Author: Trendici
On their way around the Moon, the Artemis II crew had time to snap some terrific pictures of our blue planet. NASA has begun sharing the images, including the one above, which shows a striking view of Earth through the Orion capsule’s window.Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman overcame the crew’s problems with Microsoft Outlook and the toilet to capture the photos. He took the above pic after the craft completed its translunar injection burn on April 2.Reid Wiseman / NASAMeanwhile, this second photo trades clever composition for a full-on view of our planet. If you look carefully, you can see…
Amid Microsoft’s hacking and slashing of its Xbox division, you wouldn’t be crazy for thinking State of Decay 3 was dead. After all, the title was announced nearly six years ago, and, well, we haven’t heard much since. But the survival game is still in the pipeline, and developer Undead Labs will hold a series of playtests beginning in May.In the announcement, franchise co-creator Brant Fitzgerald emphasized the role of community input in the game’s continued development. “We’ve read your feedback on Discord, we’ve watched your gameplay clips and livestreams on YouTube,” he said. “It became clear that community is…
Image: Kim Raff/NYT/Redux The Federal Bureau of Investigation has formally classified a China-linked breach of one of its internal surveillance systems as a “major incident” under federal law, a designation that signals the intrusion carries significant risks to US national security. The news, first reported by Politico, lands as yet another embarrassing blow to America’s cybersecurity posture, and a potential windfall for Beijing. On Feb. 17, the FBI opened an inquiry into unusual activity on one of its internal networks, the kind used to manage wiretaps and other sensitive surveillance operations, according to a Justice Department notice to Congress reviewed…
The Trump administration’s labor board has ordered Amazon to recognize and bargain with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, which represents workers at a warehouse in Staten Island. This is just the latest chapter in a multiyear standoff between Staten Island warehouse workers and Amazon, .The union has been trying to bring Amazon to the bargaining table for years to negotiate pay, benefits and workplace safety. The labor board’s proclamation doesn’t mean that the battle is over. It’s highly likely this will be settled in court.An Amazon spokesperson maintains that the vote to create the union was “wrong on the…
Image: Luis Andrés Villalón Vega/Unsplash Hackers didn’t sneak past Google Play’s defenses. They walked right through the front door. Downloaded over 2.3 million times, potentially exposing millions of devices, the NoVoice malware lives in apps installed directly from the Google Play Store, an unusual scenario in which it extracted sensitive data from infected devices. First identified by researchers at McAfee, the affected apps have since been reported to, and removed by, Google. While no threat actors have been officially named, the malware’s behavior suggests a pattern familiar to known threat groups, prompting renewed warnings for Android users to remain vigilant.…
Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana Apple has been updating its list of vintage and obsolete products over the past several months, and a surprisingly long roster of once-popular devices has now officially entered the twilight zone of hardware support. From iPhones to MacBooks to Apple Watches, here’s what’s changed and what it means for your device. What ‘vintage’ and ‘obsolete’ actually mean Before the panic sets in, it’s worth understanding what Apple’s labels actually mean in practice. According to Apple support, a product is considered vintage when the company stopped distributing it for sale more than five years ago,…
I realized something was genuinely wrong with The Super Mario Galaxy Movie about 30 minutes in: I hadn’t laughed even once. My audience of around 15 people, including a few families, was dead silent as well. The guy sitting behind me, a Nintendo fan decked out in Mario gear, was so bored he fell asleep. Sure, this is made for kids, but as a Nintendo devotee myself, and someone who has to watch a ton of children’s films on repeat, even the Despicable Me films are more entertaining.To be fair, there’s the pretense of a plot: Koopa Jr. and Peach…
Alongside the recent feature that Matt Prior wrote about getting 100mpg out of his Audi A2, there was a video that went on Autocar’s YouTube channel. It opens with a shot of Matt at a jet wash, cleaning the A2. Scroll down and, reliable as clockwork, there they are: the commenters lambasting him for ruining the Audi’s paintwork by using ‘the brush’. Of course, they’re ignoring the fact that this is a £500 car whose paintwork is already far from pristine. There’s an expectation that if you love cars, you also love the act of meticulously cleaning them. I must confess…
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When Thick As Thieves, the upcoming stealth game led by Deus Ex/Thief director Warren Spector, was first revealed, it was billed as an asymmetrical immersive sim that featured PvPvE gameplay. However, developer Otherside has announced that it’s abandoning that approach and is redesigning the game to focus squarely on single-player and co-op play.Thick As Thieves was first announced during The Game Awards 2024 and is set in the Scottish city of Kilcairn during an alternative version of the 1910s, where magic and technology co-exist. In the original pitch for the game, players attempt to pull off heists by exploring the…