Undervolting Steam Decks will soon be possible for everyone, but why bother?

What you need to know Valve added a new SteamOS 3.5.1 firmware update to its opt-in Preview branch for owners to optionally install. Besides a slew of fixes, dedicated undervolting controls were added to the Steam Deck BIOS alongside a CMOS reset function to restore default values. Undervolting the CPU, GPU, and SoC in a […]

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Please don’t bother with the official Hogwarts Legacy game guide because it’s shockingly bad

Hogwarts Legacy has been out for a while now, but it wasn’t until this week that Hogwarts Legacy: The Official Game Guide was also released. I’ve absolutely loved Avalanche Software’s wizarding world game and have written dozens of guides for it. In fact, I’m flattered to say that millions of you have used my guides […]

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Why Bother Bringing Back the Dodo?

This makes a lot of sense. De-extincting an entire species will require breakthroughs in all kinds of areas: gene editing and sequencing, artificial wombs, and so on. Lamm wants all the technology Colossal develops to have potential applications—and paying customers—in the world of human health care. “That’s fundamental to our technology strategy,” he says. The […]

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Samsung has dealt with Huawei, OnePlus 11 won’t bother it much

There was a time that Samsung’s utter dominance of the global smartphone market appeared to be under threat. Huawei was catching up quite quickly. Many analysts projected that the company would overtake Samsung to become the leading smartphone vendor in a few years. Huawei was pumping out devices that beat Samsung flagships, on paper at […]

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Why bother with the new Google Pixel when Samsung is the Android king?

Apparently, Google announced a bunch of new devices a couple of weeks ago. The day it unveiled the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro came and went without much fanfare. Google might be getting serious about its hardware but even it’s unable to match Samsung’s dominance of the Android landscape. Let’s not forget that these […]

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