Sand, Piñatas Among Newest Inductees Into Toy Hall Of Fame

To be inducted, toys must have withstood tests of time and memory, changed play or toy design and more.

Experts Predict How The COVID Variants Will Affect Fall Travel

Here’s what we can expect in the coming months.

What COVID Nurses Want You To Know Right Now

Exhausted doesn’t even begin to cover how nurses feel. Here’s what’s going on in hospitals as the pandemic rages on.

Firefox Suggest rolls out to all – Here’s how to turn it off

Mozilla announced today that it’s adding recommendations to the URL bar in Firefox through a new feature called “Firefox Suggest.” Now, in addition to the autocomplete suggestions that show whenever you begin typing something, you’ll see suggestions from Mozilla itself. It also looks like Mozilla will use Firefox Suggest to serve ads, though users will have some degree of control … Continue reading

Apple’s new iPad mini is so much more than just a smaller tablet

I’d hoped Apple would grant the iPad mini a reprieve – instead, it gave it a reinvention. The smallest of the iPadOS devices proved to be the biggest star of Apple’s iPhone 13 event this week, with new style, functionality, and speed partially eclipsing what could well be considered incremental updates to the best-selling smartphones. The iPhone 13 range is … Continue reading

Roku’s first original movie is a Christmas special based on an NBC show

This holiday season will bring Roku’s first original movie, one that will be made available on the company’s free ad-supported Roku Channel streaming service. The Christmas special will be based on the NBC show Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist and it will include the original cast from the series. Once it arrives, Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas will be Roku’s first original feature film. … Continue reading

'Battlefield 2042' delayed by almost a month to November 19th

Battlefield 2042, the next entry in EA’s long-running first-person shooter series, has been delayed. Instead of coming out on October 22nd as previously announced, the game is now scheduled to debut almost a month later on November 19th. EA announced the delay in a message attributed to Oskar Gabrielson, the CEO of series developer DICE. Like many other studios over the last two years, DICE blamed the delay on the coronavirus pandemic.      

“Given the scale and scope of the game, we had hoped our teams would be back in our studios together as we move towards launch,” Gabrielson said. “With the ongoing conditions not allowing that to happen safely, and with all the hard work the teams are doing from home, we feel it is important to take the extra time to deliver on the vision of Battlefield 2042 for our players.”

DICE promised to share details on Battlefield 2042’s upcoming open beta later this month. While the delay means series fans will have to wait longer to play the sequel to 2018’s Battlefield 5, it’s still coming out in 2021. That’s not something you can say of some of the games that were pushed back this year like Dying Light 2 and Horizon Forbidden West.  

UK to Recommend Covid-19 Booster Doses for Older and High-Risk People

New data from the UK suggests that some vaccinated people, particularly seniors, experience a greater loss in protection over time against covid-19 symptoms and severe illness than the general public. The findings were enough for the country’s vaccine experts to recommend booster shots for higher-risk groups,…

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Lawmakers Ask Zuckerberg to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' After Report Says App Made Kids Suicidal

Democratic lawmakers are calling on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to abandon his plans to launch an “Instagram for Kids,” citing internal research by the company declaring the platform has inflamed mental-health problems, including suicidal ideation, among its teenage users; most notably, young girls.

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Texas Lawyer Cited For Wearing ‘Halloween’ Michael Myers Costume On Beach

Attorney Mark Metzger III explained that he was trying to find “a little bit of positivity in the gloomy doom.”