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AYANEO Sneakily Unveiled Yet Another Retro Handheld During Its Pocket Air Mini Livestream

Here’s our first pieces of information on the “High-Performance” ‘Pocket S Mini’. You’d think after the run it’s been on recently in releasing/announcing new emulation-based handhelds that AYANEO would potentially slow down, take stock, and see what worked and what didn’t. But that clearly doesn’t seem to be the company’s style. During the recent livestream…

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Intel’s future might be rosier now that Nvidia is partially on board but at this moment in time, AMD rules every roost in the CPU coop

If there’s one thing that’s predictable about the tech world, it’s that it’s all very unpredictable. I mean, who would have thought a few years ago that Intel would become financially unstable, dropping projects and thousands of staff, and then randomly announce a sizeable investment from Nvidia and a plan to collaborate on new chips?…

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Eye-scanning Orb maker says ‘there is no world where we are not going to have’ biometrics to check we’re human and keep games bot-free

I recently spoke to a number of biometric authentication providers and experts to try and suss out the pros and cons of various ‘proof-of-human’, AKA ‘liveness detection’, technologies, AKA prove you’re flesh and bones and not an agentic AI. One thing I didn’t focus on too much in my piece exploring the tech, but which…

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Intel says Arc GPUs aren’t going anywhere just yet despite the new Nvidia collaboration

Our Jeremy said it best when he reported on the surprise announcement of an Intel-Nvidia collaboration yesterday: it’s cats living with dogs. Naturally, such a strange occurrence has led people to question just how it will affect current product roadmaps—especially Intel Arc. On that front, thankfully, Intel says things are business as usual. An Intel…

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Critical Role’s new D&D campaign trailer has given me unshakable faith that whatever Brennan Lee Mulligan does with his galaxy brain and 13 players is going to be great

I don’t usually wax lyrical about public figures often. Just because someone’s made something you like, doesn’t mean you should assume all their future projects will be winners. Creative endeavours flounder all the time. Managing expectations is good. The keyword, however, is usually, because I’m happy to call it now: Critical Role’s new campaign is…

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