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Meme nightmare Neco-Arc is coming to Melty Blood: Type Lumina – Destructoid

Fighting Games were a mistake… Pack it up, it’s all over. Following a wild few years of fighting game DLC characters, from The Walking Dead’s Negan and Final Fantasy‘s Noctis to The Terminator, RoboCop, and Rambo, developer Project Lumina has decided to take it one step too far. The irrepressible, unstoppable, unavoidable meme nightmare Neco-Arc is headed to the roster of Melty Blood: Type Lumina. Neco-Arc, the bizarrely drawn parody mascot of the Tsuskihime franchise, has finally decided the time is right to take her…

I tried this terrifying-looking $199 LED face mask. It was a nightmare

Pros Range of options for light and intensity Face and neck attachment for full coverage Electrodes included as well Cons Heavy and poor design Potential long-term health effects Sparks when plugging in the mask Lack of relaxation or comfort while using the maskCelebrities like Victoria Beckham, Julia Roberts, and Kate Hudson swear by the efficacy of LED masks, albeit expensive ones. I somehow managed to snag a $199.99 salon-level face and neck LED mask for $83 including tax (thanks to a 55% discount and an…

Always losing your keys? Simple solution will end nightmare for good

The nightmare of mislaying the front door key is finally over thanks to a clever solution from a UK security firm. Ultion, which makes consumer door locks, has just launched a brand new key that comes packed with Apple's AirTag technology tucked inside. This means the moment you mislay the little lump of metal you simply grab your iPhone to track it down again.Not only will an exact location be shown in Apple's Find My app but directions and distance from the key will also be displayed plus there's even an option to belt…

Pokémon Go Creator Says The Metaverse Is A Nightmare

Pokemon Go developer Niantic's founder and CEO, John Hanke, would like to tune out of the metaverse conversation for the time being, and focus on the future of worlds that can be overlaid on the real world, he said in a blog. In it, he admits that the metaverse is a “cool concept” from a technology point of view. However, he also says that the novels and games that were based on this concept were in fact “warning about a dystopian future of technology gone wrong”. Instead of delving deeper into the metaverse, Hanke would…

The post-Roe data privacy nightmare is way bigger than period tracking apps

Since the Supreme Court’s draft decision overturning Roe v. Wade leaked, influencers, activists and privacy advocates have urged users to delete period-tracking apps from their devices and remove their information from associated services. With abortion now outlawed in several states, data from such apps could be used in criminal investigations against abortion seekers, and a missed period — or even simply an unlogged one — could be used as evidence of a crime. These services, like many “wellness” apps, are not bound by…

Editing iMessages on iOS 16 looks like a nightmare on old iPhones

At its Worldwide Developers Conference 2022 earlier this month, Apple introduced a nifty feature for iOS 16 that allows users to edit their texts in the iMessage app within a 15-minute window from the time they send a message. However, users who own older iPhone models or iPhones that run older iOS software will have any edited messages sent back to them as different texts — potentially causing a lot of messaging headaches. The latest developer beta for iOS 16 was released on Wednesday, and shortly after, 9to5Mac…

The Nightmare Politics and Sticky Science of Hacking the Climate

And exactly how much carbon they remove can vary quite a bit based on variables like the health of the vegetation. “One of the major risks of some of these biology-based proposals is that an assumption gets made that you can easily equate X number of trees to X million tons of carbon without actually looking at what kinds of trees they are, and where they're being planted,” says Cox. The amount of captured carbon might end up being negligible. “You have a lot of trees, which is brilliant. You haven't necessarily got the…

HyperX Cloud MIX Buds Review: Connection Nightmare

Today's best HyperX Cloud MIX Earbuds dealsThere’s nothing quite as freeing as a pair of wireless headphones — or, that’s what I used to think, until I tried a pair of true wireless earbuds. I’m not kidding — there are a lot of situations where cutting that last wire has had a surprisingly significant effect. I no longer get wires caught under the barbell when I’m doing squats at the gym, for example. I also don’t have to worry about getting tangled up when I’m putting on/taking off outerwear or bags. (That’s not to say…

Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else | Science

A decade ago, particle physicists thrilled the world. On 4 July 2012, 6000 researchers working with the world’s biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, announced they had discovered the Higgs boson, a massive, fleeting particle key to their abstruse explanation of how other fundamental particles get their mass. The discovery fulfilled a 45-year-old prediction, completed a theory called the standard model, and thrust…

Researchers created living skin for robots, and it’s pure nightmare fuel

Sometimes science goes just a little too far in the pursuit of progress. I’m not saying that’s the case with a new living skin that scientists made for robots. But I’m also not saying that’s not the case. Making artificial humans has been a goal of many for centuries, even dating back to the ancient times of Greek mythology. But we’ve never been closer to achieving a realistic human-like robot, than right now. That’s because while robots continue to progress and accomplish bigger and better things, scientists are…