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Your iPhone could soon start unlocking the infamous CVS product cabinets

CVS today announced the launch of a newly rebranded and updated CVS Health app (formerly called CVS Pharmacy). The iPhone app offers a variety of new features, but perhaps the most exciting is one that’s currently being piloted in select CVS stores: the ability to open locked-up product cabinets. more…

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: 9to5Mac favicon 9to5Mac

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man‘s Star Was Worried the Show Would Be Too ‘Woke’

The series, formerly titled Spider-Man: Freshman Year, starts streaming on Disney+ January 29.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: Gizmodo favicon Gizmodo

Elon Musk's X Reveals First Payments Details—But No Dogecoin (Yet)

X will take one step closer to becoming an "everything app," but despite ample speculation, there's no sign of Dogecoin in the plans yet.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: Decrypt favicon Decrypt

For the first time, a privately developed aircraft has flown faster than sound

There appears to be plenty of demand in the commercial air travel industry.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: Ars Technica favicon Ars Technica

Old Games Magazines

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/jan/28/video-game-history-foundation-digitised-archive-games-magazines Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857008 Points: 64 # Comments: 24

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

Microsoft is rolling out Teams phishing protection for all next month

Microsoft Teams' security is going to get better with the phishing attacks coming to all users next month.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: Digital Trends favicon Digital Trends

What Happened To The RoboBurger Vending Machine From Shark Tank Season 15?

Three New York-area entrepeneurs pitched a hamburger vending machine on a Season 15 episode of "Shark Tank." What happened to Roboburger since that appearance?

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: SlashGear favicon SlashGear

These headphones are a perfect fit for exercise and travel - plus they're a steal

H2O Audio's RIPT Ultra headphones deliver impressive sound, sweatproof design, and 50 hours of playtime on a full charge. Just remember to turn on the ANC.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

DeepSeek Turned the AI World on Its Head, but Don't Fall for the Hype Just Yet

DeepSeek AI is a new open source AI model out of China that claims to be outperforming OpenAI, Google and Meta.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: CNET favicon CNET

Unreleased Powerbeats Pro 2 spotted with TGL golfers Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy

Beats hasn’t even announced Powerbeats Pro 2, let alone releasing the second-gen wireless earphones. That hasn’t stopped what appears to be the Powerbeats Pro 2 from becoming the unofficial headphones of the new TGL golf league. Several golfers have been spotted sporting a single Powerbeats Pro 2 earbud in recent days. more…

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: 9to5Mac favicon 9to5Mac

Lawsuit claims systems behind OPM governmentwide email blast are illegal, insecure

A pair of whistleblowers believe the office skirted the law by not conducting a privacy impact assessment for an alleged “on-prem” server used to send mass emails to federal employees and store information from responses. The post Lawsuit claims systems behind OPM governmentwide email blast are illegal, insecure appeared first on CyberScoop.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: CyberScoop favicon CyberScoop

Facial Recognition Backfires on Police in Ohio Murder Case

An Ohio judge has ruled that critical evidence in a murder trial isn't admissible because of how police used Clearview AI.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: Gizmodo favicon Gizmodo

What Happens to Student Loans and Financial Aid During Trump's Federal Funding Freeze?

The federal pause does not affect federal student loans or Pell Grants, but its impact on other student aid programs remains unclear.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: CNET favicon CNET

7 apps that helped me escape the cloud - and protect my data privacy

If you're tired of knowing that a third party has access to your data and content, it's time to move away from cloud services that may be selling your information or using it to train their LLMs.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek censors itself in realtime, users report

Depending on version downloaded, app approaches its answers with preamble of reasoning that it then erasesWe tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and TaiwanUsers experimenting with DeepSeek have seen the Chinese AI chatbot reply and then censor itself in real time, providing an arresting insight into its control of information and opinion.Users might expect censorship to happen...

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: The Guardian Technology favicon The Guardian Technology

Michael B. Jordan confronts bloody vampires in Sinners trailer

In the latest trailer for Ryan Coogler's Sinners, Michael B. Jordan plays twins who must confront a group of deadly vampires.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: Digital Trends favicon Digital Trends

Reduce the risk of spam with Incogni — now 55% off

Incogni is the perfect way to keep your identity truly private online and cut down on scam calls. It's on sale now so we're here to explain why it's worth it.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: Digital Trends favicon Digital Trends

Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti GPU could have a February 20 launch to beat AMD’s RX 9070 to the shelves – but what about the RTX 5070?

This launch date aligns with some previous rumors, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we were still waiting a while for both Nvidia’s mid-range Blackwell GPUs.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar

Hugging Face researchers are trying to build a more open version of DeepSeek’s AI ‘reasoning’ model

Barely a week after DeepSeek released its R1 “reasoning” AI model — which sent markets into a tizzy — researchers at Hugging Face are trying to replicate the model from scratch in what they’re calling a pursuit of “open knowledge.” Hugging Face head of research Leandro von Werra and several company engineershave launched Open-R1, a […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

Is $200,000 a Realistic Bitcoin Price Target for This Cycle?

