NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is on its way to Jupiter

October 15, 2024Comments Off on NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is on its way to Jupiter

NASA has launched its Europa Clipper spacecraft, the biggest one it has ever built for a mission heading to another planet, on top of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Mission controllers at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have confirmed that the Europa Clipper…

The Morning After: Pokémon hack exposes future games, beta designs and more

October 14, 2024Comments Off on The Morning After: Pokémon hack exposes future games, beta designs and more

Pokémon developer Game Freak has confirmed its servers were hacked in August. The breach meant internal materials — from source codes to early and even scrapped character designs — were circulating on social media over the weekend. Leaked documents and images flooded Reddit and X after Centro Leaks began dumping…

Xbox Cloud Gaming may finally let you stream your non-Game Pass purchases soon

October 12, 2024Comments Off on Xbox Cloud Gaming may finally let you stream your non-Game Pass purchases soon

Microsoft is expanding Xbox Cloud Gaming’s streaming capabilities to support titles that aren’t on Xbox Game Pass, The Verge reports. The company has stated its plans to let users stream games from their own libraries numerous times over the last few years, going back to the announcement of Project xCloud,…

The fluffiest robot of CES 2021 is back thanks to Casio

October 12, 2024Comments Off on The fluffiest robot of CES 2021 is back thanks to Casio

If you watched that Star Trek episode about the tribbles and thought, I need one of those in my life (minus the rapid reproduction problem), Casio’s got just the thing for you. The company is now taking pre-orders in Japan for Moflin, the adorable robotic plushie with AI “emotional capabilities”…

The best Prime Day deals you can still get after the October Big Deal Days sale: Apple, Anker, Sonos, Lego and more

October 12, 2024Comments Off on The best Prime Day deals you can still get after the October Big Deal Days sale: Apple, Anker, Sonos, Lego and more

Another October Prime Day is in the books, but all of the deals haven’t disappeared from Amazon’s site just yet. This year’s Fall Prime Day brought a bunch of discounts on smartphones, speakers, wearables, robot vacuums and more tech, and you can still grab some of the sale prices right…

TikTok is reportedly aware of its bad effects on teen users

October 12, 2024Comments Off on TikTok is reportedly aware of its bad effects on teen users

TikTok’s executives and employees were well aware that its features foster compulsive use of the app, as well as of its corresponding negative mental health effects, according to NPR. The broadcasting organization reviewed the unredacted documents from the lawsuit filed by the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office as published by the…

Boeing to lay off 17,000 employees to ‘stay competitive’

October 12, 2024Comments Off on Boeing to lay off 17,000 employees to ‘stay competitive’

In a message to employees, Boeing President and CEO Kelly Ortberg has announced that the company is reducing the size of its total workforce by 10 percent. That means Boeing is cutting roughly 17,000 jobs, including executives and managers, over the coming months. Ortberg, who only took the helm back…

NLRB accuses Apple of illegally restricting employee Slack and social media use

October 11, 2024Comments Off on NLRB accuses Apple of illegally restricting employee Slack and social media use

The National Labor Relations Board has accused Apple of infringing on its employees’ rights to advocate for better working conditions. In a complaint spotted by Reuters, the agency alleges Apple illegally fired an employee who had used Slack to advocate for workplace changes at the company. Separately, the NLRB accuses…

Ghost in the Shell’s rad PS1 soundtrack is finally coming to the West

October 11, 2024Comments Off on Ghost in the Shell’s rad PS1 soundtrack is finally coming to the West

The soundtrack to the spider-bot-crawling 1997 Ghost in the Shell game adaptation is coming to the West for the first time. Titled Ghost in the Shell: Megatech Body (as an ode to the Fuchikoma mech you pilot in the game), the soundtrack was produced by Takkyu Ishino. It’s available to…

Hackers made robot vacuums randomly yell racial slurs

October 11, 2024Comments Off on Hackers made robot vacuums randomly yell racial slurs

Robot vacuums across the country were hacked in the space of several days, according to reporting by ABC News. This allowed the attackers to not only control the robovacs, but use their speakers to hurl racial slurs and abusive comments at anyone nearby. All of the affected robots were of…