Kuo: iPhone 16 Pro gets periscope, new ultrawide, iPhone 17 with a serious front camera

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has outlined the major upgrades coming to the 2024 and 2025 iPhone lineups in his latest report. The iPhone 16 Pro will gain the tetraprism zoom camera from the iPhone 15 Pro Max and alongside the bump in screen size to 6.27-inch is expected to become quite the upgrade. Furthermore, both iPhone […]

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“Japanese publishers need Xbox to expand,” says ex-PlayStation exec as Microsoft gets serious about Japan

What you need to know Microsoft has a new exec in charge of Japanese gaming partnerships for Xbox.  Mena Kato, former PlayStation exec, described in a new interview how Japanese publishers “need” Xbox to grow their businesses.  Xbox has secured the support of Sega, Capcom, and more recently Square Enix in its battle for relevancy […]

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It’s Time to Get Serious About Carbon Removal

If only 5 percent of offsets actually remove carbon, how do we scale up that side of the market? The main challenge is that carbon removal is still at a very early stage and expensive. The average removal offset is, let’s say, $200 a ton. Whereas the average emissions-avoidance offset is about $5 dollars a […]

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Serious Brain Trauma Starts Well Before Young Athletes Go Pro

McKee, who is also the director of neuropathology for Veterans Affairs Boston, began studying the brains of former NFL players 15 years ago. She couldn’t believe what she saw: big lesions in the crevices of the brain, dotted with abnormal protein clusters. A huge Packers fan, McKee has watched a lot of football games. But, […]

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iOS 16.6.1 update patches serious Pegasus spyware vulnerability

If you’ve been keeping up with the spying world as of late, then the Pegasus spyware might ring some bells. Israel-based cyber-arms company NSO Group develops the software and has the capability of reading a target’s text messages, listening in on calls, tracking their location and more. The software made headlines after it was discovered […]

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Game faster and save big with WD Black SN850X gaming SSDs at a serious discount

Last year, Western Digital expanded its gaming line of WD_BLACK game drives with the super-fast SN850X Internal SSD PCIe Gen 4 x4 NVMe. These drives offer fast read speeds up to 7,300 MB/s and write speeds up to 6,350 MB/s. Plus, they are available with storage capacities of 1TB, 2TB, or 4TB. As you can […]

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GameSir launch a new controller and its giving serious retro vibes

What you need to know The GameSir-T4 Kaleid is a wired controller with pro features and is compatible with Windows PC, Android and Nintendo Switch.  The controller has similar tech to the GameSir G7, and is transparent with cool personalized audio reactive lighting effects. It’s available today directly from GameSir fo r$41.99 US / £41.99 […]

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NASA Is Getting Really Serious About Tracking Air Pollution

It will also be able to track variations in pollution at the neighborhood scale. Lefer foresees this being especially useful for exposing environmental injustice, since lower income and racially segregated areas are more likely to be near emissions sources like ports or refineries. “And satellite data can show that,” he says. Weather forecasting will benefit, too: […]

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Galaxy A33 5G gets update to fix some serious Exynos security flaws

Samsung has released a new security update to the Galaxy A33 5G in some countries. Although we are well into the month of April 2023, the South Korean firm has now started rolling out the March 2023 security update that fixes some of the serious security flaws discovered in Galaxy smartphones and tablets with Exynos […]

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Here are Overwatch 2’s ‘very serious’ April Fools’ Day patch notes

What you need to know For April Fools’ Day, Overwatch 2 developer Blizzard typically updates the game so that every hero has animated googly eyes on their face. This year, the studio has gone above and beyond by also updating Arcade Mode with a huge number of silly balance changes that significantly alter what each […]

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Xbox has serious cloud competition from NVIDIA’s recent GeForce Now upgrades

It’s the year of cloud gaming. At least, that’s how it feels when you notice how many companies are giving this unique platform serious attention despite Google spectacularly fumbling the bag on Stadia. It’s an exciting prospect that spent a long time in obscurity, restricting its infant years to a niche crowd mainly because the […]

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You Can Use This Silly Game to Do Some Serious Physics

I’m a sucker for interesting online games that don’t have a score or even a goal. In this case, it’s a cartoon space simulator to promote the book What If? 2 by Randall Munroe, the author of the xkcd comics. You can play it by clicking here. (Don’t worry, I’ll wait.) The game works like […]

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Lenovo’s refreshed ThinkBook 16p (Gen 3) gets a serious buff with AMD Ryzen 6000 H-series CPUs and NVIDIA RTX 3060 Laptop GPU

What you need to know Lenovo has announced the updated ThinkBook 16p (Gen 3) at IFA 2022. It features AMD’s Ryzen 6000 H-series mobile CPUs, up to a NVIDIA RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, and a 16-inch 2.5K display with up to a 165Hz refresh rate, HDR 400, and Dolby Vision. It’s available starting today in […]

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Oppo Watch 3 Pro flaunts serious curves alongside Oppo Watch 3

Oppo has officially unveiled the Oppo Watch 3 and Watch 3 Pro with the duo launching in China first packing Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon W5 chip. Announced on the same day as the arrival of the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Watch 5 Pro, Oppo’s flagship follows the launch of the Oppo Watch 2, which […]

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Update Google Chrome on your phone now to avoid a serious security risk

Google Chrome is the most popular web browser in the world. Since it ships by default on all Android phones, chances are you’re already using it, even if your device has another browser like Samsung Internet. A severe security risk has been identified that makes your device vulnerable. Fortunately, Google has patched it. All you […]

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Sci-Fi Needs More Dark, Serious Animation

David S. F. Wilson is the director of “Sonnie’s Edge,” one of the most popular episodes of the Netflix series Love, Death + Robots. Wilson believes that computer animation holds a great deal of untapped potential when it comes to serious science fiction. “Directing animation is like directing in slow motion,” Wilson says in Episode […]

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Qualcomm’s new wearable chips might give Samsung’s Exynos W920 serious competition

Qualcomm chipsets power most Android smartphones and Wear OS smartwatches across the globe. However, the last hardware that the company produced for wearables was in 2020, which was the Snapdragon 4100 and 4100+ chipsets. It really needed to refresh its wearable chipsets, and it seems like the updated chips are finally on their way. As per […]

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Apple Fined Another €5 Million Over Dating Apps as Dutch Regulators Say Apple Has ‘Refused to Put Forward Any Serious Proposals’

Dutch regulators have levied another fine of €5 million against Apple in a continued dispute over alternative payment systems for dating apps. Apple’s total fines have now reached €25 million as regulators assess weekly fines up to a total of €50 million or until Apple satisfies the regulatory requirements. In a statement shared with TechCrunch, […]

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Serious, Salty Trouble Is Brewing Under Antarctic Glaciers

Antarctica’s glaciers are under threat, but not in the way you’re thinking: The problem isn’t so much that the sun’s beating down on them, but that the warming sea is upper-cutting them. The bit of a glacier that’s resting on land is known as an ice sheet, and the bit floating on the ocean is […]

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PlatinumGames’ Hideki Kamiya is ‘totally serious’ about reviving Scalebound

One of the greatest tragedies of the Xbox One-era of console gaming for many fans was the reveal and subsequent cancelation years later of Xbox exclusive RPG Scalebound. The monster-slaying adventure title was being developed by Bayonetta and Nier: Automata creators PlatinumGames in partnership with Microsoft, but failed to come to fruition after years of […]

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