Microsoft has spent the past 10 years embracing open-source software and, at several points, even admitting it loves Linux and the open source community. The Linux Foundation even praised Microsoft for working with the open source community after the company joined the foundation nearly five years ago. All of this goodwill could be about to … Read more
Techtober continues with a deep dive into Apple’s latest MacBook Pros, powered by the new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips. Cherlynn and Devindra also chat about what’s new with the Pixel 6, and Mr. Mobile himself () joins to break down the Surface Duo 2. It turns out Microsoft needed more than a year … Read more
Overwatch’s outlaw bounty hunter, Jesse McCree, has a new name: He’s Cole Cassidy now, developer Blizzard Entertainment announced via Twitter on Friday. That new name will start appearing in Overwatch on Oct. 26. Blizzard changed McCree’s name as part of a broader plan to remove references to real-life developers and former employees of the studio … Read more
As if this lick-tokker’s image wasn’t already in the toilet. A TikTok influencer who licked a toilet as a pandemic “challenge” has gone viral yet again after claiming she found her own father on a sugar daddy website. Ava Louise posted a video detailing her purported cringe-worthy discovery currently which boasts nearly a million views … Read more
Jesse McCree, Overwatch’s cowboy hero, has been renamed Cole Cassidy. The name change is part of a number of updates Blizzard is making to its games to remove references to problematic people or themes that have come to light in the wake of several discrimination and harassment suits filed against the company. Last month, World … Read more
For a while now, Discord has offered a feature called . It’s an API developers can use to connect their games to Discord and make it easier to jump into them from the chat app. We’ve mostly seen studios add the integration to individual titles, but now EA is doing it at the launcher level. … Read more
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune has finally arrived, along with its stacked cast of Hollywood’s most handsome faces. Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya! Rebecca Ferguson and Oscar Isaac! Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Jason Momoa, Javier Bardem! But there’s a dark secret hiding behind those beautiful faces. A secret that Dune, as faithful an adaptation as it is, has … Read more
There’s more trouble in Zuck-town. A new Facebook whistleblower has reportedly emerged, dishing to US regulators that an official at the social network in 2017 blew off concerns about hate speech as a “flash in the pan,” adding that while “some legislators will get pissy” Facebook is “printing money in the basement.” The whistleblower told … Read more
NASA is aiming to fly its massive, next-generation rocket, the Space Launch System, for the first time in February of 2022, a critical test flight on NASA’s journey to send people back to the Moon. However, plenty of tests still need to go well before the much-delayed vehicle can finally take flight. Confirmation of the … Read more
Another former Facebook employee has filed a whistleblower complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The latest complaint, which was by The Washington Post, alleges Facebook misled its investors about “dangerous and criminal behavior on its platforms, including Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger.” In the complaint, the former employee described a conversation with one of Facebook’s … Read more