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No USB connectivity? Like, at all? It’s a good job SteelSeries’ new gaming mice are two of the best I’ve felt under my fingertips

SteelSeries Rival Pro Ergo palm grip shape UWB wireless only (no USB!) 53 g 42K DPI TrueMove 42K Pro sensor SteelSeries Optical switches Hot-swappable battery $179.99 / £169.99 / €199.99 SteelSeries Sensei Pro Symmetrical claw grip shape UWB wireless only (no USB!) 53 g 42K DPI TrueMove 42K Pro sensor SteelSeries Optical switches Hot-swappable battery…

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Metro Awakening is coming to PS VR2

Hi everyone, I’m Samar, Associate Game Director at Vertigo Games. We couldn’t be more excited to reveal our next project during today’s State of Play. We’re proud to say that, with the support of Deep Silver, for the last two and a half years we’ve been working to bring the post-apocalyptic world of Metro to…

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TSMC employees can now buy company-branded shoes modelled by CEO C.C. Wei, or a chip-themed rice cooker with a ‘wafer-shaped steaming plate’

It’s not often that hardware news interacts with fashion, but I’m happy to oblige. According to the China Times News Network, TSMC employees can now pick up one of six “self-funded gifts” [via machine translation] from their company—including a pair of TSMC-branded shoes modelled by CEO C.C. Wei at last year’s company sports meet. TSMC…

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Hard Drive vs. SSD Performance

HDD performance in a nutshell Last week, we posted our new SSD test suite with some initial results. We included a few references to hard drive performance, and at the time that seemed sufficient, but let’s really put the hard drive vs. solid state performance debate to rest. We all know SSDs are faster, particularly…

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The best Deus Ex sequel is a 2009 fan-mod set in a living forum where you attack enemies with sporks and foons, and no I am not joking

What would you say to the following pitch: a Deus Ex fan mod, in the works for seven years, set in a Deus Ex forum whose moderator has been abducted. The factions consist of people like goat worshippers and llama devotees, some enemies use sporks, and people use phrases like “What the radish?” without cringing….

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It turns out NFTs of tennis balls that sold for $3 million aren’t worth much after all and I just died of not-surprise

Back in 2022, the Tennis Australia’s forward-thinking management released 6,776 images of tennis balls as digital NFTs. Each one sold for 0.067 in the ethereum cryptocurrency, about $278 AUD at the time. Those same NFTs are now reportedly trading for as little as 0.003ETH or $15 AUD on OpenSea, the self-described “world’s first and largest…

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