Amazon will stream an election night special with Brian Williams

Amazon will stream an election night special with Brian Williams

Amazon Prime Video hosted by Brian Williams. The veteran newscaster will deliver “election results and analysis” starting at 5PM ET on November 5. Interestingly, this is a free special and doesn’t require a Prime membership. It’ll also be live streaming throughout the world, and not just America. Williams will be joined by a bevy of … Read more

Today’s NYT Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Oct. 21, #1220

Today’s NYT Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Oct. 21, #1220

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today’s Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections and Strands puzzles. There are plenty of other online word games now, but I still play the New York Times Wordle game every day. These days, it’s not only an old … Read more

Borderlands Will Always Shoot to the Beat of Its Own Gun

Borderlands Will Always Shoot to the Beat of Its Own Gun

In its heyday, the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 era produced many still-ongoing franchises, but few have endured quite as interestingly as Borderlands. Gearbox Software’s shooter-RPG series has been so definitive and so infamous for so long in ways that will never truly go away. At the same time, it’s always been itself: for better … Read more

The 7 Best Blackout Curtains, Tested and Reviewed

The 7 Best Blackout Curtains, Tested and Reviewed

Blackout curtains are useful for a range of reasons—most obviously, blocking out sunlight, but also for reducing outside noises, temperature control (whether that be insulating for winter months or blocking out light to keep the room cooler in the summer), and ensuring privacy. I wanted to try a myriad of curtain options that promised total … Read more

Wordle today: The answer and hints for October 21

Wordle today: The answer and hints for October 21

Oh hey there! If you’re here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we’re serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today’s answer. If you just want to be told today’s word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for October 21’s Wordle solution revealed. But if … Read more

Michelle Yeoh’s Star Trek spy movie has a release date

Michelle Yeoh’s Star Trek spy movie has a release date

Star Trek: Section 31 will premiere as a direct-to-streaming movie on January 24th on Paramount Plus, which revealed the date during a Trek panel at the New York Comic Con. Fans will finally see Michelle Yeoh’s Star Trek: Discovery character, Emperor Philippa Georgiou, put her Mirrorverse skills to use as a super secret space spy. … Read more

Perplexity is reportedly looking to fundraise at an $8B valuation

Perplexity is reportedly looking to fundraise at an B valuation

AI search engine Perplexity is in fundraising talks and hopes to raise around $500 million at an $8 billion valuation, according to the Wall Street Journal. If a deal happens with those terms, it would more than double Perplexity’s valuation from its $3 billion valuation when it raised from SoftBank over the summer. The WSJ … Read more

An Alternative to Rewriting Memory-Unsafe Code in Rust: the ‘Safe C++ Extensions’ Proposal

An Alternative to Rewriting Memory-Unsafe Code in Rust: the ‘Safe C++ Extensions’ Proposal

“After two years of being beaten with the memory-safety stick, the C++ community has published a proposal to help developers write less vulnerable code,” reports the Register. “The Safe C++ Extensions proposal aims to address the vulnerable programming language’s Achilles’ heel, the challenge of ensuring that code is free of memory safety bugs…” Acknowledging the … Read more