This story is part of Tech for a Better World, stories about the diverse teams creating products, apps and services to improve our lives and society. Searching for a job during a pandemic is a difficult task, especially as joblessness claims rise to over 740,000 in the US and many people have found themselves unemployed …
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Zoom already revealed it’ll drop its 40-minute meeting time limit for Thanksgiving, but Microsoft Teams is going a step further by offering free all-day video calling, as previously reported by The Verge. You can share meeting invites with people who don’t have Teams installed, the company noted Thursday. “To help you stay connected in the coming months, you will be …
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The Federal Communications Commission voted Wednesday to free up more spectrum for Wi-Fi. In a bipartisan effort, the five commissioners voted unanimously to allocate spectrum for Wi-Fi usage in what’s known as the 5.9GHz band of spectrum. The spectrum in this band will be used for unlicensed indoor use to help improve speeds and reduce congestion on 5GHz Wi-Fi networks. …
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Like many of the new Xbox accessories arriving this month, the Razer Wolverine V2 controller doesn’t have any specific ties to the new Xbox Series X and Series S except timing — it just made sense to update the Wolverine models for 2020. And the result is quite a nice wired controller for Xbox and PC, with a more comfortable grip …
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Nvidia follows Amazon down the path of least resistance to get its cloud-gaming service onto your iOS device. Like Amazon Luna, Nvidia GeForce Now has come to the iPhone and iPad by way of Apple’s Safari browser, now in beta. The company has also updated its roadmap for the service, promising the ability to run in the Chrome browser on …
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Alto’s Odyssey and its precursor Alto’s Adventure — two of the most popular and meditative mobile games around — made the leap from casual gaming to consoles and PCs in August when they arrived on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and the Epic Games Store. Now, the version for Nintendo Switch is arriving on Nov. 26, with preorders starting Thursday. The two Alto games, which …
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Like Nvidia GeForce Now and baby Amazon Luna, Google’s getting in line to add iOS support for its Stadia cloud-gaming service, which runs through a web app. It begins initial testing in “several weeks.” Apple’s policies make it too much work for cloud-gaming services to sell through the App Store (imagine if every movie and show on Netflix had to be in a separate …
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Activision’s Call of Duty is one of the biggest game franchises ever. Last year’s edition, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, made more than $1 billion for the gaming giant within two months of launch. Producing a massive game like Call of Duty is never easy, especially when preparing for new, next-generation game console hardware. Throw in a global pandemic and things …
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If you’re still using Adobe’s Flash Player, you’ve got 55 more days until Mozilla fully banishes it from Firefox. Firefox 83, released Tuesday, is the penultimate version of the web browser that will run Flash software, and Firefox 85 will completely disable it when it arrives on Jan. 12, 2021. Flash expanded browser abilities with features like streaming video and …
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Apple and Verizon are holding an event Thursday at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET to pitch the iPhone 12 and 5G wireless networking to businesses. Verizon said Monday that the event will “showcase how business customers can use the new iPhone 12 lineup and Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband to power innovative solutions,” which is about as business-sounding as you can …
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