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• Cybershoes let you physically walk, run, and jump in VR without leaving your seat

  If you ask me, VR is the best thing that's happened to gaming since the invention of the joystick thanks to the platform's ability to place users inside of a complete alternate reality. Unfortunately, the spell's instantly broken the moment you're forced to take a single step. Cybershoes, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Just putting it out there: I still buy MP3s

  In this column, “Just putting this out there...,” we write about the odd ways we engage with tech and the unpopular opinions we form about it. You can read the rest of the articles in this series here. One of my biggest sources of inner turmoil is how I consume music: I still ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• Here's the stupid reason Elon Musk wants to nuke Mars

  Elon Musk – aka Lex Luthor in spirit -- is on social media yapping about nuking Mars again. He's not trolling; he's not acting as a provocateur; he really wants to bombard the surface of our planetary neighbor with actual nuclear weapons. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1162218267932446724 Here's ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Masked 'TV Head' serial-pranksters left vintage TVs in front of 60 residences and nobody knows why

  About 60 residents in a Virginia neighborhood awoke Sunday morning to find vintage TV sets had been left on their property. Footage obtained from several homeowners' security cameras show a person wearing a mask in the shape of a TV casually setting the appliances down and walking ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Here's 5 tabletop RPGs to scratch your Cyberpunk 2077 itch

  By the time you finish reading this article, you'll be minutes closer to the 16 April launch of CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077. But if you're anything like me, you want it now and you might spontaneously combust if you have to wait that long. As a public service, I've compiled ...

  • Tristan Greene

• We have some questions about Microsoft's 'Mac Book' advert

  Microsoft released a new advert for its Surface 2 laptop and... it's... really... something. So, say hello to Mac Book. And ...

  • Callum Booth

• Pro baseball league uses AI umpire for the first time, coach gets ejected for arguing with it

  You're outta here! Professional baseball's first AI umpire – in the form of an automated strike zone – didn't take long to chalk up its first ejection after 1988 Cy Young winner and current pitching coach of the Atlantic League's Highpoint Rockers, Frank Viola Jr., was tossed ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Pablo Escobar's brother escalates flamethrower feud with Elon Musk, threatens Tesla takeover

  Elon Musk can add the Escobar family to his list of detractors after notorious kingpin Pablo's older brother, Roberto Escobar, today accused the billionaire tech CEO of stealing the design for The Boring Company's Not A Flamethrower. According to TMZ, an engineer associated ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Hey look, AI ruined Garfield

  AI can do a lot of things — it fuels our voice assistants, understands pizza, and might even steal our jobs! And you ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• This clever Chrome extension camouflages Netflix in a conference call

  If you absolutely must watch Netflix at work, this browser extension could help you prevent getting caught, by mimicking ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Review: Microsoft's Windows 1.11 is an Upside Down mess

  Microsoft today announced that it was the year 1985. We checked the Microsoft store to confirm this and, as Windows 1.11 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Is Microsoft teasing a Netflix tie-in? Stranger Things have happened

  Microsoft yesterday took to Twitter and Instagram to tease social media denizens with a cryptic Windows 1.0 video. After ...

  • Tristan Greene