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How AREA15 Is Evolving Immersive Entertainment With Universal Horror Unleashed and More

Las Vegas immersive entertainment hub AREA15 is turning five in a big way, celebrating the arrival of its second phase of development on September 17. Zone 2’s main attraction, Universal Horror Unleashed, opened its doors over the summer to attract seasonal tourists, but the rest of the offerings are following suit as the year draws out. After io9’s invited visit to Universal Horror Unleashed, io9 chatted with Mark Stutzman, AREA15’s chief technology officer, about the new way to experience Veg

Sony’s InZone Buds are great for gaming, and right now they’re cheaper than ever

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A quality pair of headphones can make a huge difference in your gaming experience, and Sony’s InZone Buds are among the best wireless gaming earbuds available. They’re currently $143.98 ($86 off) at GameStop, dropping them to a new all-time low price. The Verge’s commerce editor, Cameron Faulkner, says they deliver excellent sound quality and versatility, with a USB-C audio transmitter that allows them to co

How the tz database works (2020)

2020-11-08 The other day I ran into this timezone issue in Ruby, and that’s when I discovered the tz database for the first time. There were almost no blog posts explaining how it works, so I decided to write one myself. We’ll be using the alpine:3.12 Docker image to test things out. What is it? The tz database is a standardized collection of timezone data and rules used by most systems worldwide to handle timezone conversions. Here are the official documentation and the source code on GitH

My Own DNS Server at Home – Part 1: IPv4

“It’s always DNS” is a famous meme among network people. Name resolution is technically quite simple. It’s “just” translating a hostname like jan.wildeboer.net to an IP address. What could possibly go wrong? I am a radical optimist and detail-obsessed knowledge collector, so I decided to find out. As part of my goal to make my home network a little island of Digital Sovereignty, meaning that everything at home should JustWork™, even with no working internet connection, a DNS server is needed. B

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Commercials Are Coming to NFL RedZone This Season... Sigh

The game of football is perfectly suited for television. Like most sports, football provides a natural break at the end of each quarter or half of play, as well as after a team scores, where the TV broadcast can cut to a commercial. Unlike other sports, a change in possession in football requires a full replacement of every player on the field, giving broadcasters additional opportunities for ad breaks as players run off and on the field. Football fans know this much before sitting down to watc

Researchers Discover Another Place Where People Live Freakishly Long

There are regions where an atypically large number of people enjoy a much longer lifespan than elsewhere on the planet. In these so-called Blue Zones—such as Ogliastra in Italy, Ikaria in Greece, Okinawa in Japan, and Martinique—the population tends to eat healthy, stay physically active, engage with a community, and live with a sense of purpose. (Why are we surprised they live longer, again?). An international team of researchers has investigated how these Blue Zone lifestyle principles apply

The Illumos Cafe: Another Cozy Corner for OS Diversity

Introducing the illumos Cafe: Another Cozy Corner for OS Diversity From the BSD Cafe to illumos Cafe The idea for this new project was born from the success of the BSD Cafe, an initiative I introduced to the world in July 2023, which received an incredibly positive response. Far more than I ever anticipated. The BSD community already had its well-established hubs: in the Fediverse, places like bsd.network, exquisite.social, and others were already thriving, not to mention all the forums, chann

I'm Enjoying Sony's New Inzone H9 II Gaming Headset, but Its Price Is Startling

Sony isn't so known for its PC gaming accessories, but it's trying to change that by leveling up and broadening its Inzone line with five new accessories. These include the upgraded flagship Inzone H9 II wireless headset ($350), Inzone E9 in-ear monitors ($150), Inzone KBD-H75 keyboard ($300), the Inzone Mouse-A gaming mouse ($150) and two mousepads, which were all developed in collaboration with the prominent esports team Fnatic, and are optimized for first-person shooters. They're available n

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Sony Inzone launches new peripherals in collaboration with Fnatic

Inzone dropped a fresh batch of gaming peripherals today. Sony introduced the Inzone line in 2022 and it offers peripherals such as monitors and earbuds for gaming consumers. The new wave of gaming gear was developed with major esports organization Fnatic, and the specs are meant to target competitive players. All of the items are available for pre-order today. The lineup includes a pair of audio devices: the Inzone H9 II Wireless Gaming Headset and the Inzone E9 In-Ear Monitor. The H9 II heads

