Apple Fitness+ subscription service unveiled alongside Series 6 Watch

Today, watch us play the opening of Sony’s promising PS5 exclusive Returnal

All of those cracked helmets behind our hero look identical. There’s a reason. Returnal sees its players die and retry as an explorer of a strange alien planet. [credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment / Housemarque ] Ahead of next week’s launch of the PlayStation 5 exclusive Returnal, Sony has given me an opportunity to show exactly […]

Goodbye again, Flash—Microsoft makes removal from Windows 10 mandatory

Microsoft rings yet another bell in the dirge for Flash—the KB that removes it from Windows 10 will become mandatory this July. (credit: Adobe) Microsoft, Apple, Google, Mozilla, and even Adobe itself have all deprecated Adobe Flash technology, which reached end of life on January 1 of this year. This July, Microsoft is taking things […]

The ancient origins of glass

Enlarge / This glass fish was found in a fairly modest private house in Amarna, buried under a plaster floor along with a few other objects. It may once have contained ointment. (credit: Trustees of the British Museum) Today, glass is ordinary, on-the-kitchen-shelf stuff. But early in its history, glass was bling for kings. Thousands […]