Enlarge / Hattis Law isn’t pulling any punches in the allegations made in its class-action lawsuit, specifically calling WD out not only for using SMR technology in less-than-ideal devices, but flatly accusing them of outright deception in the process. Hattis Law All three of the surviving conventional hard drive vendors—Toshiba, Western Digital, and Seagate—have gotten […]
Black Block‘s Retroit street-driving game is like playing the car-driving part of Grand Theft Auto from an overhead view, with one big twist. Spectators of the mobile game can drop obstacles or prizes in your path. In the age of livestreaming, game developers are trying to figure out how to get spectators to interact with […]
Series creator Jason George based the new Netflix series Into the Night on a 2015 Polish science fiction novel. The glorious sight of the sun’s rays peeking over the horizon as it rises has inspired mankind for millennia. But what if the sun brought death, literally killing people where they stand? That’s the premise behind […]
Carrying a smartphone with the Google Lens app is now almost like having a scanner in your pocket, thanks to an update that copies text that you see in real life to paste to your computer. The update, launching on May 7, allows Google Lens to send a page of handwritten notes to a computer […]
The Nintendo Switch is an incredible console, allowing you to play full, fat console games no matter if you’re on the couch or on a plane. Although its portability is impressive and some of the more demanding titles are novel, there’s no denying how underpowered the Switch is. Most modern smartphones have better specs and […]
Enlarge / A little less than $ 350 buys you a solid color laser printer, scanner, and fax machine that works flawlessly with Android and ChromeOS devices. Jim Salter With social distancing and isolation, many of us are having to find ways to do more with less—in terms of equipment and technical support, as much […]
A video teaser popped up for a VR game on Oculus Quest that uses controller-free hand-tracking for a familiar musical experience similar to Rock Band and Guitar Hero. And it already carries the perfect name — Unplugged: Air Guitar. The game is a side project by Ricardo Acosta that he’s been working on at night. He […]
The pandemic has caused a perfect storm of customer service issues, with companies and government agencies struggling to keep up while keeping their employees safe, and customers struggling to keep their cool. Writer Tom Cheredar spent three hours trying, and failing, to reach his cable company Spectrum two weeks ago. He called when he realized […]
IBM’s question-answering Watson A.I. is most famous for whooping the butt of human champions on quiz show Jeopardy. Now, IBM has repurposed its famous creation to help government agencies, health care organizations, and academic institutions around the world cope with the massive overload of questions that citizens have about the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the […]
Enlarge / WireGuard will be in tree for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (pictured), as well as the upcoming 5.6 kernel. WireGuard We’ve been anticipating WireGuard’s inclusion into the mainline Linux kernel for quite some time—but as of Sunday afternoon, it’s official. Linus Torvalds released the Linux 5.6 kernel, which includes (among other things) an in-tree WireGuard. Phoronix […]
Enlarge / The new design does at least include a dark mode. I generally prefer bright layouts, but if you have a bad habit of Facebooking in bed late at night, this is less likely to prevent sleepiness. Jim Salter Sometime last night, Facebook’s new design layout rolled out to my personal account. It assured […]
Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle. (David Ryder/For The Washington Post) Jay Greene Reporter focused on technology coverage in the Pacific Northwest September 25 at 7:20 PM SEATTLE — Amazon has a plan to make sure Alexa is everywhere we go by adding the voice assistant to glasses, wireless ear buds and a shiny black ring. Those […]
Digital paint programs are coming of age — on Tuesday, September 24, Adobe launched Fresco, a painting app that mimics real art techniques rather than the mouse-to-screen drawings that usually end up looking like they belong on a refrigerator rather than an art gallery. Initially previewed as Project Gemini during Adobe Max 2018, Adobe Fresco […]
Epson Wide-format printers are notoriously big and pricey, but the Epson Expression Photo XP-970 Small-in-One printer delivers desktop-friendly borderless prints. The photo printer spits out prints up to 11 x 17 from the touchscreen controls or a computer — or you can ask Alexa, Google, or Siri to print for you. The Small-In-One series designates […]
The ice core drill head. Simon Payne Scientists will use an ultra-advanced drill to dig 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) deep into Antarctica’s ice, with the goal of learning more about the Earth’s past and where our climate could be going in the future. The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) unveiled the new drill on Monday. Made […]