Tuesday
Apr042023

Waze lets you tap into your zodiac sign with new navigation guide

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Waze is going to let your zodiac sign guide you through the roads with its new driving experience. Drive around in a vehicle and Mood outfitted for your sign and expect the navigation guide to be "well-versed in astrology," while also poking fun at the traits typically attributed to the different signs. The experience is now available in the app.

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Tuesday
Apr042023

Google Drive revokes 5 million file creation cap following backlash

Google quietly rolled out a file creation limit on Drive the past few weeks, which imposed a five million file creation limit on its accounts. It drew flak from users over the limit, but also how there wasn't a warning issued about the cap. Now, Google is rolling back the changes, which it made to "preserve stability and optimize performance" and prevent Drive misuse. 

The tech giant argued it only ever impacted a small number of users but said it is looking for alternative ways to guarantee stable performance for all users.

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Tuesday
Apr042023

Youth Science Canada picks students to represent the country at Regeneron ISEF 2023 competition

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A group of eight high school students are all set to represent the country at the premiere youth STEM project competitions, the 2023 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair. The students will compete in Dallas, Texas on May 14 to 19. They were picked by a panel of STEM professionals from across the country based on the "level of ingenuity, critical thinking, scientific excellence, and communication skill in developing their STEM project." You can see a rundown of the students competing under the cut.

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Monday
Apr032023

ASUS ROG Ally is a Steam Deck competitor

ASUS Republic of Gamers' surprise announcement was masked as an April Fools' Day prank at first. But the new ASUS ROG Ally is an actual product. We don't know when this Steam Deck-like console is coming. It's just we know that ASUS ROG plans to release this handheld gaming machine. According to the company, it'll be a Windows 11-powered device with a customized Ryzen APU from AMD, which ASUS claims is the fastest AMD yet. 

The ROG Ally will offer "full HD gaming," with a promise of a quiet dual-fan design. It gets the standard setup of dual analog sticks, a left-mounted D-pad, and four face buttons. There are also a few smaller buttons to access menus and settings. ASUS even advertises the chance to "experience Ally’s full potential" by plugging in the ROG XG Mobile eGPU it offers for use with its gaming laptops while streaming your games to a TV. Not much else is known beyond this, but buyers in the US can sign up with Best Buy to get alerts for when preorders start.

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