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Resident Evil Village Benchmarks and System Requirements

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Reviews for Capcom’s Resident Evil Village have gone live, and we’re taking the opportunity to look at how the game runs on the best graphics cards. We’re running the PC version on Steam, and while patches and future driver updates could change things a bit, both AMD and Nvidia… Read more

Fable reboot being developed using ForzaTech engine

Matthew Wilson 2 days ago Software & Gaming We’ve been hearing about Microsoft’s long-awaited Fable reboot since 2018, when Playground Games set up a second studio to take on the project. We are slowly starting to learn more about this upcoming game, with the latest piece of news revealing that Fable is being developed on… Read more

A bug in Peloton’s API may have exposed a whole lot of user data

An old version of Peloton’s API, the software that allows the company’s bikes and recalled treadmills to communicate with its servers, may have exposed private customer profiles, according to a report from TechCrunch. The bug was first spotted by Jan Masters, a security researcher at Pen Test Partners, and reported to Peloton on January 20th,… Read more

Raspberry Pi Project Integrates SSH With Local Voice Assistant

Home News (Image credit: Mohammadreza Rostam) We’ve seen voice-controlled Raspberry Pi projects before using tools like Google’s AIY Voice Kit or Amazon’s Alexa to listen and respond to voice commands. These systems rely on third-party servers to interpret audio which can be a security concern for some. That’s where projects like Picovoice from maker Mohammadreza… Read more

New climate goals are going to need a lot more minerals

The world isn’t mining enough minerals to reach a future that runs on clean energy, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). Minerals like lithium, cobalt, and nickel are the building blocks for clean energy economies. Countries can’t meet their new climate goals without them. If supply chains can’t meet skyrocketing… Read more

Resident Evil Village has more guns but fewer scares

Filed under: Games Review 4+7=? Resident Evil has been in a pretty good place of late. After reaching its possible creative nadir with Resident Evil 6, 2017’s Resident Evil 7 represented a welcome return to the series’ horror roots while reinventing itself with a first-person perspective. Since then, Capcom has put out a phenomenally good… Read more

Resident Evil Village review: A gory crescendo

(Pocket-lint) – If there’s one thing you can’t accuse the Resident Evil series of, it’s taking itself too seriously. Resident Evil 7 might have grounded things in a grittier, scarier first-person journey than the action-packed stories that preceded it, but by the end things were still plenty explosive. Now Ethan Winters’ story is continuing, dropped… Read more

Snap can be sued for fueling a fatal car crash with its speed filter, court rules

Snap can be sued over a Snapchat speed filter that allegedly encouraged reckless driving, despite the generally broad legal protections for social networks. The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court revived a case that was dismissed in 2020, reversing an earlier ruling that favored Snap. It concluded that even if users were populating the filter with their… Read more

AT&T violated labor law but can still ban workers from recording conversations, NLRB rules

An AT&T policy that bars employees from recording conversations with managers or colleagues is legal, according to a ruling from the National Labor Relations Board Monday. The board found that while AT&T violated US labor law in how it had applied the policy, the recording ban itself was not illegal. According to AT&T’s rules, “employees… Read more

The Bad Batch is a glimpse at the future of Star Wars spinoffs

The Bad Batch has arrived today as the latest Star Wars spinoff series for Disney Plus. It’s a different, smaller show than preceding animated shows like The Clone Wars or Rebels, focusing on a single squad of clone troopers, Clone Force 99 — the titular “Bad Batch” — and its struggle to find a place… Read more

Disney reveals its ‘real’ lightsaber, and it looks extremely cool

Disney has finally showed off a first look at its “real” retractable lightsaber, which the company started teasing in April, with a new video showing the saber in action — and it looks very, very cool. As rumored, the new toy lightsaber doesn’t require any awkward plastic prop blades, instead featuring a retractable light-up blade… Read more

Moment’s accessory mounts are the best use for the iPhone’s MagSafe yet

There is nothing better than tech that just works. The satisfying joy that comes with transferring files via AirDrop, the relief when a new pair of wireless earbuds automatically pop up on a phone screen and ask to be connected without opening the Bluetooth settings. These moments are still rare, but when they happen it… Read more

What is HDMI QFT? The future of low latency gaming explained

Home Advice (Image credit: HDMI.org) It’s not an HDMI standard with much publicity right now, but HDMI QFT should be one you’re keeping an eye on if gaming is a priority. It may be one of the lesser talked about HDMI 2.1 features but this low latency technology has the potential to make your on-screen… Read more

Samsung HW-Q800A soundbar review: Sonically powerful all-rounder

(Pocket-lint) – The Samsung HW-Q800A soundbar replaces the previous HW-Q800T, but offers an almost identical set of features. That includes a 3.1.2-channel speaker layout, a powerful subwoofer, Dolby Atmos and DTS:X object-based decoding, eARC, and built-in Amazon Alexa for voice control. New this generation is the inclusion of Apple AirPlay 2, and optional wireless rear… Read more

New trailers: Castlevania, West Side Story, Sweet Tooth, Luca, and more

Just started watching season four of The Handmaid’s Tale and I remember why I prefer the weekly release schedule for this show: Bingeing it is utterly draining (Monica Hesse makes this point much more eloquently in her mostly spoiler-free review in the Washington Post). The show has a conundrum: it can’t kill off its main… Read more