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Emergent CEO: vibe coding is still in its 'bitcoin $1' moment

Emergent CEO Mukund Jha said the vibe-coding boom is only beginning, estimating the industry is "at 1% of where the industry is going to be." He described the current phase as a "bitcoin $1 moment," where excitement and revenue growth are visible but the market remains

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Mesh vs. traditional Wi-Fi router: I tested both options for months, and here's my advice

With more devices, smart gadgets, and flexible work, home Wi‑Fi needs have risen. The choice comes down to whether a single high‑powered router will cover your floor plan or a multi‑node mesh system is needed to eliminate dead zones. Traditional routers are generally cheaper, faster, and easier

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Digg shuts down after January relaunch, pledges to rebuild

Launched in 2004, Digg let users submit links and vote them up or down, becoming a quick way to find interesting content and, for a time, a major hub. Many websites even carried a "submit to Digg" button to boost visibility. Competition—chiefly from Reddit, which went live

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I turned on notification summaries on my Pixel 9 Pro

Android's notification summaries use on-device AI to condense longer messages from popular messaging apps and present the short versions on your lock screen, not while you're using the phone. Brief messages are not summarized, so you'll still open and read those as usual. Because

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Valve announces Steam Spring Sale dates, teases big game discounts

Valve announced the Steam Spring Sale start date with a brief trailer that teases some of the hundreds of discounts planned. The 2026 Steam Spring Sale begins on Thursday, March 19 at 10 a.m. PDT/1 p.m. EDT and runs through Thursday, March 26 at the same time.

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Bungie adds temporary duos queue to Marathon

Bungie will enable an experimental duos queue in Marathon on Wednesday, March 18 at 10am PT. The mode will run on a single map, Perimeter, for around two weeks and may be removed or retained depending on player feedback. The community has pushed for a duos option since the sever

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Play on the Schedule 1 beta branch for early access

TVGS sometimes pushes Schedule 1 updates to a beta branch a few days before they go live, letting players try new changes early. Test builds can be less stable, so back up your save file before swapping branches to avoid losing progress. To access the beta via Steam: back up

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Nvidia DLSS 5 teaser looks like a pretty AI lighting filter

Nvidia unveiled a context-light teaser for DLSS 5 that left viewers with mixed impressions. CEO Jen‑Hsun Huang asked, "Computer graphics comes to life... now what did we do?" while the company described DLSS 5 as a "real-time neural rendering model that infuses pixels with photoreal lighting

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Three ways to retire an old Windows PC safely

If you’re replacing a Windows PC, decide first what will happen to the old device: hand it down, reassign it, donate it, sell it or trade it in. Before you do any of those things, focus on three priorities: migrate your apps and files, expunge personal data, and reset

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Replacing 1m petrol cars with EVs could cut Australia’s reliance on foreign fuel

Replacing 1m petrol-fuelled cars with electric vehicles could cut Australia’s reliance on foreign fuel by more than 1bn litres a year, experts say. Hussein Dia, professor of transport technology and sustainability at the Swinburne University of Technology, said EVs can play a meaningful role in improving Australia’s energy

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AA batteries again shown impractical for powering a gaming PC

ScuffedBits returned to a "gaming PC powered by nothing but AA batteries" experiment. Using 64 AA batteries—a mix of carbon, alkaline, and nickel metal hydride rechargeable cells—to build a 25-volt battery pack, the rig ran for 33 minutes and 19 seconds. During that time the creator

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Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight's release date moves up a week

Warner Bros. Games is moving the release date for Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight up a week. It will now launch May 22 for PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X, instead of the previously planned May 29. The game remains without a release date for Nintendo&

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This $5 USB-C accessory can save you hundreds in tech repair costs - here's how

A friend of a friend brought me a car with a broken USB-C port after kittens dashed into the road; sudden braking sent a phone flying and the cable ripped the port out. The owner paid more than $100 for diagnostics and was quoted another $150 for a replacement and

