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Your Meta headset can now display the output of any HDMI or DisplayPort device

Our lives are full of screens in this digital age but sometimes you can’t access them or you need a bigger one for your tired eyes. Meta announced a new app called Meta Quest HDMI Link for its Quest 2, Quest 3 and Quest Pro headsets that can connect any of your devices with HDMI […]

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Doom meets Dredd in Defect, a squad-based shooter with a Mick Gordon soundtrack

Dystopian shooters with strong echoes of Doom are a dime a dozen. But when the people behind the recent entries for that hellishly good franchise are the ones making a new game, it’s worth taking a look. Today the trailer dropped for a new game called Defect from a new studio called Emptyvessel.  Think multiplayer […]

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Two action movie simulators Action Hero and Vendetta Forever are headed to VR

The first VR Games Showcase has delivered a deluge of new VR titles like the Arizona Sunshine Remake and Trombone Champ: Unflattened, but two new (and very similar) titles caught my eye: Action Hero and Vendetta Forever. They both appear to be slow motion action games like the brilliant Superhot VR that will let you […]

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Online publishers face a dilemma: Allow AI scraping from Google or lose search visibility

As the US government weighs its options following a landmark “monopolist” ruling against Google last week, online publications increasingly face a bleak future. (And this time, it’s not just because of severely diminished ad revenue.) Bloomberg reports that their choice now boils down to allowing Google to use their published content to produce inline AI-generated […]

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Congress asks Mark Zuckerberg to explain why drug dealers are advertising on Facebook and Instagram

Nineteen members of Congress are pushing Mark Zuckerberg to explain why Meta has allowed ads for cocaine, ecstasy and other drugs to be shown on Facebook and Instagram. The letter comes after the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) uncovered hundreds of such ads on the company’s platform. The letter points to the TTP’s report last month, […]