Sean Hollister

The game already kicked players into a third-person mode when wielding big machine guns — and a modder extended that to the whole single-player game in 2022 — but this November it’ll be an official multiplayer mode at minimum.

Curious if they’ll balance the rocket launcher and sniper rifle. In first-person mode, they’re partially balanced by how much the weapon blocks your view.

The OhSnap Snap 4 is thinner than a camera bump, yet there’s so many more ways to use it than a PopSocket. While the earlier Snap 3 broke on my colleague Victoria, this new model is holding up great for us both. Plus, Best Buy’s got it for $27.99 right now. Watch my video for caveats, though!

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According to spokeperson Yassi Yarger:

● Customers who got that misleading “New Name, New Features, Same Great Price” email will now get free monitoring through January 1st, 2027 as apology.

● Depending on your Plus renewal date, you get up to a free year of monitoring — because Ring is raising the price on your first bill after March 1st. (Mine renews March 5th, unfortunately.)

● Ring Protect Pro customers get a one-year free trial of Ring Home Premium.

Today I learned that after Google stopped doing April Fools’ jokes in 2021 — a change we lauded — its Japan division started revealing zany keyboards on October 1st (because 10/1 = 101 keys) instead. Find the latest below; previous entries include the Gboard Teacup, Gboard Stick and Gboard Cap.

We just got Amazon’s holiday gift guide in the mail. On page four, under “Toys we love,” my wife immediately spotted the new Amazon Prime Delivery Van Ride-On.

It’s real. But strangely, it doesn’t seem to include a Teamsters union card, a biometric consent form for mandatory AI surveillance, or a pee bottle?

In August, the NLRB decided Amazon can’t just point the finger at its contractors when there’s a labor dispute over, say, pee bottles or AI surveillance — Amazon counts as an employer of its delivery drivers too.

Now, Ars Technica and Reuters report that the NLRB has issued an official complaint; an administrative judge will weigh in next March.