LED glass basketball court to make NBA debut this month, displaying stats and replays

The system receives its NBA debut this month. The screens can perform various functions while withstanding the action from basketball games being played on them. The screen can show real-time stats, replays, and location-based player tracking animations during a game. Inventor ASB GlassFloor operates the displays with proprietary software. ASB has also developed applications to help players train using the screen’s tracking functionality. Last year, European courts showed the technology in action....

February 16, 2024 · 1 min · 90 words · Leslie Fernandez

Microsoft Flight Simulator takes players to Dune's sci-fi desert world of Arrakis

The Dune expansion includes tutorials, time trials, and a “daring” rescue mission. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 will be a standalone, independent game. Star Wars fans would undoubtedly welcome a hypothetical collaboration between Lucasfilm and Microsoft as well. Featured on TechSpot

February 16, 2024 · 1 min · 40 words · James Robinson

Nova-C lander is finally heading to the Moon

After several delays, thelong-awaited IM-1 missionwas launched on February 15 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. While traveling through space, Odysseus is measuring how fuel is used by the spacecraft’s cryogenic engine. The aforementioned scientific instruments will then spend seven days gathering and sending data back to Earth. Featured on TechSpot

February 16, 2024 · 1 min · 51 words · Thomas Williams

Spider-Man 2 takes home most wins at DICE Awards, Baldur's Gate 3 named GOTY

The DICE Awards bucked the trend slightly when it announced that BG3 didn’t have the most nominations. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 led the pack with nine, followed by Alan Wake 2 with eight. Baldur’s Gate 3 was third with seven nominations. Baldur’s Gate 3 walked away with the prize, adding to its collection of GOTY awards. Despite its eight nominations, Alan Wake 2 only won one award, for Art Direction. Full list of Dice Awards nomination and winners:...

February 16, 2024 · 1 min · 80 words · Paul Snyder

Tetris for Android

With over 132 million paid downloads on mobile phones, Tetris is one of the best-selling mobile games ever! This is the real Tetris game for Android - and it’s Free. We promise it’s worth the wait! Develop your Tetris Touch Slide, rotate, and drop your Tetriminos into place with touchscreen ease. Track your stats Know and improve your high score. The more you play, the better you’ll get! Enjoy the Tetris theme song...

February 16, 2024 · 1 min · 85 words · Paul Caldwell

The iPhone 16 could feature major Neural Engine upgrade for on-device generative AI tasks

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February 16, 2024 · 1 min · 3 words · Ashley Lopez

80% of influencers don't properly disclose products they are paid to advertise

Advertisersspendup to billions of dollars on endorsements from the most successful influencers. Furthermore, those who directly sell products must abide by European trade regulations. The regulations will apply to all online platforms upon enactment of the Digital Services Act on February 17. Featured on TechSpot

February 15, 2024 · 1 min · 45 words · Rachel Wallace

Elon Musk shifts SpaceX's state of incorporation from Delaware to Texas following legal spat over $56 billion Tesla pay

Musk is expected to file an appeal to the Delaware State Supreme Court. After 1.1 million people participated, the final outcome was 87.1% in favor of the move. Musk began the process of switching the incorporation of his brain-chip implant firmNeuralinkfrom Delaware to Nevada last week. “SpaceX has moved its state of incorporation from Delaware to Texas!” Musk wrote in a post on X on Wednesday. His recently revealed artificial intelligence company,xAI, was also incorporated in Nevada back in March last year....

February 15, 2024 · 1 min · 85 words · Zachary Gonzales

PeaZip for Linux

WinZip and WinRar, is natively portable and cross-platform. PeaZip is mainly written in Free Pascal, using Lazarus. It is free software, released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. Free cross platform, portable file compression utility and file manager.

February 15, 2024 · 1 min · 42 words · Candice Walton

WinZip System Utilities Suite

Includes 20+ tools Disk cleaners, registry optimizers, security and privacy tools, maintenance tools and much more. Easily manage software Use the Startup Manager to remove unnecessary programs and keep startup snappy. Easily remove unwanted programs with the Uninstall Manager.

February 15, 2024 · 1 min · 39 words · Melissa Mullins

Bitcoin surpasses $51,000, reaching $1 trillion market cap for first time since 2021

The strong performance is being felt in the rest of the crypto market, too. Bitcoin had a horrific 2022. But Bitcoin’s price made a slow and steady recovery across 2023, rallying by more than 150%. It hit a 21-month peak of over $45,000 last month and has been mostly trending upwards ever since. At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s price is $51,807. The last time it was this high was in November 2021....

February 14, 2024 · 1 min · 117 words · Sally Massey

Chromium developers are working on a browser API for micropayments

Surkov says that web monetization could help promote voluntary user contributions, such as “tips.” Micropayments became a thing when the internet and the web opened their doors to consumers in the 1990s. Featured on TechSpot

February 14, 2024 · 1 min · 35 words · Amy Smith

Over 170 million fake reviews were removed from Maps and Search thanks to Google's new algorithm

Unfortunately, fake reviews are rife on its services. But the tech giant launched a new machine learning algorithm last year that detects these fakes faster than ever. It led to 170 million false reviews being removed in 2023. Pritchett explains that the algorithm detects questionable review patterns even faster by examining longer-term signals on a daily basis. Google has the figures to back up its boasts. It also identified and removed 12 million fake business profiles....

February 14, 2024 · 1 min · 105 words · Carlos Russell