Published on: 2025-05-02 16:20:00
Microtransactions — small purchases that gamers make on items like costumes or gestures in games including Fortnite and Roblox — continue to account for the majority of PC gaming revenue, rising to 58% of revenue for game companies, according to a report from research firm Newzoo. Money coming in from PC gaming microtransactions rose by 1.4%, accounting for $24.4 billion of the overall $37.3 billion in PC gaming sales in 2024, according to The PC and Console Gaming Report 2025. Downloadable co
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 16:30:00
In early March, Karen Kama woke up early to hand out flyers in her neighborhood. She wanted people to know about a program at her local library in Reading, Pennsylvania, that helps people learn how to use the internet. Two out of every three residents in Reading are Hispanic, so Kama's flyers have one side in Spanish and one side in English. It was only one year ago that Kama started using the internet herself. She described for me a whole world opening up to her: using Google to translate con
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 17:00:06
Some T-Mobile customers were jolted this week to discover that up to 50 cents per line is being added to their plans as an increase to an existing regulatory fee. A half-dollar addition might normally have barely registered, but with tariffs dominating the news, it's not surprising that people's price sensitivity is on high alert. Beginning April 23, 2025, the Regulatory Programs and Telco Recovery Fee on voice lines increases from $3.49 per line to $4 per line every month. Mobile internet line
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 17:53:16
The most hand-wavy one to me is the impression matching. Rosemary smells cold, and Fernet-Branca tastes cold even when it's room temperature. If the scent has rosemary, is Fernet now a good match for that? Some of the neuroscience stuff that I've read has indicated that these more abstract ideas are represented by the same sort of neural-firing patterns. Initially, I was hesitant; cold and cold, it doesn't feel as fulfilling to me. But then I did some more reading and realized there's some scien
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 14:00:00
The lighter creates a tiny spark that jumps from one wire to the other in the front pair. This spark creates electromagnetic waves, with the two wires serving as transmission antennas to amplify the waves. The two wires in back are the receiving antennas, and they will produce an electric current just like with Hertz’s loop of wire. Instead of creating a spark on the receiver, on my device the light bulb will turn on. The neon bulb is really nice since it's high-voltage but low-current, which is
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 17:01:04
Tariffs, another chaotic venture of the barely four-month-old Trump administration, are set to rollick every sector of the economy and nearly all the goods and services people use across the world. But tariffs could also cause the tech in your phone and other devices you use every day to stagnate as supply chains are hit by the rise in costs and companies scramble to balance the books by cutting vital development research. Let’s get a couple important caveats out of the way here, starting with
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is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Toshiba has announced a new record player designed for vinyl enthusiasts who want to make their analog music collections more portable. The Aurex AX-RP10 is by no means pocket-friendly like Sony’s Walkman or Apple’s iPod, but it’s small enough to haul around in an included shoulder bag while still accommodating 12-inch records, and it can be used
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 17:50:48
is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. Two weeks ago, Garmin announced it was launching a new subscription. Where the Garmin Connect app had previously offered everything from in-depth metrics and training plans for free, the beloved fitness tech company was now adding premium AI summaries, among other features, behind a paywall. In The Verge comments, my social media ment
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 16:56:33
Back in 2010, when Matt Rogers founded Nest with Tony Fadell, home heating and cooling wasn’t exactly an area you’d think two ex-Apple engineers would be obsessing about. That fixation defined a new category of product, the smart thermostat, which is now serving as a beachhead for other companies’ smart home ambitions, even as Google lets Nest whither on the vine, killing products that were once core to the company. “Nest is not necessarily doing everything that I set them out to do years ago,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 17:00:00
The business of moving goods in the United States is dominated by trucks, which handle about two-thirds of the 20.2 billion tons of freight that’s transported annually. Parallel Systems founder and CEO, Matt Soule, wants to change that by putting a modern autonomous and electric twist on the centuries-old railroad system. The Los Angeles-based company is building battery-powered autonomous freight technology that works with existing freight cars and integrates with existing train control softwa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 17:46:55