Explore the potential for the Bitcoin price to reach $200,000 this cycle. We analyze market dynamics, supply and demand, and the money multiplier effect to assess the feasibility.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: Bitcoin Magazine favicon Bitcoin Magazine

Same Judge Who Ruled in Favor of Ripple Hands Down Sentence in $8.4 Million Crypto Ponzi

In the sentencing, Judge Torres said Hernandez "sold valueless coins" while pointing to evidence it wasn't her only scheme.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: Decrypt favicon Decrypt

Apple Sports is making game day a whole lot easier - here's how

You can now quickly see when your team is playing on national TV.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

The RTX 5060 Ti might fall into a familiar VRAM trap

The upcoming RTX 5060 Ti will apparently be offered with 8GB and 16GB VRAM models.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: Digital Trends favicon Digital Trends

What Goes Into A Reserve: Most People Won't See A Difference

Arguing for a bitcoin only reserve fund, and against the inclusion of any other cryptocurrencies, is ultimately a futile fight when the public at large doesn't see the difference.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: Bitcoin Magazine favicon Bitcoin Magazine

Android 16 improves how hearing aids deal with noisy environments

Android 16 adds new features for LE Audio hearing aids, including ambient volume controls.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: Android Authority favicon Android Authority

Arthur Hayes predicts Bitcoin dip to $70K before soaring to $250K in 2025

Arthur Hayes, former CEO of BitMEX, predicted in a Jan. 27 blog post that Bitcoin (BTC) is likely to correct to the zone between $70,000 and $75,000 before reaching $250,000 by the end of 2025. Hayes argued that Bitcoin’s historical volatility makes a 30% correction plausible within this bull market. A potential pullback to the […] The post Arthur Hayes predicts Bitcoin dip to $70K before soaring to $250K in 2025...

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: CryptoSlate favicon CryptoSlate

Automattic and others back Openvibe, an app that’s unifying the open social web

Openvibe’s clever app that integrates multiple open social networks, including Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr, and Threads, just got a boost toward its future development. The company on Tuesday announced that it has received outside investment of $800,000 in a round led by Czech Founders VC, which includes backing from WordPress.com and Tumblr parent company, Automattic, as […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For...

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

Today’s Android app deals and freebies: Gunslugs 3, Space Grunts 2, Ashworld, more

We have a fresh batch of discounted Android games and apps you’ll soon be playing on your new Galaxy S25, S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra devices. We just detailed how to save a whopping $450 on Samsung’s 256GB Tab S10+ with your S25 Ultra pre-order as well as solid price drops on Hisense’s 85-inch 144Hz U8 mini-LED Pro Google Smart TV and the OnePlus Watch 2 and 2R, not to mention this return low on Sharge’s brand-new 30W...

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: 9to5Google favicon 9to5Google

$150M money market funds added to Arbitrum’s RWA ecosystem

Tokenized T-Bills can now be traded on the Arbitrum network using Spiko’s money market funds.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: Cointelegraph favicon Cointelegraph

Eric Schmidt says DeepSeek marks a ‘turning point’ for the global AI race

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt called for the United States to ramp up open source AI efforts to address the rise of DeepSeek in a Washington Post op-ed published Tuesday. Just last year, Schmidt said America was two or three years ahead of China. But DeepSeek’s rise marks “a turning point” for the global AI […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

Who is Liang Wenfeng? DeepSeek founder comes from AI investing

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, has Silicon Valley reeling with its R1 reasoning model, which it claims uses far less computing power than those of American AI leaders — and, it’s open source. The DeepSeek app has shot to the top of the App Store charts this week, dethroning ChatGPT. But who is Liang Wenfeng, […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

Waymo is reportedly building a charity ‘tipping’ feature into its robotaxi app

Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company Waymo might be planning to test a feature that will allow robotaxi riders to add a “tip” that will go to the charity of their choice after a ride. Jane Manchun Wong, a security researcher who recently hacked the display dome on top of a Waymo vehicle, found the new tip […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

3 Kindle Colorsoft E-Reader Alternatives With Color Screens

If you're looking for an e-reader with a color screen, and don't want to spend $280 on the Colorsoft, have a look at these other brands in the market.

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: SlashGear favicon SlashGear

Our favorite small soundbar just went on sale

With the Bose Smart Soundbar with Dolby Atmos, you won’t even need rear speakers and a subwoofer for surround sound! Get it while it’s $50 off, but act fast!

Published on: January 28, 2025 | Source: Digital Trends favicon Digital Trends