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After announcing plans yesterday to move its manufacturing partners onto green energy, it’s come to light that Apple is using batteries from Tesla for energy storage. Apple’s 130-megawatt solar farm is set to store 240-megawatt-hours of energy and consists of 85 Telsa lithium-ion ‘megapacks’ to hold all the power, according to The Verge. In a press release, Apple says that this … [Read more...] about Apple is using Tesla batteries in its California solar farm

Filming for Netflix’s The Witcher Season 2 has finally come to a close after being shut down multiple times due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The production cycle for this season has been a turbulent one, with filming starting back in February 2020. With the onset of the global pandemic, Netflix halted production on all of its TV and movie productions as a safety … [Read more...] about Netflix’s The Witcher Season 2 has wrapped filming

Fantasian, the latest turn-based role-playing game (RPG) from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Mistwalker studio, has launched on Apple Arcade in Canada. After multiple Terra Battle tile-based card games on mobile, Fantasian marks a return to Sakaguchi’s roots. In fact, Fantasian is being released on April 2nd in Japan — and slightly earlier in Canada — to coincide … [Read more...] about Final Fantasy creator’s ‘Fantasian’ now available on Apple Arcade in Canada

Add this to the never-ending list of why you should never cheat in video games. Hackers have been masquerading nasty malware in cheats for Call of Duty: Warzone, according to a report published by Activision. The malware identified by Activision is considered a “dropper.” The dropper by itself is harmless, but it’s used to install or deliver additional files, such as … [Read more...] about Malware disguised as Call of Duty: Warzone cheats revealed by Activision

Epic Games has added the ‘Stonk Meme’ guy to Fortnite’s item shop. The brand-new skin is called Diamond Hanz — a direct reference to the frenzy around Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets that ensued in January. Double checking tweets on April 1st like pic.twitter.com/MyRNeV92UL — Nick Eh 30 (@NickEh30) April 1, 2021 It felt like an April Fools prank when Fortnite’s Twitter account … [Read more...] about Fortnite adds the ‘Stonk’ meme skin to immortalize the GME share frenzy

Have you ever wished you could place your iPhone 12 on a table and have its camera and display follow you around the room? Probably not, right? Well, that hasn’t stopped accessory maker Belkin from releasing a MagSafe-compatible ‘Magnetic Phone Mount with Face Tracking‘ that holds the iPhone 12 off a table on a rotating stand to always face you like Amazon’s Echo Show … [Read more...] about Belkin releases MagSafe-compatible face-tracking iPhone mount

Porsche is finally moving beyond its Apple-only partnership and adding Android Auto to its new lineup of cars. To be clear, this is just the classic Android Auto phone-based experience and not Android Automotive, the new backbone of infotainment in Volvo and Polestar vehicles. That said, it’s still a substantial upgrade. The first car to get the new Porsche Communication … [Read more...] about Porsche to start supporting Android Auto with 2022 Porsche 911

Microsoft’s cloud services are once again down, according to a recent Azure Support Twitter message. As it stands right now, the list of affected services is lengthy and includes Office 365, Xbox Live, OneDrive, Azure, Skype and Bing. That said, I was able to sign in to the Xbox network (RIP Xbox Live) fine, though some features might be inaccessible given Xbox’s status page … [Read more...] about Microsoft’s cloud services are down again

Quebec-based telecom Vidéotron has announced that it is acquiring cable company Cablovision Warwick and its network. The financial terms of the acquisition deal were not included in the announcement. Cablovision Warwick serves the Quebec municipalities of Warwick, Kingsey Falls and Saint-Felix-de-Kingsey, and has been around for 47 years. Vidéotron notes that the company … [Read more...] about Vidéotron acquires Quebec cable company Cablovision Warwick

New tax changes regarding Netflix and other streaming services have now come into effect in British Columbia. Last month, the provincial government announced that digital services such as Netflix will be required to collect PST starting April 1st. The tax measure, which was announced last year, was originally intended to go into effect on July 1st, 2020 but was delayed due to … [Read more...] about B.C. tax changes regarding Netflix and other streaming services now in effect