Window air conditioners and portable air purifiers will need to get more efficient to comply with new federal standards in the US. The new rules are expected to cut consumer electricity bills by $1.5 billion a year, according to the Department of Energy (DOE), which finalized the standards yesterday. On top of saving consumers’ money, … Read more
It’s been a little over a year since Yellowjackets took our TVs by storm with a juicy Lost-style mystery that brought us all back to our days of fervent speculation. Showtime’s psychological thriller about a high school girls’ soccer team stranded in the wilderness in the mid-’90s, and what became of the survivors, had it … Read more
Twitter may be working on a feature that lets you hide the blue checkmark you got by paying for its Blue subscription. A screen found by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi shows that the company is working on a control panel for verification settings, with one of the options being “Show or hide your blue checkmark … Read more
Diablo 4 will feature five playable classes during the open beta: Barbarian, Necromancer, Sorcerer, Rogue, and Druid. Each class — all of which will be available for the game’s early June launch — has a unique class mechanic along with a skill tree equipped with a variety of spells. All of their playstyles are different, … Read more
Ford provided an update Friday on the construction of its massive new EV manufacturing complex in western Tennessee, where it says it will build its next electric truck, codenamed “Project T3.” The so-called BlueOval City campus won’t come online until 2025, but when it does, Ford has said it will be a “mega campus” that … Read more
The Barbarian is by far the beefiest class in Diablo 4, significantly tougher than the Sorcerer or the Rogue. With passives that enhance its overall health and health regeneration capabilities, the Barbarian can stand toe to toe with almost any boss. They are a valuable asset to players looking to clear harder content, as they … Read more
The pods are open, people are talking, and love is blind — maybe. (It’s the name of the grand “experiment,” after all.) The new, fourth season of Netflix’s Love Is Blind takes the reality show to Seattle (or, at least, it will, following its first five episodes spread across the pod basement and the resort … Read more
Fortnite developer Epic Games has decided to make a special exemption to its usual rules, and allow creators using the new Creative 2.0 tool — also known as the Unreal Editor for Fortnite — to remake the game’s original maps. It’s just as well, as the race to recreate the game’s original Chapter 1 map … Read more
Someone is chopping kinetic sand into neat, even cubes next to a clip from Family Guy. The jumping, coin-collecting gameplay of Subway Surfers plays alongside a segment of a Twitch stream. Slime is being coiled and stretched next to a reupload of someone else’s POV sketch. These kinds of collaged videos — sometimes called “sludge … Read more
The next game from the makers of Genshin Impact has a release date. Honkai: Star Rail — a turn-based, space-fantasy, tactical RPG — arrives on April 26th. In addition to previously announced PC and mobile availability, developer HoYoverse announced today that a PlayStation (PS5 / PS4) version is coming “later.” Although much is unknown about … Read more