Last week, Netflix unleashed a battery of announcements as a part of its Geeked Week. Contained within the flurry of reveals of The Sandman, The Umbrella Academy season 3, One Piece, and more was a handful of announcements about the platform’s slowly growing game and game-adjacent offerings. Netflix showed off a brief teaser for Cuphead season 2 ahead of its August premiere, featuring […]
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Oracle thinks it can fix Healthcare’s biggest Tech Issue: Patient Records
Just after closing a $28 billion deal to acquire electronic health records company Cerner, tech giant Oracle said it thinks it can solve one of the biggest tech problems in healthcare: patient records. The combined companies will create a national health records database that pulls in data from thousands of hospitals, stated Larry Ellison, Oracle board […]
All the Breaking News from Summer Game Fest 2022
This year, Summer Game Fest didn’t have a lot of huge reveals — especially because one of its biggest announcements, a PlayStation 5 remake of The Last of Us, leaked just before the show (scroll down for details). But the event did manage to introduce a couple of surprises and new gameplay for the coming year’s big […]
Using Your Pet’s Name as a Password? You Might Want to Rethink That.
No matter how much you love your pet’s name, never use it as a password, cautions Kelly Merryman, president and chief operating officer of the Digital Security Company Aura. For starters, it’s easy for hackers to learn your dog’s name through social media posts. “You just don’t think about the fact that when you tell stories […]
The Windows 11 Update is Available to Install Now
On Tuesday, Microsoft released its next big Windows 11 update to the Release Preview ring of final testing. Windows 11 22H2 is expected to be available in the coming months and will include a number of big changes to the operating system, including new Start menu folders, updated touch gestures, and drag and drop for […]
New York state passes first-ever ‘Right to Repair’ Law for Electronics
The New York state legislature has passed the United States’ first “right to repair” bill covering electronics. Called the Fair Repair Act, the measure would require all manufacturers who sell “digital electronic products” within state borders to make tools, parts, and instructions for repair available to both consumers and independent shops. Having passed the legislature, […]
Apple’s WWDC Starts Today – Here’s What to Expect
It’s once again time for Apple to hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC, where it shows off the latest versions of its operating systems for iPhones, Macs, watches, tablets, and TVs. But what new features will Apple’s new software bring, and is the company planning any big surprises? Hardware, perhaps, or even a […]
Netflix’s Geeked Week is Landing June 6 – Here’s What (and When) To Watch
Are you ready to get geeked?! That’s what the mega streaming service is asking as they prepare viewers for their Geeked Week. So, just what is Geeked Week, anyway? Well, according to the company’s statement/site, Geeked Week 2022 is a “free five-day virtual event celebrating Netflix’s genre series, films, and games that runs June 6-10 across […]
Chromebooks will Now Tell You when you’re Using the Wrong USB-C Cable
Google’s latest Chromebook update adds a feature that tells you if your USB-C cable has limited functionality, the company announced Friday. USB-C cables can have widely varying capabilities, offering things like different charging and data transfer speeds on a cable-by-cable basis, so this new Chromebook feature seems like it could be a useful tool to […]
Samsung’s appears to be Cutting Phone Production for 2022
Samsung is reportedly scaling back the number of phones it’s planning on producing in 2022, from 310 million to 280 million, according to SamMobile, which cites a report from Korean outlet Maeil Business News. In absolute terms, that’s still quite a lot of phones, but it’s a relatively sharp decrease from the company’s original goal […]