PC Gamer US Edition
“Ingenuity isn't enough to beat a deck builder, you need some luck too”
Defeating heaven’s finest in MONSTER TRAIN
2 min |
October 2020
PC Gamer US Edition
THE WAYLANDERS
An ambitious adventure that may have debuted too soon
3 min |
October 2020
PC Gamer US Edition
NO STRAIGHT ROADS
Musical adventures in a world that’s hit rock bottom
3 min |
October 2020
PC Gamer US Edition
“Sending plates and vases tumbling to the floor to smash is always good”
Feline great about needless destruction in CATLATERAL DAMAGE
2 min |
October 2020
PC Gamer US Edition
OLD SCHOOL
JRPG favorite PERSONA 4 GOLDEN has aged like a fine malt.
4 min |
October 2020
PC Gamer US Edition
HUMAN KIND
In this slick, speedy 4X, you’ve got to get famous or die trying
3 min |
October 2020
PC Gamer US Edition
CYBERPUNK 2077
We finally go hands-on with 2020’s most exciting RPG
7 min |
October 2020
PC Gamer US Edition
THE TOP 100
THE BEST GAMES TO PLAY RIGHT NOW
10+ min |
October 2020
PC Gamer US Edition
QUICK DRAW
Grab your stetson and sneak your way through the Wild West in DESPERADOS III.
9 min |
October 2020
Techlife News
TELEMEDICINE SHINES DURING PANDEMIC BUT WILL GLOW FADE?
Imagine more contact with doctors or nurses but fewer trips to the office.
4 min |
Techlife News #459
Techlife News
AMC TO OFFER 15-CENT TICKETS ON FIRST DAY OF REOPENING
AMC Theatres, the nation’s largest movie theater chain, will reopen in the U.S. on Aug. 20 with retro ticket prices of 15 cents per movie.
1 min |
Techlife News #459
Techlife News
ACTORS AND DISNEY WORLD REACH DEAL AFTER VIRUS TESTING FIGHT
“As a reminder, testing is voluntary and Cast Members will not be paid for testing time,” the notice said.
1 min |
Techlife News #459
Techlife News
CAPITAL ONE FINED $80 MILLION IN DATA BREACH
The U.S. Treasury Department has fined Capital One $80 million for careless network security practices that enabled a hack that accessed the personal information of 106 million of the bank’s credit cardholders.
1 min |
Techlife News #459
Techlife News
MICROSOFT BACK IN THE SMARTPHONE BUSINESS WITH ITS NEW DUO
The Duo has two 5.6-inch displays and, when opened like a book, is a slim 4.8 millimeters thick, making it what the company says is the thinnest device on the market.
2 min |
Techlife News #459
Techlife News
IN A FIRST, AIRBNB TAKES ACTION AGAINST GUEST FOR PARTY
For the first time, Airbnb is taking legal action against a guest for violating its ban on unauthorized parties.
1 min |
Techlife News #459
Techlife News
ANDROID PHONES TO TRACK QUAKES; CALIFORNIA GETS ALERT SYSTEM
Android phones will be used to sense earthquakes around the world and may one day be able to provide global warnings, with the first mass alert system unveiled this week in California, Google announced.
2 min |
Techlife News #459
Techlife News
FACEBOOK BEEFS UP ANTI-MISINFO EFFORTS AHEAD OF US ELECTION
Beginning this week, U.S. Facebook users who post about voting may start seeing an addendum to their messages -- labels directing readers to authoritative information about the upcoming presidential election.
2 min |
Techlife News #459
Techlife News
NEW MEXICO'S LARGEST NEWSPAPERS COMBINE PRINTING OPERATIONS
The Albuquerque Journal and the Santa Fe New Mexican newspapers are partnering to print both publications at the The New Mexican’s production facility in Santa Fe in a cost-cutting move.
1 min |
Techlife News #459
Techlife News
TRIBUNE CLOSING 5 NEWSROOMS INCLUDING NY DAILY NEWS
Tribune Publishing Company, which owns some of the most storied newspapers in American journalism, said that it is closing the newsrooms at five of them, including New York’s Daily News and The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland.
2 min |
Techlife News #459
AppleMagazine
FOR PANDEMIC JOBLESS, THE ONLY REAL CERTAINTY IS UNCERTAINTY
For three decades, Kelly Flint flourished as a corporate travel agent, sending everyone from business titans to oil riggers around the planet. Then came the worst pandemic in a century, leaving her jobless and marooned in an uncertain economy.
10+ min |
AppleMagazine #459
AppleMagazine
TESLA AND APPLE BOOSTS TURBOCHARGED STOCK WITH PLAN FOR SPLIT
Tesla will split its stock for the first time in its history so more investors can afford to buy a stake in the electric car pioneer following a meteoric rise in its market value.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #459
AppleMagazine
HUAWEI: SMARTPHONE CHIPS RUNNING OUT UNDER US SANCTIONS
Chinese tech giant Huawei is running out of processor chips to make smartphones due to U.S. sanctions and will be forced to stop production of its own most advanced chips, a company executive says, in a sign of growing damage to Huawei’s business from American pressure.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #459
AppleMagazine
BACK TO SCHOOL: RETURNING TO THE CLASSROOM SAFELY
Five months on from the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and policymakers and public health officials have decided it’s time to return to the classroom.
6 min |
AppleMagazine #459
AppleMagazine
WHAT DO THE KIDS SAY? K-12 STUDENTS SOUND OFF ON SCHOOL
Parents have weighed in on reopening schools. Teachers have weighed in. Public health experts, too, along with cities, states and President Donald Trump.
5 min |
AppleMagazine #459
AppleMagazine
MTA ASKS APPLE'S HELP TO SOLVE iPHONE MASK ISSUES
New York’s mass transit agency wants Apple to come up with a better way for iPhone users to unlock their phones without taking off their masks, as it seeks to guard against the spread of the coronavirus in buses and subways.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #459
AppleMagazine
FEDERAL REPORT HIGHLIGHTS KEY WAYS TO PREVENT SCHOOL ATTACKS
School officials nationwide should improve mental health resources, monitor student social media accounts and improve physical security measures, according to a Justice Department report on school safety released this week.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #459
AppleMagazine
A SUPERB RYLANCE LIFTS UP LANGUOROUS ‘BARBARIANS'
Watching Mark Rylance play a man of basic decency getting swallowed up by an evil world — and a sadistic Johnny Depp — in “Waiting for the Barbarians,” I absent-mindedly jotted down in my notes: “Nobody does basic decency like Mark Rylance.”
3 min |
AppleMagazine #459
AppleMagazine
APPEALS COURT TOSSES ANTITRUST RULING AGAINST QUALCOMM
A federal appeals court has overturned an antitrust ruling against Qualcomm, dismissing arguments that it unlawfully squeezed out cellphone chip rivals and charged excessive royalties to manufacturers such as Apple.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #459
Bloomberg Businessweek
A Dangerous Dance For Microsoft
Buying TikTok would give the software giant a lift with consumers but risks unwelcome scrutiny
5 min |
August 17 - 24, 2020
AppleMagazine
A Low-Key 'Secret Garden' That Still Blooms
For more than a century, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “The Secret Garden,” first published in 1911, has endured.
2 min |