Sean Hollister
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How Disney’s ‘real’ lightsaber patent actually works
Disney Parks chairman Josh D’Amaro flashed a "real" lightsaber at the end of a presentation on April 8th. How is that possible? Here’s the best visualization we’ve seen of how a new retractable lightsaber design might work, courtesy Ben Ridout. → Read More
Three reasons why Epic Games can give away $17.5 billion worth of games for free
New documents published as part of the legal discovery process for Epic’s major antitrust lawsuit against Apple shed some light into how Epic can afford to give away billions of dollars of free games on the Epic Games Store. → Read More
Nvidia is building new Arm CPUs again: Nvidia Grace, for the data center
Nvidia’s getting getting back into CPUs in a big way with the new Nvidia Grace, a Arm-based processing chip specifically designed for AI data centers. → Read More
AMD inexplicably threw scalpers a bone with limited-edition Radeon RX 6800 XT ‘Midnight Black’ GPU
Because the world desperately needed another GPU people can’t actually buy, AMD decided to release the Radeon RX 6800 XT “Midnight Black” early Wednesday morning, where it immediately got snapped up. → Read More
You can now play every classic Halo on Xbox with a mouse and keyboard
Keyboard and mouse is now a native part of Halo: The Master Chief Collection (including Halo CE, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, and Halo 4) as of a new April 2021 patch. → Read More
‘Hey Spotify’ is another hands-free way to control your music, rolling out now
Spotify has its own hands-free wake word attached to a voice assistant: "Hey Spotify" appears to be rolling out now on Android and iOS, and it supports searching, skipping, and pausing music. → Read More
Samsung’s latest budget phones ask: is refresh rate more important than resolution?
This year, budget phone buyers may be asking themselves whether pixels are worth trading for hertz: the OnePlus Nord N100, Moto G50, and the new Samsung Galaxy F12 and M12 all have 90Hz refresh rates at a low 720p resolution. → Read More
Once again, someone tampered with an entire drinking water supply via the internet
Wyatt Travnichek, 22, stands accused of shutting down the water cleaning system "with the intention of harming" it in Ellsworth County, Kansas. He had remote access. → Read More
Hummer’s new electric SUV can drive diagonally, with 300 miles of range and a $110,000 price tag
The GMC Hummer electric SUV has been revealed, and it’s very similar to its electric supertruck sibling save for the expanded cabin and slightly lower performance specs. → Read More
Steam survey suggests Nvidia’s RTX 3070 is actually trickling into the hands of gamers
Now that the street price of an Nvidia RTX 3070 is over $1,200, it’s temping to think scalpers, bots and cryptocurrency miners got them all — but the latest Steam Hardware Survey suggests at least some of them are making their way into gaming PCs, too. → Read More
Trump used dark patterns to trick supporters into donating millions more than intended
"Asking for forgiveness is easier than permission" was one saying of the man in charge → Read More
Uber will pay a blind woman $1.1 million after drivers stranded her 14 times
Uber will now pay $1.1 million to a blind woman who says said she missed work, missed her birthday celebration, missed Christmas Eve church services, and was left out in the dark, in the rain, and other such humiliations because Uber drivers refused to carry her and her dog on 14 different occasions. → Read More
A cable company that prided itself on no data caps says you’re getting data caps because pizza
WideOpenWest is trying to justify its arbitrary new data caps by explaining that they’re like pizza, but data caps are nothing like pizza. → Read More
The ultimate Lego Star Wars game has been delayed again, indefinitely, and that’s OK
If you’ve been eagerly waiting for Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga to fulfill the incredible promise of its stirring trailer from last August, here’s bittersweet news, the game’s been delayed again. → Read More
25 years later, Space Jam has a new website — and the first trailer for the sequel
Space Jam: A New Legacy, starring LeBron James (rather than Michael Jordan), just released its first trailer — and it’s taken over the classic 1996 Space Jam website, too. Thankfully, the original time capsule is still alive and well. → Read More
Amazon apologizes for lying about pee — and attempts to shift the blame
Amazon has issued a rare public apology over its pee bottles tweet, but it’s only apologizing to Rep. Mark Pocan, and it’s not apologizing for the pee bottles themselves. → Read More
Apple knew it was selling defective MacBook displays, judge concludes
Judge Edward Davila has decided to let the Apple "flexgate" aka "stage light" lawsuit go forward, ruling that Apple should have known MacBook Pro displays would fail and yet sold them anyhow. → Read More
Microsoft is supplying 120,000 HoloLens-based headsets to the US Army
Microsoft is supplying 120,000 HoloLens-based headsets to the US Army. It’s a contract that could be worth up to $21.88 billion over 10 years. → Read More
Google ditches Mobile World Congress 2021, the world’s biggest phone show
Google has announced that it will not exhibit at Mobile World Congress this year, making it the biggest name so far to ditch the show, following major telecom infrastructure providers Nokia and Ericsson as well as Sony and Oracle. → Read More
Microsoft says controversial Georgia law will ‘unfairly restrict the rights of people to vote’
In a blog post titled “Why we are concerned about Georgia’s new election law,” Microsoft president Brad Smith slams the state’s new Election Integrity Act for making it harder for its employees (and others) to vote. → Read More