Doom may be over 30 years old, but people aren't sick of it yet. On the contrary: Fans have ported the action horror game to just about platform imaginable, from graphing calculators and treadmills to pregnancy tests. If it has a screen, it can probably run Doom.Given that, perhaps it isn't all that surprising that the latest port of Doom is designed to run in your internet browser. In fact, there are likely dozens of ways to access the original Doom online. What makes this version unique, however, is that you aren't just playing in a browser window, but in a CAPTCHA window. CAPTCHAs are, of course, the minute challenges you're hit with when trying to access something on the web that are intended to prove that you are, indeed, human, and not an automated bot. Some of the earliest CAPTCHAs asked you to type out a distorted series of characterssomething a robot (or perhaps, these days, a generative AI bot) would struggle to bypass itself. Since then, these types of challenges have advanced to cover a wide range of puzzles and tasks. Now, that includes a playable version of Doom. Doom is surprisingly fun as a CAPTCHAAs reported by TechCrunch, the 1993-style CAPTCHA was built by Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel. The company just so happens to have an AI website builder, which Rauch used to build this port. You can try it out for yourself here.Although the game came out over three decades ago, and this version offers but a snippet of the full experience, this CAPTCHA version of Doom is not easy. The goal is simply to kill three enemies before the enemies kill you. You can use the arrow keys to move forward, backward, left, and right, and the space bar to shoot. That's it. However, as soon as you walk forward, enemies start firing at you, and death is close at hand. Part of the reason for the difficulty is the sheer amount of firepower coming at you from all directions. The CAPTCHA is set in a small arena, with a horde of monsters in a cage in the center, all flinging fire your way. There are four corridors leading out of the arena, all featuring even more enemies shooting at you. How to beat Doom: CAPTCHA EditionI can offer three pieces of advice from my short experience playing this CAPTCHA: One is to keep the space bar held down, to fire off as many shots as you possibly can. DOOM doesn't care about accuracy, so your objective is to simply face an enemies while shooting in order to hit them. The second is to ignore the enemies in the center cage: There are simply too many of them, and you'll quickly be overrun by fire. You're better off running past and trying to pick off the enemies in one of the corridors instead. As the monsters in the cage will be firing after you, they may hit and kill some of the enemies in the corridors, which won't contribute to your kill requirements, but will give you a split second of breathing room to target another enemy.Finally, I suggest taking at least one turn to run around the cage as many times as you can. You'll last longer than you'd expect, and you can watch the monsters in the cage mow down a ton of corridor enemies. Play your cards right, and you can use this tactic to snag three kills of your own, and win the CAPTCHA. Unfortunately, since there's no site to visit, you don't really win anything other than the game contained within. At least you've proved you're human. As TechCrunch highlights, this isn't even the first time Doom has been ported to CAPTCHA. Miquel Camps Orteza made the game a CAPTCHA back in 2021, but that offering was much more limited. Instead of being able to run around a small map, that CAPTCHA simply had you pick off immobile enemies one-by-one until you reached the four-kill quota. If you prefer your Doom: CAPTCHA to have more challenge and heightened stakes, stick with Rauch's.

Several sites, including Tumblr and Craigslist, have removed their RSS feeds. Other services, like TikTok, never offered an RSS feeds to begin with. This is annoying if you want to follow things without creating an account, the way you can with Bluesky and Mastodon. Even worse: there are even some news sites that don't offer feeds, which is a problem if you're setting up an RSS reader and hoping to follow your favorite sites.OpenRSS is a free service that builds open RSS feeds for various sites. Unlike similar services, this isn't automatedthe team there actively builds and maintains the integrations. The service is run by a nonprofit that is transparent about its financials right on the about page.You can head to their feeds page to see an overview of apps that are supportedclick any of them to find more details about how to use it. For example, for Craigslist, you can browse the site to any region then either run a search or head to a sub-section. In your browser's address bar, add openrss.org to the beginning of a domain in your address bar. Hit enter and an RSS feed for the page will open. This means you can keep track of anything you're hoping to buyjust create an RSS for the term and you'll see when someone posts it. Credit: Justin Pot Tumblr works the same way: head to any profile page and add openrss.org to the beginning of the URL, as in openrss.org/www.tumblr.com/username. You'll now get every new post by that user right in your feed reader.OpenRSS offers feeds for more than the apps listed on their feeds page. You can find others by adding the URL openrss.org to the beginning of any website on the webif OpenRSS offers a feed for the site, it gives it to you (and if not, you'll see a page explaining that). It's a quick way to find feeds for sites that don't make them obvious. Keep OpenRSS in mind the next time you can't find an RSS feedit just might do the trick.

