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Razer's Pokemon headset drops to record low at Woot for 30th anniversary

Pokemon's 30th anniversary kicks off on February 27, and Razer's Pokemon Edition Kraken V4 X wired headset is available now. The pair is plastered with the adorable faces of Pikachu and Kanto starters Charmander, Squirtle, and Bulbasaur. At Amazon's Woot the headset is down

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Your Windows PC has a secretly useful backup tool - here's how to access it

Windows includes a built-in backup feature in Windows 10 and 11 called Windows Backup. It can save files to recordable CDs or DVDs, an external drive, or a network location, and can include a full system image for restoring Windows. This legacy tool has been deprecated by Microsoft, so it

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Tools for Humanity loses C-suite and several senior staff

Multiple C-suite executives and several senior staff have left Tools for Humanity in recent months. Adrian Ludwig, the company’s chief information security officer and chief architect, departed after a two-year stint; he previously worked at Alphabet, Atlassian, and Adobe. Damien Kieran, the chief legal and privacy officer for the

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Salesforce exec tells entry-level workers: 'Hard isn't necessarily bad'

Salesforce senior vice president Andy White says resilience is top of mind for him at work and at home. He oversees Salesforce's implementation of Slackbot, an AI personal agent that generates responses based on conversations, files, and workflows inside Slack. As he raises his son and daughter, White

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Why Blizzard Isn’t Making Hearthstone Cards Yet

Trading card games from Magic to Pokémon are enjoying a surge in popularity, even as scalpers and long online queues create headaches. There’s clearly a market for slapping popular characters and strong art onto cardboard, but not every digital hit is an automatic fit for physical shelves. Hearthstone has

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FLSUN T1: fast, tall 3D printer for tabletop models

The FLSUN T1 cuts a distinctive figure among filament printers: a tall, enclosed unit with a glass-sided frame and an extruder mounted on spindly arms that dart across the build area. Its sci‑fi styling makes it memorable, and that height gives it a surprisingly large vertical build volume for

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Best coffee machines in the UK for every home and budget, tested by our expert

Everyone has an opinion on coffee, so the idea of a single best machine is fanciful. I’ve spent the past year researching and trialling coffee machines to produce a shortlist of tried-and-tested recommendations that spans manual espresso, filter, bean-to-cup and capsule models. This guide is aimed at everyday coffee

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How to beat Nioh 3’s prologue boss Yamagata Masakage

Nioh 3 is Team Ninja’s new open-world-ish Soulslike, and the demo includes a prologue boss fight against Yamagata Masakage. He might kill you a bunch, and some players may think the game isn’t for them. That would be a poor reason to miss an otherwise very good video

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Asus ProArt PA27 monitor on sale, built for content creators

Presidents' Day sales include the 27-inch Asus ProArt PA278CFRV, currently on sale at B&H Photo Video for $249, $80 off its original price. A bundle pairing the monitor with the CaliContrO Colorimeter is offered for $449, a $50 saving; the colorimeter helps calibrate the display and also

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US Army jammed new command-and-control tech to test electronic warfare

The Army put its Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) system through electronic-warfare testing at Fort Carson, Colorado, to see how it would perform when links were disrupted. The service found the software could reroute itself and keep functioning, forcing testers to disable certain features to produce real strain; Maj.

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Bluesky finally adds drafts

Social network Bluesky is rolling out one of its most-requested features: drafts. Users can access drafts by opening the new post flow and selecting the Drafts button in the top-right corner, matching how competitors X and Threads have long handled the feature. The rollout accompanies a roadmap the company recently

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Borderlands 4 Is Steam Deck Verified Despite Poor Performance

Last week, Borderlands 4 received a Steam Deck Verified badge. That badge ought to signal a smooth experience on Valve’s handheld, but the game falls short, and Gearbox has removed the advanced visual settings submenu on the Deck for unclear reasons. When Borderlands 4 launched late last year it

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Jony Ive helped shape Ferrari's first EV interior — and it's full of buttons

