Amazon’s supernatural colonialism MMO ‘New World’ lands in May 2020

New World is Amazon's first MMO, and it's been in development for more than three years. It features a classless progression system, crafting, the ability to team up or play solo, and battles of up to 100 players and paranormal NPCs at a time.Of course, a game about people violently sieging a foreign land in…

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The next Xbox is called Series X and it looks like a PC tower

Xbox chief Phil Spencer wrote in a blog post the Series X design allows Microsoft to pack in four times the processing power of Xbox One X "in the most quiet and efficient way." It's said to be no louder than an Xbox One X, helped by a single fan that pushes air through the…

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Amazon just released ‘The Expanse’ season four a few hours early

If you were planning to dive into season four of The Expanse later tonight, then you may need to adjust your plans -- it's available on Amazon Prime Video right now. Following the early release of Jack Ryan in October, Amazon has posted up its first original season of the show it saved from cancellation.…

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Samuel L. Jackson has arrived on Alexa devices

There's a bunch of other things you can ask SLJ, as well, such as what it was like making Star Wars and where his favorite vacation spot it. You can ask him to tell jokes, to sing jingle bells and to grant your lifelong wish that he'd wish you a Merry Christmas. If your kids…

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We need more tech satire like HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’

Image credit: Eddy Chen/HBO Eddy Chen/HBO Sponsored Links When Silicon Valley premiered in 2014, it came out swinging as the Office Space of our time: a hilarious and sometimes all-too-real reflection of a tech industry high on its own supply. Over the past five years, the show, created by Mike Judge (Office Space, King of…

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Why Ring Doorbells Perfectly Exemplify the IoT Security Crisis

There's been a lot of creepy and concerning news about how Amazon's Ring smart doorbells are bringing surveillance to suburbia and sparking data-sharing relationships between Amazon and law enforcement. News reports this week are raising a different issue: hackers are breaking into users' Ring accounts, which can also be connected to indoor Ring cameras, to…

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