We may earn a commission from links on this page.When you finally decide to declutter and organize your home, the initial clearing out and restructuring is important (and so satisfying), but keeping things in order going forward will pose a greater challenge. To lead a more organized and decluttered life over the long haul, focus on three pillars that form the Organizational Triangle. Once you master these rules, your home will stay in much better shape and, eventually, it will become a habit.What is the organizational triangle?The Organizational Triangle was conceptualized by pro organizer Andrew Mellen, the mind behind The Most Organized Man in America's Guide to Moving and Unstuff Your Life: Kick the Clutter Habit and Completely Organize Your Life for Good. While Mellen writes and speaks about all manner of organization and decluttering, he describes the Organizational Triangle as "the foundation" of all of his workand having followed these rules myself over the last six months, I can absolutely say they're the foundation of my home, now, too. This three-tiered approach provides a simple process for maintaining a clutter-free home: Every item needs a homeKeep like with likeUse a something in, something out approachKeep these three tenets in mind during your initial decluttering, and going forward as well, so your place stays neat and wont require another big clean in a year or so.Here's a deeper look at what each step involves.Organizational Triangle step 1: Every item needs a homeThis step is crucial when youre first starting out. No matter which of the many available cleaning techniques you choose to follow, youll almost certainly end up categorizing your possessions by whether you want to keep, throw out, donate, or sell them. When aligning your clearing out with the tenants of the Organizational Triangle, youll need to closely assess anything you decide you want to keep.That's because every item in your home should have its designated space, whether thats a certain drawer, cabinet, basket, or shelf. If you cant think of a permanent home for something, you either need to make one or get rid of that thing. Nothing should be floating around, moving from space to space, or otherwise homeless within your home. The reason for this is simple: Anything you want to access should be somewhere you'll know to look for it. It should only ever be in one of two places: in its designated spot, or in your hands. Decluttering is useless if the items that remain end up piled on a table or arent easy to find when you actually need them. Kootek 16 Pack Drawer Organizer $21.99 at Amazon $29.99 Save $8.00 Shop Now Shop Now $21.99 at Amazon $29.99 Save $8.00 Step 2: Keep like with likeThe second step is to reorganize your space to keep alike things together, always. For instance, dont keep some screwdrivers in the garage and others in the kitchen, even though it seems intuitive to imagine that when you need a screwdriver while doing an indoor task, it will be handier to have one closer to you. Dont keep a basket of batteries in each room; put them all together. Etc.If you have AA batteries in a drawer in your living room in case you need them for the remote, but all your other batteries in a basket in a kitchen cabinet, you might not remember where to find those AA batteries when the remote for the fan in your bedroom goes out. Youll go to search the kitchen basket, find nothing, and buy AA batteries from the store, wasting money. Meanwhile, the batteries in the living room will be yet more clutter. Reusable household reminders, 48 $29.99 at Amazon Shop Now Shop Now $29.99 at Amazon Step 3: Something in, something outSomething in, something out is a tried-and-true organizational method you should only employ once you have finished an initial round of decluttering and are moving forward into a more organized lifestyle. But it's pretty basic: When you get something new, get rid of something old to make space for it. If youre following the Organizational Triangles rules, you know there needs to be a spot for everything, but space is finite. Dont cram too much into your shelves and drawers or else theyll end up cluttered, too.If a lot of items fit into a space, thats great, but in most cases, you need to be strategic about how much stuff you accumulate. If you can only use one of a thing at a time and youre committed to following the above rules about putting every item back in its place when youre done using it, there's no point in having more than one. Accumulating multiples of objects only makes it easier for you to slack on the rule about putting things back where they belong after use. Following a something in, something out rule can also act as a check on your impulse buying habit, since you'll know that buying something new means getting rid of something old. HOMZ Heavy Duty 31 Quart Modular Plastic Stackable Toy Organizer Bins $44.99 at Amazon Shop Now Shop Now $44.99 at Amazon

