Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Microsoft) Xbox Series X or S owners in need of more storage space may be in luck if they have a spare SSD, according to one modder’s experiences. Writing in a step-by-step post on the Chinese video-sharing site Bilibili, a user has discovered that it’s potentially possible to use any […]
Jared Harris as Hari Seldon, a mathematician whose “psychohistory” approach predicts the collapse of the Galactic Empire. [credit: YouTube/Apple TV ] Last summer, we got our first glimpse of Apple TV’s hotly anticipated adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series of novels when the streamer dropped a teaser trailer during the 2020 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Production […]
Enlarge (credit: Amazon) Amazon Prime Day, the mega-retailer’s two-day shopping event featuring discounts on everything from clothes to 4K TVs, laptops, blenders, air fryers, and Instant Pots, is set for June 21st and 22nd. The event serves up deals for members of Amazon’s Prime service and typically takes place mid-summer. It was postponed until October last […]
Enlarge / NASA’s proposed Mars Sample Return mission received funding in the budget request to support a 2026 launch. (credit: NASA) As part of the federal budget rollout on Friday, NASA released details of the funding it hopes to receive from Congress in fiscal year 2022. The president’s budget request seeks $24.8 billion for the […]
Enlarge / Now you can do all of these things but faster. (credit: Rockstar Games) A couple of weeks ago, we reported that a Grand Theft Auto Online player sick of the game’s notoriously long load times took matters into his own hands, broke out the disassembler, and crafted his own fix. The long load […]
Enlarge (credit: Jackie Niam | Getty Images) Last week, Arizona’s House of Representatives approved legislation to prohibit platform owners like Apple and Google from locking app makers into their own payment systems. The bill passed only narrowly, and it must be approved by the Arizona Senate and Gov. Doug Ducey before it can become law. […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) By now, most people know that hackers tied to the Russian government compromised the SolarWinds software build system and used it to push a malicious update to some 18,000 of the company’s customers. On Monday, researchers published evidence that hackers from China also targeted SolarWinds customers in what security analysts have […]
Enlarge / GoSearch22 isn’t, technically speaking, any sort of “virus.” But it’s certainly not anything you’d want on your shiny new M1 Mac. (credit: Pete Linforth) Last year, Apple released Macbooks and Mac Minis powered by a new ARM CPU—the Apple M1. A few months later, malware authors are already targeting the new hardware directly. […]
Enlarge / Sol Badguy faces off against Faust in Guilty Gear Strive, the latest entry in the long running fighting game series coming in April As a huge fighting game fan I’m always excited when a new game comes out. No other genre captures my attention in the same way. The feeling of discovery, the […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Not to toot my own horn, but I know a thing or two about bizarre animals. And I can tell you without a hint of doubt that the bobbit worm is by far the most bizarre. Growing to 10 feet long, the worm digs a burrow in the seafloor, leaving only […]