Google Maps Immersive View just keeps getting better
Google Maps’ best feature, Immersive View, just got a whole lot better. You can now explore 3D maps of four new cities and over 500 new landmarks thanks to Google’s…
Google Lens and Bard are an AI tag team that ChatGPT should fear
Google Lens has long been a powerful party trick for anyone who needs to identify a flower or translate their restaurant menu, but it’s about to jump to the next…
Steam gets a huge free update on PC, and it’s good news for Steam Deck too
Valve has announced a major update to its Steam application that brings a “fresh” new look, better notifications, a new in-game overlay and new Notes feature. Announced on Twitter (see…
My Father’s Death in 7 Gigabytes
I set my scanner for JPEGs at 70 percent compression, then assembled them into PDFs. Fast and cheap. I also took photos of various ephemera with my phone at god-knows-what…
The Making of the Egg Butthole on ‘I Think You Should Leave’
It took about two weeks to create the game, the mechanics of which were dictated in the script. As the game evolved, most of the discussion between the duo and…
Twitter sued for $250 million by music publishers over ‘massive’ copyright infringement
The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) is suing Twitter on behalf of 17 music publishers representing the biggest artists in the business. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Tennessee,…
Pour one out for HDDs because PC games are starting to require SSDs
Are you still hanging on to that giant 8TB spinning HDD for your PC game installs? Well, it’s starting to look like SSDs will become the new minimum spec for…
Microsoft Teams integration is being removed from Windows 11
Microsoft is preparing to remove its built-in Microsoft Teams client in Windows 11 nearly two years after the integration was first announced. The Chat functionality will be replaced with the…
The US Navy, NATO, and NASA Are Using a Shady Chinese Company’s Encryption Chips
Deeg says that Initio has since fixed those vulnerabilities. But more troubling, he says, was how tough it was to do that analysis of the devices’ firmware. The code had…
How Shady Chinese Encryption Chips Got Into the Navy, NATO, and NASA
When WIRED reached out to the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, a spokesperson responded that the BIS is restricted by law from commenting to the press on specific…