If you ever suspected that your version of the legendary weapon, Val’anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings, could trigger shields that would absorb more damage than seemed normal, Blizzard’s QA department might have just proved you right. As it turns out, Val’anyr’s stats contained an extra zero. Whoops! What’s more, this bug…
Source: Kotaku – Blizzard Just Fixed A 15-Year-Old Bug In World Of Warcraft Classic
In a show that utters the phrase “This is the way” more than anything else, this week’s episode of The Mandalorian finally felt like it found its way. After four episodes, each of which felt almost detached from the others, the fifth episode of season three finally wrapped several of those storylines back together—…
Source: Gizmodo – The Mandalorian Finds Its Focus in a Dense, Exciting Episode
Those holding their breath for Sony to update its A6000 line of digital cameras are coming dangerously close to running out of air. Today, the company announced yet another addition to its ever-growing line of cameras targeted at video content creators, specifically vloggers, with the ZV-E1: its first to feature a…
Source: Gizmodo – Sony’s ZV-E1 Makes Room For a Full-Frame Sensor to Help Amateur Vloggers Look Like Professionals
Enlarge / Apple’s first promotional image for WWDC 2023. (credit: Apple)
Apple will host its 34th annual Worldwide Developers Conference at its Cupertino, California, headquarters from Monday, June 5 through Friday, June 9, the company announced on Wednesday.
The conference will kick off with “a special all-day event,” inclusive of the customary keynote presentation and the platform State of the Union talks. The language on Apple’s website suggests that like last year, some or all of those will be presented in prerecorded video form rather than as a live on-stage presentation.
After that first day, Apple will likely host various panels on how developers can work with the company’s developer toolkits and APIs to support new and old features across the various Apple platforms.
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Source: Ars Technica – Apple’s WWDC 2023 keynote will take place on June 5
Experts with the World Health Organization have issued a dire warning about our never-ending battle against dangerous bacteria: The pipeline of new antibiotics, particularly those that can handle drug-resistant bacteria, is running dry. Only around two dozen candidates meant to treat important infections are currently…
Source: Gizmodo – We’re Running Out of New Antibiotics, WHO Warns
Multiple reports suggest that Microsoft’s is making a new version of Windows, creatively called Windows 12. It could be coming in under a year from now, featuring several new standout features that should separate it from Windows 11. Some of these new features will reportedly include a new UI re-design that will copy UI elements from MacOS
Source: Hot Hardware – Windows 12 Plans Reveal A Bold Redesign, Tighter Security And AI-Powered Features
Republican Senator Rand Paul on Wednesday opposed efforts in Congress to ban popular Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, which is used by more than 150 million Americans. From a report: A small but growing number of Democrats and Republicans have raised concerns, citing free speech and other issues and have objected to legislation targeting TikTok as overly broad. Republican Senator Josh Hawley said this week he hoped to get unanimous consent for a TikTok ban bill. “Congressional Republicans have come up with a national strategy to permanently lose elections for a generation: Ban a social media app called TikTok that 94 million, primarily young Americans, use,” Paul said in an opinion piece published Wednesday in Louisville, Kentucky’s Courier-Journal. “Before banning TikTok, these censors might want to discover that China’s government already bans TikTok. Hmmm … do we really want to emulate China’s speech bans?” Paul added: “If you don’t like TikTok or Facebook or YouTube, don’t use them. But don’t think any interpretation of the Constitution gives you the right to ban them.”
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Source: Slashdot – Senator Rand Paul Opposes TikTok Ban Push in Congress
Luxury sports cars aren’t exactly known for being eco-conscious, but Lamborghini just announced the company’s first plug-in hybrid supercar. The Lamborghini Revuelto, which translates to “scrambled,” should satisfy anyone’s need for speed, so long as they don’t look too hard at the battery life.
In other words, engaging this vehicle in all-electric mode won’t get you very far, just 6.2 miles from a full charge. That is likely not enough juice to get you to the grocer and back, but this is a hybrid vehicle not exactly intended for all-electric usage. With that said, the combustion engine charges the rather minuscule 3.8kWh battery on its own in just six minutes via regenerative braking on the front wheels, the company announced in a press release.