Sony Inzone H9 II Review: The Best-Sounding Gaming Headset for PC and PS5

You don’t need to do much more to sell me on a pro-level gaming headset than Sony did with its latest Inzone H9 II. Take the Sony WH-1000XM6 ANC headphones—currently the crème de la crème in both sound quality and active noise cancellation—and stick a mic on them, wash your hands, and call it a day. It was never going to be that simple. The Sony Inzone H9 II is simply the best-sounding gaming headset you can get right now. But for $350, you expect perfection, and you won’t find that with the H9

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I'm Enjoying Sony's New Inzone H9 II Gaming Headset but Its Price Is Startling

Sony isn't so known for its PC gaming accessories, but it's trying to change that by leveling up and broadening its Inzone line with five new accessories. These include the upgraded flagship Inzone H9 II wireless headset ($350), Inzone E9 in-ear monitors ($150), Inzone KBD-H75 keyboard ($300), Inzone Mouse-A gaming mouse ($150) and two mousepads, all of which were developed in collaboration with the prominent esports team Fnatic, and are optimized for first-person shooters. They're available now

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I Tried Inzone's New Gaming Mouse. It Made My Aim Better

During a heated game of Marvel Rivals, my team raids the Asgard throne room. An enemy healer playing Dagger is in the distance, working their way down the stairs to the control point, so my job as Punisher is to pull hard and focus fire on them as soon as possible. My aim tracks their movement and I whittle away their health bar before they can retreat behind a pillar, securing an important elimination to start the fight. I owe my success in that scuffle to the Inzone Mouse-A, a wireless gaming

Sony just launched five new PC gaming peripherals, so I tried them all at once

Sony is finally ready to take on the likes of SteelSeries, Razer, and Logitech with its InZone brand of PC gaming accessories. While InZone started with monitors and headsets in 2022, with a few new products since then (including its great InZone Buds and the sleek but pricey M10S OLED), Sony is making a concerted effort to take over your desk. It just launched two new headsets, a gaming keyboard, a wireless mouse, and even a couple of mousepads, all developed alongside esports organization Fnat

Android can now give you a heads up when your phone’s time zone changes

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Android can now alert you when your device’s time zone has been automatically updated. This alert will come in the form of a notification, but you have to opt-in, first. The feature is live in the July 2025 Android Canary release and may roll out in the Android 16 QPR2 stable update. Update 1, August 6, 2025 (02:15 PM ET): The “time zone change” feature described below didn’t go live in the stable release of Android 16, but it’s finally available in the J

Show HN: Sinkzone DNS – Forwarder that blocks everything except your allowlist

What is Sinkzone? Sinkzone is a local DNS resolver that helps you eliminate distractions and get deep work done. It blocks all domains by default — only the ones you explicitly allow can get through. This means notifications, social media, news, and other time-sinks are unreachable at the network level — not just in your browser. It features a modern HTTP API, wildcard pattern support, and a beautiful terminal UI for real-time monitoring and control. It's lightweight, cross-platform, and buil

Show HN: Sinkzone DNS forwarder that blocks everything except your allowlist

What is Sinkzone? Sinkzone is a local DNS resolver that helps you eliminate distractions and get deep work done. It blocks all domains by default — only the ones you explicitly allow can get through. This means notifications, social media, news, and other time-sinks are unreachable at the network level — not just in your browser. It features a modern HTTP API, wildcard pattern support, and a beautiful terminal UI for real-time monitoring and control. It's lightweight, cross-platform, and buil

New Theory Could Dramatically Expand the Search for Aliens

The search for alien life is largely centered on finding planets in the “Goldilocks Zone”—the distance from a star where a planet could have liquid water on its surface and enough light to sustain life. But a new study offers a tantalizing possibility that other worlds, far from their host stars, may also be able to support living things, a finding that could dramatically broaden the search for extraterrestrial life. In a paper published last week in the International Journal of Astrobiology, r

