Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 doesn’t drop until November, but you won’t have to wait nearly so long to find out whether or not its online play lives up to the hype. Activision and Treyarch have revealed that the sci-fi shooter’s multiplayer beta kicks o…
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Starbucks app to serve up free New York Times articles
It’s clear that Starbucks aims to pull in media companies for its Rewards program: after teaming up with Spotify earlier this year, the coffeehouse chain is now partnering with The New York Times. You can already get access to 15 free articles from N…
‘Project Cars’ Wii U version canceled
Project Cars finally launched on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC in May, after three delays and a few platform uncertainties dating back to January 2012. The game — a realistic racing simulator from Need for Speed: Shift developer Slightly Mad Studio…
This ring light wants to make poorly-lit selfies a thing of the past
Selfie technology has come a long way in recent years, but for all our sticks, sombreros, hair-brushes and Doom mods, we still haven’t overcome the selfie’s biggest enemy: low light. What do you do if you’re in a dark nightclub and you just need to s…
Internet investor pours $100 million into the search for alien life
The hunt for extraterrestrial life just got a big leg up. Internet investor Yuri Milner and his Breakthrough Prize Foundation will spend $100 million supporting Breakthrough Listen, a project that will use radio telescopes, lasers and other equipment…
Hack makes playing ‘Doom’ on a computer inside ‘Doom’ a reality
Tiny brain implant delivers drugs with a remote control
An implant, the size of a human hair, can deliver drugs to the brain with the click of a button. A team of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Illinois have demonstrated the wireless technology in mice. While a p…
This is how ‘Shenmue 3’ raked in over $6 million on Kickstarter
Records, like rules, were made to be broken. Shenmue 3’s Kickstarter campaign recently wrapped and upon doing so it set the bar for video-game projects on the crowdfunding platform by pulling in some $6.3 million in pledges. It’s pretty impressive wh…
UK says it’s once again illegal to rip CDs for personal use
Brits: we hope you enjoyed that brief, glorious year of legal media ripping, because you’re once again flouting the law. In the wake of a challenge from the music industry, the UK’s High Court has overturned regulation that allowed format shifting (s…
Google hires team behind cleaning startup to help find you a plumber
This morning, Homejoy, an on-demand cleaning service startup in San Francisco, announced that it would be shutting down on July 31st. CEO Adora Cheung told Re/Code that the decision came about in large part due to four ongoing lawsuits brought agains…
Rural pop-up hospital gets America’s first drone delivery
The first FAA-ok’d parcel delivery by drone took place in rural Virginia on Friday at Wise County, Virginia’s annual Remote Area Hospital. The RAH pops up every summer in Wise, which is deep in Appalachia, as a makeshift field hospital that treats hu…
Trippy exhibit uses Kinect to send kids to the wilderness
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Reddit says it will hide but not ban hate communities
Reddit Co-Founder and new CEO Steve Huffman has just laid out a host of changes to the websites content policy. He cites the company’s earlier banning of non-consensual porn (ie revenge porn) as a restriction that improved the community as a whole –…
Darkode cybercrime forum seized as police arrest 28 members
In a coordinated takedown, law enforcement agents around the world have teamed up to shut down the well-known cybercrime forum Darkode, pursuing 70 of its members and associates resulting in 28 arrests so far. In the US, the Department of Justice and…
Neil Young says his music is too good for streaming services
Neil Young’s been touting the merits of high-resolution audio for some time now, and he’s had enough of streaming services’ quality. The singer is pulling his music from those subscription-based libraries, a move fellow artist Prince made just days a…