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Fortnite’s v6.02 update brings on a slew of changes, including a new rocket launcher and the return of the highly coveted Skull Trooper skin in the item shop. But the biggest addition is new limited-time mod called “Disco Domination,” that tasks players with taking over dance floors with sweet moves.

As Apple continues to work on producing a slate of original programming that’s decidedly PG in tone, CNBC reports that the upcoming content will be made available for free to customers who own Apple devices, including iPhones, iPads, and Apple TVs.

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AT&T announced today that a DirecTV Now app will be coming to Magic Leap One, a mixed reality headset, in 2019. You can watch the demo video above to see how it works, but essentially, the app will let you watch up to four live streams at once. Why anyone would want to do this with a $2,295 device is unclear, but if you want in on this, Magic Leap’s One mixed reality headset has just started shipping across the US.

Google will no longer continue support for Reply, an experimental app that offers smart reply responses to various messaging apps such as Slack, Hangouts, and Messenger. The app launched earlier this year as part of Google’s Area 120 division that incubates and tests wacky apps.

As Magic Leap holds the first developer conference for its Magic Leap One mixed reality headset, that headset has started shipping across the contiguous United States, instead of in a set of select markets. The Magic Leap One Creator Edition costs $2,295, just like before, but there’s now an installment plan that starts at $96 per month. All orders are supposed to arrive within 60 days.

Google’s Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL arrived yesterday without too much fanfare. After all, the devices leaked pretty much in entirety over the course of the last two months, leaving little to the imagination when Google hardware chief Rick Osterloh came on stage. But one aspect of the Pixel 3 XL, in particular, that became more pronounced and perplexing now that we’ve seen it in full — and heard Google’s reasoning about its existence — is the rather obtrusive display notch.

Huawei’s Honor phones have never been about offering top-of-the-line performance or specs, and the Honor 8X — which is coming to Europe and North America — is no different. With a 6.5-inch notched screen, the handset looks superficially similar to 2018 flagship devices that cost four times as much, but its midlevel specs mean that the 8X simply can’t offer the same level of performance. Honor has cut corners to reach this sub-£250 (around $330 USD) price point. But depending on your needs, those... Читать дальше...

Once again, NASA can expect even more delays and budget increases for its Space Launch System (or SLS) — the behemoth rocket the space agency is building to take humans to the Moon and Mars.

The Razer Phone 2 is set to be announced later tonight at a keynote led by Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan. Previous leaks have shown that it will share a very similar design to the company’s original smartphone. And now, as reported by GSMArena, Amazon has prematurely revealed more details, with a now-pulled listing from Amazon Italy spilling a few key specs ahead of tonight’s reveal.

WarnerMedia — the combined forces of HBO, Turner, and Warner Bros. that AT&T recently acquired in its massive Time Warner deal — is planning on launching its own streaming service in the fourth quarter of 2019, as announced by WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey.

Blizzard first started teasing a team up with Lego for Overwatch sets back in August, and now — after a brief, CGI teaser starring a minifigure Tracer — the two companies have revealed the first set: a buildable version of the robotic hero, Bastion.

After intensifying overnight, Hurricane Michael is now pummeling the Florida Panhandle as a Category 4 storm — the strongest hurricane on record to ever strike the region. Hundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate as Michael’s winds top speeds of 155 miles per hour, NBC News reports.

Modern TV show creators have to worry about more than good writing, believable characters, and visual style. Online audiences expect to dig into their stories and enjoy analyzing them, almost as if they were games to be won. In the age of fan theory, a good TV show is like a puzzle box waiting to be solved. In Netflix’s animated show The Dragon Prince, some of the clues are apparently hiding in plain sight.

Microsoft announced today that it’s joining the Open Invention Network (OIN), an open-source patent group designed to help protect Linux from patent lawsuits. In essence, this makes the company’s library over 60,000 patents open source and available to OIN members, via ZDNet.

Apple has quietly bought Spektral, a Danish machine learning startup that specializes in real-time green screen technology. The $30 million deal actually happened last year, but it was reported today by Danish newspaper Børsen. Apple has been focusing more and more on its AR capabilities lately, and this latest acquisition may be meant to boost the iPhone’s AR features for Memoji or FaceTime or as a part of its plans for an augmented reality headset, which Bloomberg reported may be coming in 2020. Читать дальше...

This week, Google announced that the product consumers know as Google Plus — its attempt to best Facebook and Twitter at social networking — will go quietly into that good night next August. (A corporate version will still exist.) A data breach on the platform, The New York Times reported, was bad enough that the company’s engineers decided it wasn’t worth it to keep Plus alive. While the breach affected only half a million users, and while Google says it didn’t expose any vulnerable data, in the company’s official blog post... Читать дальше...

DoNotPay, a free chatbot that offers AI-powered legal counsel, has launched an iOS app which can be used to access its service, reports Motherboard. While the app advertises that it can be used to “sue anyone by pressing a button,” its focus is on suing corporations and navigating the complex bureaucracies that stand between people and their everyday rights. Previously, the service was only available directly through its website.

At a congressional privacy hearing this morning, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) called for an investigation into the data exposure that resulted in the shutdown of the Google+ social media network. Blumenthal said he plans to send a letter to the Federal Trade Commission later today calling for the agency to take action.

Amazon is following up last week’s Note 9 accessory bundle deal with an even better one. The Note 9 with 512GB of internal storage is $50 off on Amazon, and it comes with a Samsung Gear S3 Frontier smartwatch for free with purchase.

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Batman and Superman have had such a pervasive presence in American popular culture that plenty of people who’ve never read a comic book know their pertinent biographical details: the murdered parents, the exploding planet, the Batmobile, Kryptonite, and so on. The DC Comics super-team sometimes known as “the Titans,” on the other hand, have starred in multiple animated series, a few straight-to-video movies, and one feature-length theatrical cartoon released just this past summer. And yet only... Читать дальше...

For many drivers, Waze is the go-to app for circumnavigating pesky traffic jams. Now, the Alphabet-owned company is making a risky move into ride-hailing — or, more specifically, carpooling. On Wednesday, Waze announced the nationwide rollout of Waze Carpool, a dedicated app that lets drivers offer rides to people who are traveling on a similar route.

Exploring the dangerous realm of Hyrule just got a bit easier. As part of the first big update for its NES app on the Switch, today, Nintendo released a new batch of classic games. Most were expected — including NES Open, Solomon’s Key, and Super Dodgeball — but there was also a surprise: a brand-new enhanced edition of the original Legend of Zelda that gives players a much-welcome boost at the beginning of the game.

Google’s Pixel Slate is the company’s first Chrome OS tablet, offered as an alternative to the more expensive Pixelbook. Like the Surface Pro 6 and iPad Pro, the Pixel Slate has more than enough power to help you do a multitude of things, both work and play. And like its competitors, it doesn’t come with a keyboard included.