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Microsoft announces changes to the Blue Screen of Death as rumours of an ominous Black Screen of Death stalk the land

The infamous Blue Screen of Death feels like it’s always there, waiting. The scourge of PC gamers and IT workers alike, it lurks in the distance, seemingly anticipating the right moment to ruin your day. Now Microsoft has announced that it’s previewing a “more streamlined UI for unexpected restarts” in the latest Windows Insider build—and…

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Nvidia’s corporate blog goes full fan mode with its description of Jen-Hsun Huang: ‘Tech Leader, AI Visionary, Endlessly Curious’

In business, you expect any corporate message to put the best possible spin on anything, including any comments about company leaders. Nvidia’s corporate blog has really taken this to heart, though, by giving CEO Jen-Hsun Huang such a glowing description that you’d be forgiven for thinking you were on a fan-fiction site. The post in…

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‘Please have faith in us once again’ says Windrose dev, revealing its first big content update won’t arrive for ‘at least 6 months’

Pirate survival game Windrose is a megahit, but after two weeks of sailing the early access seas, a lot of pirates have run out of new discoveries and have fully explored the game’s initial three biomes. Many players are naturally asking: what’s next? And, perhaps as importantly: when? Today developer Kraken Express outlined some of…

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This DIY ‘infinite contrast’ screen uses an old projector in a seriously clever way and makes monitors with full-array dimming look like absolute garbage

I’ve yet to see an LCD monitor with local dimming that I thought was any good. But I have now seen a DIY LCD display with an incredibly clever projector-based backlight solution that demonstrates why so-called HDR monitors with full-array local dimming are, in fact, complete crap. Of course, it’s top-notch YouTube channel DIY Perks…

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