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If you thought yesterday's news was strange, just wait until you see what we've got for you today. Pac-Man is back, Elon Musk taught a monkey to play Pong with its mind, and we found an astonishingly great 4K webcam that costs less than $35. Enjoy! |
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After several attempts to make a Pac-Man battle royale game work, Pac-Man 99 may have finally cracked the code. Nintendo's new freebie for online subscribers is the latest in its line of surprising retro elimination games. Like Tetris 99, it fits classic gameplay into a Fortnite-style mass-multiplayer structure.
As far as battle royale experiments go, Pac-Man 99 is more of a winning combination than Nintendo's limited-time Super Mario 35. While that game struggled to fit the platformer into a multiplayer gauntlet, Pac-Man is a much more natural pairing with Tetris 99's mechanics. In fact, it only emphasizes the best thing about Pac-Man. |
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Amazon is flooded with cheap knock-offs and junk products, many of which have thousands of five-star reviews. It's nearly impossible to decipher the good from the bad. This is particularly true of webcams, which everyone happens to need these days.
I found this out first-hand recently when I evaluated five popular webcams sold on Amazon, which ran the gamut of price, quality, and features. Some were downright awful, as you can imagine. There was one that stood out, though. The GoHZQ W8A. It doesn't have a catchy name, but this $33 webcam proves that you don't have to spend $100 to get image quality. |
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Elon Musk's Neuralink company has just posted a video showing a monkey playing Pong, apparently using only his mind. It's a demonstration of Neuralink's implantable "brain-machine interface" that it has been working on since 2017. The company claims the technology will one day allow our minds to interface with gadgets and programs, and could one day help to treat brain disorders.
The three-minute video posted on Thursday features a macaque called Pager who had a Neuralink device implanted in his brain a couple of months ago. As Pager learned how to interact with a computer using a joystick (a process that involved the carefully timed delivery of a banana smoothie through a straw), the Neuralink device recorded his brain activity. This data was then decoded by a computer, paving the way for what came next.
When the team removed the joystick, the implanted device enabled Pager to use his brain to continue with the same on-screen activities as before — simply through its thoughts. He was even able to play Pong — dubbed MindPong by the team — via the Neuralink implant. |
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TIPS, TRICKS, & TECHNIQUES |
Major cellular carriers — Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and others — typically lock their networks to the iPhone you buy from their stores or pay for via an installment plan. What does that really mean, though? A cell phone lock is a software code that ensures your mobile phone connects only to a specific network. Conversely, unlocking your iPhone means that you can switch carriers if you're dissatisfied with the service, move to a different region, are traveling, or want to keep your old handset when you change networks. Here's how the unlocking process works: |
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