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The long overdue Apple TV refresh may offer 120Hz support

Posted: 05 Apr 2021 06:48 PM PDT

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

The Apple TV 4K hasn't been updated for more than three and a half years, which is an eternity in technology. But 9to5Mac reports that the new tvOS 14.5 beta references support for 120Hz refresh rates — a capability that no currently available Apple TV models have — which could indicate Apple is working on a new version of its set-top box.

While it's not clear what Apple may use a 120Hz refresh rate for in a new Apple TV, one of the more intriguing possibilities is for smoother gaming, like what's offered with 120Hz support on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. Apple has been showing increased interest in gaming as of late, so it wouldn't be too much of a surprise if the new Apple TV had more gaming-focused features.

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The US government will pay you up to $500,000 to design a less annoying face mask

Posted: 05 Apr 2021 05:45 PM PDT

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Over a year into the pandemic, we've seen a wide variety of masks, from totally unsafe fashion pieces, to RGB nightmares, not to mention a bunch of other stylish options. But if you think you might have an idea for a better mask that more people might want to wear, the US government's Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has announced a competition to design "the next generation of masks" — with a potential $500,000 total prize waiting for the winners.

The Mask Innovation Challenge was created in partnership with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH, an organization under the CDC) to address some of the common complaints leveled at masks, like the fact they can fog up glasses,...

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Flight Penguin is a new flight search Chrome app that promises ‘no collusion’

Posted: 05 Apr 2021 05:30 PM PDT

The founders of Hipmunk are launching a new startup today that's aimed squarely at taking on their own former product. Called Flight Penguin, it's a Chrome browser extension that simultaneously searches a bunch of airline websites and then presents the results in a familiar format. Rather than taking a commission or affiliate fee, Flight Penguin will instead charge its users $10 per month — it's designed for people who travel a lot (or, since there's still a pandemic on, people who will imminently travel a lot).

Flight Penguin is also not pulling any punches when it comes to its rhetoric: it promises that there will be "no collusion" with the airline industry, specifically noting that "Some of the largest travel sites hide flights from...

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Samsung’s latest budget phones ask: is refresh rate more important than resolution?

Posted: 05 Apr 2021 04:52 PM PDT

If you had to choose: would you choose a sharper screen on your smartphone, or a smoother-scrolling one? This year, budget phone buyers may be asking themselves that question: the OnePlus Nord N100, Moto G50, and the new Samsung Galaxy F12 and M12 all refresh their screens 90 times per second (which is good!) but with a lower-than-optimal screen resolution of 720p. That's the same resolution as a Galaxy Nexus from 2011.

Compared to your average iPhone, that's a paltry number of pixels. Since the iPhone 4 debuted in 2010, every Apple handset has offered at least 326 pixels per inch (PPI), enough so you can't make out those individual pixels with the naked eye at typical viewing distances. (The marketing term is "retina display.") Here,...

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Clubhouse’s new direct payments let you toss a coin to creators, and they get 100 percent

Posted: 05 Apr 2021 04:25 PM PDT

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Social audio app Clubhouse will let all users pay other creators starting Monday. It's the first monetization tool built right into the app. Clubhouse says it won't take a cut of payments, meaning that creators get the entirety of what somebody sends them. Not everyone will be able to receive payments just yet, though; that will be rolling out in waves, "starting with a small test group," Clubhouse says.

To pay a Clubhouse creator who can receive payments, tap on their profile, then tap on the "Send Money" button, and then choose how much you send them. You'll also have to pay a "small card processing fee" that goes to Stripe, which is Clubhouse's payments processing partner. The first time to try to pay someone, Clubhouse will ask you...

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Once again, someone tampered with an entire drinking water supply via the internet

Posted: 05 Apr 2021 01:05 PM PDT

Photo: Sean Hollister / The Verge

You would think that something as critical as a town or county's drinking water supply would be well-protected — you know, like how America's nuclear armament was isolated from the internet and even relied on eight-inch floppy disks until just recently? And yet we've now had two instances where someone was able to remotely log into a municipal water supply in a way that could have harmed people.

Remember the story of the Florida water treatment facility where someone was able to change the chemical levels? Something similar happened in March 2019 in Kansas' Ellsworth County, too, where 22-year-old Wyatt Travnichek now stands accused of shutting down the region's water cleaning system "with the intention of harming" it, according to a...

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Online-only Outriders can be paused in single-player — if you have an Nvidia GPU

Posted: 05 Apr 2021 12:31 PM PDT

Image: People Can Fly

Outriders, the online shooting, looting, and superpower-slinging game from People Can Fly, finally has a way to pause, but to do it you'll need to be using an Nvidia graphics card (via Kotaku). Despite working as a single-player game, Outriders requires an internet connection to play, which means pausing in the middle of a battle was impossible until this workaround. Even with your menu open, enemies could still attack you.

Using Ansel, which is a feature of Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics cards that enables a kind of photo mode even in games without one built in, you can "pause" Outriders by pressing "Alt F2" on the fly, and get up and take care of business. Because Ansel is specific to the Nvidia's Geforce Experience software, pausing is...

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Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th

Posted: 05 Apr 2021 12:25 PM PDT

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Yahoo Answers, one of the longest-running and most storied web Q&A platforms in the history of the internet, is shutting down on May 4th. That's the day the Yahoo Answers website will start redirecting to the Yahoo homepage, and all of the platform's archives will apparently cease to exist. The platform has been operating since 2005.

Yahoo, which is now part of Verizon Media Group following the company's sale to the telecom for nearly $5 billion in 2017, announced the change at the top of the Yahoo Answers homepage. The message links to an FAQ, which details the timeline of the shutdown. Starting April 20th, the platform will no longer accept new submissions, the FAQ explains.

Users will also have until June 30th to request their data...

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This Nintendo Switch is so big you can actually read the text in Skyrim

Posted: 05 Apr 2021 11:38 AM PDT

Nintendo has been rumored to be working on a bigger Switch for a while now, which reportedly could show up later in 2021. But YouTuber Michael Pick isn't waiting around for a new model from Nintendo — he's gone and built his own bigger Switch.

Much bigger, as it turns out: almost six feet wide, compared to the regular Switch's 9.4-inch size.

"I really like the Nintendo Switch. It's small, it's portable — but it's really easy to lose. And for me, that was a problem. So, I decided to fix that by making something that was just a little bit larger," Pick said. That reads as a bit of an understatement when comparing Pick's supersized model (which he says is the world's largest) to the original.

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Epic just made streaming Fortnite easier than ever with a new Houseparty integration

Posted: 05 Apr 2021 11:36 AM PDT

Image: Epic Games

Epic is further stitching together its various platforms with a new Fortnite integration for its social video app Houseparty that lets you stream your gameplay to friends. The integration builds on an existing one that uses Houseparty's video chatting capabilities to bring live video chat into Fortnite, and now this essentially does the reverse.

That way, your friends can see you live both through your mobile phone camera and also the feed of your active Fortnite game. Think of it a bit like Twitch streaming without all the fuss and just for your friends instead of the broader public. Epic says the feature supports streaming from a PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, or PC right now. "We will let everyone know if we're able to support more...

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