Get a Written History of the Ballpoint Pen, One of the World’s Most Popular Writing Tools Tip of a ballpoint pen (Photo: Ragnar Jensen via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0) Today, there are many different ways of writing in ink. However, the most popular and prevalent instrument is the ballpoint pen. Its modern design channels […]
Day: July 6, 2022
Grab the jaw-dropping Matrix Awakens tech demo before it’s delisted this week
Download it before Saturday if you want the experience. | Screenshot by Umar Shakir / The Verge If you’ve wanted to experience the impressive visuals in The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience and haven’t downloaded it yet, you’ll want to act fast — according to Unreal Engine’s website, it’ll be removed from the […]
9to5Mac Daily: July 6, 2022 – iPhone Lockdown Mode, more
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Why Lockdown mode from Apple is one of the coolest security ideas ever
Enlarge (credit: Apple) Mercenary spyware is one of the hardest threats to combat. It targets an infinitesimally small percentage of the world, making it statistically unlikely for most of us to ever see. And yet, because the sophisticated malware only selects the most influential individuals (think diplomats, political dissidents, and lawyers), it has a devastating […]
Vintage Burger King Is Discovered Fully Intact Behind a Wall at a Delaware Mall
Vintage Burger King Is Discovered Fully Intact Behind a Wall at a Delaware Mall A fully intact vintage Burger King was found behind a wall at the Concord Mall in Wilmington, DE. This photo was snapped by Jonathon Pruitt April of 2022. pic.twitter.com/G3V3SnJM3J — Jeze3D.exe v2.2.1 (@RealJezebelley) June 28, 2022 It’s not often we catch […]
Apple TV+ reaches 6% market share in the US while Netflix loses subscribers
A report from earlier this year revealed that Apple TV+ had been growing slowly, just reaching 5% of the market share of streaming platforms in the United States. Three months later, Apple TV+ finally accounts for 6% of the US streaming market – while Netflix continues to lose subscribers. more… The post Apple TV+ reaches […]
Florida once again has giant calamitous snails that spew parasitic brain worms
Enlarge / Mary Yong Cong, a Florida Department of Agriculture scientist, holds a giant African snail in her Miami lab on July 17, 2015. (credit: Getty | Kerry Sheridan) Officials in Florida are again battling a highly invasive, extraordinarily destructive giant snail species that also happens to be capable of spreading parasitic worms that invade […]
Blizzard will bring back BlizzCon in 2023
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s been a few years since Blizzard has hosted an in-person version of BlizzCon, its fan convention, but it sounds like that’s going to change in 2023. The company, known for huge franchises like World of Warcraft and Diablo, is “committed to bringing back BlizzCon in 2023,” Blizzard […]
How This Man and His Dog Spent Seven Years Walking Around the World
How This Man and His Dog Spent Seven Years Walking Around the World View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tom Turcich (@theworldwalk) A man named Tom Turcich has walked enough to travel around the world. Although that sounds like hyperbole, Turcich really did it. He completed the on-foot circumnavigation, which Guinness […]
The GTA V modder we just wrote about has been slapped with a DMCA takedown
Last Friday, we introduced you to Luke Ross: a modder who now makes $20,000 a month on Patreon bringing big games like Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2 to virtual reality. But the publisher of those games, Take-Two Interactive, was apparently not amused — and Patreon is now threatening to suspend his […]