Why it matters: Oculus announced the addition of a feature in Facebook’s Oculus applications that establishes a minimum distance of contact between avatars. It comes in response to reports of sexual harassment between avatars in the company’s virtual worlds. Today Meta rolled out “Personal Boundaries” in Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues for the Oculus Quest.…
In context: Google claimed many times that Chromebooks are designed as sustainable devices, consuming less energy than similar products and featuring resistant materials to ensure these devices last. Nonetheless, Google believes there’s still room to make the ecosystem more sustainable, introducing a Chromebook repair program for schools. Overall, Chromebooks are more eco-friendly than the competition,…
The big picture: Once on PS5 and Xbox Series, Grand Theft Auto V will have found a home on three major console generations. That’s impressive, but maybe not as much considering GTA V is the second best-selling game ever behind Minecraft with more than 155 million copies sold. Rockstar Games at long last has confirmed…
WTF?! Months after English-language media started reporting about a Japanese company’s super-thin, super-tall secondary PC monitor for social media feeds, another Japanese company has unveiled one. The first one seemed like a joke, but now it looks like it could be a trend. Thanko recently unveiled the TL (Timeline) Portrait Display. At ￥11,200 (about $100),…
Highly anticipated: Gran Turismo is not for everybody. Some don’t like its grindy nature. Some don’t like the difficult physics. However, fans of the series are ardent and take the bad with the good (full disclosure: I’m a big fan). The last GT game strayed from the formula players loved, and Sony noticed. Polyphony redesigned…
Recap: Tax season is a notoriously busy time of year for cybercriminals and tax-related security teams. A security notice issued earlier this week is warning TurboTax customers to watch out for e-mails threatening to cancel their tax preparation accounts. The emails, which claim to be from the Intuit Maintenance Team, are phishing attacks attempting to…
WTF?! There’s never been any doubt that the RTX 3090 Ti will cost an astronomical amount of money when it arrives, though who knows when that might be. But we may now have an idea of what sort of price points to expect: between $3,800 to over $5,500 for some third-party cards, based on overseas…
Why it matters: Advances in automotive technology have resulted in more vehicles offering drivers an automated assistance system as an available feature. Unfortunately, some still mistake these advanced assistance systems for a fully functional autopilot system. A recent study reviewed several vehicles and their assistance systems to determine how effective they really are. The Automotive…
Facepalm: It’s been more than ten years and $430 million, but to absolutely no one’s surprise, Star Citizen is still not ready for release. The space-based epic from Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts was originally scheduled to arrive in 2015. That date, and the functionality that accompanies it, have since continued to slide and kept…
What just happened? Intel’s public offensive against AMD has grown more intense recently. The latest diss from team blue is found in a report that states its CPUs faced 16 reported vulnerabilities last year while almost double that amount (31) were found in AMD’s processors. Intel did lead the way in GPU vulnerabilities, but it’s…
