Month: December 2024
Steam Replay 2024 is available now so you can compare your Balatro playtime with friends
Steam Replay, Valve’s take on Spotify Wrapped for games you’ve played through Steam, is available now for your perusal. Valve’s offered the year-end presentation since 2022, and it can be a pretty revealing glimpse into how time-consuming most games have become in the last two years (or how much one…
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Intel outlines the performance fixes for Arrow Lake CPUs
Intel’s new Arrow Lake CPUs came out in October promising high performance at lower power levels, but reviews, including ours, noted surprisingly lackluster gaming performance. Tom Warren said of the Core Ultra 9 285K, “…in many titles, it provides worse performance than the 14th Gen chips it was designed to…
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Here’s everything we don’t know about New Jersey’s drone mystery
2024’s drone hysteria has gone on for weeks across the East Coast, and we still have far more questions than answers. The sightings may have started in New Jersey, but reports of possible drone sightings have continued to spread. Meanwhile, social media-fueled misinformation has rushed to fill the information vacuum…
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The Nintendo Switch 2 and its dock, as described by the mystery Reddit leaker
Last Friday, we brought you leaked dimensions of the next Nintendo Switch from the most likely source yet: a “3D scan of the actual hardware” obtained by case manufacturer Dbrand. But case manufacturers aren’t the only source of leaks. A Redditor named “NextHandheld” claims to have seen and touched an…
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This waterproof coffin gives your AirTag 10 years of battery life
The TimeCapsule is a candy bar-sized enclosure that replaces an AirTag’s CR2032 coin cell battery with an electrical contact and slots for a pair of AA batteries. It’s made of “fiber reinforced polycarbonate” that won’t block or reduce the range of Bluetooth or UWB signals, according to Elevation Lab’s Casey…
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Fake Ledger data breach emails used to trick victims into giving up recovery phrases
New phishing email scam impersonating Ledger spotted The emails claim the user’s Ledger wallet seed phrase was compromised, and asks for confirmation Users that provide the seed phrase lose all their money Criminals are trying to steal cryptocurrency by impersonating hardware wallet firm Ledger and sending phishing emails. Victims have…
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