Matthew Humphries
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Revisit 'Half-Life: Black Mesa' Fully Releasing Soon on Steam
Five years after entering Early Access, and 14 years after first starting development, the ambitious Half-Life fan remake Black Mesa finally has a release date. On March 5, guide Gordon Freeman through Xen … → Read More
World's Largest Beer Brewer Sets Up Cybersecurity Team
AB InBev controls over 400 beer brands including Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois, but faces so many attacks it needs a dedicated cybersecurity unit to protect the business. → Read More
Starbucks to Block Public Wi-Fi Porn in 2019
The coffee company promised to look into content filtering for its US locations back in 2016, but nothing has happened yet. Now a petition with over 26,000 signatures seems to have spurred Starbucks into action. → Read More
Elon Musk's Boring Company Shares Map of Proposed L.A. Tunnel Network
Phase 1 is a 6.5-mile proof-of-concept tunnel that will eventually be opened to the public if regulators agree. → Read More
Google Tests Autoplay Videos in Search Results
Nobody asked for this, nobody wants this and hopefully Google's testing makes that extremely clear. → Read More
Forget Pesticides, Farmers Can Shoot Bad Bugs With Lasers
The Photonic Fence intelligently targets and kills flying pests at a rate of 20 per second, leaving other friendly insects alone. → Read More
Alphabet Sells Boston Dynamics to Softbank
It took over a year, but Google parent Alphabet finally offloads not one, but two robotics divisions to the Japanese company that acquired chip maker ARM last year. → Read More
Amazon Drive Stops Offering Unlimited Storage
Amazon Drive Stops Offering Unlimited Storage Prime customers still get unlimited photo storage, but otherwise, $59.99 per year now gets you 1TB of storage for your files, photos and videos. → Read More
Walmart Opens 24-Hour Grocery Pickup Kiosk
Walmart Opens 24-Hour Grocery Pickup Kiosk Order online, then pickup your groceries from the fully-automated kiosk when its convenient. You have to spend at least $30 though. → Read More
Amazon Awarded Patent for Parachute Shipping Label
Amazon Awarded Patent for Parachute Shipping Label It's a shipping label with a built-in parachute enabling packages to be dropped from a drone in flight. → Read More
New Recycling Process Turns Waste Plastic Into Oil
Rather than dumping waste plastic into our oceans, Recycling Technologies created a machine that turns it into oil usable as fuel. → Read More
Google AutoDraw Turns Doodles Into Art
Not everyone can draw, so Google created an AI that turns our terrible sketches into works of art. → Read More
Elon Musk's Neuralink Wants to Connect Our Brains to Computers
Elon Musk's Neuralink Wants to Connect Our Brains to Computers Not content with electric cars, launching rockets and trying to travel to Mars, Elon Musk also wants to add AI to our brains. → Read More
Tesla Becomes Cheapest Source of Electricity in Hawaii
A solar array and storage batteries on the island of Kauai is producing renewable energy for less per kilowatt hour than fossil fuel power stations. → Read More
We Watch 1 Billion Hours of YouTube Every Day
Google announces we watch a staggering amount of streaming video content daily. → Read More
Amazon Considers Supermarkets Staffed by 3 People
There's also a fleet of robots ensuring orders get filled. → Read More
U.S. Army Asks for Biodegradable Ammo
Ammunition that carries seeds, which grow plants and clean up after themselves. → Read More
This App Prevents Thrill-Seeking Selfie Takers From Dying (Hopefully)
Telling someone it's dangerous when they're already hanging off a skyscraper may not help save many lives. → Read More
Nintendo Switch Makes PS Vita 2 Viable, Portable Xbox Possible
The launch of the Nintendo Switch is still almost 5 months away, but it must surely have both Sony and Microsoft chatting internally about the future of games consoles. Xbox head Phil Spencer [...] → Read More
Valve Demands All Steam Game Images Are Real Screenshots
Valve is firming up its policies and guidelines surrounding the use of images on each game store page, and it’s good news for anyone trying to decide whether to purchase a game or [...] → Read More