Gadget News
Boston Dynamics' Spot robot "dog" has joined the fight against COVID-19
Slash Gear - 24 Apr 2020 04:17
It might not have the most comforting appearance but it will at least be saving lives. The smaller version of the company’s “Big Dog”, Boston Dynamics is putting the robot Spot to work as a frontliner in hospitals ...
Google Assistant tweak boosts its ability to recognize your voice
Engadget - 24 Apr 2020 03:31
Google is making it easier to get personalized results from Assistant even if you share a device with multiple users. The tech giant has upgraded Assistant's Voice Match feature so that your device can more accurately id...
The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K just got a lot more affordable
Slash Gear - 24 Apr 2020 16:04
Blackmagic Design’s popular Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K is getting a price cut, with $500 being trimmed off the EF mount shooter. Announced back in August last year, the most recent addition to Blackmagic’s ra...
Google Will Make All Advertisers Prove They Are Who They Say They Are
Gizmodo - 24 Apr 2020 03:39
Google will soon begin vetting all advertisers with the same identity verification requirements that previously only applied to political advertisers, John Canfield, Google's director of product management for ads integr...
Facebook Pulls Down 'Interested in Pseudoscience' Ad Category With Over 78 Million Users
Gizmodo - 24 Apr 2020 02:00
Facebook has removed an ad targeting category for users it has identified as interested in "pseudoscience" after a report in the Markup highlighting how it was being used to market to conspiracy theorists.
Adobe Created a Tool That Could Make Building Accessible Websites as Easy as Using Spell Check
Gizmodo - 24 Apr 2020 17:00
A good web designer ensures that a site looks nice and functions properly across various devices and browsers. A great web designer, however, also ensures the site is accessible to all who visit, including those with vis...
Nintendo: 160,000 accounts hacked - here's what happens next
Slash Gear - 24 Apr 2020 16:38
Earlier this week, we heard reports of Nintendo Switch owners dealing with unauthorized login attempts with their Nintendo accounts. Today, Nintendo broke its silence on the matter, issuing an alert in which it confirmed...
Huawei nova 7 series promise 5G for the Chinese masses
Slash Gear - 24 Apr 2020 04:59
If not for the COVID-19 outbreak, carriers and phone makers would all be buzzing about 5G phones these days. They still do to some extent but almost all of those are found only inside expensive premium flagships. Few try...
Galaxy Note 20 changes is a mixed bag of disappointment and hope
Slash Gear - 24 Apr 2020 03:26
It is often the case that newer phones build upon previous generations, more often adding new features or improving existing ones. There are times, however, when companies have to take a step back and assess the situatio...
Coronavirus Death Toll Has Now Surpassed 50,000 in the U.S.
Gizmodo - 24 Apr 2020 23:55
The number of deaths being attributed to the novel coronavirus has now exceeded 50,000, according to data maintained by Johns Hopkins University.
Animal Crossing's Nature Day Exposes How Worthless Earth Day Is
Gizmodo - 24 Apr 2020 23:10
In the world of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, there's no such thing as Earth Day. This video game full of cute anthropomorphic villagers celebrates Nature Day instead. Like everything else in the game, Animal Crossing h...
Look at All This Oil
Gizmodo - 24 Apr 2020 22:53
Some truly bananas footage from the U.S. Coast Guard shows dozens of oil tankers anchored off of the coast of California, from Long Beach to the San Francisco Bay, stuck without anywhere to unload.
Apple and Google change coronavirus contact tracing after privacy pushback
Slash Gear - 24 Apr 2020 22:37
Apple and Google’s coronavirus contact tracing system is getting some pre-launch tweaks, with the iOS and Android makers responding to privacy concerns about the new healthcare tool. Announced earlier this month, the c...
There Probably Won't Be a Miracle Cure for Covid-19
Gizmodo - 24 Apr 2020 22:13
A string of recent developments in covid-19 research is providing an important, if deeply depressing, lesson about the disease and the coronavirus that causes it. Despite the continued optimism of President Trump, there'...
Tiny nanocardboard aircraft may zoom around Mars in the future
Slash Gear - 24 Apr 2020 21:59
Engineers with Penn State have introduced a new potential way for researchers to explore the atmosphere on other planets: nanocardboard. Specifically, the engineers envision something like nanocardboard ‘flyers,’ whi...
NASA Rocket Scientists Designed a Rapid-Production Ventilator in Just 37 Days
Gizmodo - 24 Apr 2020 21:30
Introducing VITAL, a prototype ventilator designed expressly for quick and easy mass production. Developed by NASA engineers, the device could alleviate ongoing supply shortages in the U.S. and around the world as the co...
Nomad's Super Long Kevlar Charging Cable Makes Quarantine a Little Bit Easier
Gizmodo - 24 Apr 2020 21:30
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Get a Glimpse at Star Wars Rebels' Ships, Tech, and Shiny Lightsabers in This Gorgeous Artbook
Gizmodo - 24 Apr 2020 21:30
Star Wars Rebels was a stepping stone between the work done (and still being done) by Clone Wars and the end of the prequels, and bridging the gap to the aesthetic made iconic by the original Star Wars. Rebels had to wal...
Be like Elijah Wood when you play Animal Crossing: New Horizons online
Slash Gear - 24 Apr 2020 21:26
When it comes to making money in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, one of the best methods is playing the Stalk Market. Every Sunday, players buy up piles of turnips and then try to sell them at high prices throughout the w...
Facebook Messenger Rooms released to beat Zoom at group video chat
Slash Gear - 24 Apr 2020 21:23
Facebook released free-to-use Messenger Rooms, allowing multiple people to do video chat in a single array of windows at one time. Using this platform is relatively simple if all users already have a Facebook account and...
Riot outlines how Valorant's competitive mode will work
Engadget - 24 Apr 2020 21:19
Valorant players will soon be able to put their skills to the test. Riot Games announced today that it plans to add a competitive mode to its already popular first-person shooter "soon after" the release of the game's up...
Your Nintendo Account May Have Been Exposed, So Here's How to Enable 2FA
Gizmodo - 24 Apr 2020 21:15
Following a growing number of reports of Nintendo users claiming their accounts had been hacked, Nintendo has confirmed that roughly 160,000 may have been accessed and exposed personally identifiable information about th...