The Morning After: You can write on Amazon’s newest Kindle
Amazon’s barrage of new hardware included something many of you might have been waiting for: a Kindle e-reader with stylus support. Yes, the Kindle Scribe comes with a magnetic stylus and a 10.2-inch,...
View ArticleThe UK needs a better plan to heat its homes than hydrogen
The case for heating homes with hydrogen rather than natural gas appears to be dead. In the UK, hydrogen has become an important part of the debate around decarbonizing home heating. 85 percent of all...
View ArticleSquare makes Tap to Pay on iPhone available to all US sellers
Square has publicly launched its Tap to Pay solution for the iPhone after running an early access program these past few months. That means sellers across the US can now use the company's Point of Sale...
View ArticleSonos Sub Mini review: The practical sub we’ve been waiting for
Finally, Sonos has a subwoofer that's more affordable and practical for smaller spaces, the Sub Mini. It only took 10 years to get here. Sonos' original wireless Sub, which debuted in 2012, has always...
View ArticleMeta's new Make-a-Video AI can generate quick movie clips from text prompts
Meta unveiled its Make-a-Scene text-to-image generation AI in July, which like Dall-E and Midjourney, utilizes machine learning algorithms (and massive databases of scraped online artwork) to create...
View ArticleAdobe brings guided edits and AI animated photos to Photoshop Elements 2023
Ahead of its annual MAX event next month, Adobe has unveiled the 2023 version of its non-subscription Elements products. As with yearspast, the highlights are new AI features like animation for...
View ArticleEpix will relaunch its streaming service as MGM+ next year
Add more brands to the list of those hopping aboard the "+" service bandwagon. To begin, MGM is relaunching its movie-oriented Epix streaming service and TV channel as MGM+ on January 15th, 2023. It...
View ArticlePeloton fitness gear will soon be available at Dick's Sporting Goods
It's been a turbulent year for Peloton to say the least. Part of the company's plan to right the ship is to offer its connected fitness gear through third-party retailers. It started selling equipment...
View ArticleTeenage Engineering's PO-80 Record Factory both cuts and plays vinyl
Teenage Engineering is best known these days for its electronic music-making gear, but now it has an option for creating physical copies of those tunes. The Swedish brand has released a PO-80 Record...
View ArticleJames Webb and Hubble telescope images capture DART asteroid collision
NASA made history this week after an attempt to slam its DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft into an asteroid nearly 7 million miles away proved successful. While NASA shared some...
View ArticleGoogle is (unsurprisingly) shutting down Stadia in January
Despite claims to the contrary as recently as July, Google is shutting down its Stadia games streaming service after just three years. The company says players will still have access to their games and...
View Article'Mythic Quest' season 3 debuts November 11th on Apple TV+
It's been nearly a year and a half, but you'll soon get to find out what happens next in Mythic Quest. Apple has revealed that season three of its game developer comedy series will debut on TV+...
View ArticleNative Instruments pads out its Komplete 14 suite with some welcome new toys
Komplete, Native Instruments' flagship music production bundle, has a little bit of everything. That's always been part of its appeal. It's pricey, but you get monstersynths, a top-notch drum sampler,...
View ArticlePS5 launch title 'Sackboy: A Big Adventure' is coming to PC on October 27th
Sackboy: A Big Adventure has joined the rapidly expanding list of PlayStation games that Sony is bringing to PC. The PS5 launch title (which is also available on PS4) will pop up on Steam and the Epic...
View ArticleAI is already better at lip reading than we are
They Shall Not Grow Old, a 2018 documentary about the lives and aspirations of British and New Zealand soldiers living through World War I from acclaimed Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson, had...
View ArticleMeta reportedly suspends all hiring, warns staff of possible layoffs
As with many other industries, the tech sector has been feeling the squeeze of the global economic slowdown this year. Meta isn't immune to that. Reports in May suggested that the company would slow...
View ArticleMSI Stealth 15M review: Coasting on its good looks
It's only natural that a person's tastes and preferences change over time. So after years of thirsting for big, beefy gaming laptops with shiny lights, I've started gravitating towards more understated...
View ArticleTwitter embraces TikTok-style ‘immersive’ video
Videos on Twitter will now look a lot more like TikTok. The company announced that it’s switching to a full-screen “immersive” video player for watching clips. It’s also borrowing the now-familiar...
View ArticleIntel claims its Arc A770 and A750 GPUs will outperform NVIDIA's mid-range...
Ahead of bringing its Arc desktop GPUs to everyone in a couple of weeks, Intel has revealed more details about what to expect from the graphics cards in terms of specs and performance. The A770, which...
View ArticleElon Musk's texts with Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal detail tumultuous...
A tranche of Elon Musk’s private messages have been made public as part of his ongoing lawsuit with Twitter. The messages, revealed in a court filing Thursday, shed new light on Musk’s...
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