Show HN: Print the daily weather forecast on a thermal receipt printer

Thermal Receipt Weather Printer Prints a daily weather forecast on an ESC/POS thermal printer, such as the "Bisofice Mini BT thermal receipt printer". Dependencies | Setup | Usage | Cron Dependencies Python 3 Pillow : The Python imaging library. : The Python imaging library. ImageMagick: For converting SVG icons to a printable format. Setup Install dependencies: On Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install imagemagick python3-pil On other systems, install ImageMagick via

With Trump’s cutbacks, crew heads for ISS unsure of when they’ll come back

The next four-person team to live and work aboard the International Space Station departed from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, taking aim at the massive orbiting research complex for a planned stay of six to eight months. Spacecraft commander Zena Cardman leads the mission, designated Crew-11, that lifted off from Florida's Space Coast at 11:43 am EDT (15:43 UTC) on Friday. Sitting to her right inside SpaceX's Crew Dragon Endeavour capsule was veteran NASA astronaut Mike Finc

Cybercrime forum Leak Zone publicly exposed its users’ IP addresses

A self-styled “leaking and cracking forum” where users advertise and share breached databases, stolen credentials, and pirated software was leaking the IP addresses of its logged-in users to the open web, security researchers have found. Leak Zone left an Elasticsearch database exposed to the internet without a password, according to researchers at UpGuard. In a blog post shared with TechCrunch ahead of its publication, the researchers said they discovered the database on July 18 and found its

Starlink Plans to Send 42K Satellites Into Space. That Could Be Bad News for the Ozone

Satellites like the ones used for Starlink's internet service could be depleting the Earth's ozone layer when they're deorbited, according to a study funded by NASA and published in Geophysical Research Letters in June. 2024. When Starlink's satellites reach the end of their lives, they burn up in the Earth's atmosphere and leave behind small particles of aluminum oxide. These travel down into the ozone layer, which absorbs harmful ultraviolet radiation. Researchers from the University of South

Zone 2 Cardio: Pros, Cons and Tips From Experts

Zone 2 cardio is one of the latest trends in fitness activity that may have you questioning if it is something you should add to your routine. Here's what you'll want to know before you start. It is a low-intensity, steady-state workout that allows you to sustain effort for an extended period while primarily using fat as fuel, says Gene Schafer, a NATABOC-certified athletic trainer and NSCA-certified strength and conditioning specialist. It means working at 60 to 70% of your maximum heart rate.

How to Think About Time in Programming

How to Think About Time in Programming Date published: Jun 23, 2025 Time handling is everywhere in software, but many programmers talk about the topic with dread and fear. Some warn about how difficult the topic is to understand, listing bizarre timezone edge cases as evidence of complexity. Others repeat advice like "just use UTC bro" as if it were an unconditional rule - if your program needs precise timekeeping or has user-facing datetime interactions, this advice will almost certainly caus

Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

🎯 Claude Code Usage Monitor A beautiful real-time terminal monitoring tool for Claude AI token usage. Track your token consumption, burn rate, and get predictions about when you'll run out of tokens. 📑 Table of Contents ✨ Features 🔄 Real-time monitoring - Updates every 3 seconds with smooth refresh - Updates every 3 seconds with smooth refresh 📊 Visual progress bars - Beautiful color-coded token and time progress bars - Beautiful color-coded token and time progress bars 🔮 Smart predictions

Dyson Has Killed Its Bizarre Zone Air-Purifying Headphones

“No, this is not an elaborate April fool”. This is how WIRED first reported on the Dyson Zone at the end of March 2022. The Zone was a wild reimagining of an established product type—a big, bulky pair of headphones with an integrated air-purification mechanism that presented rather unfortunately like a high-tech gimp mask. A solution to a problem no consumer seemed willing to acknowledge existed in the first place. Worse was to follow. December 2022: “Dyson’s hellish-looking air-purifying heads

MLB is testing robotic umpires in Spring Training, eyes 2026 implementation

Forward-looking: Major League Baseball is testing a computerized system for calling balls and strikes during spring training exhibition games. This Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS), which has been in development for four years in the minor leagues, could aid MLB home plate umpires as early as 2026. The ABS uses a network of cameras installed in stadiums to track each pitch and determine whether it crosses home plate within the strike zone. The current iteration uses Hawk-Eye pose-tracking cam