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Life is Strange: Double Exposure is more heart than whodunit

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Image: Square Enix A look at the first two chapters in the return of Max Caulfield. Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/16/24271682/life-is-strange-double-exposure-preview

The Nuio Flow split ergonomic keyboard uses magnets to help you find your ideal layout

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The Nuio Flow keyboard features a “split design form factor for optimal hand positioning.” | Image: Nuio A new company called Nuio , founded by two brothers with backgrounds in design and manufacturing, is rethinking desk accessories with the goal of making our computers more comfortable to use. It’s debuting today with a collection of magnetic peripherals called Flow that’s centered around a wireless split keyboard, all designed to make it easier to find your perfect ergonomic layout, even if that’s constantly changing throughout the day. Tom Wilson, the CEO of Nuio (a combination of new and I/O), previously worked at companies including Apple, Google, and Frog Design, while Greg Wilson, the company’s CMO, spent years at Frog Design and the creative agency Digitas. The brothers cofounded Nuio with the goal of improving how we physically... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/15/24265475/nuio-flow-ergonomic-keyboard

Pokémon developer faces major data leak

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Image: Nintendo Hackers released a collection of leaked data from Pokémon game developer Game Freak over the weekend, including personal information about employees. Game Freak — which develops the main lineup of Pokémon video games — confirmed the breach in a statement, saying (per a machine translation from Japanese) that it was the result of “unauthorized access to our servers by a third party” and dated back to August of 2024. Game Freak said the leaked personal information — which it characterizes as names and company email addresses — included around 2,600 items. As Polygon notes , however, the breach appears to include much more than employee information. Redditors and others say they’ve unearthed source code from previous games as well as unused... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/14/24270226/pokemon-game-freak-data-leak-confirmed

Silo’s new season 2 trailer teases what’s next for Juliette

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Image: Apple Apple has released the first trailer for the second season of Silo , and it looks like the season will tell us what happens to protagonist Juliette after the jaw-dropping cliffhanger at the end of season one. The show, based on a series of books by Hugh Howey, is about a community of 10,000 people living in an underground silo that’s intended to protect them from dangerous conditions aboveground. If you’ve been meaning to see the first season and haven’t yet, you probably shouldn’t watch this new trailer; as you might have guessed, it has quite a few mysteries that are fun to experience for yourself. Silo’s second season premieres on Apple TV Plus on November 15th . The season will have 10 episodes , with a new episode each week. The season... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/14/24270184/silo-season-2-trailer

The stunning indie game Gris now has a beautiful follow-up about love and loss

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Image: Devolver Digital After the launch of Gris , a beautiful game exploring grief , the team at Nomada Studio in Barcelona needed a long break. They spent around half a year not even thinking about what was next, avoiding words like “Unity” or “sequel.” Eventually, director Conrad Roset, who became a parent during that time, came up with the idea of a similar experience that would introduce a new companion, allowing players to connect with and care for another character. “I told him, no problem, as long as it’s not a four-legged animal, you can do whatever you want,” says lead producer Roger Mendoza, noting that animating critters with lots of legs can be “quite painful.” But the director was able to make the case for a game called Neva about a young woman who... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/24267805/neva-nomada-studio-interview-gris-devolver

The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks

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Image: the Internet Archive The Internet Archive is back online in a read-only state after a cyberattack brought down the digital library and Wayback Machine last week. A data breach and DDoS attack kicked the site offline on October 9th, with a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records also stolen in recent weeks. The Internet Archive is now back online in a “provisional, read-only manner,” according to founder Brewster Kahle . “Safe to resume but might need further maintenance, in which case it will be suspended again.” While you can access the Wayback Machine to search 916 billion web pages that have been archived over time, you can’t currently capture an existing web page into the archive. Kahle and team have gradually been restoring A... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/14/24269741/internet-archive-online-read-only-data-breach-outage

RedCap, the 5G for wearables and IoT, will get its first devices soon

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Image: The Verge Both T-Mobile and AT&T have plans to release their first devices soon that run on RedCap, a 5G specification that is tooled for Internet of Things devices, according to Fierce Wireless . What is RedCap? Great question! Also called “reduced capability” or NR-Light, RedCap is a low-bandwidth version of 5G that’s expected to make certain devices, like wearables, sensors, or surveillance cameras simpler and more power efficient, according to an Oracle document . That could mean cheaper cellular-connected smartwatches, XR glasses, or other portable products that don’t need high-powered antennas and fast throughput last longer on a charge. AT&T, which began testing the spec on its own network early this year, reportedly plans to release its... Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/13/24269370/at-t-t-mobile-redcap-5g-explained-iot-devices-coming-soon