Enlarge / Dalian Railway Station. In 2017, Adobe announced that it would disable Flash by the end of 2020. Earlier this month, January 12, Adobe implemented its plans and disabled Flash installations worldwide. One result, according to the Apple Daily, was chaos on a Chinese railway in Liaoning province. Officials at China Railway Shenyang use Flash-based software to plan daily …
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Amazon’s Alexa can now act on its own emotions to turn off lights and more
Amazon enables a new feature today that allows Alexa to proactively complete tasks around the house, such as turning off lights, based on your habits and frequent requests. Alexa has been able to sense these habits and ask about them since 2018 – the company calls them “hunches” – but before this update, Alexa would ask permission before acting on …
Read More »Immortal’s Fenyx Rising’s New Netflix Tie-In Quest is not much, but the rewards are good
Screenshot: Ubisoft Immortal Fenyx Rising received a new, free search late last week as part of yet another media transition. This time it’s with an animated Netflix show called Zeus’ blood. The extra quest is not very good, but it has some nice rewards. But you have to act soon to get them. It seems like Ubisoft is very open …
Read More »Dan Riccio begins a new chapter at Apple
Cupertino, California – Apple today announced Dan Riccio will take on a new role focusing on a new project and reporting to CEO Tim Cook, building on more than two decades of innovation, service and leadership at Apple. John Ternus will now lead Apple’s Hardware Engineering organization as a member of the management team. “Every innovation that Dan has helped …
Read More »McLaren Elva: first test of wild 804 hp roofless supercar
One of my earliest prized possessions was a sleek and chipped scale model of a McLaren M-Series Can-Am car. It was turquoise green, flat as a matchbox with gold wheels and had almost no screen. I want to throw it around homemade imaginary race tracks, scrape it past the bookshelves and shoot it out in wild slides over our centrally …
Read More »Valve reveals partnership with OpenBCI to make VR games more immersive – The Road to VR
In a candid interview with New Zealand 1 news, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell sat down to talk all about his future vision for the brain-computer interface (BCI), and how technology is set to change everything about how we live (and play) today. From the outside, it seems as if Valve is taking baby steps, but Newell says that the research …
Read More »Ninja thinks parents should parent their children
Popular Twitch streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins has a few words of choice for parents in an interview with The New York Times: Listen to, and more importantly, teach your children. Ninja was asked several questions at the publication about a number of things in his life, from his plans to switch to voice acting to his comments a few years …
Read More »Just What the Heck is Genshin Impact?
If you look at the list of Twitter’s most talked about games in 2020, you will see a number of names you are likely to expect: Animal Crossing, Fate / Grand Order, Final Fantasy, Fortnite… and a new title called Genshin Impact. Now you’ve probably heard that name more than a few times. Maybe you got a glimpse of the …
Read More »Tesla loses man who produced some of the ‘best engineering’ Elon Musk has seen
Tesla lost engineering director Joseph Mardall, who has helped produce “some of the best engineering work” Elon Musk has seen in a long time. Tesla Model Y heat pump With Model Y last year, Tesla introduced several new design improvements, and the new heat pump is one of the most important. A heat pump is a unit that transfers heat …
Read More »Sneasel Research Day and Team GO Rocket-themed Ho-Oh Research are coming
Trainers, two research events coming to Pokémon GO in January! In addition to all the January 2021 events in Pokémon GO, starting tomorrow, you will be able to complete a TGR timed research leading to an encounter with a Ho-Oh that knows earthquakes. In addition, on January 31, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. local time, Sneasel Research Day takes …
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