Classic PC game emulation is back on the iPhone with iDOS 3 release

Classic PC game emulation is back on the iPhone with iDOS 3 release

Enlarge / The start of any journey in MS-DOS. Samuel Axon After a 14-year journey of various states of availability and usefulness amid the shifting policies of Apple’s App Store approval process, MS-DOS game emulator iDOS is back on the iPhone and iPad. It’s hopefully here to stay this time. iDOS allows you to run…

Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other

Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other

Enlarge / A Waymo self-driving car in front of Google’s San Francisco headquarters, San Francisco, California, June 7, 2024. (credit: Getty Images) Silicon Valley’s latest disruption? Your sleep schedule. On Saturday, NBC Bay Area reported that San Francisco’s South of Market residents are being awakened throughout the night by Waymo self-driving cars honking at each…

Windows 365 — Microsoft’s cloud-based OS explained

Windows 365 — Microsoft’s cloud-based OS explained

Microsoft introduced Windows 365 three years ago, a service that lets the company cut partners out of the money-making loop by providing virtual PCs to customers. Rather than provide only the operating system or the OS and bits of other software — notably productivity applications in the form of Office — Microsoft also serves up ersatz hardware,…

Fulfil your Skyrim bloodlust with this dismemberment mod

Fulfil your Skyrim bloodlust with this dismemberment mod

To quote the modern day poet that is one Marshall “Eminem” Mathers: Hi kids! Do you like violence? To add onto that, do you especially like Skyrim violence? While TES5 has its brutal moments, it evidently wasn’t enough for one person who felt the aging RPG needed just a soupçon of additional gore. Hacking and…

Notion adds charts to help visualize work projects

Notion adds charts to help visualize work projects

Notion users can now create charts to display data held in the productivity app, providing a new way to visualize information such as project status.   Notion Charts, available to paid users as of Tuesday, includes options for bar, donut, and line charts. These are accessible via the new “chart” view in Notion databases that appears…

Google’s Pixel Watch 3 has a bigger screen, and Pixel Buds Pro 2 are smaller

Google’s Pixel Watch 3 has a bigger screen, and Pixel Buds Pro 2 are smaller

Google In addition to a whole bunch of Pixel 9 phones, Google launched the Pixel Watch 3 and Pixel Buds Pro 2 at its Made by Google event today. Here’s the lowdown on what’s new, what’s interesting, and what Google has to say about the products beyond their AI connection. The Pixel Watch 3 45…

Meta and Universal Music Group sign deal on AI music

Meta and Universal Music Group sign deal on AI music

Social media giant Meta and the music company Universal Music Group, UMG, are expanding their previous long-term music agreement. The new deal allows Meta’s users to share songs from Universal’s music library on Meta-owned Facebook, Instagram, Horizon, Threads and Whatsapp without violating copyright, Techcrunch reports . The pact will also concern the treatment of “unauthorized AI-generated…

The Pixel 9 phones are big cameras and screens soldered onto Gemini AI ambitions

The Pixel 9 phones are big cameras and screens soldered onto Gemini AI ambitions

Google / Aurich Lawson Google announced its fall lineup of Pixel phones today: three standard phones and a second tablet-esque folding model. There are new chips, new cameras, Satellite SOS, and some notable promises, like the 9 phones being “twice as durable” as their Pixel 8 equivalents and getting seven years of updates. But as…