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Four Android Auto games that made car downtime less boring

Several mobile games can run on Android Auto, offering simple touch-screen controls and short, slow-paced sessions that work well for waiting in the car. To play, install the games on your phone and have the vehicle in park. When connected to the car and the app is open on Android

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Gabe Newell asked Valve lawyer 'What the f--- do I pay you for?'

Bloomberg detailed a heated debate inside Valve over whether porn should be allowed on Steam, during which Gabe Newell reportedly challenged general counsel Karl Quackenbush with the remark, "What the f--- do I pay you for if that’s your opinion?" Valve has long been described as taking

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Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20 bundle adds OLED screen and AR glasses

Asus has unveiled an anniversary ROG Xbox Ally X20 bundle that pairs the handheld with a set of AR glasses. The handheld carries a black-and-gold theme, including a 'custom gold internal structure', and gains TMR thumbsticks plus a 7.4-inch OLED screen. The standard ROG Xbox Ally X

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MSI's slim two-in-one uses Nvidia's RTX Spark Arm chip

We finally have sight of Nvidia's Arm-based CPU and of laptops that will use it, such as the MSI Prestige N16 Flip AI+. The machine is notably thin because it drops a discrete GPU in favor of Nvidia's all-in-one N1X-based "superchip" called RTX Spark,

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How to leave FaceTime video voicemails (and Live Voicemail for audio)

FaceTime video messages act like voicemail for missed video calls, and FaceTime audio offers a related Live Voicemail feature. Video messages work only between FaceTime-compatible Apple devices and can come from saved contacts, people the recipient has called, or Siri-suggested contacts. To leave a FaceTime video message, let the video

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Acer's Nitro Blaze Link is a streaming-only handheld

With memory and storage prices squeezing the PC market, Acer has responded by stripping local gaming hardware from its latest handheld. The Nitro Blaze Link joins the Blaze lineup but, unlike its siblings with Ryzen APUs and NVMe storage, it ships with just 1 GB of memory and 8 GB

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League of Legends MMO hires former World of Warcraft combat designer

Brian Holinka has joined Riot as a principal game designer on the League of Legends MMO. Holinka posted on LinkedIn, "Today is my first official day at Riot on the League of Legends MMO!" He spent more than a decade at Blizzard, including nearly five years as lead

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Play Angry Birds and other mobile games on your Android Auto screen

Several popular mobile games are compatible with Android Auto, letting you play on your car's touchscreen. The Gamesnacks app hosts dozens of light titles that resemble early internet flash games but are the same apps you'd run on your phone; most use simple touch controls and

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Sony sets 2026 release dates for FlexStrike, gaming monitor and speakers

Sony released new details on its 2026 hardware lineup, including release dates, pricing and pre-order information for the FlexStrike and a new 27-inch PlayStation gaming monitor with a built-in DualSense charging hook. The FlexStrike wireless fight stick will arrive Aug. 6, the same day Arc System Works and Sony XDev&

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007: First Light's Biggest Flaw Is Random Disconnections

007: First Light is a damn fine video game. Over the weekend, I marathoned IOI’s next big adventure and had a blast with it. But about 12 or so times during my 14-hour playthrough, I was randomly disconnected from the game while playing single player and it was always

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Marathon's first PvP-lite mode offers a tense, unpredictable alternative

Bungie is expanding Marathon with PvE and PvE-adjacent experiments and has unveiled Sponsored Survival, the game's first "PvP-lite" mode, which will run during the inaugural week of Season 2. Only one squad—or a solo player—deploys into the new Night Marsh map, limited to sponsored

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Gabe Newell says gamers have 'enormous choice' amid Steam monopoly claims

In 2023 a court ordered Valve chief Gabe Newell to testify in the long-running antitrust suit brought by Wolfire Games in 2021. A Bloomberg report summarizes parts of that testimony, in which Newell denied that Steam holds a monopoly on PC gaming and said "Customers have enormous choice"

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Router Rebooter: cheap timer that reboots every 24 hours