In Brief Ireland’s data regulator, the Data Protection Commission (DPC), said Friday that it has opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over the social media platform’s use of personal data collected from European users to train Grok. The DPC will investigate how X processes personal data “comprised” in publicly accessible posts by European users for the purposes of training generative AI models, according to a Reuters report. The powerful Irish privacy regulator has issued fines to Micros
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 17:49:09
Digital payments platform Stripe invites customers to join its management team meetings on a bi-weekly basis so it can get “candid feedback,” according to co-founder Patrick Collison. In an April 8 post on X, the fintech giant’s CEO said the company has a customer join for the first 30 minutes of the meeting, which is attended by about 40 leaders “from across Stripe.” “Even though we already have a lot of customer feedback mechanisms, it somehow always spurs new thoughts and investigations,” h
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 21:36:00
In context: Microsoft released Edge 134 last month with several new features, improvements, and bug fixes. The company now claims that this latest version also brings "significant" performance gains, including up to 9 percent faster rendering times on the Speedometer 3.0 benchmark. According to the official Microsoft blog post, Edge 134 offers 1.7 percent faster navigation times, 2 percent faster startup times, and 5 - 7 percent better web page responsiveness compared to Edge 133. The results c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 20:08:57
Late last year, billionaire Elon Musk vowed to cut $2 trillion from the government's budget with the help of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency. It didn't take long for that number to drop to $1 trillion, indicating little thought had gone into the original calculation. And judging by the latest news, DOGE is woefully behind even that target. As the New York Times reports, Musk told president Donald Trump this week that DOGE anticipated "savings in '26 from reduction of waste an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 20:00:42
Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 The Pixel Buds Pro 2 are a perfect extension of Google's ecosystem. They take an already excellent pair of buds and make them more comfortable and more capable. When it comes to in-ear Bluetooth buds, I’m a very picky person. Most models are too large, cause too much pressure in my ear, and eventually end up being too painful to use for more than 30 minutes. Very few exceptions have eschewed this pattern, namely Nothing’s Ear series and the Google Pixel Buds Pro. So, you
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 21:49:02
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Chrome 135 brings an edge-to-edge layout to Android, letting web content extend behind the gesture bar. The update is rolling out gradually via a server-side switch. For now, it only works on small-screen devices using gesture navigation, not tablets or three-button navigation. Google is starting to roll out a more immersive look for Chrome on Android, bringing an edge-to-edge layout that uses more of your phone’s screen. The change was first debuted
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 21:26:55
9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is all we do. Our unique integrated approach to management and security combines state-of-the-art Apple-specific security solutions for fully automated Hardening & Compliance, Next Generation EDR, AI-powered Zero Trust, and exclusive Privilege Management with the most powerful and modern Apple MDM on the market. The result is a totally automated Appl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 21:44:31
Your Friday edition of the best Apple deals is starting off with a straight up $200 price drop on the 13-inch 512GB M4 iPad Pro in Space Black – but you can also score this one a $345 off in open-box condition with a full Apple warranty. Then it’s on to the new M4 MacBook Air lineup – some new all-time lows have hit alongside the $110 off open-box deals – as well as a series of particularly notable accessory deals. We have an exclusive 50% off all Burton Goods leather iPhone cases and wallets al
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 21:46:17
iOS 18.4 arrived late last month packed with a variety of new features, including an upgrade you might have missed that provides a fast way to open your go-to conversations in the Messages app. Here’s how it works. Messages now supports shortcuts to launch specific conversations Apple’s Messages app has received some solid upgrades in recent months, such as Genmoji, Image Playground, emoji tapbacks, scheduled messages, and more. In iOS 18.4, there’s another new Messages feature that’s enabled
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 21:16:07
WhatsApp just rolled out a dozen new features . Most of these are small, but they add up to a fairly substantial software update. Let’s go over some of the more notable additions. Chats now allow for tappable reactions, which is basically like adding a thumbs up to someone else’s reaction. Group chats feature an indicator that lets users know how many people are actually online. This will be right underneath the group name. Solo conversations now offer the ability to create an event, complete w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 20:59:00
