Month: August 2024

It’s been a great summer for indie games — here are some of the best

Outside of some notable exceptions, there haven’t been many blockbuster games this summer — but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been much to play. In fact, at times, it has felt like a never-ending flood of fascinating indie releases, thanks to games like Arranger, Animal Well, Crow Country, and Lorelei…

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Only Microsoft Can Save Windows-Powered Handheld Game Consoles (2024)

The dream of running all your Steam, Epic, and GOG games in one place will continue to be a nightmare until Microsoft steps up. Source

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How Star Wars walked away from the world’s first self-retracting lightsaber toy

Hasbro turned down the holy grail of lightsaber toys, and it won’t say why. The Star Wars toymaker spent two years secretly working on a kids lightsaber that can automatically extend and retract its blade — the very first of its kind. Hasbro acquired all rights to the idea from…

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IT admin charged with extorting employer by locking down hundreds of workstations

Ransomware threat actors don’t always have to come from outside the victim organization – take Daniel Rhyne, a 57-year-old man from Kansas City, Missouri, who is being charged with locking down, and trying to extort, his own employer. Allegedly, late last year, Rhyne was working at an industrial company in…

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New iPhone 16 Pro leak shows how the new gold titanium color might look

There’s just a week and a bit to go until Apple unveils the iPhone 16 series, and a newly leaked image gives us an idea of the gold titanium color that’s rumored to be coming to the Pro and Pro Max models this year. The image was shared by 9to5Mac…

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Your IT department may one day control whether you can view your laptop screen or not — remote display permission features could become reality for business, for better or worse

Working from an office can be complicated at the best of things, and things look set to get more so with a new tool aimed at protecting screens from unwanted eyeballs of all kinds. Laptop Switchable Privacy from Rain Technology is aimed at so-called Tier 1 manufacturers like Apple, Dell,…

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