[ad_1] After years of waiting, Shenmue fans crowdfunded a new game last year, and now the story of Ryo Hazuki will be told through a new anime series. Announced during the Virtual Crunchyroll Expo, the show will be a co-production between Crunchyroll and Adult Swim, with Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki executive producing. They’re promising more […]
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How TikTok got caught in the middle of a trade war with China
[ad_1] After weeks of threats, the president delivered an ultimatum to TikTok and its owner ByteDance: sell the app’s US operations to an American company or it would be banned. He gave the company little more than a month — until Sept. 15 — to find a buyer and figure out how to disentangle itself […]
White House issues ‘SPD-5’ cybersecurity policy for space
[ad_1] The Trump administration’s latest Space Policy Directive, SPD-5, details policies the government believes the country’s public and private space agencies should adopt to protect their systems from hacking threats. Some of the best practices the document recommends include that operators encrypt data they receive from their craft. They should also install physical measures to […]
NVIDIA’s RTX 3000 cards make counting teraflops pointless
[ad_1] The most popular GPU among Steam users today, NVIDIA’s venerable GTX 1060, is capable of performing 4.4 teraflops, the soon-to-be-usurped 2080 Ti can handle around 13.5 and the upcoming Xbox Series X can manage 12. These numbers are calculated by taking the number of shader cores in a chip, multiplying that by the peak […]
Teenage Engineering’s next product is probably a Bluetooth speaker
[ad_1] When Teenage Engineering started teasing it was working on a “magic apparatus,” people got understandably excited. After all, this is the company that has released some of the most offbeat but capable synths (and IKEA products) in the last couple of years, and it said it had been working on this device for the past […]
Riot Games adds to its world of virtual influencers who promote ‘League of Legends’
[ad_1] “Seraphine” first appeared on social media in late June, posting selfies to Instagram and tweeting about her desire to “share music and hopefully connect with people.” By August she was releasing songs to a Soundcloud account. But Seraphine isn’t a typical social media personality — for one thing, she’s an animated character. For another, […]
After 27 years, ‘Doom’ and ‘Doom 2’ get widescreen support
[ad_1] Speaking of mods, there’s now official support for DeHackEd, a tool people have been using for years to modify the games. Another tweak adds an optional crosshair. According to id, enabling the feature can help some players who experience motion sickness when playing the games. There’s also a new timer next to the minimap […]
Harvard created a wool-like 3D-printable material that can shape shift
[ad_1] It’s made using keratin extracted from recycled wool. Keratin is a fibrous protein that’s found in hair, which, of course, has a habit of returning to its natural form. The researchers shaped a single chain of keratin into a spring-like structure. They twisted two of those together and used many such “coiled coils” to […]
Some Facebook users will soon see Instagram Stories
[ad_1] View Instagram story directly from Facebook. Hm..new? @MattNavarra pic.twitter.com/FtIBw0uMVz — Audrey 電商人妻® (@ec_wife) September 4, 2020 With the change, Instagram users can choose to make their Stories viewable to their followers on Facebook as well. The company notes that it requires both sides to opt-in and link their Facebook and Instagram accounts together. “People […]
This week’s best deals: $300 off the Razer Blade 15 and more
[ad_1] Buy Blade 15 laptop (4K) at Best Buy – $1,999 Buy Blade 15 laptop (4K) at Razer – $1,999 Apple AirPods Pro Billy Steele / Engadget The AirPods Pro are still $220, or $30 off their normal price. This is the lowest price we’ve seen, making it a good opportunity to grab Apple’s top-of-the-line […]