April 21, 2021 The new ‘Mortal Kombat’ movie isn’t just about the violence Screenwriter Greg Russo says he intentionally injected some levity, for old time’s sake. via Engadget Check out the Finding Your Identity Podcast!
April 21, 2021 Twitter is now letting everyone tweet pictures in 4K on Android and iOS Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Get ready for Twitter to start looking a whole lot crisper — starting today, the company is…
April 21, 2021 Amazon One’s palm-scanning payments are coming to Whole Foods Amazon One is expanding to its biggest area yet: the company is now testing its palm-scanning payment technology in Whole Foods, starting with a…
April 21, 2021 Senators want to block government agencies from buying Clearview AI data A bipartisan bill would also ban purchases of location data without a warrant. via Engadget Check out the Finding Your Identity Podcast!
April 21, 2021 Mortal Kombat Had a ‘Fight Plan’ to Make Sure the Action Was Balanced One of the most impressive things about Mortal Kombat is how each fight means something. When things get cooking in the second half of…
April 21, 2021 Tetris-OS Is an ‘OS’ That Only Plays Tetris As a former Tetris fanatic, the idea of an operating system that only runs Tetris, over and over again forever, is fairly compelling. First,…
April 21, 2021 New Technique Could Turn Plastic Back Into Oil, Which Is … Something There is way too much plastic in the world—and we’re making more every day, even as we struggle to find a way to get…
April 21, 2021 Chromebook users will soon be able to auto-caption any media playing in their browser Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge Google has announced some new features coming to Chromebooks, including the company’s Live Captions feature that will…
April 21, 2021 Apple now lets you extend a Mac’s AppleCare Plus coverage beyond three years Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple’s Mac computers typically come with a one-year warranty that you can optionally extend to three years…
April 21, 2021 Physicists Get a Good Look at an ‘Exciton’ for the First Time After nearly a century of probing the nature of tiny, ephemeral objects called excitons, researchers finally managed to image the structure, hinting at the…