For years, we’ve heard that over-the-counter hearing aids were about to be amazing. They’d look like headphones and seem totally socially inconspicuous; they’d be able to help you tune the sound around you to exactly your needs in every situation. It’s a nice idea, but we haven’t seen much product to back it up. With…
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The secret sauce with Helldivers 2, outside of the excellent moment-to-moment blasting, is the game’s overarching galactic war. Controlled by developer Arrowhead and game master Joel, this sees the Helldivers marshalled to various spots across the galaxy to fight for key objectives, with success often resulting in some sort of in-game reward (like mech suits)…
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Facebook and Instagram are testing new facial recognition tools that could help users quickly restore compromised accounts and combat fake celebrity-endorsed scams. Meta announced its plan to roll out experimental features that can scan a user’s face to verify their identity by comparing it against profile pictures on Facebook and Instagram. The first usage of…
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When it comes to manufacturing high-end processors and other chips, one company dominates the market and that’s TSMC. The second largest producer, Samsung, is well behind and Intel makes the merest of impressions in the sector. So it’s perhaps not a surprise to learn that a daily newspaper in Korea has said that the latter…
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Cutesy cult simulator meets roguelike Cult of the Lamb has announced its next project—a metal EP releasing next week called “Cult of the Lamb: Hymns of the Unholy”. Devolver Digital, Massive Monster, and Laced Records have come together to produce an EP that will consist of six tracks featuring appearances from While She Sleeps, Trivium,…
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If you’re the kind of online shopper who regularly uses customer reviews to judge if something is worth buying, then you’ll be pleased to know that the US Federal Trade Commission has got your back thanks to a new set of rules that ban the use of fake reviews to make a product appear better…
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Jack Sweeney, who gained notoriety for his @ElonJet account on X and maintained many of the suspended accounts, said on Threads that the development is “reminiscent of all my accounts getting suspended on Twitter.” The shuttered accounts, which used publicly available data to show the flight paths of private jets, initially displayed a message on…
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Just a few years after changing its mobile chipset naming conventions, Qualcomm has gone and done it again. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is the company’s newest high-end smartphone SoC, and like the laptop chips it borrows its “Elite” name from, it comes with a new Oryon CPU. The company says that this shift enables faster…
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Blade Runner 2049 production company Alcon Entertainment is suing Tesla, Elon Musk, and Warner Bros. Discovery over their alleged use of AI-generated imagery based on the film in a promotional event for Tesla’s new Cybercab. The suit, available via Variety, claims the defendants opted for the AI image after Alcon “refused all permissions and adamantly…
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The House Committee on Homeland Security is looking into Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) surveillance network in the wake of a report that nearly one-third of the agency’s cameras along the US-Mexico border don’t work. Privacy advocates say this is just the latest instance of expensive border surveillance infrastructure not working as advertised. An internal…
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