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Summer Game Fest returns in June

Summer Game Fest, which debuted last year as a digital “celebration” of video games with news, events, and playable content, is returning this year, kicking off in June. We don’t know much about what to expect just yet, but “the roster of participating publishers and developers, along with an event schedule outline, will be revealed… Read more

Razer May Finally Launch Its First AMD Gaming Laptop

Home News Razer Blade 14 (Image credit: Razer) Razer has been a loyal supporter of Team Blue. However, the tech giant may have finally bitten the bullet and joined up with Team Red. If the recently discovered 3DMark submissions (via _rogame) are accurate, Razer will release the company’s first-ever AMD-powered gaming laptop soon. The mysterious… Read more

Clubhouse defined a format — now it has to defend it

Clubhouse had an incredible year in one most of us would rather forget. The live audio app launched during a pandemic; gained more than 10 million downloads for an invite-only, iOS-only app; and succeeded to the point that most every social platform wants to copy it. Congrats to Clubhouse. The company now faces its biggest… Read more

Herring vs Frampton live stream: start time, full fight, how to watch the boxing for free in UK, US and more

Jamel Herring will mix it up with Carl Frampton this Saturday in Dubai as two of the fighters at 130lbs battle it out for the WBO super-featherweight title. Incumbent Herring has already made two successful defences of the belt but can 34-year-old Belfast-native Frampton stop a third? UK fans can watch the blockbuster bout free… Read more

Amazon’s Alexa lets you control a Lamborghini’s air conditioning with just your voice

Amazon is taking a bigger step into cars today by integrating Alexa into Lamborghini’s Huracán EVO, and not just to ask questions or remotely control your home — it’s giving the assistant the ability to control settings inside the car, hands-free. The partnership was originally announced last year as part of Amazon’s push into cars,… Read more

Ubiquiti is accused of covering up a ‘catastrophic’ data breach — and it’s not denying it

Ubiquiti, a company whose prosumer-grade routers have become synonymous with security and manageability, is being accused of covering up a “catastrophic” security breach — and after 24 hours of silence, the company has now issued a statement that doesn’t deny any of the whistleblower’s claims. Originally, Ubiquiti emailed its customers about a supposedly minor security… Read more

The Resident Evil tall lady comes to life thanks to a former Olympian’s cosplay

Resident Evil Village is coming on May 7th, but if you have been keeping up with the news surrounding the game, you may have heard about Lady Dimitrescu, a very tall woman who has become very popular on the internet. There have been a few cosplayers who’ve attempted to re-create the iconic villain, but the… Read more

SpaceX is adding a glass dome on Crew Dragon for 360 views of space

The Crew Dragon capsule poised to fly four civilian astronauts to space this year is getting an upgrade: a glass dome will be added at the top to give space tourists a 360-degree view of the cosmos. Plans for the window were announced on Tuesday as SpaceX and the team managing the tourist mission, Inspiration4,… Read more

MQA, BluOS and Radio Paradise bring hi-res audio to internet radio

Home News (Image credit: Paradise radio) Lenbrook International – the owner of Bluesound, NAD, PSB Speakers and high-resolution multi-room streaming platform BluOS – has announced a new hi-fi internet radio station exclusively for BluOS products. The new service, launched in association with MQA, will see Radio Paradise, a listener-supported internet radio station, providing MQA-encoded audio… Read more

YouTube denies employee request to remove rap song with anti-Chinese lyrics

YouTube is facing employee calls to remove a rap song that allegedly encourages violence against Asians, according to a report from Bloomberg. Rapper YG’s “Meet the Flockers” is a detailed description of a burglary — a relatively common trope in rap music — but it opens with a specific reference to Chinese communities: “find a… Read more

Privacy and ads in Chrome are about to become FLoCing complicated

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is forging ahead with its third-party cookie replacement technology Repent, o ye ad trackers, for the cookiepocalypse is nigh! If Google sticks to its roadmap, by this time next year Chrome will no longer allow websites to use third-party cookies, which are cookies that come from outside… Read more

Fortnite on the Nintendo Switch will look and run better after its latest update

Fortnite for the Nintendo Switch is getting a patch that will boost performance in portable and docked modes. Epic Games says the game will run with a more consistent frame rate across the board “with fewer hitches,” though it’s still not 60 frames per second. And while the game will still use dynamic resolution to… Read more

The loneliest polar bear has company in a warming world

In early November 2015, a polar bear cub named Nora was abandoned by her mother at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, leaving her fate in the hands of a team of veterinarians and zookeepers. The Loneliest Polar Bear: A True Story of Survival and Peril on the Edge of a Warming World tells the story… Read more

Google’s new experimental app is a powerful AI document scanner for Android

Google is releasing a new experimental app today called Stack that borrows the technology underlying its powerful DocAI enterprise tool for document analysis. The end result is a consumer document scanner app for Android that Google says vastly improves over your average mobile scanner by auto-categorizing documents into the titular stacks and enabling full text… Read more

SpaceX’s latest Starship landing attempt ends in destruction

Another Starship prototype exploded Tuesday morning during an attempt to nail a tricky landing technique at SpaceX’s test launch facilities in Texas. The landing attempt followed a clean liftoff and a demonstration of the rocket’s autonomous in-flight maneuvers, marking SpaceX’s fourth high-altitude flight since December. The SN11 rocket launched at 9AM ET in foggy weather… Read more