Author: Randall

PlayStation Vue is raising prices for all of its plans (updated)

[ad_1] Since the costs of content increase yearly, the price hike is somewhat expected; PlayStation Vue raised its prices in a similar fashion last summer. Other streaming providers like YouTube TV, Netflix and AT&T’s DirecTVNow raised their rates earlier this year. Hulu coped with the higher costs of content by lowering the price of its […]

NASA will livestream the total solar eclipse over South America tomorrow

[ad_1] If you happen to be in the path of the eclipse, we’ll remind you not to look directly at the sun. In 2017, one woman had permanent vision loss because she looked at the sun for six seconds, and at least one $11,500 Canon lens melted. Fortunately, eclipse glasses offer a safe viewing method, […]

MIT made an AI that can detect and create fake images

[ad_1] Named GANpaint Studio, the tool is available as a free demo. Rather than manually add a tree to an image, you can tell the tool where you want the object and it will add one that matches the scene. You can erase objects too, like stools from an image of a kitchen. It’s still […]

Spotify ends direct music uploads for indie artists

[ad_1] Spotify will stop accepting new songs through the upload program at the end of July, and those who’ve already released material will need to find new providers beyond that point. It’s not shocking that Spotify would close the initiative. It was theoretically more convenient, but there wasn’t much point unless a musician was content […]

Apple offers free repairs for faulty 2018 MacBook Air logic boards

[ad_1] Apple is reportedly notifying affected customers by email. We’ve asked Apple for comment. The low-key nature suggests this isn’t a widespread problem, but the timing is less than ideal. It comes days after Apple recalled some older MacBook Pros over battery issues, and weeks after the company made MacBook keyboard repairs a higher priority. […]

‘Alan Wake’ developer may bring the cult classic to more consoles

[ad_1] It seems Remedy is interested in bringing the mystery adventure to more platforms after it was previously only available on Windows PC, Xbox 360 and Xbox One (via backwards compatibility). “The only thing we want to clarify, now that Remedy owns the publishing rights, is that we could bring Alan Wake to different platforms […]

Five ‘Star Trek’ movies come to Amazon Prime on July 31st

[ad_1] There’s more Star Trek available for streaming — although it might not be on the service you were expecting to use. Amazon is adding five pre-Abrams Star Trek movies to Prime Video in the US on July 31st. Two of them come from the cast of the original series (Star Trek IV: The Voyage […]

HTC Vive will help more companies jump into VR

[ad_1] Take Ovation, for example: It’s a public speaking training tool that uses the Vive Pro Eye’s gaze-tracking to detect where exactly you’re looking. After running through a demo, it told me I was staring at the teleprompter, instead of looking at the audience. (In fairness, I wasn’t prepared to recite a speech during a […]

Brave web browser is really fast at blocking ads

[ad_1] Nowadays, a large number of browsers including Opera, Brave and even Microsoft’s Edge run on Google’s Chromium engine. As such, Google gets to dictate terms, and launched the Manifest V3 proposal. That would help speed up browsing by blocking an API called webRequest, but would also have the effect of making most third-party ad-blockers […]