SAN FRANCISCO — Authorities in the United States and Europe recently staged a wide-ranging crackdown on online drug markets, taking down Wall Street Market and Valhalla, two of the largest drug markets on the so-called dark web. Yet the desire to score drugs from the comfort of home and to make money from selling those […]
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Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics is coming to Nintendo Switch later this year
Dark Crystal fans have a lot to celebrate in 2019. In addition to the upcoming Netflix Original TV series Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, developers Bonus XP and Krafton are making a game based on the new show. En Masse Entertainment is the publisher. During the Nintendo Direct video at the 2019 Electronic Entertainment Expo, […]
Dark net drug sales on the rise in England
The number of drug takers in England obtaining drugs on the dark net has more than doubled in the past five years, according to The Global Drugs Survey. It’s founder, Dr Adam Winstock, says people do not understand the risks involved in buying drugs online. “If you’ve given your name, somebody knows you’ve bought illicit […]
How to Set Up Dark Mode on Your Favorite Apps
Looking to give your eyes a break? Dark mode swaps white backgrounds for grays and blacks. Here’s how to enable dark mode in all your favorite apps. PCMag reviews products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. We spend a good portion of our day staring […]
Video: Amnesia: The Dark Descent’s horror relied on a bit of cheating
Video shot and edited by Justin Wolfson. Click here for transcript. 2010 video game Amnesia: The Dark Descent is an obvious candidate for our eventual “best games of the ’10s” list, owing to its revolutionary take on interactive horror. The indie game ushered in a new era of horror gaming, thanks in part to its […]
Russia police probe ‘dark net’ murder case
Police in Russia are investigating what could be the world’s first documented case of a contract killing ordered via the so-called dark net. High-ranking police investigator Yevgeniya Shishkina was shot dead outside her home near Moscow in October 2018. Five months later, local police announced they had arrested two people in connection with the killing […]
Terrifying trailer for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark will give you mega-chills
It’s 1968 in the small town of Mill Valley, home to a haunted mansion and a mysterious book, in Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark. All those frightening tales kids tell around the campfires to spook their friends come to terrifying life in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, a new film from […]
Facebook Messenger dark mode rolls out: Here’s how to unlock the hidden feature
Facebook has quietly rolled out a dark mode for its Messenger app, though activating the feature will take a few more steps than simply accessing the settings menu. The Facebook Messenger dark mode has been teased since last year’s F8 developers conference. It has since been tested in a few countries, with only a limited […]
Kepler planet-hunting telescope goes dark after sending last light image
After a ten year career of discovering exoplanets and gathering the most detailed ever view of a dying star, NASA’s Kepler telescope has sent its final image back to Earth. The Kepler space telescope was launched in 2009 and was only intended to operate for three and a half years, but NASA scientists were able […]
Debunking Dark Mode: Here’s why it won’t improve your laptop’s battery life
Windows and MacOS have added a new ‘Dark Mode’ option. If you’ve somehow managed to miss this news (in which case, congratulations: You’re not a computer geek!) here’s the deal. Dark Mode flips the colors of your interface. What’s normally white, or close to it, becomes dark, and vice-versa. Instead of black letters on a […]
Chrome’s getting a dark mode on Windows to match the one for macOS
Enlarge / Chrome’s dark mode. Chrome 73 is going to include support for macOS 10.14’s dark mode, with an alternative color scheme for its user interface that cuts the brightness. It’s now clear that a Windows version of the same is in development, though it seems to trail the macOS version. A bug report was […]
Researchers find a way to ‘see’ dark matter using faint intracluster starlight
The mystery of dark matter has been a challenge for scientists, who know that the substance must exist in our universe but have been unable to find a way to identify it. As it does not give out any kind of electromagnetic radiation, dark matter can only be detected due to its gravitational effects. Now […]
Light, speed: Lighting kit for DJI Mavic 2 lets you fly and film in the dark
[embedded content] The DJI Mavic 2, in both Zoom and Pro varieties, is already our favorite drone, and one of the best products of 2018, and it’s about to get even better as third-party accessories hit the market. Lume Cube, maker of small battery-powered LED lights for mobile photography, has announced a new lighting kit […]
macOS Mojave’s dark mode is coming to Google Chrome
Enlarge / Google Chrome in macOS Mojave. Samuel Axon Apple added dark mode to macOS with its Mojave software update on September. Since then, third-party apps have been adding dark themes to go along with it, but there have been a handful of notable outliers, like Slack and Google Chrome. We’ve now learned that the […]
To complement the new Windows 10 dark theme, Microsoft is adding a light theme
Enlarge / The new Windows 10 light theme. Microsoft While end users have been customizing the color schemes of their computers for decades, we’ve lately seen operating system developers follow their users’ lead with built-in, first-party support for dark themes. The dark theme was a big part of the appeal of macOS Mojave, and dark […]