Consumer-grade routers can become unreliable, and one simple solution is an inline power timer. The Router Rebooter plugs between a router's DC power cable and the router and cuts power every 24 hours for about five seconds. There are no buttons, dials, apps or settings; plug it in

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Escape the Backrooms quietly added to Xbox Game Pass

Escape the Backrooms quietly landed on Xbox Game Pass this weekend, coinciding with Fancy Games finally launching the hit horror game on console and with the release of A24's new film. The game first entered early access on Steam roughly four years ago and quickly built a devoted

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MX Linux Xfce AHS: a ready-made distro for newer PCs

MX Linux's Xfce AHS edition targets newer hardware while retaining Debian Stable's reliability. Created by the antiX and MX Linux communities, the MX-25.2_Xfce_ahs_x64 release ships with the 7.07 kernel and was updated to the Liquorix 7.0.9-2 low-latency kernel to

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Asus unveils gold-plated 82 g Harpe II Extreme Edition 20 with 65K DPI

To mark ROG's 20th anniversary, Asus revealed a black-and-gold line of hardware that includes the ROG Harpe II Extreme Edition 20. The mouse carries "Authentic 24K gold-plated detailing" beneath a black translucent shell; at first glance the gold-under-black palette can mute the colours, giving a slightly

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Forza Horizon 6's Estate is overrun with pointless XP and Skill Point farms

One of Forza Horizon 6's headline additions is the Estate: a house with a huge empty lot where players can use creation tools to build whatever they want. Many creators have made mansions with parking garages, hangouts, cherry-tree arrangements, drift and race tracks, and even a full-size recreation

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My top 7 laptop-bag essentials now, after decades of remote work

It's getting a bit too hot in the office now, so I'm spending less time there and more time out and about. Work still needs doing, so the trusty laptop comes along; I recently cleaned out my laptop bag, threw out months of detritus, and streamlined

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Nex Playground revives motion-controlled family gaming

For a brief period in the 2000s, motion-controlled games made video gaming a living-room pastime for people who rarely touched a controller. Now a new device, the Nex Playground, aims to bring that spirit back. About the size of two and a half Rubik’s Cubes, the camera-driven console uses

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Anker Zolo Magnetic Wireless Charger 2-Pack $24 on Amazon

The Anker Zolo Magnetic Wireless Charger is a two-pack of compact pads that wirelessly charge iPhones. Each pad is Qi2-certified for up to 15W and snaps onto the back of the phone with magnets, similar to MagSafe. They also support wireless charging for AirPods cases that accept it. At $24

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Yet another rad gaming tool parts ways with Microsoft

Luxtorpeda, a compatibility tool that will automatically download and install open-source engine reimplementations—and other mods—for supported games you run with it, has completed a migration to Codeberg. Dev d10sfan wrote, "The luxtorpeda project has completed a migration to codeberg! This is mainly from the latest issues with

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Chrome ties browser cookies to your device to block hijacking

Browser cookies store login sessions and website preferences, but they can be stolen and used to impersonate you. Chrome is rolling out Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) to stop cookie‑hijacking attacks. In a typical cookie‑hijacking attack, malware steals cookies so attackers can sign in on their own devices

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Asus unveils hefty ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Edition 20

Asus revealed the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Edition 20 at Computex, a notably large card that pairs a curved AMOLED display with a quad-fan design that delivers up to 20% improved airflow. Its expanded surface area is a selling point, but the card will likely occupy multiple PCIe slots

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RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC shows value beyond raw performance

For $1,299 at B&H Photo, this RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC offers more than just a decent GPU. The system ships with the 8 GB version of the card, but balances that with other components that should help its longevity. Eight gigabytes of VRAM can limit max-settings

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Why I built my own DIY cyberdeck straight out of 80s sci-fi

Everyone seems to be talking about cyberdecks. The name comes from William Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer, where hackers called "console cowboys" used custom, rectangular, deck-like computers with red and green LEDs to jack into cyberspace. In practice a cyberdeck is a portable computer and can be