Destiny 2 player count doubles overnight after Into the Light, The Final Shape’s Prismatic subclass reveal

What you need to know After the launch of Destiny 2’s new Into the Light update, the game’s player count on Steam has risen from around ~40-50,000 up to about 80,000, essentially doubling overnight. The update features a brand new PvE horde mode called Onslaught with highly desirable returning fan-favorite weapons, along with a tweaked […]

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The 9 Destiny 2 Legend Onslaught builds I’m using to crush Into the Light’s horde mode

The huge free-to-play Destiny 2: Into the Light update is here, and the highlight of the patch is its new PvE wave-based defense mode Onslaught. In it, you and two other Guardians are tasked with defending a special objective called the ADU from hordes of enemies. You can build turrets, traps, and distraction decoys with […]

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Destiny 2’s huge free Into the Light update is live, here’s the roadmap and patch notes

What you need to know Following a gameplay showcase for Destiny 2’s upcoming The Final Shape expansion, developer Bungie has released a huge new Destiny 2 update called Into the Light. Into the Light is free-to-play, and includes a new wave defense PvE mode called Onslaught where players can earn 12 returning fan-favorite weapons (6 […]

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Absurd Skyrim mod turns its Civil War into a modern one with working guns, tanks, planes, and more — and it’s honestly pretty fun

What you need to know Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is known for its massive and passionate modding community, which has been creating thousands of impressive mods for the RPG for over a decade. A new mod for the PC version named “Skyrim Modern War Simulator” overhauls Skyrim’s Civil War between the Imperials and […]

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OnePlus dips its toes into the AI game with AI Eraser tool for photos

2023 was the year of AI, buzzword-wise, and 2024 seems like it’s more of the same. OnePlus finally noticed, and so it’s starting to dip its toes into the AI game, starting with a new feature it announced today: AI Eraser. This erases unwanted bits from your photos, as many other tools by other companies […]

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Microsoft doesn’t want you to use prompt injection attacks to trick Copilot AI into spiraling out of control, and it now has the tool to prevent this

What you need to know Microsoft finally has a solution for deceitful prompt engineering techniques that trick chatbots into spiraling out of control. It also launched a tool to help users identify when a chatbot is hallucinating while generating responses.  It also has elaborate measures to help users get better at prompt engineering.  One of […]

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EU Opens Non-Compliance Investigations into Apple, Meta, and Google

Apple’s compliance with new EU laws designed to rein in the market power of big tech companies is set to be investigated by regulators, the European Commission has announced. The Commission said on Monday that non-compliance investigations have been opened against Apple, Google, and Meta, under the new Digital Markets Act (DMA). The probe into […]

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A Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Was Just Transplanted Into a Person for the First Time

Slayman received his first kidney transplant in 2018 from a human donor. The donor kidney initially functioned well, but Slayman started to go into kidney failure after years of living with diabetes. Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney disease, which can eventually result in kidney failure. He had no choice but to go on […]

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WhatsApp for Android could soon convert voice messages into text

Last month, WABetaInfo reported that WhatsApp is testing a new feature in the WhatsApp app for iOS that can transcribe voice messages. Well, the company has now started testing the same feature in the WhatsApp app for Android. According to WABetaInfo, the latest beta version of WhatsApp for Android (version 2.24.7.8) can convert the content in […]

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Samsung plans to lock you into its ecosystem with Galaxy Ring

During the Galaxy S24 launch event in January this year, Samsung teased the Galaxy Ring. At MWC 2024, the company showcased the smart ring but didn’t reveal many details about the product. Since then, we’ve been slowly and steadily getting more information about it. Today, we have some more information about the Galaxy Ring. According […]

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Be prepared for One UI 6.1 update’s wide release getting pushed into April

After making us wait for weeks for information about One UI 6.1 for older devices following the launch of the Galaxy S24 series, Samsung finally announced that the rollout of the One UI 6.1 update for some devices would start in March. Samsung said recently that the update will come out sometime in the final […]

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Microsoft thinks stuffing Bing ads into Google Chrome is offering its customers ‘choice,’ except it really isn’t that

What you need to know Microsoft finds itself at the heart of more controversy with Windows users reporting ads popping up inside Google Chrome for Bing and Copilot AI.  Some were concerned it was actually malware, but Microsoft has since confirmed it is deliberate and intended behavior.  This isn’t the first time Microsoft has hit […]

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The Designer Who’s Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge

Your city isn’t prepared for what’s coming. The classical method for dealing with stormwater is to get it out of town as quickly as possible, with gutters and sewers and canals. But more and more, that strategy is breaking down: As the atmosphere warms, it can hold more moisture, spawning ever-wetter storms that overwhelm this […]

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A beginner’s look into the Minecraft Marketplace

Whether you’re new to Minecraft or a veteran of the games, we’ve got you covered! Let’s go over the Minecraft marketplace and what it offers to players.  There are a lot of ways to get lost in this game before even beginning, so let’s make the start of your journey (or whichever point you’re at) […]

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Microsoft censors Copilot following employee whistleblowing, but you can still trick the tool into making violent and vulgar images

What you need to know Microsoft has placed new guardrails on its AI-powered Copilot following reports of the tool being able to create sexual, violent, and vulgar images. A Microsoft employee warned the company about what Copilot could be used to create back in December 2023 and wrote a letter to FTC chair Lina Khan […]

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Halo TV series Season 2, Episode 6 review: Tensions boil over into disaster

Time is against everyone on Onyx.  With competing plots colliding, the titular sixth episode of Halo The Series‘ second season brings the simmering cast to a rolling boil. Inter-service conflict has broken out on every side in the Human-Covenant war, with different revelations testing loyalties all around.  If the first few episodes of this season […]

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Galaxy Ring has already scared Oura into selling its rings on Amazon

Samsung hasn’t even launched the Galaxy Ring yet but the impending release already seems to have scared Oura into selling its Rings on Amazon. Oura is one of the incumbents in the smart ring market but the company has directly been selling its products for the past few years. It shied away from selling its […]

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