Battery life isn’t the main reason people buy luxury sports cars (it probably doesn’t crack the top ten) so the engine here is designed for power, acceleration and max speeds. The relatively light engine (480 pounds) pumps out 814 horsepower at a blistering 9,250 rpm. This is a Lamborghini through and through, with a multitude of air intake ducts located throughout to increase airflow for the engine, resulting in a power level of 126 hp per liter. The company says this is the “highest output in the history of Lamborghini’s 12-cylinder engines.”
The design is heavily influenced by aerospace engineering, with sculpted surfaces, pointed lines and hexagonal exhausts. Lamborghini also took design cues from its own past, like the vertically opening scissor doors from 1970s Countach models and the floating blade on the rear fender often associated with the Diablo line.
Of course, the interior is outfitted with all kinds of tech-forward components, like a 12.3-inch digital cockpit with a large center display, an equally large 9-inch passenger-side display and plenty of affiliated infotainment options. This is also the first Lamborghini ever with an advanced driver-assist system. Finally, there is an associated smartphone and smartwatch app that monitors aspects of the car’s status, such as fuel level, battery, range and GPS location. This app even performs basic tasks remotely, like activating the horn, lights and locks.
This is the first step in Lamborghini and parent company Volkswagen’s plans to release an all-electric luxury vehicle by 2030. However, the brand hopes to continue making combustion engines into the 2030s that run on synthetic fuel. The Lamborghini Revuelto ships later this year at the eye-watering price of $542,165, as reported by Automotive News Europe (requires a free sign-up to read.)
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/lamborghinis-plug-in-hybrid-supercar-runs-for-a-cool-six-miles-in-electric-only-mode-183728414.html?src=rss
Source: Engadget – Lamborghini’s plug-in hybrid supercar runs for a cool six miles in electric-only mode
My lease renewal arrived it the mail a few weeks ago, bringing with it a small but significant rent increase. I’m hardly alone: Nationwide, average rents rose by a heart-clutching 14% last year, and financial forecasts have for months been warning of additional increases in the first half of 2023. It sucks to learn …
Source: LifeHacker – You Can Argue Against a Rent Increase
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A year after Reddit updated its policy on non-consensual intimate image (NCII) sharing—a category that includes everything from revenge porn to voyeurism and accidental nip slips—the social media platform has announced that it has gotten much better at detecting and removing this kind of content. Reddit has also launched a transparency center where users can more easily assess Reddit’s ongoing efforts to make the platform safer.
According to Reddit’s 2022 Transparency Report—which tracks various “ongoing efforts to keep Reddit safe, healthy, and real”—last year Reddit removed much more NCII than it did in 2021. The latest report shows that Reddit removed 473 percent more subreddits and permanently suspended 244 percent more user accounts found to be violating community guidelines by sharing non-consensual intimate media. Previously, Reddit labeled NCII as “involuntary pornography,” and the 2022 report still uses that label, reporting that the total number of posts removed was 187,258. That includes non-consensual AI-generated deepfakes, also known as “lookalike” pornography.
“It’s likely this increase is primarily reflective of our updated policies and increased effectiveness in detecting and removing non-consensual intimate media from Reddit,” the transparency report said.
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Source: Ars Technica – Reddit cracked down on revenge porn, creepshots with twofold spike in permabans
Longtime Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is currently under investigation for the coffee chain’s labor practices and he has some choice words for lawmakers on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee. He doesn’t like being referred to as a billionaire. Like seriously…stop calling him that. He just has…
Source: Gizmodo – Starbucks’ Billionaire Ex-CEO Moans About How Unfair It Is to Be Called a Billionaire
While we were waiting for the Ubuntu Touch OTA-25 update, UBports pushed a new stable update based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, called Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal.
