Category: Technology

Cyberpunk 2077 completed its redemption arc last year when the game briefly attained an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam. The numerous updates, additional content, and fantastic Phantom Liberty expansion turned the game into the one we'd initially been promised. Read Entire Article

Patent number 5,579,430 does not read like a manifesto for a new music business, but its grant to Germany's Fraunhofer Institute on November 26, 1996, marked a clear turning point in how digital sound is stored, moved, and sold. Read Entire Article

The AIR SNES sneakers are actually a customized version of the Nike Air Max 90. Like other gaming-themed shoes, their design reflects the subject's colors and stylings – though they're a lot more understated than similar gaming sneakers, thankfully. Read Entire Article

In a recently published study, Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo's astronomy department claims to have observed evidence of dark matter annihilation. If the findings survive scrutiny, they could provide the strongest evidence yet not only of the existence of dark matter, but also of the theory that it......

Steam is offering discounts on thousands of games through Thanksgiving weekend. The company has replaced its usual Thanksgiving theme with a Black Friday celebration that spans events from numerous game publishers and franchises. Read Entire Article

This week, Musk admitted on X that since offering to license Tesla's self-driving technology for a small fee, there have been no takers. Most rival automakers want nothing to do with it, and the few that did show interest wanted to run small pilots with no immediate plans to bring......

Teams from MIT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a novel way to simulate AI's potential impact on US jobs. The effort produced the Iceberg Index, a digital twin of the national labor market. Read Entire Article

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warns that hackers are actively targeting Signal, WhatsApp, and other encrypted messaging apps with commercial spyware that exploits specific phones and account vulnerabilities. The alert describes phishing attempts, app impersonation, and zero-click exploits aimed at high-value users, often using commercial toolsets comparable to......

Notepad recently gained new formatting capabilities, including support for tables. Redmond developers described table support as an expansion of the editor's "lightweight" formatting features. Users can now quickly insert tables in documents to improve note composition using the new "Table" option in the formatting toolbar or by entering the correct......

Automakers are pursuing two broad strategies to protect their EV programs. One is to secure rare-earth supply outside China; the other is to eliminate or sharply reduce rare-earth use inside the vehicle by switching to alternative motor and magnet technologies. Read Entire Article