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The Gen Z-powered retro gaming revival
Eve Upton-Clark writing for Fast Company: ‘It’s Like Their Escape’: Retro Gaming Is Back Thanks to Gen Z
Low-tech
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Secretary of Defense put war plans in a group chat with a journalist
Jeffrey Goldberg with an insane story in The Atlantic: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
The world
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Meta has squandered Threads
Jon Passantino writing for Status: Hanging by a Thread
Now Threads feels rather lifeless. While users still post there, for
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The VR market shrunk yet again in 2024
Counterpoint Research: Global VR Market Declines 12% YoY in 2024; ‘AR+AI’ Smart Glasses to Take Centre Stage in 2025
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Ghost gets ActivityPub into beta
Ghost: Social Web
We've got our social web integration for Ghost to a point where we're
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The Pebble (which made me fall in love with smart watches) is back
Introducing Two New PebbleOS Watches!
We’re excited to announce two new smartwatches that run open source PebbleOS and are
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You don’t need AI to play old games on modern hardware
Fatima Kardar, Corporate Vice President, Gaming AI, at Microsoft: Empowering Creators and Players With Muse, a Generative AI Model for
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Politics are personal
Justin Ferrell: It's Not Politics, It's Just Personal
What happens when no amount of work or
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Apple says they will add encryption to RCS
Jess Weatherbed writing for The Verge: Apple Will Soon Support Encrypted RCS Messaging With Android Users
“End-to-end encryption is a
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I’m not used to seeing this
John Gruber: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
The fiasco here is not that Apple is late on
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Handheld consoles, assemble!
Jez Corden writing for Windows Central: EXCLUSIVE: Xbox's New Hardware Plans Begin With a Gaming Handheld Set for
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NVIDIA finally gets some competition
Tom Warren for The Verge: AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT Review and Benchmarks
The RX 9070 is around 17
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So much time and money for a minor vibe shift
Gary Marcus: Hot Take: GPT 4.5 Is a Nothing Burger
Half a trillion dollars later, there is still no
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Is ChatGPT the next Dropbox or the next iPhone?
Ed Zitron on his Where's Your Ed At blog: There Is No AI Revolution
I kept coming back
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We do this same thing with AI bots and human blogs
Giles Thomas writing on his personal blog, which he’s been writing since 2006: It's Still Worth Blogging
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Perplexity is making a web browser
Kyle Wiggers writing for TechCrunch: Perplexity Teases a Web Browser Called Comet
“Just like Perplexity reinvented search, we’re also
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Steam Deck sales numbers are in, and they’re not as spectacular as I’d hope (but I do still have hope)
Sean Hollister writing for The Verge: Three Years Later, the Steam Deck Has Dominated Handheld PC Gaming Shipments
Add it
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Worst headline of 2025 contender just dropped
Victor Tangermann writing for Yahoo Finance with the very enticing headline: Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No