Gadgets

A plan which would see a corporate entity trademark the term “Web5” has been put to rest after much backlash. Late Tuesday night, TBD, the Bitcoin-focused division of Jack Dorsey’s payments company Block (formerly Square), announced an ill-thought-out plan to trademark the term, which refers to its vision for a decentralized, privacy-focused iteration of the…

The much-anticipated 2022 edition of Spotify Wrapped is here, with a detailed, data dive into all the most listened-to music, podcasts, artists, albums, and more for the year, as well as offering you a look at your own listening data from 2022. It’s always a fun way to discover some of your own listening stats…

Have you ever looked longingly at the website of a posh hotel or resort and thought, “Man, I wish I could hang out there.” Well, thanks to startup ResortPassthat might not be as out of reach as you might think. The six-year-old company gives people the option to purchase day passes to over 900 hotels…

In 2016, Andrew Hoag, formerly a senior manager at Verisign and a web project lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center, founded Teampay, a platform that attempts to automate the software purchasing process for companies. Hoag’s insight was that the way businesses spend money is changing, particularly as they embraced digital transformation, and that visibility into…

The magic of Friends was always that it felt like every episode was a visit with friends you actually knew. When you really think about it, though, some of the characters on Friends would be better actual friends than others. Of the six core characters on the show, a few would be genuinely great hangs, and…

The killer robot discussion is no longer strictly the domain ‘RoboCop’ Brian Heater @bheater / 8 hours Last week, we talked about killer robots. That piece was inspired by a proposal that would allow San Francisco police to use robots for killing “when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers…

The trials and tribulations that a giant company like Meta (née Facebook) has been facing in overcoming skepticism, creating user interest (let alone revenue) and building quality experiences for its all-in metaverse vision highlights just how much work lies ahead for any company working in mixed reality. Today, a startup in that bigger ecosystem, which…

Rejects, get your lasguns and chainswords ready. There’s a heretic about in Warhammer 40,000: Darktideand it’s up to you and three other criminals to venture into the Hive city of Tertium, eradicate the plague, and wipe out the traitors before heresy spreads. Between some performance drops and intermittent crashes, that is. I hit the ground…

Marvel’s Midnight Suns MSRP $70.00 “Marvel’s Midnight Suns is as good of an RPG as it is a strategy game.” Pros Entertaining story Deep friendship systems Approachable, deep card combat Optional open-world exploration Cons Stale combat arena design Confusing objectives Over the past 15 years, comic book fans have been lucky enough to see their…