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Woe is me. As journalists, we’re supposed to maintain objectivity, but I can’t help but covet the Pokémon GO Plus+. Despite its silly, repetitive name (yes, it’s actually pronounced “plus plus”), pre-orders of the second-generation automatic Pokémon catcher are closed. So, I’ll have to remind myself to hop online in July 2023 when it goes on sale to the public.The Pokémon GO Plus+ was introduced as part of Pokémon Day, which happens on Feb. 27 every year to commemorate when the original games were released in Japan. This…

It’s February, which means more iPhone 15 rumors and leaks. Even though the iPhone 15 isn’t launching until September, that’s never stopped the rumor mill before. And this time around, we’re hearing through a new report that the Pro models of the iPhone 15 will get 8GB of RAM. Something that Android flagships have had for… years.The regular iPhone 15 models would stay at 6GB of RAM, according to this report. But that’s not all the news about RAM here. As the report does also note that they could get upgraded to LPDDR5…

Popular Hollywood actor Richard Gere is recovering with his family in Mexico after being ill for weeks, a representative confirmed by Deadline. The actor was on vacation with his family in Nuevo Vallarta and fell ill with pneumonia. He was taken to a hospital and is recovering. Richard Gere was celebrating his wife’s 40th birthday with their young children when they fell ill. His wife Alejandra Silvia shared an update on her health on social media. Also, Read- Die Hard Actor Bruce Willis Diagnosed With Untreatable…

Meta is making a big improvement to controls in its social VR platform Horizon Worlds: jump is being remapped to the A button, according to a blog post about the app’s new v94 update.You might be surprised to hear that wasn’t the case before, especially given that the A button has been widely used for jumping in video games for decades. But before now, you jumped in Horizon Worlds by pressing the right thumbstick as if it was a button. If you ask me, that wasn’t ideal; not only is jump not where you might expect it to be…

General Motors (GM) shared yesterday that it has issued a recall on 140,000 Chevy Bolt EVs throughout the US and Canada. The recall addresses a potential risk of fire in the EV’s carpet after an accident. Here’s what we know so far. The Chevrolet Bolt debuted in 2016 as the lone EV offering from GM; it has since been joined by the Bolt EUV as well as a few other models like the GMC Hummer EV and Cadillac Lyriq. While the Bolt continues to grow in sales as one of the most affordable EVs on the…

As news of Aftershock Comics’ bankruptcy filing spread yesterday, new has also been breaking that Heavy Metal is also undergoing a reorganization after missing some payments to creators. The company, which has a long legacy of publishing in the US, earlier this year announced a partnership with Twitch-meets-Ebay auction company WhatNot that saw WhatNot taking over printing and other administrative functions, and the debut of the “WhatNot Publishing” brand  However, rumors of slow payments from Heavy Metal had been…

Lithium-ion battery fires may not be all that common, but they are a concern — just ask electric vehicle makers and Samsung. Thankfully, research at Stanford might reduce the chances of those devices lighting up. Scientists have developed an electrolyte (the substance that carries lithium ions between electrodes) that won't catch fire even at temperatures of 140F or more. The trick, it turns out, was extra lithium salt. The team added as much of a particular lithium salt (LiFSI) as possible to a polymer-based electrolyte,…

Image: Shutterstock / Timofeev VladimirFrontier, the HPE Cray exa-scale supercomputer operated by the Department of Energy (DoE) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), remains by far the fastest supercomputer on the planet, according to the Top 500. With a High-Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark score of 1.102 Exaflops per second, Frontier is the only exa-scale supercomputer and is three times faster than its nearest competitor, Fugaku, at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in Kobe, Japan,…

Since 2019, Bumble has used machine learning to protect its users from lewd photos. Dubbed , the feature screens images sent from matches to determine if they depict inappropriate content. It was primarily designed to catch unsolicited nude photos, but can also flag shirtless selfies and images of guns – both of which aren’t allowed on Bumble. When there’s a positive match, the app will blur the offending image, allowing you to decide if you want to view it, block it or report the person who sent it to you. In a , Bumble…

We have come across several reports this year where we saw cars getting destroyed after they get stuck on flooded roads. By now, it is clearly established that water and cars they don’t go well together. Not just India but, many other countries have also been experiencing heavy rains and other natural disasters. Hurricane Ian was one of the recent one to hit USA. The hurricane has now passed and a week after the storm passed, we are getting reports of electric cars catching fire. The EVs are catching fire after…