One of the PS5’s few shortcomings compared to the Xbox Series X is its smaller built-in storage. However, based on a new report, it seems Sony is working to address that by adding support for the PS5’s SSD expansion bay later this summer.
Source: Gizmodo – Sony Will Reportedly Start Supporting SSD Upgrades for the PS5 Later This Summer
Set in the Sinnoh Region of old, Pokémon Legends Arceus is a new approach to open-world Pokémon games coming to the Nintendo Switch in early 2022.
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Legends Arceus Is A New Open-World Game Coming In 2022
This week’s out-of-touch guide brings us gifts from Asia, including the Korean craze of “mukbang” videos, American appropriation of ancient Chinese martial arts, and a Japanese video game series that some people really like… but only some people.
Source: LifeHacker – The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide To Kid Culture: Mukbang and Bullshido
Version 1.0 of GNU poke is out.
“GNU poke (http://www.jemarch.net/poke) is an interactive, extensible
editor for binary data. Not limited to editing basic entities such
as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural,
interactive programming language designed to describe data
structures and to operate on them.“
Source: LWN.net – GNU poke 1.0 released
Last August, federal agents searched the Redmond, Washington, laboratory of Johnny Stine, a bootleg biotechnician whom they’d been investigating since March. As they fanned across Stine’s warehouse, they encountered your typical scientist fare: lab equipment, test tubes, a microscope, but also “empty beer bottles and…
Source: Gizmodo – The Grift and Cybercrime Blight on the Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout
Pokémon Diamond and Pearl for the DS are getting “faithful” remakes in the form of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl on Switch later this year, the Pokémon Company announced in a livestream today.
Source: Kotaku – Switch Is Getting Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl Remakes In Late 2021
The first footage of Halo Infinite gameplay didn’t sit well with gamers, to put it mildly, but there are signs of progress. 343 Industries and Microsoft have shared a fresh batch of screenshots that give you a sense of how the Xbox Series X/S tit…
Source: Engadget – New ‘Halo Infinite’ screenshots tease a more detailed world
After Sony’s latest State of Play stream, it’s clear why the company announced the next batch of free games for PlayStation Plus members a couple of days later than usual. Final Fantasy VII Remake headlines the March lineup. At State of Play, Sony sh…
Source: Engadget – ‘Final Fantasy VII Remake’ will be a PS Plus freebie with a catch
Preliminary retail pricing has started to appear for Intel’s upcoming Rocket Lake-S processors, with pre-order and placeholder listings giving us an idea of where the next-gen chips might land. There are more than a dozen listings for Intel’s 11th Gen Core desktop chips, ranging from the Core i5-11400F on up to the flagship Core i9-11900K.
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Source: Hot Hardware – Alleged Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S Pricing Leaks Including 0 Core i9-11900K
Sony’s PlayStation 5 launched back in mid-November with two configurations: the standard PlayStation 5 with a Blu-ray drive and the disc-less PlayStation 5 Digital Edition. No matter which you select, you’ll get an 825GB SSD with just 667GB leftover for your games and other data you wish to store.
Some people saw this as a liability compared
Source: Hot Hardware – Sony’s PS5 Is Rumored To Finally Enable SSD Expansion Later This Year
The Uconnect 5 infotainment system, as seen in the latest Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat, is built on Android Automotive. [credit:
Bradley Iger ]
Infotainment systems have been a common sight in new passenger vehicles for well over a decade, but many automakers are only now realizing just how important these devices really are. For drivers who have embraced the always-connected lifestyle, it’s undoubtedly the vehicle technology they’ll directly interact with the most. As such, the features, performance, and user experience provided by these systems can have far-reaching implications for customers’ overall impression of their automobiles.
It’s something Stellantis has been well aware of for some time now. Back in 2003, Chrysler Group was the first North American automaker to offer Bluetooth technology in its vehicles, laying the groundwork for what would eventually become Uconnect 1.0.
