You can officially witness Chris Pratt’s non-denominational Mario goofing around in a new Super Mario Bros. trailer releasing later today during a Nintendo Direct livestream—but oh no, there was-a leak. The latest leak builds off the previous one from October, which let us peek the upcoming movie’s interpretation of…
Source: Kotaku – Leaked Super Mario Bros. Movie Posters Show Off New Donk City
Twitter has dropped its covid-19 misleading information policy that used to prohibit users from spreading misinformation about the virus. Over 11,000 Twitter users were banned under the platform’s previous policy, and nearly 100,000 posts involving content that included covid misinformation was removed between January…
Source: Gizmodo – Twitter Quietly Removes Its Covid-19 Misinformation Policy
You can stop kicking yourself if you forgot to shop Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, or were otherwise preoccupied. While both events are technically now in the rear view mirror, many bargains remain. That will likely be the case throughout the holiday season. Regardless, we’ve rounded up a handful of compelling discounts on PC accessories
Source: Hot Hardware – 6 Awesome PC Hardware Deals Under 0 On Amazon To Upgrade Your Gaming Battlestation
As long as inflation keeps making our lives more and more expensive, it’s crucial to be as conscientious a spender as possible. The last thing you want is to keep losing money on the typically avoidable costs that come with being disorganized. As someone who has dabbled in being a disorganized procrastinator, I know…
Source: LifeHacker – Being Disorganized Is Costing You Money
The Orion spacecraft’s record-setting distance from Earth made for stunning photography, apparently. NASA has shared a photo taken by the Artemis I vehicle on Monday showing both Earth and the Moon in the background. Much like some Apollo photography or Voyager 1’s “Pale Blue Dot,” the picture puts humanity’s home in perspective — our world is just one small planet in a much larger cosmos.
Orion took the snapshot around its maximum distance from Earth of 268,563 miles. That’s the farthest any human-oriented spacecraft has traveled, beating even Apollo 13’s record of 248,655 miles from 1970. Notably, Artemis I represents the first time explorers intended to travel this far out — Apollo 13 only ventured so far from Earth because NASA’s emergency flight plan required the Moon as a slingshot.
Ars Technicanotes that this early Artemis flight has so far surpassed NASA’s expectations. While the mission team has only completed 31 out of 124 core objectives so far, it’s adding goals like extended thruster tests. About half of the remaining activities are in progress, with the rest largely dependent on returning to Earth.
Orion is expected to splash down off the San Diego coast on December 11th. The Artemis program has dealt with numerous delays, and now isn’t expected to land humans on the Moon until 2025 or 2026. NASA originally hoped for a lunar landing in 2024. Still, Artemis I’s current performance suggests the space agency’s efforts are finally paying off.
Source: Engadget – NASA’s Orion photographed the Earth and Moon from a quarter-million miles away
Dropbox has announced plans to bring end-to-end encryption to its business users, and it’s doing so through acquiring “key assets” from Germany-based cloud security company Boxcryptor. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. From a report: Dropbox is well-known for its cloud-based file back-up and sharing services, and while it does offer encryption for files moving between its servers and the destination, Dropbox itself has access to the keys and can technically view any content passing through. What Boxcryptor brings to the table is an extra layer of security via so-called “zero knowledge” encryption on the client side, giving the user full control over who is allowed to decrypt their data.
For many people, such as consumers storing family photos or music files, this level of privacy might not be a major priority. But for SMEs and enterprises, end-to-end encryption is a big deal as it ensures that no intermediary can access their confidential documents stored in the cloud — it’s encrypted before it even arrives. Moving forward, Dropbox said that it plans to bake Boxcryptor’s features natively into Dropbox for business users.
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Source: Slashdot – Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor Assets To Bring Zero-Knowledge Encryption To File Storage
Another of Intel’s upcoming 13th Gen Core Raptor Lake (RPL) processors for laptops appears to have broken cover. We have previously seen some powerful HX series mobile RPL chips (55W base power), but this one is apparently from the P series (28W base power), aimed at premium thin and light devices. Despite the lower base power, the leaked
Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Core i7-1370P Mobile Raptor Lake CPU Benchmark Leak Reveals Impressive Specs
Next year, the final movie in the original Star Wars trilogy, Return of the Jedi, turns 40. And just as it had done so with A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back before it, Hasbro is celebrating with familiar faces in classic packaging.
