Microsoft has released a new version of the Xbox app for PC. The September update adds HowLongToBeat integration. If you’re not familiar with the website, it’s a resource where you can find out how much time you may need to complete a specific game. What makes HowLongToBeat so helpful is that it has separate estimates […]
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This Tiny, Portable Dishwasher Is Built for the Truly Lazy
Bob the Mini Dishwasher is a (maybe too) tiny countertop machine made for small families living in small spaces. https://media.wired.com/photos/631bc11bd884b4dcc94164e7/master/pass/Bob_green_SOURCE%20Daan%20Tech-2.jpg
These quarries supplied the stones that built Stonehenge
Enlarge (credit: Parker Pearson et al. 2019) Excavations at two ancient quarry sites in western Wales suggest how ancient people probably quarried some of the stones now standing at Stonehenge. The 42 stones in question are some of the smaller parts at Stonehenge, relatively speaking: they still weigh two to four tons each. They’re called […]
How This Is Us Built Beth's Ballet Past and Frank, Formidable Family
When This Is Us decided that dance was going to be an integral part of Beth’s past, the show’s Powers That Be wanted to ensure that their storytelling would be on point(e). “I got a text from [series co-producer] Kay Oyegun that said, ‘Girl, can you dance for real?’” star Susan Kelechi Watson recalled. “I […]
How Buke and Gase built a huge indie rock career—and its own guitars, software
L-R: Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez perform as Buke and Gase in November 2018. Each holds one of the band’s titular, custom-built instruments: a baritone ukulele and a guitar-bass fusion. [credit: Sam Machkovech ] NEW YORK CITY—The band brings to the stage: two stringed instruments, neither of which look exactly like a bass or a […]
Samsung will fight its phone sales slump with models built for India
Samsung knows it’s facing tough times, and it’s not just counting on the Galaxy S10 to get out of its funk. It’s launching a trio of Galaxy M-series phones in late January that are designed expressly for “Indian millennial consumers,” the company’s Asim Warsi told Reuters. They’ll launch in India first before a wider rollout, […]
Lenovo built a slider phone with 12GB of RAM
While Lenovo continues to push the Motorola brand in the West, it’s also been busy doing its own thing back in China. Just last month, the company brought us the Z5 Pro all-screen slider phone which, to our surprise, packed mid-tier specs to woo the budget-conscious consumers. That’s all well and good, but surely such […]
Mars Landing: NASA’s InSight Is Built for Absurd Conditions
The latest robot to visit the red planet is built to withstand dust storms and temperatures that can melt steel during entry, descent, and landing. https://media.wired.com/photos/5bf5a7beec17240d1c046f94/master/pass/insightlanding.jpg
A life-size, moving Gundam statue is being built in Japan
If you happen to be in Tokyo for the Olympic Games in 2020 and dig giant robots, it might be worth paying a visit to nearby Yokohama. A project called Gundam Factory Yokohama is working with the city to create a life-size, moving Gundam statue to help mark the franchise’s 40th anniversary. The project is […]
These 2 tech founders lost their friends in tragic accidents. Now they’ve built AI chatbots to give people life after death
Samantha Lee/Business Insider Netflix drama “Black Mirror” once imagined a world in which tech could be used to recreate the dead. Now, people are working to make that a reality. Tech firm Eternime is beta testing an app that will allow users to create a digital “avatar” of themselves after they die. Eternime is not […]
