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The Sims 4's latest update dropped this week ahead of the launch of a new Stuff Pack, and players aren't happy about one of the new features added. A new "packs you may like" icon has been added to the top of the UI, encouraging players to buy expansion packs directly in game.The new icon is in a prominent position in the game's UI, next to the icons for navigating between Build Mode, Manage Worlds, and the Gallery. Labelled "packs you may like" on hover, the new feature suggests a selection of packs…

A warning to those of you looking forward to celebrating 4/20 in style this year: Your weed might not be as potent as advertised. In a new study this week, scientists found that cannabis products bought from legal dispensaries in Colorado were often much lower in THC levels than their labels indicated.Won’t Virtual Reality Make Me Sick?THC, or Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, is the ingredient in cannabis primarily responsible for the high we get from taking it. Studies have found that the reported potency of THC in…

Fuel efficiency of a car is a major factor that many customers consider before buying a car. We know that the claimed mileage of most of the cars is different from the real world numbers. However one customer took things to next level and filed a case in Kerala Consumer Court after her Ford Fiesta failed to return the fuel efficiency avertised by the manufacturer. The Consumer Court has now awarded a compensation of Rs 3 lakh to the customer in the case. The car in question here is a Ford Fiesta sedan which was…

Mehul Reuben DasNov 24, 2022 13:53:19 ISTOne of the biggest worries that Elon Musk had when he took over Twitter was that advertisers and brands would leave the platform and stop spending on ads. It turns out, Musk’s fears were well-founded. A recent report from The Washington Post suggests that over a third of Twitter’s top 100 ad clients have not advertised on the platform over the last two weeks. Many of Twitter’s top advertisers, including 14 of the top 50 brands, have stopped their ad spends since Musk’s acquisition.…

Nothing Phone 1, the first smartphone from the UK brand, led by ex-OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, was unveiled globally last month. During the launch, it was advertised that the maximum brightness of the 6.55-inch full-HD+OLED display will reach up to 1,200 nits. However, a new report suggests that currently, the phone can deliver only 700 nits. The report states that Nothing will provide a future update to unlock the extra brightness range. The display of the Nothing Phone 1 has Corning Gorilla Glass protection and offers…

Nothing initially advertised the Phone (1) as being capable of reaching a maximum peak brightness of 1,200 nits, only in certain HDR video scenarios. We don't test for those, so all we got for our review of the phone was 663 nits in Auto brightness mode, with 466 nits in manual brightness mode. This didn't seem out of the ordinary, as all of the currently advertised 1,200+ nit peak brightness rates, for all smartphones, are not achievable in general day to day use, only in some HDR content. But you would expect a phone…

Image: Getty ImagesMore than 750 new job postings for software developers go live every day in the UK, with JavaScript leading the demand for programming language skills among employers.According to developer recruitment platform CodinGame, a new tech job is advertised every two minutes in the United Kingdom, with over half of tech job postings commanding salaries of at least £50,000 ($60,900) and one in five (20%) promising £70,000 ($85,300) and above. The UK is enjoying a boom in tech investment, with investors…

Australia's antitrust regulator has filed a lawsuit against Airbnb, accusing the accommodation-sharing website of misleading users into paying more than advertised for their stays, widening its scrutiny of global technology platforms.From 2018 to 2021, the San Francisco-based internet giant advertised and charged room rates in United States dollars without indicating the much higher figures in Australian dollars, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said in a court filing that it made public on…

Jason Cipriani/ZDNet Motorola is leaning toward adding a stylus to its smartphone lineup in 2022. To be clear, the company already had a Moto G lineup that includes a stylus, but the Lenovo-owned company recently released the Motorola Edge Plus which includes support for a digital pen. And, as of a week ago, you could buy the $80 Folio +…

The global chip shortage continues to cause problems for automakers to the point where some are shipping vehicles without all of their advertised features. BMW, for example, is shipping some of its new cars without support for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, according to a recent report by Automotive News. In an email to affected customers, the German auto giant confirmed that some vehicles built between January and April of this year contain chips that require updated software in order to be able to offer Apple…