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- Hans Zimmer isn’t the only composer that can make tech sounds, you know
- Epic and Apple are now fighting over a naked banana
- NASA’s asteroid-punching spacecraft begins its trek back home
- The next PlayStation VR will be 4K and include eye-tracking, according to UploadVR
- FDA clears Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for kids ages 12 to 15
- The cybersecurity ‘pandemic’ that led to the Colonial Pipeline disaster
- Amazon-first gadget brands Aukey and Mpow are suddenly, suspiciously disappearing
- Walmart’s in-house Android TV device might only cost $30
- Sony now lets you use the DualSense pad to play PS5 on your nearby Mac, iPhone, iPad, and more
- A special thanks to the person who combined the Apple TV remote and an AirTag
| Hans Zimmer isn’t the only composer that can make tech sounds, you know Posted: 10 May 2021 05:45 PM PDT  Today I learned that Hans Zimmer, known for his brilliant scores for movies such as Inception, Pirates of the Caribbean, and The Lion King, has also composed driving sounds for BMW. And they're actually pretty good! You can hear one coming to the company's M version of its electric BMW i4 cars in this video (and jump to 1:30 if you just want to hear the sound). And you can hear the driving sound that Zimmer composed for the BMW Vision M NEXT concept car in 2019 in this video: These are cool, but they got The Verge staff wondering — what other composers should create sounds for cars? So we compiled just a few of our favorite composers into one list, and some ideas about what their car noises might sound like:
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| Epic and Apple are now fighting over a naked banana Posted: 10 May 2021 05:45 PM PDT  As the trial for Epic v. Apple entered its second week, both parties took a break from antitrust law to argue over whether bananas should wear clothes in court. The banana in question is Peely, a humanoid fruit avatar from Epic's game Fortnite. Fortnite, as you may remember, is at the center of the huge lawsuit between Apple and Epic. The trial's sixth day began with testimony from Matthew Weissinger, Epic's VP of marketing. And Apple used its cross-examination to offer the court an exhaustive tutorial on Fortnite, beginning with its title screen and one of its skins. Hence the banana:
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| NASA’s asteroid-punching spacecraft begins its trek back home Posted: 10 May 2021 03:46 PM PDT  The NASA spacecraft that snatched a sample of rocks from the distant Bennu asteroid last year fired up a suite of thrusters on Monday and committed to its two-year journey back home. The maneuver kicks the minivan-sized spacecraft, dubbed Osiris-REx, onto a winding cosmic path around the Sun and toward Earth's orbit. When it returns to Earth in 2023, it'll toss a capsule packed with asteroid samples through the atmosphere somewhere over Utah. The spacecraft's Asteroid Departure Maneuver (ADM) was no sweat for the Osiris-REx team, but it marked a significant step towards the return of the first pristine cache of asteroid samples in NASA's history. Spacecraft engineers inside a Lockheed Martin center in Littleton, Colorado confirmed the... |
| The next PlayStation VR will be 4K and include eye-tracking, according to UploadVR Posted: 10 May 2021 03:36 PM PDT  UploadVR has some exciting rumors about what Sony will be including on the next-gen VR headset it's announced for the PS5: it'll apparently include 4K resolution, eye-tracking, and a vibration motor in the headset for haptic feedback (to complement the controllers with haptic triggers). According to UploadVR, the new headset should have a total resolution of 4000 x 2040, giving each eye 2000 x 2040 pixels. The original PlayStation VR had a resolution of 960 x 1080 pixels per eye, for comparison, so this would be nearly double in each direction. The Oculus Quest 2 has 1832 x 1920 pixels per eye, slightly less than Sony's headset is rumored to have — in both cases, the high resolution can help to avoid the "screen-door effect" that can... |
| FDA clears Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for kids ages 12 to 15 Posted: 10 May 2021 03:08 PM PDT  The Pfizer / BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine can now be administered to 12- to 15-year-olds, the Food and Drug Administration announced today. Previously, the shot was authorized for people 16 years of age and older. The companies asked the FDA to expand the authorization to include the new ages in early April, just after they released data showing that their vaccine was highly effective for that group. All of the 12- to 15-year-olds given the two-dose vaccine in a small study generated strong antibody response with no serious side effects, and none developed COVID-19. Later this week, a committee from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will meet to make recommendations on how the vaccine should be rolled out to this age group. ... |
| The cybersecurity ‘pandemic’ that led to the Colonial Pipeline disaster Posted: 10 May 2021 03:05 PM PDT  The cyberattack that forced the Colonial Pipeline offline is just one failure to address existing weaknesses and an escalating "ransomware pandemic," experts tell The Verge. That leaves the nation's energy infrastructure especially vulnerable, even though there are basic steps that could have been taken to prevent the crisis that's unfolding now. "Honestly, I think for anyone who's been tracking ransomware closely, this really shouldn't be a surprise," says Philip Reiner, CEO of the nonprofit Institute for Security and Technology. "This is yet another example of what is really a ransomware pandemic that needs to be addressed at the highest level." An escalating threat from... |
| Amazon-first gadget brands Aukey and Mpow are suddenly, suspiciously disappearing Posted: 10 May 2021 03:03 PM PDT  Many Amazon listings for two major electronics sellers have mysteriously disappeared as of Monday afternoon, and it's unclear exactly what might be going on. Here are a few screenshots from Aukey's Amazon page, taken shortly after 12PM ET on Monday. Aukey is a major seller of chargers, portable batteries, and more, but its Amazon page has a whole lot of blank product boxes and products listed as "currently unavailable." And if I search "Aukey" on Amazon, the top results are for two massage guns, a home oven, and a keyboard — not chargers or... |
| Walmart’s in-house Android TV device might only cost $30 Posted: 10 May 2021 02:39 PM PDT  Walmart appears to be getting into the streaming devices with the Onn Android TV UHD Streaming Device, according to a new listing on its website (spotted by 9to5Google). The company's new streaming box (in this case, really more of a flattened cube) is currently listed for $29.88 but is also "out of stock" — which could be due to the fact it hasn't been officially announced yet. According to Walmart's page, the Onn Android TV UHD Streaming Device can, unsurprisingly, stream in 4K and play "Dolby audio" — although there are no other specifics shared. The small device runs Android TV, connects to a TV over HDMI, and comes with what looks like a Google Assistant-enabled remote with dedicated buttons for YouTube, Netflix, Disney Plus, and... |
| Sony now lets you use the DualSense pad to play PS5 on your nearby Mac, iPhone, iPad, and more Posted: 10 May 2021 01:24 PM PDT  It's a little-known fact that you can sling a PS5 or PS4 to another room of your house, streaming your games to a Mac or Windows PC, iOS or Android device, or even an old PS4 with Sony's PS Remote Play app. But until recently, you could only remotely control your shiny new PlayStation 5 with the old DualShock 4 gamepad. That's now changing, as Sony has just announced the PS5's new DualShock controller is supported across every Apple platform running the latest operating system, including iPhones, iPads, iPod touches, and Apple TVs running 14.5 and Macs running macOS Big Sur 11.3.
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| A special thanks to the person who combined the Apple TV remote and an AirTag Posted: 10 May 2021 01:12 PM PDT  Here are a few unrelated facts:
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