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One Medical gave COVID-19 vaccines to ineligible people, NPR report says

Health care company One Medical gave COVID-19 vaccines to people who were ineligible under local guidelines, including friends and family of company leadership, NPR reported. Health departments in Washington state and California said they stopped distributing doses to One Medical after finding out that the company was not sticking to eligibility rules. The company was… Read more

Cyberpunk 2077’s next big patch delayed to second half of March after studio hack

Cyberpunk 2077’s next big patch has been delayed following developer CD Projekt Red’s disclosure that it fell victim to a ransomware attack earlier this month. The next big patch, 1.2, is now scheduled for a release sometime in the second half of March. “While we dearly wanted to deliver Patch 1.2 for Cyberpunk 2077 in… Read more

Fractal Design Meshify 2 Compact Review: Understated Excellence

Our Verdict Fractal Design’s Meshify 2 Compact offers an excellent foundation for thermally demanding ATX gaming systems. And although it’s a bit expensive, it’s a very well thought-through chassis that ships with three good fans. For Thoughtful interior and classy design Ships with three quality fans Great cable management Excellent thermal performance Easy filter access… Read more

Kiwikit PCB Makes Prototyping on the Pico a Breeze

Home News (Image credit: Hammond Pearce) Since the Raspberry Pi Pico first released, we’ve seen a few dev boards created just for the new official microcontroller. This one is called Kiwikit and it’s totally open-source for anyone to use or modify. It was created and designed by a maker named Hammond Pearce. According to Pearce,… Read more

Sony announces next-gen VR headset for the PS5

Sony is working on a next-generation VR headset for the PS5. The headset won’t launch this year, but Sony is announcing early plans to make it available on the PS5 at some point in the future. Sony’s new VR headset will include an improved field of view, resolution, and even a single cord to make… Read more

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek explains how the company plans to help artists (and itself) make money

Photo Illustration by Alex Castro | Photograph by Spotify The company wants to be at the center of creator monetization Spotify hosted an event on Monday to discuss its ambitions in audio, and one message came through loud and clear: the company wants to play a major role in helping creators make money. During the… Read more

5G in the US is disappointing right now, but it’s going to get better

In the US, 5G remains a work in progress, despite carriers waving “5G Mission Accomplished” banners for yearsIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The fourth industrial revolution will not be televised After an introduction from Consumer Technology Association president Gary Shapiro, Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg takes the stage. He wears a simple black T-shirt… Read more

Sophisticated hackers snuck sleeper malware into nearly 30,000 Macs

There’s a popular stereotype that Apple’s computers are largely immune to malware. Not only is is that incorrect, it appears that sophisticated hacker(s) might have been toying with the idea of a heist or drop nasty enough they’d have needed to cover their tracks. As Ars Technica reports, security researchers at Malwarebytes and Red Canary… Read more

Linux has made it to Mars

Yesterday, NASA landed a rover named Perseverance on Mars. I, along with 2 million other people, watched the landing happen live on YouTube. It was beautiful. I mean, here’s this little robot dude that’s traveled millions and millions of miles through the barrenness of space, and now it’s just hanging out on Mars taking pics… Read more

COVID-19 vaccines are starting to work in the US

If you know where to look, you can see COVID-19 vaccines starting to save lives in the United States. It’s not in the overall case numbers, though those have been steadily dropping across the United States for weeks. Epidemiologists say there could be a few reasons for that decline: we’re past the holiday seasons surge… Read more

Apple Drags Valve Into Epic Games Dispute Over App Store Policies

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) How much information should a legal conflict between Apple and Epic Games reveal about Steam? Apple seems to think the answer is “a lot,” according to a report from PCGamer, but Valve maintains that its platform isn’t directly related to the dispute. The companies made their positions clear in a… Read more

Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate, Unveils New ‘Cryptocurrency Mining Processor’ Line of GPUs

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia today announced its new Cryptocurrency Mining Processor (CMP) line of GPUs to “address the specific needs of Ethereum mining” and, hopefully, improve the availability of the best graphics cards in the GeForce product line in the process. The company also limited the mining performance of the soon-to-be-launched RTX 3060… Read more

Bravely Default is a classic RPG series designed for lapsed fans

When Masashi Takahashi, a producer at Square Enix, started working on Bravely Default, he had a very specific audience in mind. Takahashi had grown up playing classic turn-based roleplaying games — he distinctly remembers watching his older brother play Final Fantasy III while he was still in kindergarten — and felt that many modern RPGs… Read more

The team behind indie adventure Minit returns with a side-scrolling racing game

The indie gem Minit, released back in 2018, felt like a breath of fresh air. The monochromatic adventure game took a seemingly absurd time constraint — killing the player every 60 seconds — and turned it into both a passionate love letter to top-down classics like The Legend of Zelda and an ingenious and clever… Read more

Xbox cult classic Stubbs the Zombie is getting remastered for modern consoles

If you ever wanted a zombie game where you played as the undead instead of fending off against it, you’ll have another chance soon. Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse is being rereleased on March 16th for PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One and will be playable on PS5 and Xbox Series X… Read more