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Review: Alienware’s first wireless headset gets (almost) everything right

Sep26
by on September 26, 2018 at 5:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming, Plugged


Alienware dipped its little green toes into the wireless headset market for the first time this year with impressive results. The AW 988 is a premium device that delivers on its promises, but there’s some room for improvement. The AW 988 leaps onto the scene with 7.1 surround sound, decent drivers, and enough clever design decisions to merit it a place towards the head of the pack. Before we get too far, however, let’s talk about this thing’s nuts and bolts. Drivers: 2 X 40mm Connectivity: 2.4 GHz wireless, 3.5mm audio jack Frequency response: 20 Hz to 20 KHz SPL:…

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PlayStation 4 finally allows Switch and Xbox cross-play with new Fortnite beta

Sep26
by on September 26, 2018 at 4:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


After months of continuous pressure and needling and guilting from the rest of the gaming industry — fans, developers, and even Microsoft and Nintendo themselves — Sony is finally allowing cross-platform play between the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One and Switch. Fortnite cross-platform play starts today in open beta. Full details: https://t.co/fyPmx4iB4O pic.twitter.com/wdY3GnT4u1 — PlayStation (@PlayStation) September 26, 2018 The company is offering an open beta with the intention of eventually allowing cross-play on “select third party content” in future. Funnily enough, this move comes less than a month after Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida apparently put the notion to bed,…

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Google Maps just made it easy to poll friends on dinner options

Sep26
by on September 26, 2018 at 3:48 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider


Back in May, Google announced a ton of features for Maps that have slowly been rolling out ever since. Today, the company released the one I was personally most anticipating: The ability to plan outings with friends. For most people, planning an outing with friends involves sending a variety of links in a message thread, which quickly becomes messy and confusing, making it hard to compare and contrast choices. Google’s solution lives right within Maps: Long press on a location and it’ll be added to a shareable shortlist. The list will live as a floating bubble on your screen, making…

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Crypto-wallet Coinomi delists Gulden coin after botched update

Sep26
by on September 26, 2018 at 3:12 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Cryptocurrency wallet Coinomi will delist NLG – a token issued by blockchain startup Gulden – after Gulden botched a software update that purportedly crashed some of Coinomi’s servers. In a blog post published this morning, Coinomi announced NLG will be removed from its wallet in two weeks. It appears that the latest Gulden updated broke some servers that Coinomi uses to deliver its service. When Coinomi devs reached out for assistance, they were met with a hostile and unhelpful reception from Gulden’s team. “Our immediate calls for assistance at their github [sic] were met with hostile and unhelpful comments –…

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Vitalik Buterin co-authors research showing how Ethereum can scale securely

Sep26
by on September 26, 2018 at 2:47 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Ethereum devs are edging closer to scaling Ethereum. A new paper, co-authored by Vitalik Buterin, claims to have eliminated certain security trade-offs plaguing its new ‘sharding‘ tech. Researchers Mustafa Al-Bassam and Alberto Sonnino from University College London teamed up with Buterin to publish, what they say, is the key to fixing Ethereum’s scalability problems. They declare that the paper details a new kind of mathematical proof that, when implemented, will keep Ethereum’s blockchain secure when sharding eventually happens. “We presented, implemented and evaluated a complete fraud and data availability proof scheme,” the paper says. “[This] enables light clients to have…

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