Category: Technology and Gadgets

Roku is launching a brand new 24/7 sports channel on August 12 in the United States, aptly dubbed the Roku Sports Channel. It is a FAST (free ad-supported TV) streaming service, meaning you won’t need to pay for a subscription or sign up for an account to gain access. All you’ll need to watch is either the official app on your smartphone, own one of the company’s devices, or visit the Roku Channel website. According to the announcement, the channel will air a wide array of sports and sports-adjacent content “that Roku owns…

Thursday’s Connections puzzle is another fairly easy one – and I seem to have been saying that a lot lately. But if you do find yourself needing some hints, read on… What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too. SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know…

Watch the men’s 200m and 110m hurdles finals at Olympics 2024 for your fill of the two biggest remaining individual men’s races of the Games. Below we have all the information on how to watch men’s 200m and 110m hurdles finals at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games from anywhere in the world with details on worldwide TV channels, broadcasters, free streams and start times. He already has the 100m title under his belt. Now Noah Lyles (USA) is looking to complete the double. If he pulls it off, he’ll be…

As CrowdStrike and its enterprise customers recover from the recent outage catastrophe, and it already being public knowledge that a pushed update caused the problem, the company has hired two security firms to look further into the issue. The external code review was announced in a root causes analysis (PDF), while it was already known in the course of a post-incident review that a system designed to validate content (a ‘Content Validator’) failed to kick in, allowing a faulty IPS Template Instance intended to detect attacks to validate, causing crashes due…

Amazon upgraded its all-new Fire TV Sticks just last year, so now is a fantastic time to get the aging models for cheap. Amazon currently has the powerful Fire TV Stick 4K Max on sale for $39.99 (it was $59.99). That’s an impressive 33% discount and the lowest price we’ve ever seen. In fact, during Prime Day, Amazon didn’t discount the 4K Max streaming device, so today’s deal is the best price we’ve seen in June. Today’s best Amazon Fire TV Stick deal The Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max iterates on…

Figure 02 is, for the moment, half an exciting robot, and you need only look as far as the new announcement video to understand why. The video starts off promisingly enough. Figure AI’s  Figure 02 robot, a redesign of the original Figure 01, looks more human than ever. It has a smooth head and fabric-covered neck, the arms have lost most of their steampunk look, and the hands are complete with 10 expressive fingers and fluid movement. Even in full, Figure 02’s narrow torso and slightly chunky legs could pass for a…

Ampere Computing unveiled its AmpereOne Family of processors in 2023, boasting up to 192 single-threaded cores, which at the time was the highest in the industry.  Now, Ampere, founded in 2017 by Renée James, ex-President of Intel, is looking to push the boundaries further with its announcement of the AmpereOne Aurora, a 512-core CPU designed to cater to the evolving needs of cloud-native workloads. Over the past few years, Ampere has focused on developing innovative technologies for cloud infrastructures. As general-purpose and AI workloads converge in the cloud, the need…

One of the worst-rated noughties romantic comedies – Failure to Launch – has shot to Netflix’s most watched list, despite its terrible 23% Rotten Tomatoes score. But why has it become a global hit on Netflix 18-years later? Well, the answer is 1) Matthew McConaughey and 2) there’s clearly still a desire for nostalgic 2000s rom-coms. Other rom-com flops with poor ratings such as A Family Affair and Find Me Falling have made their way onto the best streaming service‘s top ten list in recent weeks, but now it’s Failure…

Samsung has launched a new bug-hunting bounty program to encourage reports on security vulnerabilities across its range of mobile devices. Rewards for local arbitrary execution are in the region of $300,000 while remote code execution (RCE) will see a reward of $1,000,000. The ‘Important Scenario Vulnerability Program (ISVP)’ will have people searching for exploits related to device unlocking, data extraction, and device protection bypass. Money, money, money For Samsung’s Rich OS, local code execution flaws will fetch $150,000 and RCEs hitting a maximum payout of $300,000. Reports of successful data…

If you frequently take your Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch OLED, or Nintendo Switch Lite out and about, then you should definitely invest in a compatible case to prevent any damage from bumps or drops. Luckily, a stylish case in an eye-catching The Legend of Zelda design is on sale right now at a bargain price. The PDP Travel Case with Wrist Strap in its striking Link Hero colorway is on sale for just $14.99 (was $19.99) at Amazon right now. That’s a $5 discount and matches the lowest-ever price that…