Best Technology Stuff from Around the World
DICE reveals that special skins for Battlefield 2042 may not always be available in the main game. Also, some skins can only be used once. The company is providing the explanation after a fuss arose about a leaked Santa skin for the character Boris. Initially, the screenshots of the holiday-inspired character and vehicle skins were … Read more
The American space agency NASA has given three companies a total of $415.6 million to develop the successors to ISS. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, among others, will receive funding from NASA for an ISS successor. Of the three companies, Nanoracks received the most money, with $160 million. This company makes ‘Starlab’ together with Voyager Space … Read more
DICE will release the third update for Battlefield 2042 on Thursday. This update adds weekly missions and various bug fixes, among other things. The update has a total of “more than 150 changes and bug fixes,” DICE reports. DICE writes that the update will be available on Thursday, December 2 for PCs, PlayStations and Xbox … Read more
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk hopes the Starship rocket can be launched into orbit for the first time in January 2022. Musk does warn about the risks and does not dare to say that it will immediately be a successful flight. Musk says in a meeting of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine that … Read more
Rockstar Games reports that its launcher is back online, but that the remasters of GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas are not yet available for purchase or play again. The publisher says they need some time to “delete files that accidentally ended up in the games.” The return of the launcher means that other … Read more
Wang Yaping is the first female Chinese taikonaut to take a spacewalk. The mission lasted six hours, during which Wang and her male colleague Zhai Zhigang prepared to expand the Chinese space station Tiangong. Wang, 41, was sent into space with two other taikonauts last month to perform maintenance work on the Tianhe module of … Read more
Microsoft has shown footage of the Halo Infinite campaign for the first time since July 2020. With this, the company wants to show the improvements that have been carried out in the past period. The first images last year led to the postponement of the game. In a new trailer of about six minutes, Microsoft … Read more
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has successfully arrived at Kourou in French Guiana. The space telescope should follow the Hubble telescope. The target launch date is December 18. After 16 days at sea, the space telescope has arrived at Port de Pariacabo in French Guiana. There is a distance of about 9334km from Los Angeles. … Read more
Online game platform GOG.com has removed the 2016 Hitman game from its range. The company does this because of criticism. GOG indicated that the game was DRM-free, but did not mention that users need an account to use all of the game’s features. An employee writes on the GOG forum that Hitman has been removed … Read more
Users of online game store GOG are dissatisfied with how the company offers the 2016 game Hitman on its platform. GOG does not state that an account is required to use all features of the game and which features are missing without an account. It also calls the game DRM-free. The game has been on … Read more