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Epic just closed some doors, but it may be opening a very attractive window indeed. Today, it appears to have inadvertently announced a new completely free version of the excellent Unreal Tournament 3 that you’ll […]
Archiving data from old storage media can be a highly complex process. It can be as simple as putting a disk in an old drive and reading out the contents. These days, though, the state […]
Apple is planning to let users install alternative app stores on iOS, according to a report from Bloomberg. The shift would be a remarkable change from the company, which has famously only allowed iPhone and […]
The coating is made from extremely thin clusters of gold, in such small amounts that the added cost would be minimal, sandwiched between thin layers of titanium oxide, which is electrically insulating. The sandwiched materials […]
Linux hardware vendor System76 announced today a new generation of their Launch configurable keyboard, the Launch Heavy, which comes with new features and full size. In addition to the central USB-C port for connecting to […]
The list just keeps growing of cloud subscription services shutting down. Remember Argus optical implants too? If they don’t shut down, they hold you to ransom with any annual fee increase they want to charge, […]
Inspired by Star Trek’s Viewscreen, this web app was created to provide some interesting 3D visuals of warp-speed (lightspeed, FTL) travelling with Trek UI right in a modern browser without any extra plugins. Many aspects […]
This was quite interesting as I bought the identical Eco-Worthy battery monitor for my LiFePO4 battery. It’s true there is no lab quality benchmark being done to see if both of these are maybe wildly […]
This was my first application written for work, back around 1987 or 1988, on a HP41CV programmable calculator. The problem it was solving, was for shift workers to be able to know what shift they’d […]
Passkeys are the next step in evolution of password managers. Today password managers are a bit of a hack—the password text box was originally meant for a human to manually type text into, and you […]
