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Here are some good (and cheap) indie games to occupy your weekend

Mar30
by on March 30, 2019 at 2:31 am
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


Games can be a bit of time sink — and time is a finite resource. For those of you living for the weekend (this weekend, in particular), we’ve come up with a few new indie games (and one classic) to try that won’t take up too much of your time or money. As fun as it is to dive deep into Open World/Action/RPG/Survival/Battle Royale extravaganza #284, not everyone has that kind of time. We get it… life happens, and you need to eat, shop, and maybe tend to pets or children. Sometimes you just want to have a good game…

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Apple cancels the AirPower wireless charging mat, citing quality issues

Mar29
by on March 29, 2019 at 8:22 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


It’s official. Today, Apple cancelled its perennially delayed wireless charging product, AirPower. In a statement, Cupertino blamed issues meeting its own quality standards. Here’s what Dan Riccio, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, said in a statement emailed to TechCrunch: “After much effort, we’ve concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards and we have cancelled the project. We apologize to those customers who were looking forward to this launch. We continue to believe that the future is wireless and are committed to push the wireless experience forward.” It’s not clear what the exact problem was, but the Internet…

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The Neato Botvac D6 robo-vacuum is a godsend for hairy pet owners

Mar29
by on March 29, 2019 at 7:04 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Neato’s oddly-shaped Botvac D6 robotic vacuum might have a bit of tunnel vision, but it’s quite thorough, especially in a house full of dog hair, and has an amazing controller app. As a first-time robot owner, I have to say I was impressed. First Impressions I didn’t think I’d be the owner of a robot vacuum in this lifetime. When I clean things, I like them to be immaculate — thank my mother for that lesson — and I’ve heard that robot vacuums often have trouble getting into corners or moving along walls. But it seems pigs might be flying,…

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EOS and TRON’s most used dapps are either gambling or ‘high risk’

Mar29
by on March 29, 2019 at 4:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


There’s an endless war fought for the attention of blockchain developers. Projects like Ethereum, EOS, and TRON all push their different visions of the tech, often with attempts to define success by how many dapps each network supports, and how big their userbases are. Well, over the past few months, cryptocurrency gamblers have left Ethereum’s gambling dapps en masse, with data showing they’re now betting on casino dapps hosted by rival blockchains. Today, Hard Fork reviewed data pulled from DappRadar, a service that tracks dapp usage across those three blockchains, to see exactly what kinds of dapp activity each network…

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