Technology

Gaming gear specialist Corsair has revealed its first monitor, offering a dazzling ultra-slim display and top-of-the-line specs. The 20mm thick 32-inch 1440P IPS panel boasts a silky-smooth refresh rate of 165 Hz and 1 millisecond response time. Support for AMD FreeSync and NVIDIA G-Sync prevents dreaded screen tearing while 100% Adobe RGB provides vibrant color accuracy, and HDR400 delivers bright and vibrant images. Corsair’s iCue Nexus allows users to toggle presets and modify a host of settings to their liking while Elgato Stream Deck integration allows for one-click access into frequented apps. The aluminum stand is furnished with a RapidRoute channel for cable management, a sliding adjustable panel, and a built-in multi-mount point to support Digital SLR cameras, lights, and more. Fo...

September has been a tough month for cryptocurrency investors due to the volatility of the market. According to Yahoo Finance, the past year saw Ethereum‘s value increased by 830%, making it the second-highest by market value. However, Ether has also faced a monthly decrease, even declining to its second-largest level since June with a recent 16% drop. Bitcoin, which is considered the pioneer in crypto fell around 7% during September. Besides the uncertainty that September has reflected, Ethereum’s slow network speed and high transaction fees remain an issue in the crypto ecosystems. Investors are looking at other alternatives including Cardano and Solana. Solana has seen almost a 4,800% growth since September 2020 and has cheaper and faster prices and quicker usages than ETH. Solana is pi...

So we had the big heel turn that’s been hinted at all season, plus some big moments for two of the show’s couples, which made Ted Lasso’s penultimate episode of season two very stressful to watch (for me, at least). I have no idea how they will wrap it all up in the finale; I think we’re headed for a cliffhanger on at least one front. There’s too much good on streaming right now, it’s really a nice problem to have. Here’s this week’s trailers roundup: [embedded content] Eternals A brand-new trailer for Marvel’s Eternals has some of the action sequences we’ve seen in prior teaser/trailers, plus, a first look at Brian Tyree Henry as Phastos, along with his husband and son, apparently the first queer couple in the MCU to appear on the big screen (h/t Gizmodo for that detail). To recap: The Et...

The whistleblower behind the leak of an enormous cache of Facebook documents to the Wall Street Journal, Frances Haugen, went public on 60 Minutes on Sunday, revealing more of the inner workings the most powerful social media platform in the world. Revealing her identity on national television, Haugen described a company so committed to product optimization that it embraced algorithms that amplify hate speech. “It’s paying for its profits with our safety,” Haugen told 60 Minutes host Scott Pelley. According to a since deleted LinkedIn profile Haugen was a product manager at Facebook assigned to the Civic Integretity group. She chose to leave the company in 2021 after the dissolving of the group. She said she didn’t “trust that they’re willing to invest what actually needs to be invested to...

Photos from a fly-by of Mercury, the least-explored planet in our solar system, show ithas a crater-riddled surface that resembles Earth’s Moon. The photos came from BepiColombo, a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) that launched from Europe’s Spaceport in 2018. The mission has two linked orbiting spacecraft, the Mercury Planetary Orbiter and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter. The mission is planned to reach Mercury’s orbit in late 2025. BepiColombo aims to gather more information about Mercury and its composition, and how it evolved so close to our Sun. Temperatures on Mercury can exceed 350 degrees Celsius, or about 660 degrees Fahrenheit. ESA explains where the craters came from and what the surface of the planet is b...

Ford and General Motors told a federal judge they’re planning to settle a trademark battle over the term “Cruise” to describe hands-free driving. Attorneys for the automakers said they’re working out the terms of the settlement and asked the court for a conditional dismissal. The two sides will report back within 60 days if they’re unable to come to an agreement. Ford announced BlueCruise as the name for its hands-free driver assist feature in April. The legal skirmish began in July, when GM filed a trademark infringement lawsuit claiming that the name BlueCruise was too close to its autonomous vehicle subsidiary Cruise, as well as Super Cruise, the name of the hands-free driving tech GM introduced in 2017. GM said in its complaint that the two the companies had been involved in “protracte...

Saturday Night Live returned this weekend and the show wasted no time taking aim at the weird billionaire space tourism race that unfolded over the past few months. Guest host Owen Wilson played former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in a sketch about a fictional new show called Star Trek: Ego Quest, about “the voyages of the SS New Shepard and its crew of random weirdos,” whose mission is “to just sort of fly around space goofing off in a ship that looks like a penis,” according to the voiceover. You’ll recall the real Bezos traveled to the edge of space in Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket in July, along with a crew that included his brother Mark (played in the sketch by Wilson’s brother Luke), 82-year-old pilot and space legend Wally Funk, and Dutch high school student Oliver Daemen. But Richard B...

Solana Monkey Business (SMB) has recently sold an NFT for a record $2 million USD, equivalent to 13027 SOL. The NFT in question, Solana Monkey #1355 is now the most expensive Solana-based NFT. The Block Crypto reported that itw was only three weeks ago that the first Solana-based NFT sold for over $1 million USD, further providing proof that the Ethereum blockchain may be losing its dominance in the cryptocurrency world. Solana Monkey #1355 is seen as the most rare NFT amongst the SolMonkey and features a monkey in a skeleton body wearing a bejeweled crown. According to Solanalysis, Solana’s monkeys now go for an average of 456 SOL. With the new feat, Solana’s pixelated monkeys are now amongst the top five in the PFP power rankings, joining the likes of Bored Ape Yacht Club, Ehtereum’s Coo...

A Steller’s sea eagle escaped from its enclosure at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh last Saturday, and despite the valiant efforts of the Aviary staff, and numerous sightings in the local neighborhood posted to social media, Kodiak —Kody to his friends— is still on the loose and we are all a little worried about him, to be perfectly honest. This is a bird that would be difficult to miss: he’s large (although in Pittsburgh we probably wouldn’t call him “giant” because “Giant Eagle” is a grocery store chain here), with a yellow beak, white tail and white feathers on the tops of his wings. He’s bigger than a bald eagle, and has a wingspan of about six feet. Kody has been spotted in and around the Pittsburgh neighborhood where the Aviary is located, which seems like a good thing. But he’s be...

As a kid, I remember spending hours playing Super Monkey Ball and Super Monkey Ball 2 on the GameCube with my sister. The games are lighthearted and colorful, have fun single-player and multiplayer modes, and the monkeys feel like something out of a Saturday morning cartoon. I haven’t touched the series since, and I figured Banana Mania would be the perfect nostalgia trip for me. While it is a lot of fun, I also found it surprisingly frustrating. Banana Mania is a remaster of the first three Super Monkey Ball games: Super Monkey Ball, Super Monkey Ball 2, and Super Monkey Ball Deluxe. If you’re not familiar with the series, the Monkey Ball games are mostly about rolling monkeys in translucent balls through increasingly challenging maze-like courses. But instead of controlling the monkey in...

Tesla has bucked the wider trend of declining sales brought on by the global chip shortage in the third quarter this year, as it sold 241,300 cars — a total of 102,000 more vehicles than the same quarter last year. It’s the most Tesla has ever sold in a quarter (and for some added perspective, the company sold 367,500 in all of 2019). The company managed to deliver more vehicles once again despite the fact that major automakers saw huge drops this past quarter. General Motors, the largest automaker in the US, said Friday morning that it only sold 446,997 vehicles in the third quarter — a 33 percent drop from the same period last year. Tesla has avoided similar problems in part because it has been sourcing different semiconductors and rewriting software on the fly to make those chips work i...