Editor's take: YouTuber Kris Slyka recently revisited the concept behind an odd piece of kit that toy maker Fisher-Price put out way back in the 80s. In short, he was able to figure out how to record video onto a standard audio cassette. It's not practical, mind you, but the techie / gadget lover in me eats this sort of thing up.

The Fisher-Price PXL-2000 was a black-and-white camcorder that used a standard audio

In a nutshell: Nvidia isn’t known for sneaking out new graphics cards without announcing it to the world, even when they only offer minor upgrades over their predecessors, but it looks as if a new GTX 1650 packing GDRR6 memory has arrived without much fanfare.

Speaking to PC Gamer , an Nvidia rep said the company released the new card because “the industry is running out of GDDR5, so we’ve transitioned the product to GDDR6.”

An early review of the new GTX

In context: A 2017 lawsuit filed by Humvee maker AM General accused Activision of copyright violation and claimed that the game company illegally benefited from featuring its famous military vehicle in Call of Duty. The case was put to rest earlier this week by District Judge George B. Daniels, who was unpersuaded by AMG's arguments and ruled in favor of Activision in light of the First Amendment protection given to video games on account of being artistic expressions.

AM General wasn't pleased with its Humvee being used in

What just happened? Tesla this week reported its best ever first quarter performance as the electric automaker produced 102,672 vehicles during the three-month period ending March 31, 2020. The electric automaker’s numbers could have been even higher had it not been for Covid-19-related issues that impacted production at its Fremont, California, manufacturing facility in March.

Of those, the majority – 87,282 – were Model 3 and Model Y vehicles

In context: Apple has made a reputation for running the world's biggest walled garden for physical and digital goods, but every now and then the company relaxes its powerful grip when it sees the opportunity to gain more loyal customers. The latest relevant case is a deal with Amazon on letting users buy or rent content from the latter from inside the Prime Video app, despite App Store rules being clearly against such practices.

Earlier this week, Amazon quietly entered an arrangement with Apple to have the latter waive the 30

Something to look forward to: The OnePlus 8 lineup doesn’t arrive for almost two weeks, but it already sounds like they could have some of the best phone displays ever seen on smartphones, and could beat, or at least rival, the excellent Galaxy S20 Ultra’s screen.

DisplayMate got its hands on OnePlus’ upcoming flagships and performed its usual slew of screen-quality tests. The OnePlus 8 phones set or matched more than ten Smartphone Display Performance Records, including color accuracy, image contrast,

In a nutshell: Much of the world is under lockdown to help slow the spread of Covid-19, but knowing how many people are adhering to the rules can be difficult. That's where Google comes in. The search giant is using Google Maps location data from people who agreed to share their history to show who is staying and working at home.

In its Covid-19 Community Mobility Reports , Google uses anonymized data from users in 131 countries—some regions show state and county—

In context: Google's complete ban on every piece of advertising related to Covid-19 has created concerns about silencing political voices among Democrats and effectively muted consumer brands and nonprofits. The company is now slowly reversing that ban to take some pressure off on an already strained advertising industry.

Google is said to have started a gradual process of relaxing its ad policy after placing an outright ban on everything related to the coronavirus pandemic. The company started enforcing the new rules in January as part of its sensitive events policy ,

What just happened? HBO is doing its part to alleviate the boredom felt by millions of Americans in lockdown. The network is making more than 500 hours of its programs and movies, including The Sopranos, Veep, The Wire, and Detective Pikachu, free to non-subscribers. And no, Game of Thrones isn’t included.

We’ve already seen several companies , including porn giants , offering their products for free as a way of encouraging people to stay indoors. Starting today, part of HBO