As a PC gamer, you’ve likely already felt the pain that is the ever-increasing file size of today’s games—Baldur’s Gate 3 and Red Dead Redemption 2 are each around 150 gigabytes, for example. These giant games become even more of a hassle on portable consoles like Valve’s Steam Deck. Huge file sizes don’t have to … Read more
Dove Cameron just dropped Alchemical: Volume 1, the first part of her two-part debut album! The 27-year-old singer and actress’ new LP features eight tracks, including previously released “Lethal Woman,” “Boyfriend,” and “Breakfast.” “Alchemical: Volume 1 is a report from the void of my own personal experience with love, sex, loss, trauma, darkness and eventually … Read more
Play video content TMZ.com Chilling video shows alleged murderer Samuel Haskell Jr. enlisting several men to remove heavy bags from his home — bags the laborers say contained body parts, and which police suspect are the remains of Haskell’s missing wife and family. TMZ obtained this surveillance video recorded Tuesday, Nov. 7 outside Haskell’s home … Read more
Welcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Take predictions and urban legends with skepticism: Luko is not France’s next unicorn, and Paul McCartney is not dead. Now rumor has it that … Read more
The Big Picture Splitting The Hunger Games: Mockingjay into two movies allowed for more exploration of the plot and character development, enhancing the source material’s depth. The decision to split the final The Hunger Games installment in two was essential in portraying the horrors of war and the impact on the protagonist, Katniss, and other … Read more
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Google isn’t just promising seven years of upgrades for the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro — the company says it’ll also stock spare parts for seven years as well. “Parts will be available for seven years. That’s part of our commitment,” Soniya Jobanputra, director of product management at Google, told Android Authority. “[W]e need to … Read more
Cesar Cadenas/ZDNET In my opinion, a good laptop is greater than the sum of its parts. You don’t need the fastest processor or the world’s greatest graphics card to be one of the best Chromebooks. Sometimes all you need is the right combination of hardware to create a wonderful experience. Recently, I tried out the … Read more
The Fitbit Charge 6 is getting more Google-y than ever. Fitbit’s new $160 fitness tracker inherits many of the features we loved on the Pixel Watch, like its heart rate accuracy and Google app support. But it packs them in a smaller design, with a battery that can last up to a week, rather than a … Read more
SoundThinking, the company behind the gunshot-detection system ShotSpotter, is quietly acquiring staff, patents, and customers of the firm that created the notorious predictive policing software PredPol, WIRED has learned. In an August earnings call, SoundThinking CEO Ralph Clark announced to investors that the company was negotiating an agreement to acquire parts of Geolitica—formerly called PredPol—and … Read more
Mecho Autotech, a startup providing automotive spare components, car repairs and upkeep companies, has raised a $2.4 million pre-Sequence A spherical. The agency targets the Nigerian market, the place 90% of the nation’s greater than 12 million registered automobiles (primarily used) require common upkeep to keep away from recurring breakdowns. Its major enterprise connects car … Read more