In the years since, Uconnect has gone on to become one of the standard-bearers for OEM infotainment. Often at the forefront of emerging connectivity options and software integration, Uconnect has regularly been praised for its responsive performance and robust feature set—both key struggling points for many manufacturers back in infotainment’s early years. The Uconnect ecosystem would continue to mature with the launch of 3.0 in 2013 and 4.0 in 2016, the latter being one of the earliest to adopt Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in a wide breadth of vehicles across various market segments.
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Source: Ars Technica – Hands-on with Stellantis’ new Android-based Uconnect 5 infotainment
Ten years ago today the 3DS debuted in Japan. It followed the DS family and the big selling point for this third generation of Nintendo’s dual-screened systems was the addition of 3D graphics. And yet, what people remember most about the 3DS isn’t th…
Source: Engadget – The Nintendo 3DS’s best feature was the under-appreciated StreetPass
Sergey Brin’s secretive airship company LTA Research and Exploration is planning to power a huge disaster relief airship with an equally record-breaking hydrogen fuel cell. From a report: A job listing from the company, which is based in Mountain View, California and Akron, Ohio, reveals that LTA wants to configure a 1.5-megawatt hydrogen propulsion system for an airship to deliver humanitarian aid and revolutionize transportation. While there are no specs tied to the job listing, such a system would likely be powerful enough to cross oceans. Although airships travel much slower than jet planes, they can potentially land or deliver goods almost anywhere.
Hydrogen fuel cells are an attractive solution for electric aviation because they are lighter and potentially cheaper than lithium-ion batteries. However, the largest hydrogen fuel cell to fly to date is a 0.25-megawatt system (250 kilowatts) in ZeroAvia’s small passenger plane last September. LTA’s first crewed prototype airship, called Pathfinder 1, will be powered by batteries when it takes to the air, possibly this year. FAA records show that the Pathfinder 1 has 12 electric motors and would be able to carry 14 people. That makes it about the same size as the only passenger airship operating today, the Zeppelin NT, which conducts sightseeing tours in Germany and Switzerland. The Pathfinder 1 also uses some Zeppelin components in its passenger gondola.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Sergey Brin’s Airship Aims To Use World’s Biggest Mobile Hydrogen Fuel Cell
When Apple announced the launch of their pricey AirPods Max, they highlighted a new, unheard of feature: something they called “Spatial Audio”. Granted, “Spatial Audio” is a term made up by Apple to sell headphones, but it’s basically surround sound inside your headphones.
Source: LifeHacker – How to Use Spatial Audio on AirPods Pro & Max
As a quick PSA for those that may be eager to test out early Git builds of the Linux 5.12 kernel, I’ve been hitting a very nasty issue on multiple systems leading to corruption / data loss…
Source: Phoronix – Watch Out For Possible Data Loss On Early Linux 5.12 Kernels
It’s hard to feel connected to someone who’s gone through a static photo. So a company called MyHeritage who provides automatic AI-powered photo enhancements is now offering a new service that can animate people in old photos creating a short video that looks like it was recorded while they posed and prepped for the…
Source: Gizmodo – ‘Deep Nostalgia’ Can Turn Old Photos of Your Relatives Into Moving Videos
Environmental justice may seem to some like a new buzzword that has arisen in recent years as we reckon with climate change and racial bias. But five minutes talking to Peggy Shepard can set you straight.
Source: Gizmodo – Why a Harlem Activist’s Decades-Long Fight for Environmental Justice Matters More Than Ever
Chances are, if you don’t own a smartwatch, you probably rely on your phone to monitor your sleeping habits. While there’s no shortage of apps that claim to do the job, not all of them are up to the task. And Android, in particular, has been…
Source: Engadget – Google offers improved sleep tracking tools for Android apps
Before I came to work at Engadget, I worked as an Associate Editor for The Pokémon Company for five years. It was always a bit weird trying to explain what I did back then, because I’d always get “oh, is that still around, I thought that was just a…
Source: Engadget – Pokémon at 25 is stronger than ever
Calico Critters Sets | $17-$20 | Amazon Gold Box
Source: io9 – Embrace Your Cottage Core Calling and Add a Calico Critters Set to Your Life