Discord is adding some big games to its monthly Netflix-style Nitro subscription service. Anyone who pays the $ 10-per-month membership fee can now download a handful of releases from publisher 2K Games. Those include the following: XCOM: Enemy Unknown BioShock Remastered BioShock 2 Remastered Sid Meier’s Civilization IV Complete Mafia “We are super-excited to bring […]
Presidents’ Day falls on the third Monday of February (February 18 this year), and while it’s a lesser-celebrated holiday than most – and typically doesn’t bring the same big sales as holidays like the Fourth of July or Labor Day – it still offers some nice opportunities to grab big-ticket items at a discount. Tech […]
Fujifilm Fujifilm’s waterproof compact just got more durable. On Thursday, February 14, the company unveiled the Fujifilm FinePix XP140, a compact camera with better water sealing, a wider ISO range, and enhanced auto-intelligent modes compared to the predecessor. The compact continues Fujifilm’s XP series of waterproof compacts. The Fujifilm XP140 is waterproof to 82 feet […]
Enlarge Randy Adams / Flickr Last November, photo-hosting site Flickr announced that it was going to slash the storage afforded to free accounts; they’d be capped at just 1,000 pictures each. Starting January 8 this year, free accounts with more than 1,000 pictures were rendered unable to upload any new images, and on February 5, the […]
Say hello to the “finger pinch” emoji. Please use this responsibly. Emojipedia Lots of representation for people with disabilities. We’ve got a hearing aid, deaf people service dogs, probing canes, lots of wheelchairs, and bionic arms and legs. Emojipedia “People holding hands” in all 70 gender and skin color combinations. Emojipedia Here is a yawning […]
The saga of Windows 10 updates continues. Following on from the disaster of the October 2018 update that failed on some machines and the controversy of opting some unknowing users into beta testing, the newest version of updates will require more of your computer’s storage space than before. According to a blog post by Microsoft […]
Enlarge / Lenovo 300e with its stylus and, uh, fallback stylus. Lenovo At the Bett educational technology conference in London, Microsoft has announced cheaper Surface Go pens, new Teams integrations with educational software, and a range of third-party Windows laptops and two-in-one devices with prices as low as $ 189. Microsoft has felt new competitive […]
(Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google disclosed in a quarterly filing on Tuesday that it spent a company-record $ 21.2 million on lobbying the U.S. government in 2018, topping its previous high of $ 18.22 million in 2012, as the search engine operator fights wide-ranging scrutiny into its practices. In its filing to Congress on Tuesday, Facebook […]
Enlarge A month ago, I asked readers to donate to our 2018 Charity Drive sweepstakes. All told, Ars Technica readers donated $ 20,210.66 to Child’s Play and the EFF through the charity drive. That brings our total donations over 12 years of charity driving over the $ 300,000 mark! Well done, Arsians! Thanks to everyone […]
Epic Games Free-to-play video games generated $ 87.7 billion in revenue during 2018, according to a new report from research firm SuperData. Asian players account for 62% of spending on free games, and seven of the top 10 grossing free-to-play games belong to Asian publishers. “Fortnite” was the top grossing game of 2018, free or […]
Enlarge / Netflix company headquarters in Los Gatos, California. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Another round of Netflix price hikes is upon us. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Netflix will increase the prices of all of its subscription plans, effective immediately, for all new customers. Existing customers will see their […]
Dataminers have discovered SNES games and other emulators in the code for Nintendo Switch Online, raising the possibility that they are future additions to the subscription service. Nintendo Switch Online , which was finally launched in September after being initially planned to roll out with the Nintendo Switch in March 2017, is similar to PlayStation […]
Rec Room is ringing in the new year by celebrating its successes in the old one. In a post on its official site, developer Against Gravity revealed its app had been installed on over 1 million VR headsets by the end of 2018. Rec Room is a social VR platform available on Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, […]
The new, 2019 version of the XPS 13 sports its redesigned webcam. Riley Young/Digital Trends We love thin-bezel displays. The thinner, the better. Yet there is one issue that has plagued this otherwise awesome design innovation. The webcam. Dell, the pioneer of thin-bezel laptops, opted to place the webcam below the display. The result was […]
Supported by More Start-Ups Have an Unfamiliar Message for Venture Capitalists: Get Lost ImageFrom left, Jennifer Brandel, Aniyia Williams, Mara Zepeda and Astrid Scholz of Zebras Unite. The group encourages a more ethical industry with greater gender and racial diversity.CreditCreditAdrian Hallauer for The New York Times By Erin Griffith Jan. 11, 2019 On a sunny […]