools spilling from my garage, they peered in with curious expressions. You could almost hear the refrain from the old Tom Waits song muttering in their heads: “What’s he building in there?” After…
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OSIRIS-REx touched down on Bennu in October 2020. NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona Dante Lauretta didn’t expect the surface of the asteroid to be, as he puts it, “fluffy.” As NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descended toward asteroid Bennu to grab a sample of its surface materials, mission principal investigator Lauretta and his team knew the process would leave…