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People online seem tired of crossover skins and silly cosmetics in games like Call of Duty and Battlefield. And now one of the lead devs behind online shooter Arc Raiders has promised that you won’t see Santa Claus or dinosaur outfits in the newly released live-service game. The latest big hit on Steam is multiplayer extraction shooter Arc Raiders. It launched on October 30 on consoles and PC and quickly racked up over 200k concurrent players on Steam. And being an online game in 2025 means offering up cosmetics for players to earn or purchase. Arc Raiders is no exception,…
By now, I have a well-established routine when I set up a new pair of Meta smart glasses. I connect my Instagram, WhatsApp and Spotify accounts. I complete the slightly convoluted steps in my Bluetooth settings to make sure Meta AI can announce incoming phone calls and text messages. I tweak the video settings to the highest quality available, and change the voice of Meta AI to “English (UK)” so it can talk to me in the voice of Judi Dench.But with the $499 Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses, there’s also a new step: deciding what the customizable “action button” should…
Louise Matsakis: Oh God, you would not see me in the office for weeks if there was a bedbug infestation. How did they find out about this?Zoë Schiffer: So basically, they received this email on Sunday, saying that exterminators had arrived at the scene with sniffer dogs and “found credible evidence of their presence.” There, being the bedbugs. Sources tell WIRED that Google’s offices in New York are home to a number of large stuffed animals, and there was definitely a rumor going around among employees that these stuffed animals were implicated in the outbreak. We were not able to…
Scientists have found two pairs of merging black holes, and they think the larger one in each merger is a rare “second-generation” veteran of a previous collision.The two larger black holes’ unusual behavior, observed through ripples in space-time called gravitational waves, was described Oct. 28 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.The telltale clue was twofold: In each merger, the larger black hole was spinning rapidly and was significantly more massive than the partner black hole it swallowed. The events were observed with the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration, a set of gravitational-wave detectors around the world aiming to observe space-shaking events like black hole…
What’s new with One UI 8.5 notificationsWe’ve all got notification clutter, and Samsung is gearing up for its next attempt to fix it. A new leaked build of One UI 8.5 has been spotted in a new report, and this time, the “Priority notifications” feature is actually working. This feature was seen in a previous leak, but it was broken. Now we have our first look at how it will function.How priority notifications will reportedly workThe feature’s description says it finds “notifications that may be important” and sticks them “above other notifications to make sure you don’t miss them.” Screenshots…
The future of Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher, subscription-free alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud, was uncertain after the apps’ developer Serif was acquired by Canva in 2024. Now, over a year later, the changes Canva has introduced are big, but not necessarily unwelcome. The newly relaunched Affinity by Canva combines all three apps into a single piece of illustration, photo editing and layout software, and rather than move to a subscription model as many feared, Canva’s made it entirely free. Or, at least, freemium.Affinity is available now as a desktop app for macOS and Windows, with an iPadOS version on…
It’s almost Halloween. Quick! What horror games can you download for a spooky festive session or two? If you have Game Pass on Xbox or PC, there’s actually a bunch, and some of them are quite good. Our picks below range from interactive stories to brutal first-person shooters. Best of all, you don’t need to have Game Pass Ultimate to access them. All of the following games are available with just Game Pass Premium or Game Pass PC. Check some of these out for creepy vibes in between giving out candy. Aliens: Fireteam Elite (Xbox, PC) Cold Iron Studios Genre:…
As the birthplace of prestige TV shows like The Sopranos and The Wire, HBO—and, by extension, HBO Max—is best known for its impressive lineup of original series. The network has also been upping the ante with feature-length content that is the stuff of Oscar dreams.Below is a list of some of our favorite films streaming on HBO Max—from Oscar-winning epics to dystopian sci-fi classics. If you decide you’re in more of a TV mood, head over to our picks for the best shows on HBO Max. If you’re looking for even more recommendations, check out our lists of the best movies on Netflix, the best movies…
During the launch of the top-tier Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, Qualcomm announced it was working on a non-elite version of the chipset. The company hasn’t shared much about the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, but a new leak reveals most of the important details about it.Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 to share a lot with its Elite siblingJust like Qualcomm’s top-tier chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 may be built on TSMC’s N3P 3nm process and feature custom Oryon CPU cores in a 2+6 configuration. According to a leak (source in Chinese) from Digital Chat Station, the chip will have two…
Tectonic processes and the “ghosts” of past ice sheets are contorting, lifting and pulling Greenland in different directions, new research reveals.Greenland sits on the North American tectonic plate, which has dragged the island northwest by 0.9 inches (23 millimeters) per year over the past two decades. Researchers have been monitoring this drift for some time, but a new study analyzing satellite data has found that there is far more to the movement and to other deformations than just plate tectonics.”We get this complicated pattern with twisting, pressure, and tension,” said study lead author Danjal Longfors Berg, a postdoctoral researcher specializing…