Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann on Monday expressed his surprise at what he described as an “incredibly inappropriate first sentence” in Donald Trump’s filing to the U.S. Supreme Court in which the former president’s lawyers argued he should have “total immunity” for potential criminal acts committed when he was in the White House. “This application … Read more
On January 30, X gaming account Wario64 spotted something strange: Yager’s seminal cult classic Spec Ops: The Line had been unceremoniously removed from online storefronts without warning. Developers who made the game were just as baffled as fans. “Makes no sense,” tweeted the game’s director, Cory Davis. “Especially because the themes portrayed in Spec Ops: … Read more
If you have an older generation of the iPhone and want to upgrade, but you don’t really need the latest tech, then going for the iPhone 13 is actually a pretty good option. In fact, the 13 is still on our list of best phones for value, so if you want to save yourself a … Read more
Image: Hasbro In another life, the E-Wing was meant to replace the iconic X-Wing as the go-to starfighter of Star Wars’ post-Return of the Jedi fiction. But even if—in neither the original Expanded Universe it debuted in, nor rebooted canon after appearing in Ahsoka—the E-Wing never really got its time to shine, at least in … Read more
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On X, Cory Davis, the game’s designer and director, was also out of the loop asking the game’s publisher 2K why this happened. “Makes no sense,” Davis wrote. “Especially because the themes portrayed in [Spec Ops: The Line] are more relevant now than ever.” In an email to The Verge, 2K communications director Joe DiMiero … Read more
‘This is criminal’: Atlanta contractor slapped with $30K water bill — for an empty lot with no water line. The utility company doused his hopes for justice An Atlanta man has been slapped with a $30,000 water bill for alleged water usage on a plot of land … with no connection to a water line. … Read more
Mint Images – David Schultz/Getty Images I’ve been using Linux for decades and, although the command line is second nature to me, I still opt to use GUI tools because they tend to be far more efficient than their terminal-based counterparts. There is, however, one task for which I always turn to the command line … Read more
I bought several Stanley tumblers before the Target craze was a thing, because I wanted to see if the TikTok hype was true. In the past, I’ve tried multiple trendy water bottles, including an hourly motivational bottle, which got me to drink more water for maybe three days, and I’ve tried using only disposable water bottles … Read more
June Wan/ZDNET It’s a rare occasion that I find a MacOS app goes awry, but it does happen. When an app stops responding on the MacOS desktop, there’s a user-friendly GUI tool that can help you. Go to the Apple menu, click Force Quit, find the app in question, and Force Quit. However, that trick … Read more
June Wan/ZDNET While Microsoft and Samsung have been working for some time now to take cloud gaming on TVs mainstream, quite a few questions remain as to whether gamers will embrace the new technology or not. Also: CES 2024: What’s Next in Tech Samsung is hoping to push some more gamers to the cloud TV gaming … Read more