Episode 9 of incredible Star Wars series Andor hit Disney Plus on Wednesday, with mercenary Cassian Andor adjusting to life in a shiny dystopian Imperial prison with electrified floors. It’s especially galling when you consider that he was thrown in there because some random trooper decided to be a bully (and not because of... Read more

It’s been 25 years since a small studio in Dallas recast the ancient world through the prism of a real-time strategy game. Age of Empires has echoed Monk wololos about our homes ever since: Parents believed that their kids were learning history; kids believed that they were gaming surreptitiously.... Read more

Enlarge / The Pantone Solid Coated and Solid Uncoated color libraries are disappearing from Adobe’s apps at some point, though the exact timing isn’t clear. Pantone If you want to use up-to-date versions of Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps, you’ve already been paying subscription fees for years now. And if... Read more

The world’s biggest operational rocket provided an extra treat on Nov. 1, the morning after Halloween, with the first Falcon Heavy launch since 2019 blasting off under a still spooky blanket of fog from Florida’s Cape Canaveral. Less than 10 minutes after liftoff, the rocket’s side boosters returned for... Read more

Rolex describes its new release, the Deepsea Challenge, as “a watch that defies the limits.” That means the limits of depth and atmospheric pressure in addition to engineering, since the Deepsea Challenge is designed to be able to function up to 11,000 meters—almost 7 miles—underwater. But you’d be forgiven... Read more

Join us on November 9 to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers at the Low-Code/No-Code Summit. Register here. New York-based mParticle, which offers an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven real-time customer data platform (CDP), today announced the expansion of its core product with... Read more

Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has been chaotic, to say the least. He repeatedly changed his mind about the deal, making weed jokes and tweeting poop emojis along the way. But now that his ownership of the social media platform is very real, many have questions about what’s going... Read more

Enlarge / An illustrated depiction of data in an audio wave. Meta AI Last week, Meta announced an AI-powered audio compression method called “EnCodec” that can reportedly compress audio 10 times smaller than the MP3 format at 64kbps with no loss in quality. Meta says this technique could dramatically... Read more

Recently we’ve been putting together a huge amount TV and movie recommendations at CNET. It’s been awesome! Discussing the best show on Netflix, or the best sci-fi series on Prime Video. Most of the time it’s easy to select our absolute favorites. Not this time. When it was suggested... Read more