Ferrari spent five years working with LoveFrom, the design studio founded by former Apple designer Jony Ive and Marc Newson, to craft the interior of its first electric car, now named the Luce. The cabin blends classical racing cues with Apple-style minimalism, favoring machined-metal toggles, physical switches, and a generally

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I've swapped out my ultralight mouse now that I've used the Logitech Superstrike

The Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike has prompted me to swap out my ultralight mouse. It houses a Haptic Inductive Trigger System (HITS) — a blend of inductive sensing for input and haptic feedback for the click sensation — inside a Superlight-shaped shell, letting you adjust actuation and enable a rapid trigger

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YouTube puts lyrics behind a paywall

YouTube Music is rolling out new community-focused features aimed at superfans and expanding its use of paywalls, including a requirement that users subscribe to Premium to view full song lyrics. The service has begun enforcing a lyrics paywall globally after months of testing. Free users can view lyrics only a

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How to find and use Windows' hidden Recovery Drive

Windows 10 and 11 include a legacy tool called Recovery Drive that lets you create a bootable recovery environment on an external USB drive. If Windows will not load, you can boot the PC from that drive to reinstall the operating system. The recovery image stores built-in Windows files, any

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I changed 3 settings on my PS5 to give the system an instant performance boost

You can customize several PS5 settings to protect your privacy, control what information is visible to others, restrict who can communicate with you, and manage your account security. Under Settings, go to Users and Accounts > Privacy > View and Customize Your Privacy Settings. There you can choose who can

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A week with the KTC 25-inch Android display: surprisingly useful

KTC's 25-inch Android display, priced at $349, delivers a large, well-built touchscreen that works in kitchens, offices or kids' rooms. It isn't the most powerful tablet available, but its size and versatile built-in stand — usable vertically or horizontally — make it useful for several scenarios. Out

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Onyx Boox Page: Android apps give this E Ink tablet an edge

The Onyx Boox Page packs a seven-inch E Ink display into a slim, lightweight body and retails for $250. It runs a simplified version of Android 11, so you can install apps such as Kindle, TikTok and Google Docs, expanding what a traditional e-reader can do without turning it into

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Extend Unlock speeds access to your Android phone

I spend a lot of time in my apartment alone, so I don't need my Android phone to constantly auto-lock. Rather than leaving it unlocked all the time, I configure phones to remain unlocked in certain locations. What used to be called Smart Unlock is now Extend Unlock,

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Create a Wi-Fi password key using an NFC tag

NFC tags are simple to write with a smartphone and can be embedded in documents, business cards or 3D‑printed objects. Writing data to a tiny chip lets a phone or tablet access a webpage or other information with a brief tap. You need two things: NFC tags and an

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Restart your Android phone without the power button

Restarting your phone regularly can improve performance by clearing temporary caches, enhance security by disrupting potential cyberattacks and removing malware from memory, and often fixes issues like slowdowns, overheating, app crashes or connectivity problems. The author restarts a Pixel 9 Pro weekly and notes Google removed an auto-restart feature, so

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6 Android launchers to refresh your home screen

The home screen launcher is the interface you use to run apps, view notifications and personalize your phone. Android phones ship with different default launchers, but most devices can install alternatives from the Google Play Store. Some launchers are device-specific and won’t run on other phones, and you should

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Put your phone face down to save screen time and sanity

A friend once said he keeps his phone on silent yet checks it every three minutes. That impulse to glance at a glowing screen feels harmless, but it can quietly erode privacy, focus and even a device’s longevity. A single, simple habit change — setting your phone face down — can

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Meta and YouTube Called ‘Digital Casinos’ in Landmark Trial

In a crowded Los Angeles courtroom, lawyer Mark Lanier opened a bellwether trial by stacking three wooden children’s blocks and saying the case was “as easy as ABC: Addicting, brains, children.” A 20‑year‑old plaintiff identified as K.G.M. alleges that Meta, owner of Instagram, and YouTube