Sea of Thieves and others go free-to-play on Xbox One this weekend

A lot of us are cooped up inside at the moment, and if you’re an Xbox One owner in search of something to play, you might want to check out the three games that are going free-to-play on the platform over the weekend. Microsoft today announced a Free Play Days promotion that begins today and runs through Sunday, March 9th, … Continue reading

The Nokia 8.3 5G wants to be the king of roaming

HMD Global is jumping into the 5G wars. The Finnish company, which has been making Nokia-branded smartphones since 2016, claims to have made “the first global flagship smartphone to date.” What on earth does that mean? Well, by “global,” the company…

The next Nokia remake is the XpressMusic-branded 5310

HMD Global, the sole company building Nokia-branded smartphones, has built a business around inexpensive Android handsets. At the same time, though, the Finnish manufacturer has found success building feature phones that mimic classic designs from th…

Jumanji Director Jake Kasdan on How Next Level Continued to Pay Homage to the Original

The Jumanji franchise is both surprisingly simple and subtly unique. The simple part is that its two most recent films stand together as one story. Boom. Got it. However, those two films also serve as subtle sequels to the 1995 Jumanji film that, besides the title, seems completely unrelated. So when you’re talking…

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Just Opening a Plastic Bottle Can Send Microplastic Pollution Into the Air

Coronavirus is Earth-shatteringly scary, and social distancing sucks. To distract myself and pull my brain out of the depths of speculative despair, I’ve been drinking a ton of seltzer, mostly from plastic bottles. I know that’s bad because plastic is an environmental nightmare, but seltzer water gives me more…

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Real Number of U.S. Coronavirus Cases Could Be as High as 150,000, New Estimates Suggest

The official tally of covid-19 in America is climbing steeply as more people are finally being tested, with at least 80,000 people tested and more than 8,000 reported cases as of March 19. But preliminary forecasts created by epidemiologists paint a far grimmer picture of the novel coronavirus’s spread in the U.S.: We…

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The EU Wants Netflix to Lower Streaming Video Quality to Prevent the Internet From Breaking

With people self-quarantining in order to help stop the spread of covid-19, many are turning to streaming video services to pass the time while they are cooped up inside. But now, due to a massive spike in users and bandwidth, the EU is asking companies like Netflix and home users alike to lower streaming video…

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Monaco’s Ruler, Prince Albert II, Tests Positive

The 62-year-old leader of the tiny Mediterranean nation is believed to be the first head of state to contract COVID-19.

Microsoft Just Made It a Lot Easier to Port Cool PC Games to Xbox

Today, Microsoft announced a new DirectX standard that it claims will not only sync the graphics improvement process in games across both PC and console, but will also be backwards compatible with older PC hardware. If it works as explained it’s going to be a lot easier to port games from PC to Xbox and vice versa.

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2 Generic Drugs Being Tested In U.S. In Race To Find Treatments

A 1,500-person trial began this week to see whether malaria treatment hydroxychloroquine can prevent COVID-19.