The post First Ubuntu Touch OTA Release Based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – First Ubuntu Touch OTA Release Based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
U.S. chip giant Intel said on Wednesday its first semiconductor for data center customers focused on power efficiency, Sierra Forest, would be delivered in the first half of next year, as it outlined a chip release schedule after prior delays. From a report: “It’s been a challenging few years as we had introduced a lot of innovation but also a lot of complexity and our product release dates had pushed out,” Intel Data Center and AI Group head Sandra Rivera told Reuters ahead of an investor event. Intel still dominates the markets for PC and server processing chips, with a market share greater than 70%, tech research firm IDC has calculated. But that is down from more than 90% in 2017. Intel’s most powerful fourth-generation Xeon processor for data centers, Sapphire Rapids, had faced delays that gave competitor Advanced Micro Devices time to catch up. But Rivera said Intel’s “roadmap is on track” and was “hitting all of our key engineering milestones.”
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Source: Slashdot – Intel Says Power-Efficient Sierra Forest Chip Will Be Delivered in H1 2024
Woot is having another of their massive sales, but one specific deals is sticking out among the rest: The JBL Live Free NC+ True Wireless earbuds are currently 67% off their $150 listing price. For $50, you can get this pair of noise canceling Bluetooth earbuds from now until April 1 (or while supplies last). But…
Source: LifeHacker – These JBL Noise-Canceling Earbuds Are Only Right Now
It’s no secret: the world is heating up. Inevitably, people are starting to take notice. More people are searching for information on extreme heat than ever before, according to Google—and the company is hoping to make those search results clearer.
Source: Gizmodo – Google Adds Extreme Heat Warnings and Other Climate Tools
If you’re into animation at all, chances are you know Genndy Tartakovsky’s name. He created Samurai Jack, Primal, and Sym-Bionic Titan, and whenever he has a new series, it’s always worth checking out. But even for him, his new show—Unicorn: Warriors Eternal—looks special. It also looks rad as hell.
Source: Gizmodo – Unicorn: Warriors Eternal Looks Like Genndy Tartakovsky’s Masterpiece
Enlarge / Google and ADT’s security package: Google screens and cameras and ADT’s software, sensors, and hub. (credit: ADT)
Google’s plans for a security system are starting to take shape. Google invested $450 million in ADT in 2020, buying a 6.6 percent stake in the security monitoring company. Two months later Google killed its in-house security system, the Nest Secure, which had a monitoring deal with ADT rival Brinks. The two companies promised to build “the next generation of smart home security solutions,” and that’s apparently here now as the “ADT Self Setup smart home security system.”
Since the Nest Secure is dead, the brains of the system is the ADT Smart Home Hub. This is a 4.1×4.1×5.9-inch box with a keypad on top and a few other buttons for arming and disarming the security system. It’s a sizable unit that’s basically the size of a smart speaker, thanks to needing to fit an integrated 24-hour battery backup and a speaker grille on the front for the alarm siren, which ADT says hits 85 dB at 10 feet. Instead of a more common smart home protocol like Wi-Fi, Z-Wave, Zigbee, Google’s Thread, or Matter, ADT’s devices run over “DECT/ULE,” an old-school wireless home security standard. I don’t think that acronym means anything anymore, but officially it stands for “Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications/Ultra Low Energy” (it has roots in cordless phone technology). The hub still has Z-Wave, but that’s only for automation of third-party products. It also has Bluetooth for setup, and assuming this is the same hub used for ADT’s old “Blue” security system, it connects to the Internet over Wi-Fi with a cellular backup.
ADT also has various security widgets you can place around the house. It’s not very handy to have the control keypad on top of the hub, away from the door, so there’s also a remote keypad that presumably you can wall mount next to the door and use as you come and go. ADT is also handling the door and window sensors, motion sensors, flood and temperature sensors, a car-style key fob, and surprisingly, the smoke detector. Nest famously has some extremely expensive smoke detectors, but ADT’s press release calls out every compatible Google product by name, and the Nest Protect smoke detector is not listed.
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Source: Ars Technica – Google and ADT have a new security system with lots of subscription fees
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Source: Gizmodo – It’s Not Just Oceans That Are Rising. Groundwater Is, Too
