Category: Gaming

Introduction “The Strange $55 Million Saga of a Netflix Series You’ll Never See,” reported in 2023 by the New York Times, is now a criminal matter, as today prosecutors in the Southern District of New York charged director Carl Erik Rinsch with wire fraud, money laundering, and other financial crimes. They allege that after Netflix […]

Introduction Protestors gathered at a Tesla dealership in New York City in February. | ImagE: LVMPD (YouTube) A month of anti-Tesla dissent escalated this week with two reports of Teslas catching fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City.  The first incident happened early Tuesday morning at a Tesla collision center in Las Vegas, where police […]

Introduction In addition to a user interface featuring a retro Atari 2600-influenced interface, the watch can play four classic Atari games. | Image: Atari Atari is now selling a smartwatch that prioritizes fun over functionality. The watch’s user interface can be customized with Atari 2600-themed artwork and sound effects. But pushing it squarely into impulse […]

Introduction It has been years since the excellent sci-fi improv comedy podcast Mission to Zyxx ended, but the crew of the Bargarean Jade are getting back together for a new adventure. While Mission to Zyxx’s original Star Wars / Star Trek-lampooning story came to a dramatic close with the show’s fifth season, Maximum Fun announced […]

Introduction Apple fixed a bug in the iOS 18.2 Passwords app that, for three months starting with the release of iOS 18, made users vulnerable to phishing attacks, according to an Apple security content update spotted by 9to5Mac. Here’s how Apple describes the bug and its fix:  Impact: A user in a privileged network position […]

Introduction The Cybercab has butterfly doors. | Image: Tesla Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed a prototype of the company’s first fully driverless vehicle tonight during its long-awaited robotaxi event. The new vehicle is dubbed the Cybercab, and Tesla let guests at the event ride around in them at the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California. […]

Introduction The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) granted Tesla’s application for a ride-hail permit, a required first step in the automaker’s quest to launch a robotaxi service in the state. Last year, Tesla applied to become a transportation charter-party carrier (TCP), which enables it to operate a fleet of vehicles for passenger services using employees […]

Introduction After briefly going dark in the US to comply with the divest-or-ban law targeting ByteDance that went into effect on January 19th, TikTok quickly came back online, but it was still missing from app stores. That persisted even after Donald Trump issued an executive order “instructing the Attorney General not to take any action […]

Introduction Nvidia’s little DGX Spark mini computer next to the full DGX Station desktop. | Image: Nvidia Nvidia has revealed its new DGX Spark and DGX Station “personal AI supercomputers” at today’s GTC conference, which are both powered by the company’s Grace Blackwell platform and designed for users to work on large AI models with […]

Introduction Nvidia is announcing its RTX Pro Blackwell series of GPUs today, designed to meet the needs of professional designers, developers, data scientists, and creatives. The lineup includes a top of the line RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU for workstations, as well as other RTX Pro Blackwell desktop and laptop variants and a datacenter version […]