Your old plastic driver’s license could soon get a digital upgrade. Multiplatform producer Tim McPhillips walks us through four things you should know, including some of the benefits and some of the concerns. Geoff Bennett: Your old plastic driver’s license could soon get a digital upgrade. Digital reporter Tim McPhillips walks us through three things … Read more
With less than 24 hours until the company’s Pixel 11 launch event, Google is sending $150 discount codes to customers looking to pre-order the new devices. An email sent from the Google Store asks interested buyers if they are “ready for tomorrow,” promoting the launch of the Pixel 11 with a discount code per person … Read more
Did a Microsoft gamepad prototype fall off the back of a truck? We can’t tell, but one Redditor has legitimate-looking photos of an Xbox controller prototype that’s almost certainly the Xbox Elite Series 3. Incredibly, they claim they bought the pad for $200 on OfferUp. In May, leaked images from a Brazilian regulator revealed that … Read more
A few years ago, the owner of a pop culture store in Wisconsin mentioned to Jason Ganos, a well-known Nintendo game collector, that he had a box of Super Mario cartridges that had been in storage for years. It stopped Ganos in his tracks. It turned out to be an ultra-rare collection of 97 “absolutely … Read more
Tolerable. That’s the word I would use to describe living with the XPS 13 and its meager 8GB of RAM. By the time I started Windows, it already had 80 percent of its memory committed to invisible processes, such as “Antimalware Service Executable” and “Secure Biometrics.” Once I started launching web browsers and filling them … Read more
Workers at Bethesda’s office in Rockville, Maryland, decided to commemorate a visit from Microsoft leadership in a unique way. To protest the mass layoffs that have seen 1,600 people lose their jobs, and another 1,600 people to be laid off over the rest of the year, the developers put up a giant inflatable rat, known … Read more
Last year’s Made by Google event for the Pixel 10 felt like a late-night talk show, with Jimmy Fallon as host, and aired an hour after the phones were revealed. Tech dives and executive appearances were replaced by celebrity cameos and awkward skits, to the confusion of many die-hard Pixel fans. But it served its … Read more
Nintendo is set to launch a new Switch 2 and Pro Controller system to celebrate the upcoming Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, it has been revealed. While there has been some speculation about these products before, the first images apparently leaked online today. We not only take a look at the system, but also at … Read more
As of right now, all the complaints I have with this device stem from the fact that the Moto Watch doesn’t run Google’s Wear OS. It sure looks like it, and the user interface is close enough that you might be fooled into thinking “Motorola” just skinned it. But it’s not, and Real Time OS … Read more
Last week, I started Fields of Mistria, a game my friends have been raving about for years while it was in early access, but which has just entered its full 1.0 release. And man, my friends were right. This game rules. It’s like Stardew Valley with a ton of quality of life improvements and some … Read more