In our World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth hands-on preview, we spend some time traversing a sliver of the game’s seventh expansion. Its ideas look good on paper, but do they translate to exciting new adventures?
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Shenzhen-based Tencent Holdings Limited, the parent company behind extremely popular services like WeChat and QQ, today announced that it is joining the OpenStack Foundation as a Gold Member. OpenStack members at the Gold level pay annual dues of 0.025 percent of their revenue with a minimum of $50,000 per year and a maximum of $200,000 to support the development of the open source cloud… Read More
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Joe and Anthony Russo post an Orson Welles wine commercial that sure seems like a subtle request that fans quit whining.
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Andrew Hoyle and Katie Collins discuss the busy iPhone X launch, how restaurants are bringing science to the dinner table and why a supersonic car going slowly is still cool.
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For those times when you don’t need the Insane or even Ludicrous acceleration your Tesla can provide due to the immediate torque of its electric motor, you can now switch to Chill mode for a more relaxed and sedate journey.
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Millions of dollars are at stake in a legal battle between Ron Conway and his former SV Angel partner David Lee, according to a suit filed last week in Marin County Superior Court and first reported by Axios. Lee filed the complaint claiming Conway has not paid him in previously promised fees and agreed upon shares in investments in companies such as Airbnb, Pinterest and Snapchat. Lee was… Read More
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Some people are griping about Face ID, noting that sometimes their siblings can open their iPhone Xs using Face ID. There’s a simple reason for this. When your sibling who kind of looks like you unsuccessfully tries to unlock your phone using their face and then you enter your password, you’re accidentally training Face ID on your sibling’s face. Therefore, if that same… Read More
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When it comes to virtual reality, we’re in a classic tech-industry moment: lots of chatter but seemingly little movement. We hear future-focused cheerleading from all corners about VR’s incredible potential, yet the 6.3 million headsets shipped last year is hardly cause for a ticker-tape parade. So what’s holding back VR? Read More
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Citing a need to upgrade and provide better reliability, Afghanistan officials tried to suspend several popular social media apps for 20 days. This prompted outcry from civil rights organizations, and it’s unclear how successful the ban actually was.
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Commentary: As Google takes heat over burn-in on the Pixel 2 XL, Apple acknowledges potential issues with the screen on its iPhone X.
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