Epic Games Store free games: this week’s giveaways revealed Torchlight 2
Ready for this week’s free Epic Games Store games? It’s looking likely that we’re all going to be locked in for at least a short period of time while the…
The ultimate guide to boosting Wi-Fi: 21 ways to improve your internet speed null
Over the past few months, the internet has been a lifeline for us all, keeping us connected to each other, our places of work, friends and families. The tools we’ve…
Scientists Unlock the Secret to Ultra-Black Skin of Deep-Sea Fish
One specimen of the ultra-black fish species Anoplogaster cornuta.Image: Karen Osborn, Smithsonian New research shows how some deep-sea fish, with their specialized, ultra-black skin, are able to avoid detection even…
Xbox Series X can play all Xbox One games, unless they use Kinect
Microsoft is confirming today that its Xbox Series X console won’t support the existing Kinect accessory or the Xbox One games that are built specifically for Kinect. In a blog…
Microsoft to launch xCloud streaming free with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate in September
Microsoft is planning to launch its game streaming service, currently known as Project xCloud, free to its paying Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers in September. The xCloud service will allow…
Weeks later, Dr Disrespect still won’t say what happened with Twitch
Dr Disrespect has spoken up for the first time in over two weeks in conversations with multiple news outlets, but the streamer declined to comment on why he might have…
No Man’s Sky has a new ‘Desolation’ update that turns it into a horror game
No Man’s Sky is getting yet another genre-bending refresh: the new “Desolation” update turns the usually upbeat space exploration adventure into a horror game that looks a whole lot more…
Vantablack? Meh. Meet the Ultra-Black Vantafish
Incredibly, there wasn’t one common ancestor of these 16 Vantafish species—or at least the 16 Osborn and Davis have discovered so far—that evolved this trick and passed it along to…
Twitter Is at Its Best When Verified Accounts Can’t Tweet
In 1998, folk singer Jewel released a book of poetry called A Night Without Armor. (The title was a pun, you see. It plays with the homophones “night” and “knight”…
A New Gadget Stops Voice Assistants From Snooping on You
Achieving all of that required the researchers to overcome two challenges. The first is that most assistant traffic is encrypted. That prevents LeakyPick from inspecting packet payloads to detect audio…