Author Archives: Josh Hendrickson

Visit Santa’s Village, and Track the Big Guy on Christmas Eve With Google’s Help

Legend says that in 1955, a mix-up led to children calling CONAD, a precursor to NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) to ask for updates on Santa’s travel. Ever since, NORAD has offered a yearly Santa tracker. But NORAD isn’t t… Continue reading

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DoNotPay’s Robot Lawyer Can Create Your Legal Contracts

Occasionally, you may need a legal contract just to cover your bases—like if you decide to rent out space in your home, or you want to try your hand at contract work. But paying a lawyer to write contracts can be expensive. DoNotPay just expanded… Continue reading

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Anker’s New Dock Will Charge Your Oculus Quest 2 and Its Controllers

When Facebook unveiled the Oculus Quest 2, it touted many upgrades and improvements over the original Quest. Unfortunately, not all those improvements panned out, and one of the big offenders is battery life. You’ll get three hours max on the Que… Continue reading

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Fly Around the World in VR With Microsoft’s Latest ‘Flight Simulator’ Update

Microsoft’s latest Flight Simulator is a triumph in beauty, thanks to its use of Bing maps and real-time weather conditions. Last July, the company promised a virtual reality (VR) mode but said it would only come to HP VR headsets. Now that vir… Continue reading

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Make Judy the Elf’s Hot Cocoa From ‘The Santa Clause’ With Help From YouTube

Remember The Santa Clause? That now timeless classic features a scene with an elf named Judy and her incredible hot cocoa. This Christmas, why not re-watch The Santa Clause on Disney+ and make yourself some fantastic cocoa to go with it? Andrew Rea … Continue reading

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You Can Now Check Out Stadia for Free, No Strings Attached

The Google Stadia concept seems sound. Instead of spending several hundred (or thousand) dollars on a high-end PC, stream games to your budget machine—if you have fast enough internet, that is. Trials required a credit card, and then you had to r… Continue reading

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Disney+ Announced a New Boba Fett Show and It Looks Downright Criminal

We’re just going to say it now. The following post will contain massive spoilers. If you haven’t seen The Mandalorian’s last episode of the season, then you shouldn’t read this post. Just walk away knowing that Boba Fett will ge… Continue reading

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Apple’s New M1 Macs Land Native Zoom Support

By all accounts, Apple’s new hardware with custom M1 processors is powerful, long-lasting, and quiet. But, M1 processors are ARM-based, and not all software will work natively. Instead, developers need to update programs to work with ARM. Until n… Continue reading

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Create Some Rocking Blob Opera with Google’s Latest Experiment

Learning to compose amazing music in any genre takes decades of hard work, study, and creativity. But that’s too much work. What if you could make an excellent opera right now by dragging around some blobs? Yes, blobs. Google’s latest exper… Continue reading

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‘Airplane Mode’ Wants to Be the Worst Real-Time Flight Simulator

Fifteen years ago, Penn & Teller (yes, that Penn & Teller) almost released a series of mini-video games for the SEGA CD. Among them, would have been Desert Bus, a game where you simulated driving a bus for eight hours. AMC Games wants to bri… Continue reading

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