Raspberry’s Pi 500 is the perfect throwback to the 1980s golden age of home computing and I’d love to relive those moments again with a modern machine

Raspberry Pi devices are the ultimate hobby for the computing enthusiast, being tiny in size, low in price, but packed with performance and features. They’re not the most convenient of things to use, though, so four years ago, Raspberry released the Pi 400—a Raspberry Pi embedded into a keyboard. Now it’s back with a new…

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Henry Cavill’s Warhammer 40K cinematic universe signs on the line with Amazon and he’s over the moon: ‘A fantastic place to start’

Games Workshop has announced that a deal has been signed with Amazon on the “creative guidelines” for a future set of films and television series based on the Warhammer 40,000 universe. The company had first announced it was talking to Amazon in December 2023, setting a 12-month period for the negotiations, so it looks like…

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AMD’s flagship Strix Halo APU makes its Geekbench debut with a monstrous name and RTX 4060 levels of GPU compute

We’ve been writing about Strix Halo for so long, without actually seeing any working hardware, that you’d be forgiven for believing that it’s just vapourware. But with the first appearance of AMD’s flagship laptop APU in the Geekbench database, we finally have some numbers to pore over. And a decidedly cumbersome name. The moniker in…

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Best Sorceress starter build in Path of Exile 2

The best Sorceress build for the early game in Path of Exile 2 is one that makes use of frost, fire, and lightning abilities, combining all of those effects to deal as much damage as possible. Lacking inherent defensive strength, the Sorceress needs to deal plenty of damage, have good evasion and energy shield stats,…

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Humble has brought back its ultra-meaty RPG bundle with Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader and its 2,000+ ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ recent Steam reviews, plus OG Baldur’s Gate and Pathfinder

Good news! I’ve found something for you to do this December. It’s, uh, the same thing I found for you to do in September. Humble has brought back its CRPG megabundle of Owlcat and Beamdog games, offering up over 650 hours of crunchy, stat-based antics across eight banger RPGs. I could, probably, just repaste the…

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Google’s WIllow chip is a big leap towards usable quantum computing but its claim of beating a classical computer by a ‘septillion years’ is meaningless

Quantum computers might seem like a work of science fiction but they really do exist. While they’re still a long way from being used for the purposes for which they’re best suited, Google’s quantum computing research lab has published results on its latest chip that show the future isn’t as distant as you’d think. The…

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