Source: Gizmodo – Celebrate 40 Years of Return of the Jedi With Some Familiar Star Wars Faces
The Monopoly Man, AKA Rich Uncle Pennybags, has been a staple at big tech hearings on Capitol Hill. As much as these hearings often lead to no tangible action on actually addressing the tech industry’s missteps, at their worst those hearings allow CEOs like Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg to appear like the smartest man in…
Source: Gizmodo – Deep Fake Zuckerberg Thanks Democrats for Their Service and Inaction on Antitrust
AWS has announced its “AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge.” From a report: As nations across the globe introduce legislation that governs how and where businesses can keep data on their local users, the large clouds either have to offer attractive solutions or run the risk of having their customers move to local clouds. Microsoft, with Purview, and Google, with Dataplex, also offer data governance tools, but none of them have gone quite as far as AWS in making digital sovereignty a core pillar of their cloud strategy. Matt Garman, AWS’s senior vice president of Sales, Marketing and Global Services, notes that giving customers control over their data has always been a priority for AWS, but with constantly shifting and evolving legal requirements, managing all of this has become increasingly complex.
“In many places around the world, like in Europe, digital sovereignty policies are evolving rapidly. Customers are facing an incredible amount of complexity, and over the last 18 months, many have told us they are concerned that they will have to choose between the full power of AWS and a feature-limited sovereign cloud solution that could hamper their ability to innovate, transform, and grow. We firmly believe that customers shouldn’t have to make this choice,” he writes.
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Source: Slashdot – AWS Announces Digital Sovereignty Pledge
OpenRGB 0.8 highlights a few general improvements under the hood and in the user interface and added support for more devices and platforms.
Source: LXer – OpenRGB 0.8 Is Here with Many More Devices Supported
The teaser trailer for Cyberpunk 2077’s upcoming expansion Phantom Liberty was a brisk 58 seconds, and left fans scratching their chrome-plated heads over some key, unanswered questions: Why is V pledging allegiance to the New United States? What does “Phantom Liberty” even mean? And who is that woman who looks like…
Source: Kotaku – Cyberpunk 2077 Fans Think They’ve Unraveled A Big DLC Secret
Ferrari is finally stepping in the ring of vaunted digital concept cars as part of Sony PlayStation’s latest Gran Turismo 7 video game. Fans of Sony’s Gran Turismo game series have been treated to virtual concept cars over the past decade from marques such as Audi, McLaren, Bugatti, and more. Missing for the longest time has been the Italian
Source: Hot Hardware – Ferrari’s 1350HP Vision Gran Turismo Concept Car Is Racing To PlayStation Consoles
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet may be pretty busted, but they’re also a lot of fun. Being able to choose where to go next and take on quests and gym leaders out of order is a breath of fresh air. The story’s quite decent, too, with one major drawback: none of the dialogue is voiced. Usually I’m all for written dialogue in…
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Look Goofy Without Voice Acting
Let’s get one thing straight: If you invite your friends over as guests at your dinner party, it’s bonkers to follow up with a Venmo request after the fact. Yet beyond this should-be-obvious etiquette, money habits between friends are often tricky territory to navigate. (In fact, I argue there are many ways you need…
Source: LifeHacker – Never Ask Your Friend These Money Questions (and What to Say Instead)
Lucien Cartier-Tilet looks
forward to the upcoming Emacs 29 release.
In case you didn’t know, Emacs’ current syntax highlighting is
currently based on a system of regexes. Although it is not the
worst thing to use, it’s not the best either, and it can become
quite slow on larger files.TreeSitter parses programming languages based into a concrete
syntax tree. From there, not only can syntax highlighting can be
done at high speed, but a much deeper analysis of the code is
possible and actions such sa syntax manipulation can also be
achieved since the syntax tree itself is available as an object
which can be manipulated!
Source: LWN.net – Cartier-Tilet: Emacs 29 is nigh
Apple Music users can now access a recap of what they’ve listened to on the service this year thanks to Apple Music Replay. Apple has redesigned the feature to make it a much sleeker experience, albeit one that perhaps isn’t quite on par with Spotify Wrapped just yet.
For one thing, you’ll only be able to access your full Replay details on the web rather than in the Apple Music app (which does have a playlist of your most-played tracks). At the top of the page, you’ll see a stories-style highlight reel including how many minutes you’ve spent listening to music and your top song, artist, album and genres of the year. Further down the page are the lists of your top 10 songs, artists and albums, and your top five playlists. What’s more, you’ll see if you’re in the top 100 listeners for a certain artist.
You can share your highlight reel or other stats on social platforms or with friends. There are share buttons dotted throughout Replay on iOS and tapping one brings up the usual share sheet. Curiously, Apple Music’s desktop web player doesn’t feature share buttons, which makes it slightly more difficult for me to share just how much Rammstein and Taylor Swift I’ve been listening to this year.
Meanwhile, Apple Music has released its year-end charts, including the most Shazamed songs of the year. The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber had the service’s most popular song of 2022 with “Stay,” while Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti was the biggest album on Apple Music. On the top 100 songs chart, hip hop led the way in terms of genres with 32 tracks, followed by pop (23), R&B/soul (11), Latin (eight) and J-Pop (six).
Source: Engadget – Apple Music Replay gets a much-needed redesign for 2022
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