June 16, 2020 Qualcomm launches new Snapdragon 690 processor to add 5G to budget phones Qualcomm is launching its next 5G chipset today, the Snapdragon 690, the first product in its 6-series chips to get support for the next-generation…
June 16, 2020 Google will default to phone notifications for two-factor sign-ins Many will tell you that two-factor authentication is more secure without using phone numbers, and Google is putting that wisdom into practice. The internet…
June 16, 2020 Max Brooks’ Bigfoot Tale Devolution Is Headed for the Big Screen Author Max Brooks has a new book out called Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre, and it arrives with some exciting…
June 16, 2020 Humble’s racial justice bundle offers $1,200 in games and books for $30 Itch.io’s recent mega-bundle won’t be your only option to buy games in return for contributing to the quests to solve racial inequity and inequality….
June 16, 2020 The Federalist Bows the Knee to Big Tech, Deletes Its Awful Comments Section Google has booted fringe libertarian/conspiracist page Zerohedge from its AdSense platform over user comments and warned crackpot haven the Federalist that it could face…
June 16, 2020 SpaceX plans seaborne spaceports for Mars missions and hypersonic flights Don’t think SpaceX is toning down its spaceflight ambitions in light of the pandemic — if anything, the company is ramping things up. Elon…
June 16, 2020 The Witcher 3 is giving PS4 and Xbox owners a free PC copy to experience in all its glory PS4 and Xbox One owners now have the chance to play the PC version of The Witcher 3 at no extra cost. The Witcher…
June 16, 2020 T-Mobile reportedly plans to lay off hundreds of former Sprint employees Two months after completing its $26 billion merger with Sprint, T-Mobile plans to lay off a portion of the workers that came to it…
June 16, 2020 Airlines Have Been Banning Booze on Flights as a Covid-19 Precautionary Measure A basic measure to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus is to maintain a distance of at least six feet between yourself and…
June 16, 2020 RIP, Bose AR, We Hardly Knew Ye Bose seemed like a company that had a slightly different, incredibly interesting vision for augmented reality. It was different from other tech companies’ approaches—Bose…