Four years ago, Electronic Arts’ chief design officer left to co-found his own studio, created with Nexon’s backing. On Monday, Patrick Söderlund’s studio showed off its first game: The Finalsa squad-based, free-to-play multiplayer shooter inspired by sci-fi bloodsport narratives like Squid Game and The Running Manwhere pretty much everything on the game’s maps can be … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attention, potential car buyers: New electric vehicle charging stations are on their way to highway locations near you. All 50 states received final approval Tuesday to begin construction on a first nationwide network of EV charging stations that places one roughly every 50 miles (80 kilometers) along interstate highways, part of the … Read more
The Roombo Combo j7+. Sick spoiler, bro! Wait, that’s a mop?! Roomba The spoiler thing is a mop. The side flaps open and little arms swing it into the bottom of the robot. iRobot Here’s the bottom of the old j7 (not a mop) versus the new j7 (a mop). That mop pad is the … Read more
Probably the biggest change Apple announced with iPadOS 16 earlier this year is Stage Manager, a totally new multitasking system that adds overlapping, resizable windows to the iPad. That feature also works on an external display, the first time that iPads could do anything besides mirror their screen on a monitor. Unfortunately, the feature was … Read more
A handful of migrants stand outside of St. Andrews Episcopal Church on September 15. Two planes of migrants from Venezuela suddenly arrived a day earlier on Martha’s Vineyard.Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images A man who helped recruit migrants to get on flights bound for Martha’s Vineyard says he feels betrayed. “I have nothing … Read more
Enlarge / The MSI MEG X670E Godlike raises interesting questions, like, “could God make a motherboard so expensive that even He could not afford it?” MSI Building a PC around a new processor is expensive at the best of times, and that’s triple-true of AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 chips. AMD has started with its $300-and-up … Read more
A tour bus bringing senior citizens to their East Falmouth hotel on Sept. 19 was aggressively pursued by a National Guard officer from Joint Base Cape Cod who thought the bus was carrying migrants because of a Tallahassee, Florida, sign on the side of the bus. The off-duty officer, Lt. Col. Christopher Hoffman, 51, of … Read more
Florida bracing for Hurricane Ian Hurricane Ian is gathering strength and bearing down on Florida as the state races to finalize storm preparations and evacuate its most at-risk people ahead of expected landfall on Wednesday. The enormous, Category 3 storm was already bringing impacts to Key West on Tuesday after it lashed Cuba with heavy … Read more
Naowh explains how he got to level 80 in Wrath of the Lich King Classic in just a few hours. When it comes to World of Warcraft‘s long-demanded “Classic” servers, players understandably want an experience that’s identical to the MMO experience they remember from years ago. At least one player has taken that concept to … Read more
Hurricane Ian is forecast to make landfall Wednesday along Florida’s southwest coast, bringing with it a potentially “catastrophic” 12-foot storm surge made worse by rising sea levels due to climate change. The National Hurricane Center posted a forecast on Tuesday that showed that a stretch of coastline south of Tampa Bay down to Bonita Bay … Read more