According to reporting by TechCrunch and others, Threads is tapping into one of Bluesky’s best new features: starter packs of people to follow. Chris Messina, who invented the hashtag (!), posted a screenshot of the tool to the social media app. You can see an early version of the tool...
The 28 best Thanksgiving Black Friday tech deals you can get right now
Engadget Black Friday officially starts tomorrow, but here’s the deal: Nearly all of the best deals are live now, and we don’t expect further major price drops. Really. And that goes for Cyber Monday as well. So for Thanksgiving, we thought we'd give you a sort of executive summary of...
The 19 best Black Friday deals on camera gear from Nikon, DJI, Canon and others
Black Friday is usually the best sale of the year on cameras and accessories and this year there are some particularly great deals this time around. Most of the major manufacturers including Sony, Canon, DJI, Nikon and GoPro are offering substantial discounts across a wide range of products, whether you're...
No Man’s Sky finally has a ‘very positive’ rating on Steam after 8 years
No Man's Sky has finally overcome its less-than-nominal launch and reached a Very Positive rating on Steam, Hello Games founder Sean Murray announced on X. The rating means that 80 percent of the nearly 246,000 Steam reviews are positive. "Holy shit you guys — it happened. All reviews: very positive....
The best gifts for runners in 2024
Whether or not you understand your loved one’s desire to wake up before sunrise and get in a 5K is irrelevant when it comes to gifting. Athletes, especially runners, are pretty easy to shop for since they can never have too many of the essentials like socks, gloves, foam rollers,...
Matildas pay price for sluggish start as Brazil spoil Clare Polkinghorne’s party
Australia fail to send off stalwart in style despite Foord goal Gutierres scores brace and Gio adds third in 3-1 victory How do you say goodbye to someone like Clare Polkinghorne? Such is the journey she has gone on with the Matildas across an 18-year international career, doing so was...
Apple looks to bring immersive sports livestreams to the Vision Pro
According to Spanish sports blog Marca, Apple is negotiating with Spanish soccer club Real Madrid to upgrade its home ground, the Santiago Bernabéu stadium, with state-of-the-art technology to live stream games in immersive video on the Vision Pro. The tie-up would create the "Infinite Santiago Bernabéu" augmented reality experience, giving......
Kane Williamson admits ‘riding luck’ after stylish 93 against England
Country’s record run-scorer in form at first Test New Zealand 319-8 after being put in to bat It would be wrong to say that Kane Williamson looked like a guy making up for lost time on day one in Christchurch, so unhurried was the way he compiled 93 runs. And...
No Man’s Sky hits Very Positive Steam rating, eight years after disastrous launch
The anticipation for No Man's Sky's release was so great in 2016 that the developer Hello Games received death threats over its seven-week delay. But the launch was an unmitigated disaster. Talk of 18 quintillion procedurally generated planets and the videos shown off at awards shows had people clamoring for......
Black Friday: What time do stores open?
Black Friday has become something of an anachronism in the e-commerce era