Why it matters: Mask wearing has become a necessity during a global pandemic. LG thinks it can do better with a literal air purifier strapped to your face. While the built-in filters could do a decent amount of filtering, it's unknown how effective it actually is. Furthermore, the limited battery life could be a deal breaker for those who have to wear masks all day.

Many localities and businesses have instituted mask mandates to help stem the spread of Covid-19. Since then, many businesses

History lesson: In 1890, Nikola Tesla caused a total blackout in the town of Colorado Springs using a 140-foot Tesla coil. Creating a citywide power outage was not his goal. He wanted to power a light bulb that was more than two miles away without using wires. Much to the dismay and anger of residents and the power plant, whose dynamo was burned out, the experiment was claimed to be a success, a claim that later proved to be debatable.

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The big picture: The International, the annual tournament for Valve’s wildly popular multiplayer online battle arena game Dota 2, has amassed the largest prize pool in competitive esports history. But with Covid-19 still looming, it's unclear when the tournament will be played.

As of this writing, The International has a current prize pool of $34,467,857 , firmly eclipsing the $34.3 million generated for last year’s tournament .

The International’

Forward-looking: Kioxia hopes to raise significant capital with an IPO set for this October, and stakeholders, Toshiba and Bain Capital, look to cash out. As the world's second-largest NAND flash producer, Kioxia's projected market capitalization of more than $18.9 billion would make it the largest IPO for Japan this year.

Kioxia, formerly known as Toshiba Memory Holdings, is setting its sights for an IPO as soon as October on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, according to Nikkei Asian Review

Recap: It’s been nearly a dozen years since Valve released Left 4 Dead, arguably one of the greatest multiplayer survival horror games of all time. The developer followed it up with a sequel, the aptly named Left 4 Dead 2, exactly one year later.

The first piece of DLC for L4D2 arrived in April 2010 and was followed by a prequel, titled The Sacrifice, later that year. A community-create content pack called Cold Stream came in mid-201

In brief: As expected, Netflix has green lit a Resident Evil TV series. Not much is known about the plot, but the first episode features the "Wesker kids" moving to Racoon City. So it may be delving into the roots of the franchise. The streaming service had no word on when the series is set to air.

We were already pretty sure Netflix was planning to make a Resident Evil television series. Last year, Constantin Film, the studio behind the RE movies, was rumored to be working

The big picture: For Flight Simulator, Meteoblue divided the globe up into 250 million individual boxes with 60 vertical layers. The weather exhibited in each box is representative of what is happening in real time in that section of the planet, complete with information like temperature, wind speed, pressure, humidity, rain, snow and so on.

One of the standout features of Microsoft Flight Simulator is the ability to experience weather patterns as they are happening in the real world. It just so happens that Hurricane Laura