Handheld PC maker Ayaneo unveils its first phone, the Pocket Play, with a hidden controller behind a sliding screen

Handheld gaming hardware head Ayaneo has just unveiled its first phone. The Ayaneo Pocket Play is a smartphone with a sliding display that can be pushed up to reveal a d-pad, AXBY face buttons, and two virtual joystick touchpads. Ayaneo had previously teased this gaming-geared phone early last month. Now, there’s a fresh blog post…

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Arc Raiders’ latest mini update fixes a bunch of ratty exploits, including the zipline that set players free in Stella Montis, as Embark announces it’s stepping back from weekly fixes

Embark has given us one last Arc Raiders gift before the holiday season properly kicks off, and it’s barring us from getting to forbidden spots on the map; booo. I joke (kind of), this small update dishes out some fixes for maps like Stella Montis and Blue Gate, as well as notifying us of some…

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New Magic: The Gathering infinite combo is just making The Hulk step on caltrops over and over until he’s mad enough to win

If there’s one thing I love about card games, it’s the absolutely obscene sentences that come out of explaining play-by-plays to the uninitiated, especially when you’re playing a game with licensed characters. For example: Disney’s Lorcana once had a combo with minor character Hiram Flaversham that elevated him to godhood via banishing and re-summoning a…

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Oracle will shop around for AI chips after adopting a policy of ‘chip neutrality’… but of course it’ll still buy the latest Nvidia GPUs

Oracle is looking beyond Nvidia for the chips it needs to power its AI datacenters. In what could be described as a warning shot to Jensen Huang’s business, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison said: “We are now committed to a policy of chip neutrality where we work closely with all our CPU and GPU suppliers.” In…

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Oracle will shop around for AI chips after adopting a policy of ‘chip neutrality’… but of course it’ll still buy the latest Nvidia GPUs

Oracle is looking beyond Nvidia for the chips it needs to power its AI datacenters. In what could be described as a warning shot to Jensen Huang’s business, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison said: “We are now committed to a policy of chip neutrality where we work closely with all our CPU and GPU suppliers.” In…

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These glorious little animations offer the best visual explanation of the benefits of SSDs over hard drives I’ve ever seen

I wish I had access to this explainer from Planetscale back when I was learning how different storage technologies work, rather than scratching my head at Wikipedia pages and Reddit ‘explain like I’m five’ threads that often seemed more like ‘explain like I’m an engineer’ ones. I think this is probably the best explanation of…

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These glorious little animations offer the best visual explanation of the benefits of SSDs over hard drives I’ve ever seen

I wish I had access to this explainer from Planetscale back when I was learning how different storage technologies work, rather than scratching my head at Wikipedia pages and Reddit ‘explain like I’m five’ threads that often seemed more like ‘explain like I’m an engineer’ ones. I think this is probably the best explanation of…

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