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Pokémon Go data is helping Niantic train urban delivery robots

Data collected from Pokémon Go and Niantic’s earlier AR game Ingress is being used to train robots for urban deliveries. Although Scopely acquired Pokémon Go in March 2025, Niantic retained the spatial datasets it gathered while the game was most active and is applying that work through its Niantic

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Two Steam games with the same name avoid disaster by 'acting like human beings'

Discoverability on Steam is a constant challenge, and the platform's crowded release schedule can make standing out difficult. Two games called Piece by Piece landed on the storefront days apart, but the developers turned the coincidence into something constructive rather than a public relations mess. Gamkat's

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RX 9060 XT gaming PC: 16GB VRAM, 32GB DDR5 for $1,235

A gaming PC with an RX 9060 XT is on sale for $1,235 at Newegg, notable for packing 32 GB of fast DDR5 memory alongside a six-core AMD Ryzen 5 9600X. The RX 9060 XT performs roughly on par with the RTX 5060 Ti, offering smooth 1440p performance on

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Apple launches AirPods Max 2 with H2 chip and upgraded audio

Apple has unveiled the AirPods Max 2, keeping the same look and $549 price as the previous model. The new headphones arrive nearly six years after the first-generation AirPods Max and two years on from the USB-C refresh. They run on Apple's H2 audio chip, bringing features such

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Marathon dev lists 40 Halo-era Bungie staff still at the studio

Players complained that Bungie pitching itself as "The creator of Halo" felt wrong if the people who originally made Halo had long since moved on. Elliott Gray, UI designer on Bungie’s Marathon, pushed back: the problem with that take is "plenty of them haven't

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Intel publishes UEFI vulnerabilities; mitigations available, local access required

Intel has identified a range of security flaws in the UEFI for many of its products that could allow privilege escalation. It’s worth updating your device when patches arrive, and staying aware of who is near your rig for now. The most severe issues score 8.7 on the

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KLH Model 3 speakers bring new life to music

I never expected to be so pleased with a pair of speakers that look like they were pulled from the 1970s. The KLH Model 3 loudspeakers marry a distinct vintage/mid-century modern design with a substantial build, and in my system they replaced KEF LS50 Meta speakers while delivering sound

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FBI seeks victims of malware hidden in Steam games

The FBI is asking anyone who downloaded malware through certain Steam games to come forward. The agency named BlockBlasters, Chemia, Dashverse / DashFPS, Lampy, Lunara, PirateFI, and Tokenova, saying these titles primarily operated between May 2024 and January 2026. Victims can report their experience to Steam_Malware@fbi.gov. One high-profile

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Pulsar X3 CrazyLight Mini review: exceptional comfort for relaxed claw grips

The Pulsar X3 CrazyLight Mini stands out for comfort: it proved exceptionally easy to hold and use, second only to full-on vertical ergonomic mice. Its right-handed ergonomic shape suits relaxed claw and hybrid palm-claw grips well and even fits regular-sized hands—the reviewer’s hands measured 19 x 10 cm—

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Robot dogs are protecting data centers. Operators are seeing payoffs.

As companies pour billions into sprawling campuses for cloud and AI computing, robotics firms are pitching four-legged machines to patrol fences, inspect equipment, and spot problems before they cause outages. Boston Dynamics and Ghost Robotics are targeting data centers as a growing market, driven by the industry’s round-the-clock operations

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Split spacebars are surely the next big gaming keyboard trend

There are countless upgrades you could make to a gaming setup, but one small change feels like a genuine improvement: splitting the spacebar. Most keycaps are 1U, the bottom row is often 1.25U, the right shift around 2.75U, and a spacebar typically measures 6.25U. That makes it

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Xbox is bringing main character energy with Project Helix

At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft used its annual slot to present Project Helix. Giovanni Colantonio observed that the “Festival of Gaming” rebrand largely amounted to some inconveniently placed food trucks, and despite concerns that some international attendees might avoid traveling to Donald Trump’s America, the