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Nothing is ever really free — or at least the people making it will still provide you plenty of ways to pay for something given to you for “free.“MultiVersusis not nearly as bad as many other free games that almostrequirepeople to pay real money in order to compete or progress, but it does still include multiple in-game currency types that can be used for different purposes. Some things will only be available for the premium paid currency called Gleamium, while others can be bought with either Gleamium or the earnable currency, Gold....

How to get Peg-E Tokens in Monopoly Go If you’re to fetch all the three-pagerewards for the Peg-E Prize Drop, you’ll need the event-specific Tokens – a lot of them, actually. Here are the places you’ll need to look for these chips. Unlike thePartners Event, there are no Peg-E Tokens scattered around the board for you to collect. No one event will net you enough of these to see through, so you have to seek every possible corner of the dice roller....

First came voice control, where anyone in the house could talk to a smart digital assistant and get answers. Next came voice recognition, where the smart home experience could adapt based on who was speaking. When cameras started appearing in smart assistant devices, it’s no surprise facial recognition came next. Facial recognition allows even more customization and personalized experiences on a smart home device. WithAmazon’s new Echo Show 15, this feature is called Visual ID....

Summary Although theOscarshave been honoring movies for nearly 100 years, there are still key parts of Hollywood that are yet to receive any recognition, but I am confident at least one injustice may finally change. As a movie lover, I have long enjoyed watching the Oscars each year. It’s exciting to watch the films, form my opinions, make my predictions, and then see the casts and crews gather in one space for the actual ceremony....

Intel has finally launched its latest generation of new desktop chips, known as 10th-gen Comet Lake-S. They were announced months ago, and in that time, leaks with nearly every spec have been posted online. Intel still has a couple of tricks up its sleeve, though. These processors, ranging from Core i3 up to Core i9, aim to up the ante against AMD’sRyzen 3000 processors. Despite being another iteration of the same microarchitecture, Intel has brought some meaningful changes to the lineup that add some extra value to its chips, as well as some disappointments....

Summary LikeDivinity: Original Sin 2before it,Baldur’s Gate 3is one of the many modern CPRGs that has been ported to consoles. Traditionally, CRPGs have only been played on PC (with the “C” standing for computer), and their UI-based gameplay is usually made with a mouse and keyboard in mind. Still, with the popularity of the genre growing, many CRPGs can be found on consoles like the PlayStation, Xbox, and sometimes even the Switch, needing their UI to be reworked to fit a controller....

Summary Orphan Black: Echoesclearly has a connection to the earlierOrphan Blackseries from 2013, but it deserves clarity about how the two shows are related. In 2013,Orphan Blackstarring Tatiana Maslany began airing on BBC America. Over the following five seasons, the show established an incredible sci-fi world where cloning technology is capable of creating viable life, but also raises questions about the morality of such activities. This series went on to establish a cult following and, despite ending in 2017, the show’s spin-off series is a hotly anticipated addition to the franchise....

Leaked pictures of a sleek black-and-silver, conical Ecobee-branded camera turned up onZatz Not Funnythis week.Okay, it’s not exactly a surprise, but more like an inevitable addition to Ecobee’s lineup that nearly everyone in the smart home technology market has expected for some time. Why is a new camera from Ecobee not a surprise? For starters, the company’s flagship product has always been its smartthermostat, closely followed by the smartlight switchit recently added to its growing lineup, so a smart security camera — which has a lot of competition partially because the base technology really isn’t that hard to stitch together — isn’t a particularly huge stretch....

After being an early adopter of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipsets on its Windows notebooks, Lenovo is upping the ante at CES 2021. While Lenovo is continuing to support Microsoft’s Windows on ARM efforts, it’s also now embracing5G mobile coverageon the new IdeaPad 5G — one of thebest new laptops at CESthis year. Like Lenovo’s previousYoga C630Snapdragon-powered clamshell, the IdeaPad 5G features strong battery life — this notebook is rated for 20 hours of continuous video playback — and a fan-less design with a thin-and-light form factor....

Celine Song crafted the best love story of 2023 in her feature debut,Past Lives. Written and directed by Song,Past Livesexplores the relationship between Nora Moon (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), two childhood soulmates who drift apart over the next two decades while reuniting for seminal moments in their lives. It all comes to a head during one fateful weekend in New York City as Nora and Hae Sung confront their feelings toward one another and contemplate what could have been....

Summary InReunion, a group of former classmates are celebrating their twenty-year high school reunion when a snowstorm hits. Although most leave, a few are unable to drive home and crash at their very rich former classmate Matthew’s home. Things take a shocking turn when Matthew’s body is discovered the next morning. Everyone in the house has a motive and they must find who among them is the killer. Reunionleans into the nostalgia and elevated emotions of a high school reunion while delivering a hilariously inept investigation with the mystery of who killed Matthew at the center of the story....

Hey, LinkedIn, what took you so long? The social network aimed primarily at professionals has finally heard about Stories, a feature started bySnapchatand copied by pretty much every other social media service since. And yes, that now includes LinkedIn. It’s currently being tested for U.S.-based students and recent graduates using the LinkedIn app, hence the name: “Student Voices.” The feature lets you post short videos — but not photos — as a collection for others to enjoy....

NASA is assessing the potential risk of a piece of space debris that’s been spotted heading toward the International Space Station (ISS). The space agency said the debris is a piece of an old rocket and may come close to the ISS early on Friday. NASA said the seven crew members aboard the space station are not believed to be in any danger, but if the risk to the station is deemed to be serious, NASA and its international partners will conduct a debris avoidance maneuver to temporarily adjust the orbit of the ISS....