A 10,000-kilometre-long fibre-optic cable owned by Google that is at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean can be used to detect deep-sea seismic activity and ocean waves. Zhongwen Zhan at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues, including researchers at Google, used traffic data from one of the tech giant’s optical […]
Twitter plans to introduce a way for you to automatically block and mute abusive accounts, the company announced at its Analyst Day presentation on Thursday. Twitter said during its recent 2021 Analyst Day presentation. Twitter didn’t provide a lot of details on the feature. However, two screenshots the company shared show a new “Safety mode” […]
The Amazon Music app is now available on Google TV and Android TV OS, bringing easier access to the streaming music service from TVs, consoles, and set-top boxes. It joins the exiting Amazon Music apps for iOS and Android phones and tablets, as well as Fire tablets and the web-based player. The app supports Google’s […]
AMD is getting ready to launch the next part in their RDNA2/RX 6000 family of video cards. This afternoon the company sent out a save the date invitation to the press and public, announcing that the company will be holding a Radeon-related announcement next Wednesday, March the 3rd. And with a picture of a previously […]
The next Spider-Man movie starring Tom Holland will be titled Spider-Man: No Way Home. The movie will be out only in theaters on December 17th, 2021. Holland’s Spider-Man sounds like he’s in trouble, well, he probably is. Not only is the sense of danger in line with what we’ve heard about the movie, it also […]
Anthem Next, the retooled version of BioWare’s jetpack-fueled sci-fi action game, has been canceled. BioWare will continue running the Anthem live service as it stands. “While we continue to make progress against all our game projects at BioWare, working from home during the pandemic has had an impact on our productivity and not everything we […]
CD Projekt Red announced on Twitter today. The developer cites its recent ransomware hack as the major culprit it initially planned to launch the 1.2 patch in February. While I’m sure the news disappoints plenty of gamers, this issue is outside of the studio’s control. Dealing with the fallout of a massive hack is tough […]
Samsung will reportedly launch a Windows 10 laptop running on an Exynos processor and an AMD GPU. A report from ZDNet Korea says that Samsung will release a laptop in the second half of this year that runs on an Exynos processor and an AMD GPU. The rumored laptop will reportedly come out after the […]
Fry’s Electronics, once considered by many to be the holy grail of electronics stores, is calling it quits. On Twitter, Wario64 pointed out a tweet by a former employee and AV store owner noting that employees found out Tuesday night that it was the last night the stores would be open and that the website […]
LinkedIn users are reporting outages on the career networking website. According to LinkedIn’s status page, the company is investigating the issue. “We are currently experiencing an issue across the platform that may cause some API requests to take longer or fail unexpectedly. We are investigating the issue and working on a resolution,” the page reads. It’s […]
Gran Turismo 7 was announced on June 11, 2020, during the PlayStation 5 unveiling. Despite its name, it’ll be the eighth game in the mainline franchise, which dates back to the groundbreaking Gran Turismo for the original PlayStation in 1997. The primary releases reached peak sales in 2001 with the launch of Gran Turismo 3: […]
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 is hitting next-gen consoles and the Nintendo Switch this year. The game will launch on the PS5 and Xbox Series X / S on March 26th, but there’s no specific release date for the Switch release beyond “2021.” The game was first released last year for PlayStation 4, […]
Samsung has taken a strong stance on security by offering an extended support of security updates for its smartphones. Samsung says that it’s worked with over 200 carriers globally to push out timely security updates for over 130 models over the last decade. And while this 4-year program only includes phones and tablets released from […]
Huawei has unveiled its latest foldable smartphone, the Mate X2, at a special event in China. The successor to 2019’s Mate X, the phone has received a radical redesign and now features a large uninterrupted 8-inch screen that folds inwards, rather than having the main display on the exterior, as with the original device. The […]
NASA’s latest mission to Mars has been a successful one thus far. After providing photos of Perseverance’s safe descent to the surface last week, the agency has revealed footage of the critical moments of the landing: the moments when the rover touched down. The video shows the rover falling towards the planet, using its parachutes […]