Apple has moved to settle a five-year-old class action lawsuit over Siri privacy. Reuters reports that the proposed settlement was filed on Tuesday in Oakland, CA. The company agreed to pay $95 million to class members, estimated to be tens of millions of Siri-enabled device owners. US District Judge Jeffrey White needs to approve the settlement before it becomes official.The lawsuit stemmed from a 2019 report that Apple quality control contractors could regularly hear sensitive info accidentally recorded by the voice assistants Hey Siri feature. The clips were said to include medical information, criminal activities and even sexual encounters. Reuters says Apple denied wrongdoing in agreeing to settle the case.Engadget reached out to Apple for comment. Well update this story if we hear back.Two plaintiffs claimed their inadvertently recorded mentions of Nike Air Jordans and Olive Garden restaurants led to receiving ads for those products. After talking about it with his doctor, another plaintiff said he got ads for a brand-name surgical treatment.After the original story broke five-plus years ago, Apple highlighted its layers of privacy protections and stressed that the recordings werent tied to Apple accounts. It also said its quality control teams studied the clips in secure facilities and were bound by strict confidentiality agreements.After an internal review, Apple suspended the program and admitted it wasnt fully living up to its ideals. The company returned to reviewing Siri recordings soon after but with some big changes. It reportedly fired hundreds of quality control contractors and changed its policy so that only Apple employees could review private Siri data. It also moved to delete inadvertently triggered audio clips and began requiring users to opt in to sharing Siri recordings or transcripts.Reuters notes that the proposed $95 million in cash amounts to about nine hours of profit for the company. (Nice work if you can get it.) The settlements class period runs from September 17, 2014 when Apple launched Hey Siri in iOS 8 to December 31, 2024. If you owned a Siri-enabled mobile product during that period (and Judge White approves the settlement), you might get up to $20 per device. However, youll have to join the class, and it isnt yet clear how to do that.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/apple-agrees-to-settle-a-2019-siri-privacy-lawsuit-for-95-million-195820723.html?src=rss

Samsung just announced pending US availability for a new smartphone and fitness tracker. The Galaxy A16 5G and Galaxy Fit3 are both modest devices that are just about perfect for the budget-conscious. These gadgets will be available for purchase in the US on January 9, after becoming available in other parts of the world a couple of months back. The Galaxy A16 5G is a step up from its predecessor in nearly every way. This is a very good thing, as the Galaxy A15 5G easily found a spot in our list of the best budget Android phones. The A16 features a thinner design and slimmer bezels, all while including a slightly larger screen. This 6.7 FHD Super AMOLED display boasts 800 nits of peak brightness and a 90Hz refresh rate. It comes equipped with an Exynos 1330 processor, a 5000mAh battery with 25W fast-charging and up to 8GB of RAM. Customers can also choose up to 256GB of internal storage, though it supports microSD cards. As with many modern smartphones, the cameras are the real stars of the show here. Theres a 50MP rear camera, a 5MP ultra-wide, a 2MP macro lens and a 13MP front camera. Thats a pretty good setup for the price, which starts at just $200. The A16 5G will be available in black and light gray. Samsung The Galaxy Fit3 is a fairly bare-bones health tracker thats described as the perfect entryway for anyone seeking to begin their health journey. It offers some decent capabilities, like fall detection and sleep tracking. It even monitors blood oxygen levels, which is something not many trackers do at this price point. The battery life is great, at 13 days, and the IP68 rating means that it should be able to handle being submerged in water, so long as its not taken too deep. The tracker pairs with the Samsung Health app, which allows access to 100 different workout types. The Fit3 costs $60 and comes in a few colors, including gray, silver and gold. These colors apply to both the band and the tracker itself. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/samsungs-galaxy-a16-5g-phone-and-fit3-tracker-are-coming-the-us-193710051.html?src=rss

The best thing about the start of a new year isn't the goal-setting or the aspirational self-improvement it's watching Awesome Games Done Quick. AGDQ is one of the premiere events for speedrunning, with an entire week of high-skill gameplay and loads of heart as gamers raise money for charity. The organization's winter beneficiary is the Prevent Cancer Foundation, which runs programs intended to stop cancer before it starts, emphasizing early detection and prevention.The fun begins on January 6 and there is a lot to see. GDQ events highlight a great mix of modern and retro games across just about every genre. Expect plenty of platformers like Astro Bot, one of our favorite new game releases of 2024, which will be run on January 6 at 6:30 PM ET.Games Done Quick / Richard NgoWednesday is packed with good stuff, such as New Super Mario Bros. Wii with the unusual category of "Any% While Playing Piano," which you can catch at 4:43 PM ET. The beloved and hilarious awful block is also on January 8, kicking off with the truly terrible game Superman 64 at 11:24 PM ET. And the entire finale day is looking excellent, with another intriguing musical category of "Saxophone-Controlled Boss Showcase" happening for Elden Ring. Groovy!Be sure to keep an eye on the schedule during the week. It displays your local time zone and will be updated with any shifts that happen from delays or extra zippy world records. All the action happens on the Games Done Quick Twitch channel, which is also embedded below. The pre-show begins on January 6 at 11:30 AM ET and the stream will be live 24/7 until the final run calls time.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/how-to-watch-awesome-games-done-quick-2025-191752532.html?src=rss

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