Housemarque’s 30-minute deep dive shows what to expect from ‘Returnal’

Richard Lawler

The PS5-exclusive Returnal will be released in just a few hours, but what can gamers actually expect when they dive into the rogue world? A 30-minute video by Housemarque combines elements of multiple runs, giving us the best glimpse yet of what players in the suit of Selene, an explorer who seems to have collapsed … Read more

Washington winery with tech connections hopes to uncork some of the hype around NFTs

Washington winery with tech connections hopes to uncork some of the hype around NFTs

A screenshot of the animated Baba Yaga label sold as NFT by Andrew Januik Wines. A Washington State winery with technical connections joins the NFT game and sells three unique digital works of art reminiscent of the release of a limited edition Cabernet Sauvignon. While fine wines mainly appeal to an older audience, the phenomenon … Read more

Navalny’s Network is Disbanding, Citing Pressure From Putin

Navalny’s Network is Disbanding, Citing Pressure From Putin

On Thursday, he returned to the public for the first time since a hunger strike began to call for better medical treatment. He ended the 24-day hunger strike last week. Speaking on videolink in a Moscow courtroom, Mr Navalny appealed a February conviction for defamation of a World War II veteran, which resulted in a … Read more

RapidDeploy raises $29M for a cloud-based dispatch platform aimed at 911 centers – TechCrunch

RapidDeploy raises $29M for a cloud-based dispatch platform aimed at 911 centers – TechCrunch

The final year of the pandemic was real and sometimes harrowing evidence of the importance of having efficient and well-equipped emergency services in place. They can help people remotely if they need to, and when they can’t they make sure that personal help in medical and other situations can be dispatched quickly. Today, a company … Read more

More than 13 million people in India applied for Covid-19 vaccines after minimum age lowered to 18

Syringes filled with COVISHIELD vaccine for COVID-19 lie on ice box at a primary health center in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on April 28.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people to continue appearing “in accordance with the Covid-19 protocols” and to vote during the final stage of the West Bengal state elections. Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have come under fire for holding several rallies in West Bengal prior to the elections. Thousands were in attendance … Read more

NASA wants to go farther and faster for fourth Mars helicopter flight

Mariella Moon

When NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter made its third flight in April, the ground team met the last of the three goals required to label the technology demo project a success. For this reason, for its fourth test flight, the Ingenuity team wants to improve the performance of the machine on Mars by flying further over more … Read more

Microsoft’s Brad Smith goes after Google again over web content and digital advertising revenue

Microsoft’s Brad Smith goes after Google again over web content and digital advertising revenue

Microsoft President Brad Smith. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Microsoft President Brad Smith isn’t done with the fight against Google yet. In an interview with Bloomberg TV on Wednesday, Smith said that Google violated the concept of the open web and “sucked most of the oxygen out of opportunities for people who stopped creating … Read more

New York Man Found Guilty of Threatening Democrats After Capitol Riot

New York Man Found Guilty of Threatening Democrats After Capitol Riot

Brendan Hunt struggled as an actor in New York City when he discovered another way to get famous. He started making conspiracy videos about the 9/11 attacks and other mass murders in order to build audiences over many years. He posted anti-Semitic propaganda and branded himself a warrior of free speech. He eventually became a … Read more

DigitalOcean says customer billing data ‘exposed’ by a security flaw – TechCrunch

DigitalOcean says customer billing data ‘exposed’ by a security flaw – TechCrunch

According to TechCrunch, DigitalOcean has warned customers via email about a data breach with the customer’s billing data. The cloud infrastructure giant told its customers on Wednesday in an email it received from TechCrunch that it “has confirmed unauthorized disclosure of details related to the billing profile in your DigitalOcean account.” The company said the … Read more