[ad_1] Buy Beats Solo Pro on Best Buy – $230 These aren’t the stereotypical Beats you might be familiar with. While there’s still ample bass, we found that the Solo Pro also does a good job of representing mids and highs — you might enjoy synthpop as much as you do trance or rap. And […]
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Coronavirus delays the launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
[ad_1] NASA has again delayed the launch of its James Webb Space Telescope, this time because of how coronavirus has impacted work crews, Space.com reported. The telescope was scheduled for launch in March 2021 after a number of delays. However, Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA associate administrator for science, said in a Thursday meeting of the Space […]
‘Control’ is headed to PS5 and Xbox Series X
[ad_1] Remedy’s mind-bending action-adventure Control has won plenty of praise, including for its gorgeous visuals. But, at least before the developer improved the game’s performance with patches, it struggled on the base PS4 and Xbox One, and dropped to as low as 10 frames per second at some points. Performance certainly shouldn’t be a problem […]
‘Stray’ is a futuristic cat simulator for PS4 and PS5
[ad_1] Four years ago, a few GIFs and video clips featuring a mysterious game surfaced online. They depicted a cat wandering around a futuristic take on Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, but details were nonexistent. Dubbed HK Project, the title resurfaced yesterday during Sony’s PlayStation 5 reveal event. Now called Stray, the game will […]
Facebook announces the winner of its Deepfake Detection Challenge
[ad_1] “Honestly I was pretty personally frustrated with how much time and energy smart researchers were putting into making better deepfakes without the commensurate sort of investment in detection methodologies and combating the bad use of them,” Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer told reporters on Thursday. “We tried to think about a way to catalyze, not […]
Twitter removes 170,000 state-backed accounts based in China
[ad_1] The accounts linked to the PRC focused heavily on Hong Kong. They also promoted messages about the coronavirus pandemic, Taiwan and an exiled Chinese billionaire, Reuters reports. The accounts reportedly had ties to another state-backed operation that Twitter, Facebook and YouTube removed last year for spreading misinformation about Hong Kong. We’re disclosing new state-linked […]
It doesn’t matter what the PS5 looks like
[ad_1] The PS5 design memes have started strong pic.twitter.com/C7nwEg4W17 — Tom Warren (@tomwarren) June 11, 2020 The Xbox Series X, like the One X before it, is a truly impressive piece of engineering. But it’s also, like the One X before it, a nondescript black box. The Xbox One S is one of my favorite […]
Save $60 on Withings’ stylish Steel HR smartwatch
[ad_1] The company has discounted the entire Steel HR by that amount so that you can get the entry-level Classic variant for $119.95 and the more expensive Sport and Collector editions for $139.95 and $169.95, respectively. While we’ve seen the Classic model sell for less, this is an opportunity to get the other Steel HR […]
UK’s antitrust watchdog is investigating Facebook’s purchase of Giphy
[ad_1] Facebook bought Giphy last month, and it caused a stir. Sentiments toward Facebook have been shifting over the years, and the GIF sharing site falling into the hands of the company that also owns WhatsApp and Instagram was a disappointment for some. (There were also concerns of Giphy embeds sending personal data back to […]
Google countersues Sonos for patent infringement
[ad_1] In the latest move of a heated smart speaker legal battle, Google has countersued Sonos, claiming the smart speaker company infringed its patents, Bloomberg has reported. The fight erupted in January this year when Sonos sued Google for alleged patent infringement after the companies had collaborated for several years. Sonos claimed that Google gained […]