‘Just a tap water, please’: Starbucks Korea asks customers to stop bringing desktop PCs, printers, and pop-up dividers into its coffee shops for a cheeky work session

Look, I’ll hold my hands up—as a writer often on the move, I’ve holed myself up in coffee shops with my laptop to write articles before, eeking out my drink for far longer than necessary to make the most of a wall socket. I’ve never been brave enough to bring in a more substantial piece…

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The Battlefield 6 beta probably is running worse for you this time around: ‘We’ll follow up with additional updates as soon as possible’

Last weekend, I was pleasantly surprised by how well the Battlefield 6 open beta was holding up. The series has repeatedly fallen into the trap of launching in an unoptimised state, only getting tidied up months or even a year later. Battlefield 6 has, seemingly, bucked this trend, as I was getting silky smooth FPS…

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Dreaming of an Nvidia Steam Deck? This modder converted an RTX 4090 laptop GPU into 4K ‘portable’ handheld gaming PC

Portable handheld gaming PCs are one of my favourite recent offshoots of PC gaming. It’s been a delight to watch all these Switch-styled devices crop up with their cute plastic shells hiding often beastly gamer interiors. The downside is while we are seeing more of these Steam Deck competitors around, we’re also seeing relatively limited…

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The pro AI UK government has advised citizens to ‘Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems’ to help reduce water consumption during national drought

Folks in the UK are doing it tough right now with droughts sweeping the country. The situation has gotten so bad the government has declared it a “nationally significant incident.” Alongside a release with advice on how residents can help save water. Some of these suggestions are great ideas but included amongst them is advice…

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