'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or
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Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Following a series of delays and pauses, Microsoft is giving its problematic Recall feature another shot. It was tested last fall in the Dev Channel as an early, experimental feature, but it is now gradually rolling out in the Release Preview Channel. Now available in preview In a blog post published Thursday, the company announced that Recall is now available in preview mode for Windows Insiders running Windows 11 24H2 build 26100.3902. Available only on Copilot+ PCs, thi
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Harvard has made little comment about Ms. Petrova’s detention. A spokeswoman said this week that the university “is closely following the rapidly shifting immigration policy landscape and the implications for its international scholars and students,” and is “engaged with Ms. Petrova’s attorney on this matter.” Many in the research community there only learned about it two weeks ago, when Ms. Petrova’s co-workers started a GoFundMe appeal to help pay her legal expenses. The news sent shudders th
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The way bonobos combine vocal sounds to create new meanings suggests the evolutionary building blocks of human language are shared with our closest relatives A female bonobo at Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Lukas Bierhoff, Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project Bonobos combine their calls in a complex way that forms distinct phrases, a sign that this type of syntax is more evolutionarily ancient than previously thought. Human language, often described as the ha
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Hi, my name is Anguel and I am one of the developers of WhoDB ( https://github.com/clidey/whodb I am not a fan of the dbeaver, beekeeper, adminer, etc experience because they are bloated, ugly, and at best okay but not great. Hence why I started working on WhoDB. The approach: - browser-based (chrome/firefox) - no bloat - jupyter notebook-like experience (Scratchpad) - built-in AI co-pilot with ollama (local) or openai/anthropic We just shipped query history and replay (time travel?) to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 21:25:13
In computer graphics, we rarely encounter continuous data. We often work with digital data, and in the context of geometric modeling, this means we typically work with polygon meshes rather than procedural surfaces like Bézier patches. The most popular technique for constructing digital three-dimensional objects in dedicated modeling software is polygon modeling. The result of the creation phase is a set of polygons (mesh), where the polygons in the mesh can share vertices and edges with other p
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Every summer, an area of deep underwater canyons off western Australia’s south coast called Bremer Canyon becomes the preferred feeding ground for marine predators including sharks, pilot whales, beaked whales, and the highly intelligent orcas. As such, Bremer Canyon has become a popular whale-watching destination. This week, a pod of orcas put on a gruesome show. On Monday, tourists and researchers on a tour boat at Bremer Canyon witnessed a pod of over 60 orcas hunt and kill a roughly 59-foot
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 21:35:00
Tesla is facing the consequences of President Trump’s tariff strategy. While the company’s U.S. business is somewhat cushioned from import tariffs because it is more vertically integrated than other carmakers, Tesla’s business elsewhere faces retaliatory tariffs on imports of its cars. Bloomberg first reported that Tesla has stopped taking orders for its high-end Model S and Model X vehicles in China because the company imports those into the market. Tesla produces the more affordable Model 3 a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 21:35:30
In a world of tinny portable speakers, the Bose SoundLink Flex stands apart. This rugged little powerhouse delivers the kind of rich, room-filling sound that makes you wonder how something so compact can sound so big. With advanced PositionIQ technology that automatically optimizes audio based on the speaker’s orientation, it’s like having a sound engineer in your pocket, ensuring perfect audio whether you’re at the beach, on a hiking trail, or relaxing in your backyard. See at Amazon Currentl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 20:47:49
Samsung's latest update to its smart home system can help you figure out if things like the temperature of your home is hindering your sleep at night. And that's only one of the changes to the SmartThings platform announced Wednesday. Enlarge Image Samsung/Tharon Green/CNET The new features also include support for the Matter 1.4 smart home standard, meaning you can connect devices like solar panels, home batteries, heat pumps and water heaters to your SmartThings system. "SmartThings' latest
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