Grindr on the NYSE. Image Credit: Getty ImagesLGBTQ dating app Grindr has issued a new return-to-office policy requiring staff to relocate to other cities, just two weeks after its workers announced they were unionizing with the Communications Workers of America. The certification form, sent to workers on Monday night and obtained by Motherboard, states that the policy requires workers to either move within 50 miles of their newly designated office or lose their jobs. Workers told Motherboard that the policy was first announced on Thursday, during a previously scheduled all-hands meeting, and that it was the first time they had…
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Odds are, you know what a motherboard is; it’s up there with CPU and GPU in terms of recognizability. The motherboard is the computer part that all the other computer parts are plugged into, but it’s also much more than that. Although the motherboard isn’t nearly as exciting as graphics cards or even CPUs, it’s perhaps the most important component in any PC, and getting a great motherboard can really seal the deal in making a good PC. Here’s everything there is to motherboards and why they’re so crucial. XDA VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The…
Odds are, you know what a motherboard is; it’s up there with CPU and GPU in terms of recognizability. The motherboard is the computer part that all the other computer parts are plugged into, but it’s also much more than that. Although the motherboard isn’t nearly as exciting as graphics cards or even CPUs, it’s perhaps the most important component in any PC, and getting a great motherboard can really seal the deal in making a good PC. Here’s everything there is to motherboards and why they’re so crucial. XDA VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The…
The Federal Circuit has affirmed a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that the challenged claims of Bot M8 LLC’s gaming patent, U.S. Patent No. 8,078,540, were unpatentable. Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC petitioned for Inter partes review (IPR) of claims 1-6 of the patent, which concerns a gaming machine that authenticates certain data and that has both a motherboard and a different board. As the court noted, two aspects of the claim are relevant: First, the independent claims (claims 1 and 4) require that the “game program” be written to the motherboard only after the game program…
Extreme “glacial cooling” that occurred more than a million years ago in southern Europe is likely to have caused an “extinction of early humans” on the continent, according to new research. From a report: The previously unknown ice age pushed the European climate to “beyond what archaic humans could tolerate” and likely wiped out human life on the continent temporarily, concluded an academic paper published in the journal Science. The findings by 11 researchers from institutions including University College London and the University of Cambridge challenge the long-held idea that humans have continuously occupied Europe since first arriving in the…
Russia hopes to launch its first successful lunar landing mission for nearly 50 years, with a long-delayed takeoff from the far east of the country scheduled for early on Friday morning that the Kremlin aims to tout as a new achievement in space exploration. From a report: The Luna-25 mission will seek to land near the south pole of the moon, collecting geological samples from the area, and sending back data for signs of water or its building blocks, which could raise the possibility of a future human colony on the moon. But the more immediate goal is to prove…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Scientists near Chicago say they may be getting closer to discovering the existence of a new force of nature. They have found more evidence that sub-atomic particles, called muons, are not behaving in the way predicted by the current theory of sub-atomic physics. Scientists believe that an unknown force could be acting on the muons. More data will be needed to confirm these results, but if they are verified, it could mark the beginning of a revolution in physics. All of the forces we experience every day can be reduced to…
The best SSD for gaming will offer faster read and write speeds and increase storage for your gaming PC so that you can keep your games, files and apps all in one handy place. The best gaming SSDs needn’t be expensive either thanks to lots of affordable solid state drive deals these days. There are a few different types of SSDs to choose between. PCIe 4.0 drives currently offer the fastest speeds and feature up to 4TB of storage that just fits onto your motherboard. You can get even better value with an older SATA or PCIe 3.0 drive nowadays…
OPINION: Students will be returning to their university halls in just a few short weeks, so it’s no surprise that we’ve been seeing a bunch of back-to-school tech guides cropping up all over the web. But many of them seem to forget one important aspect of student life – you probably can’t afford the latest MacBook Pro. Student life is synonymous with a lot of things; making new friends, learning new skills and most importantly, budgeting. For a lot of young people, college and university is the first time wherein you have to make sure that your money is being…
So far, 2023 has been a banner year for laptops. We’ve seen some excellent machines pass through our doors, representing some of the best laptops we’ve reviewed across a variety of form factors. Many of the standout examples have been iterative updates to classics, like the awesome Apple MacBook Pro 14 and 16 that brought Apple’s latest M2 Pro and M2 Max processors to market. Some, though, are brand-new models. They break the mold in some cases, while in others simply offer superior combinations of features, performance, and value. As someone who reviews laptops for a living, here are my…