quarta-feira, 16 de fevereiro de 2022

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Epic says there are now more than 500 million Epic Games accounts

Posted: 16 Feb 2022 07:00 AM PST

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Epic Games announced Wednesday that there are now more than 500 million Epic Games accounts. It's a notable milestone as Epic continues to build the Epic Games Store as a competitor to Steam and bring in new players for titles like Fortnite and Rocket League. Epic didn't share further details about that 500 million, however, so it's unclear how many of those accounts represent segments like people that only play Epic's own games (such as Fortnite) or those who have only used Epic's store.

The company has put a huge amount of resources behind growing its PC games store — and therefore, getting more people to sign up for accounts — since it launched in December 2018. One document from the Epic v. Apple trial, for example, showed that Epic...

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I hid a $5,000 camera rig in Brooklyn

Posted: 16 Feb 2022 07:00 AM PST

Cognisys' scout camera box kept my Canon 5D MIV and Canon 16-35mm lens safe from the elements.

When I think of wildlife photography, I think of powerful animals photographed using long lenses in epic environments. That was until I met ex-ventriloquist-turned-wildlife-conservation-photographer Carla Rhodes. She has captured over 25 different species of wild animals in the backyard of her Catskills home, and most of the time, she isn't even there to hit the shutter button.

Carla Rhodes setting her camera trapping box.
A weather-proof flash attached to a tree, high above an animals eye-line.
A break beam sensor is used to trigger the camera.

Instead of camping out in a single spot and waiting for wildlife to walk by, Carla studies wildlife patterns and then...

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Apple’s Severance turns office life into purgatory

Posted: 16 Feb 2022 06:45 AM PST

True work-life balance can be as hard to achieve as inbox zero. It's so challenging, in fact, that the characters in Severance go to a particular extreme to reach it: brain surgery. The show, which is streaming on Apple TV Plus, takes its name from a surgical procedure in which someone's brain is essentially severed in two, creating two distinct persons: one for work, one for home life. The result is a show that feels a bit like a cross between Black Mirror and The IT Crowd, exploring the horrors of capitalism and technology with a banal kind of cheer.

At the center of the story is a company called Lumon Industries, an Amazon-style megacorporation that dabbles in a little of everything. ("What don't they make," one character asks early...

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The best deals on true wireless earbuds right now

Posted: 16 Feb 2022 06:31 AM PST

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge

When it comes to true wireless earbuds, there are a ton of brands and products to choose from. Whether you need something with noise cancellation to drown out your morning commute like Sennheiser's Momentum True Wireless 2 or a fitness-focused pair like the Beats Powerbeats Pro, there's a pair of wireless earbuds for nearly every occasion. Some, like the UE Fits, even conform to the shape of your ear to provide a secure fit that's uniquely yours.

Regardless of the brand or model that speaks to you, however, we've scoured the internet to find the best deals currently available on true wireless earbuds. Of course, if you're still trying to find the right make and model for you, make sure to check out our guide to the best wireless...

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Why you can’t rebuild Wikipedia with crypto

Posted: 16 Feb 2022 06:30 AM PST

Whenever a fresh disaster happens on the blockchain, increasingly I learn about it from the same destination: a two-month old website whose name suggests the deadpan comedy with which it chronicles the latest crises in NFTs, DAOs, and everything else happening in crypto.

Launched on December 14th, Web3 Is Going Just Great is the sort of thing you almost never see any more on the internet: a cool and funny new website. Its creator and sole author is Molly White, a software engineer and longtime Wikipedia contributor who combs through news and crypto sites to find the day's most prominent scams, schemes, and rug pulls.

Organized as a timeline and presented in reverse chronological order, to browse Web3 Is Going Just Great is to get a sense...

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No Man’s Sky’s newest update brings big changes to combat and enemies

Posted: 16 Feb 2022 06:00 AM PST

No Man's Sky Sentinel is the game's first update of 2022. | Image: Hello Games

No Man's Sky is getting its first update of the year on Wednesday, dubbed Sentinel, and developer Hello Games is promising some big changes to combat and enemies.

"The Sentinel update brings an overhaul of the combat systems in game and enemies you meet, to create something much more challenging and exciting," the studio says. "No Man's Sky is a game about exploration, but our universe has always been one filled with hazards and danger. Sentinels police the planets you explore, and have long been an element of the game we wanted to make more interesting, deep and fun — whilst also allowing players to defeat and overcome them in a more meaningful way."

There will be a lot to check out in the Sentinel...

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CD Projekt Red veterans are launching a new studio and making a dark fantasy RPG

Posted: 16 Feb 2022 06:00 AM PST

Here's concept art for the studio's first game. | Image: Rebel Wolves

Veterans of CD Projekt Red (CDPR) are launching a new studio called Rebel Wolves, and they shared the first details about the new venture on Wednesday. Fans of CDPR's The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt might be pleased to hear that Rebel Wolves' first game sounds like it could be a spiritual successor to the hit title.

In an email to The Verge, co-founder Konrad Tomaszkiewicz described it as "a dark fantasy, story-focused open world AAA RPG," and it's based on a new franchise from Rebel Wolves co-founder and narrative director Jakub Szamałek, who also worked on The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077. "Overall, the game will have a similar scope to the Blood and Wine expansion for The Witcher 3 but will be far more non-linear," Tomaszkiewicz said. Rebel...

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Jaguar Land Rover says all of its cars will come with Nvidia’s Drive computers by 2025

Posted: 16 Feb 2022 06:00 AM PST

Jaguar Land Rover is teaming up with Nvidia to install high-powered computers in its vehicles to enable advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving features. Starting in 2025, all JLR vehicles will come with Nvidia's end-to-end Drive Hyperion platform installed, the companies said.

Hyperion is the latest iteration of Nvidia's Drive platform that allows automakers to customize their own driving features. And Orin is the chipmaker's system-on-a-chip, similar to Tesla's Full Self-Driving chip or Intel's Mobileye EyeQ. This new hardware will form the basis for a new suite of driving features, including advanced driver assistance systems, automated parking, and autonomous driving, the companies said.

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Waymo will test its autonomous trucks in Texas with brokerage firm CH Robinson

Posted: 16 Feb 2022 05:00 AM PST

Waymo announced a new partnership with CH Robinson, a Fortune 500 company and global logistics provider, to test its autonomous trucks in Texas. It's the latest deal that highlights the Alphabet company's growing autonomous truck venture, Waymo Via.

As part of the new collaboration, Waymo and CH Robinson will oversee a pilot in which Waymo's test fleet of autonomous trucks will make deliveries, traveling a 240-mile route between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston. The company is also testing deliveries for UPS along the same route.

Waymo divides its autonomous initiatives into two divisions: Waymo One, its consumer ride-hailing service, and Waymo Via, which is focused on goods delivery in both trucking and local delivery formats.

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2021’s crypto bull market made criminals much richer

Posted: 16 Feb 2022 05:00 AM PST

A stylized illustration of a Bitcoin in purple and black shadows.
Most of it comes from stolen funds. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

At the end of 2021, cybercriminals had over $11 billion in cryptocurrency tied to illicit activity, a meteoric rise from the $3 billion they held at the end of 2020, according to a report from blockchain data company Chainalysis. The most lucrative crime was theft — 93 percent of the funds in criminals' crypto wallets were made up of stolen coins worth $9.8 billion, according to the firm.

To find these numbers, Chainalysis looked at how much crypto was in wallets that it's "attributed to illicit actors." This means wallets that receive funds from things like darknet markets, ransomware operations, scams, or crypto theft.

Chart: Chainalysis
The value of the crypto owned by criminals at the end of the year, broken...

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