[ad_1] Nicole Lee/Engadget Display With its 960 x 480 resolution, Nicole felt the Echo Show 5 was best suited for photos and quick video viewing, and our user reviewers likewise found value in watching shorter clips on it. Anthony used it to “briefly check the weather by glancing at the screen in the morning, while […]
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Hitting the Books: Uncovering ancient civilizations with a plane and a prayer
[ad_1] University of California Press From Maps for Time Travelers: How Archaeologists Use Technology to Bring Us Closer to the Past by Mark D. McCoy. Copyright © 2020 by Mark D. McCoy. Reprinted with permission from University of California Press. Gordon Willey grew up during the Great Depression in a middle-class household, and excelled in […]
A closer look at Valorant’s always-on anti-cheat system
[ad_1] Vanguard has two main components: a traditional scanning service that boots up when the game does, and a device driver that loads at system start. The driver runs the entire time your PC is on, even if you’re not playing Valorant. Players even have to reboot their computers before starting the game for the […]
Every musician is basically a YouTuber now
[ad_1] Maia, a 19-year-old singer-songwriter from California, enjoys all the bona fides of a budding pop superstar. The Bay Area teen sold out her first US tour last spring with only an EP released. Her anticipated debut album, The Masquerade, dropped in the fall and spurred a gushy profile in The New York Times, exalting […]
COVID-19 is reminding everyone that PCs aren’t going anywhere
[ad_1] Similarly, AMD cited “higher notebook sales” as one of the reasons for its own recent successes. Now, its business is far narrower than Intel’s, so it didn’t make anywhere near as much money. But, again, this is the post-holiday quiet quarter, but AMD’s figures for Q1 were up 73 percent year over year. And […]
After Math: The great indoors
[ad_1] We’re entering week 7 of shelter in place — or maybe it’s week 70? Getting hard to tell these days — and things are going great. My quarantine beard is now Methuselah length, my window sill garden is booming, and my blood sacrifices to the old gods h… [ad_2] Source link
Hitting the Books: How to be active on social media and still keep your job
[ad_1] MIT Press Excerpted from Keep Calm and Log On: Your Handbook for Surviving the Digital Revolution by Gillian “Gus” Andrews. Reprinted with Permission from The MIT PRESS. Copyright 2020. Who’s in the Audience? Would Your Followers Get Mad? Broadcasting makes a lot of changes to how we communicate, especially when we’re suddenly speaking to […]
Ask Engadget: How have you dealt with faulty Joy-Cons?
[ad_1] This week we’re asking you for answers. Earlier we asked you to submit your user reviews of the Joy-Con controllers that come with Nintendo’s handheld Switch gaming system. Now we want to hear what you’ve done to fix the flaws that many users have encountered with the devices — be it a Bluetooth connection problem, or […]
Microsoft’s Xbox Series X gameplay event was just the beginning
[ad_1] As for the games without Smart Delivery, there may be a logical reason behind the omission. The Medium from Bloober Team, for instance, is targeting a release on Xbox Series X and PC, skipping the current generation altogether. The Medium comes from the studio that made Layers of Fear and Blair Witch, so you […]
After Math: Keeping occupied in a time of quarantine
[ad_1] SOPA Images via Getty Images Twitter has seen a 24 percent jump in its daily users since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, 166 million users in total. Because apparently we aren’t all collectively miserable enough as it is without it. British Museum Following the Smithsonian’s image release in February, the British Museum posted […]