The first time I experienced an in-game overlay—a 3D interface rendered over the 3D interface of a game—I thought it was great way for accessing information without alt-tabbing out of the game. The second time made me realize I would never remember the complicated Ctrl Backslash Tilde key combo to access the overlay. Skip a …
IDG / Dominic Bayley If you’re jonesing for a zippy gaming experience but you’re really strapped for cash, there are a number of budget options to consider. You can actually get some pretty decent CPU and GPU performance out of a budget gaming laptop, though you may need to dial your gaming visuals back from …
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Twitter has temporarily walked back a that made it difficult for people to preserve deleted tweets. On Wednesday, writer Kevin Marks that the company had recently tweaked its embedded javascript so that the text of deleted tweets was no longer visible in embeds on third-party websites. By late Friday evening, however, one Twitter user the …
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Google Fi is making its more affordable. In an email the sent to Engadget, it shared it was the monthly cost of its Simply Unlimited and Unlimited Plus plans by up to $10 and $5 respectively, with the former starting at $50 per month for one line and the latter at $65 every 30 days. …
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Amid the deluge of all the Star Trek shows CBS has produced since bringing the franchise back to TV in 2017, Lower Decks has stood out for its fun and smart take on Gene Roddenberry’s sci-fi universe. Last October, season two on a cliffhanger with the Federation arresting Captain Freeman for allegedly destroying the Pakled …
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NASA has once again delayed the final test of its next-generation . The agency spent much of last weekend conducting a “wet dress rehearsal” of its upcoming . The test was designed to replicate the mission’s countdown procedure and was mostly moving along according to plan until NASA encountered a problem with the SLS’s mobile …
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Google has blocked Russia’s Duma TV YouTube channel, according to . On Saturday, the company said it had “terminated” the channel, which airs meetings of Russia’s lower house of parliament, for a violation of the platform’s terms of service. “If we find that an account violates our Terms of Service, we take appropriate action,” a …
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Willis Lai/IDG Valve’s portable PC powerhouse is the biggest-smallest thing to hit PC gaming in years. In fact the Steam Deck is so popular that if you don’t have one now, you’ll probably be waiting until the tail end of this year to get your hands on one. Since you’ve got nothing but time, why …
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Windows has been pushing hard on Edge, Microsoft’s first-party browser, for years now, culminating in Windows 11 making you jump through some pretty extreme hoops in order to switch browsers. “Microsoft makes this vastly more difficult than it needs to,” we said in our Windows 11 review. “In the Settings menu, Windows 11 now forces …
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At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Can charge up to four devices at once Magnetic coils help ensure proper alignment Well designed Cons It’s not an official MagSafe device, so charging speed is slower Our Verdict Nomad’s latest Base Station wireless charging pad can charge up to four devices at once—two wired, two wirelessly—and looks …
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