Enlarge / Windows is now perpetually under construction. The release earlier this month of a preview Windows 10 build that isn’t due until 2020 was a little strange. At the time, Microsoft said vaguely that it was because of features that “require a longer lead time,” with no indication of what those features are. The …
YouTube will now take stronger action to prevent predatory comments posted on videos of children. According to a blog post, YouTube will suspend comments on videos that feature minors that “could be at risk of attracting predatory behavior.” This measure is designed to prevent predatory commenters from gathering in the comments section of such videos. …
This is the Polestar 2, the first long-range battery EV from Volvo’s new spinoff. We’re more concerned with the Android-powered infotainment system though. It looks like this. Here’s the display in the interior, complete with a miniature Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar’s CEO. You can set the four tiles to whatever you want. Here, the bottom right …
Enlarge / Microsoft security experts monitoring the world, looking for hackers. Microsoft has announced two new cloud services to help administrators detect and manage threats to their systems. The first, Azure Sentinel, is very much in line with other cloud services: it’s dependent on machine learning to sift through vast amounts of data to find …
February has been, if not a brilliant month for games, at least a busy one. I managed to finish and review Metro Exodus, Far Cry New Dawn, Crackdown 3, and Anthem in the span of about two weeks, and that’s not to mention the games we didn’t get around to covering yet—Astroneer, Tannenberg, God Eater 3, Devotion, NITE Team 4, Ape Out, and…Globesweeper. Oh, Globesweeper. I can’t quit you. I …
There are plenty of good gaming laptops out there, but you’ll often have to pay a hefty price to get one of your own. Today, though, you can get Acer’s Predator Helios 300 for $999 on Amazon, down from a list price of $1,300. It’s a killer deal on a notebook that we absolutely love. …
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The storage deals keep on rolling in. Today, Newegg is selling a gargantuan 960GB Crucial BX500 SSD for just $96 with checkout code AFM2SSD29Remove non-product link. That’s $24 off Newegg’s current sale price, and well below the $130 this drive was selling for on Amazon earlier in the year. The BX500 is a standard 2.5-inch …
There’s a gulf of difference between bitmap and vector graphics. Bitmap art is made of pixels and has a scale attached: each pixel represents black or white, or some gray or color tone. The resolution of the file—how many pixels wide by how tall—defines the amount of information in it. Scale it up and you …
Hook up any latter-day iPhone to the Gamevice and you’ll wind up with a device that looks a lot like a Nintendo Switch. An iPhone XS Max in particular does a good job of masquerading as the Switch’s expansive central touchscreen. The Gamevice controllers themselves hug the phone’s edges like Joy-Cons. So fully does the …