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One of the year’s scariest and most engrossing horror games is clawing its way to a new console. SFB Games’ Crow Country will launch on the Nintendo Switch . Crow Country may look like a cheerier, grainier Animal Crossing but that just adds to the horror adventure’s creepy and dark atmosphere. You play as Mara … Read more

Cute animals — especially baby animals — rule the web. Every time a new one comes up, the details vary, but the fascination is the same. It’s kind of like a game of Mad Libs, where you pick random words to fill blanks in a sentence: In 2024, a (pygmy hippo) from (Thailand) named (Moo … Read more

Here is some great news for your evening. NordVPN’s flashy sale just dropped its price to a silly $3.09 a month. This is part of its 73% discount thanks to 3 extra months for the 2-year Basic plan. Get ready for a savings frenzy and jump on this bandwagon. How to Get This Generous NordVPN … Read more

Leah Feiger: I think it adds to it. It’s this, it’s stolen valor. Even when you’re actually parsing through the specifics of it, is it that terrible? Tim Marchman: I don’t think he came off great. I don’t think it’s … Leah Feiger: Yeah, he came off not well in the fact that he called … Read more

If you spot famed childhood science entertainer Bill Nye on the streets and feel compelled to ask for a brag-worthy selfie, you better be able to show where you stand on climate policy. That’s because the celebrity and newly minted “Climate Guy” is drawing a line: He’ll take your photos, but only if you’re voting … Read more

Did you, like me, buy a Ring Alarm system for your home because it offered the most affordable professional 24/7 monitoring around, at just $10 a month or $100 a year? Then I expect you — like me — just got an email stating you’ll now pay twice as much starting the next time you … Read more

San Francisco’s Mission district isn’t known for corporate offices, but it’s now home to two of the world’s most well-funded AI startups. Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, recently moved into a new office in the Mission: the same building that served as OpenAI’s headquarters for several years, according to the San Francisco Business Times. … Read more

What you need to know Amazon launched three new Fire HD 8 tablets—Fire HD 8 (2024), Fire HD 8 Kids, and Fire HD 8 Kids Pro. Each tablet includes a writing assistant, quick webpage summaries via the Amazon Silk browser, and a tool for creating custom wallpapers from text prompts. The Fire HD 8 is … Read more

TL;DR Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Note 10 phones are getting stuck in bootloops. A just-released Samsung SmartThings Framework update may be to blame. So far, the only relief affected users have found is through a factory reset. Updates are supposed to make our devices better: give them more features, fix bugs, and address security concerns. … Read more

Cisco is exiting the LoRaWAN market for IoT device connectivity, with no migration plans for customers. “LoRaWAN is a low power, wide area network specification, specifically designed to connect devices such as sensors over relatively long distances,” notes The Register. “It is built on LoRa, a form of wireless communication that uses spread spectrum modulation, … Read more