The black-and-white portable console of the future
No-gen portable gaming.‘Firewatch’ publisher’s Playdate gaming handheld has a black-and-white screen, and a crank Veteran software developer, Panic (best known for writing Transmit and publishing Firewatch), has unveiled a handheld game system, Playdate, that aims to break the rules of game consoles. There’s a flip-out crank More...
‘Overwatch’ Anniversary event brings custom Workshop games to all
Over the last three years, you’ve escorted endless payloads, captured countless points, and booped oodles of enemies. Now that’s something to celebrate! Welcome to Overwatch Anniversary 2019! 🎉🎁🎂 More...
Huawei’s bad news and ‘Game of Thrones’
This could have a devastating effect on Huawei’s business.Intel, Qualcomm and other chipmakers cut off supplies to Huawei Following the news over the weekend that Google was halting the delivery of software More...
Facebook Research is developing touchy-feely curious robots
“Much of our work in robotics is focused on self-supervised learning, in which systems learn directly from raw data so they can adapt to new tasks and new circumstances,” a team of researchers from More...
NASA’s Astrobee cube robot completes first hardware tests in space
The robot and one of its companions, Honey, flew to the station on April 17th. When in service, the Astrobee robots will effectively become spaceborne Roombas — they’ll test how well robots can handle More...
Next ‘Apex Legends’ update addresses audio issues
Since the explosive launch of Apex Legends and its deliberately quieter evolution over the last few months, the game is still dealing with some annoying issues. According to the team at Respawn, an update coming More...
NASA teams up with SpaceX, Blue Origin to design a human lunar lander
The agency is hoping the initiative could lead to the development of a human landing system that includes a transfer vehicle astronauts can use from its proposed orbital moon base called the Gateway to low-lunar More...
SpaceX is launching 60 Starlink internet satellites
The drone maker fights back.DJI Osmo Action review: A worthy GoPro rival DJI’s first action camera comes out fighting, with a price and feature set that should grab GoPro’s (and your) attention. More...
The Morning After: OnePlus 7 Pro review
The first EV worthy of that three-pronged logo.Mercedes’ all-electric EQC is luxury first, EV second The EQC 400 4Matic will arrive in US showrooms sometime in 2020, at which point, it will join a growing More...
Vodafone will launch the UK’s first 5G service on July 3rd
There are some caveats, of course. To start with it’ll be available in just seven cities: Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool and London. As the press blurb says, these “will More...