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Meta is shutting down three Oculus games without explanation
Hope you didn’t enjoy playing Dead and Buried, Dead and Buried II, or Bogo on your Rift or Quest headsets — because Meta’s shutting them all down with no explanation, just like it already did with Echo VR (aka Echo Arena). “We are reaching out to let you know that Dead…
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Microsoft Paint is finally adding some of Photoshop’s best features
Microsoft is on a slow-burn path to making Paint a useful tool for actual creators by finally implementing one of Photoshop’s core features: layers. As part of an update rolling out for testing by Windows Insiders (version 11.2308.18.0, available to some people in the Canary or Dev channels), Microsoft Paint…
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The smaller iPhone 16 Pro might get Apple’s new ‘tetraprism’ zoom lens
Next year’s Pro iPhones are both “expected” to have the “tetraprism” zoom lens Apple is using for the 5x telephoto camera in the iPhone 15 Pro Max, according to a new post from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. That tetraprism optical system, which is intended to replicate a 120mm lens of…
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The cheaper $600 Asus ROG Ally is here, and you probably shouldn’t buy it
If you’ve been eying an Asus ROG Ally gaming handheld but can’t quite justify the $700 price tag… you’ll probably want to keep on waiting. Today, the company has begun selling a less-expensive $600 model with a lower-performance AMD Z1 chip, but early reviews suggest the Windows gaming handheld is…
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Top business software development platform Retool breached, blames Google Authenticator
Software development platform Retool has pointed the finger of blame at Google after suffering a data breach. Here’s what happened: a hacking collective engaged in SMS phishing and social engineering managed to steal login credentials for an Okta account belonging to a Retool IT employee. It was quite an elaborate…
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Apple A17 Pro is a match for Intel and AMD CPUs, and this is great news for Apple M3
Newly leaked benchmark scores for Apple’s A17 Pro system-on-chip (SoC) for smartphones reveal that it can challenge AMD and Intel’s processors in Geekbench 6. According to Apple’s A17 Pro scores in Geekbench 6’s single-core test, it scored within 10% of AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X and Intel’s Core i9-13900K processors. The…
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