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Sony is offering PlayStation 5 hardware for rent to customers in the UK. The selection includes PS5 consoles, controllers, PSVR 2, and even the PlayStation Portal. The cheapest offer starts from £9.50 per month for a base PS5 Slim, with leases for 12, 24, or 36 months. You can also pay a flat £19.50/month to get the console on a rolling basis with no commitments.
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An experiment revealed that people cannot differentiate between audio signals sent through premium audio cables, wet mud, and a banana. Read more ›
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To save a few bucks, someone ordered a used Ryzen 9 9900X3D worth $530 from Amazon but received a $150 Ryzen 9 3900X instead. The CPU had been replaced inside the box to deceive any inspection and was likely resold to the unlucky buyer, who ended up getting much less valuable silicon than they paid for. Read more ›
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Four whistleblowers reveal the extent to which the Department of Homeland Security is pressuring social media companies to identify users critical of government policy. Read more ›
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Doom scrolling is doomed, if the EU gets its way. From a report: The European Commission is for the first time tackling the addictiveness of social media in a fight against TikTok that may set new design standards for the world's most popular apps. Brussels has told the company to change several key features, including disabling infinite scrolling, setting strict screen time breaks and changing its recommender systems. The demand... Read more ›
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Georgia Tech has announced the finalists in its annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition. Every year, for the last 28 years, the school invites inventors from around the world to submit new instruments of their own design to compete for $10,000 in prizes. Past finalists have included founding members of Teenage Engineering, Artiphon, and Roli. And […] Read more ›
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reportedly been asking tech companies for information on accounts posting anti-ICE sentiments. According to The New York Times, DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas to Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta over the past few months. Homeland Security asked the companies for names, email addresses, telephone numbers and any other identifying detail for accounts that have criticized the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement... Read more ›
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 secured five awards at this week's Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' (AIAS) DICE Awards (not to be confused with EA's Stockholm studio of the same name), including the coveted Game of the Year prize, while Sucker Punch's Ghost of Yotei secured three, including for Adventure Game of the Year. Read more Read more ›
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A mom reflects on why going from one child to two was far harder than expected, and how chaos reshaped her parenting standards. Read more ›
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Disney's given everyone more Muppets with 'The Muppet Show,' and people love it. But is there more on the horizon? Read more ›
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Automaker BMW has filed a patent for a new fastener which takes design cues from the its iconic segmented roundel logo. but it has been accused of creating this design for service and repair gatekeeping. Read more ›
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Goldman Sach's Kathy Ruemmler, Paul Weiss's Brad Karp, and Prince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson are just some of the people dealing with headaches. Read more ›
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Acer's and Asus's use of HEVC on their laptops and desktop PCs is allegedly infringing on Nokia's patent. Because of this, a German court ruled that they cannot sell their products in Germany until the matter is settled. Read more ›
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Apple has steadily expanded home screen customization on the iPhone over the past few years, and iOS 26 continues that trend with more visual control over app icons. Building on the changes introduced in iOS 18, the latest update lets you resize icons, remove app labels, apply system-wide color tints and make icons translucent using Apple’s new Liquid Glass design language.Most of these options live in one place: the Customize... Read more ›
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US presidents are driven in a heavily armored limousine nicknamed "The Beast" as part of the presidential motorcade. Take a look inside. Read more ›
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Gemini 3 Deep Think is focused on scientific and engineering work, and it's now now available to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app. Read more ›
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My ongoing quest to turn my iPhone into one of my favorite consoles of all time has led me to a curiously named controller. GameSir's Pocket Taco is only barely pocketable, and distinctly lacking in taco fillings, but for $35, it's an excellent and easy way to turn your phone into a Game Boy-inspired handheld […] Read more ›
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"I've had an extremely weird few days..." writes commercial space entrepreneur/engineer Scott Shambaugh on LinkedIn. (He's the volunteer maintainer for the Python visualization library Matplotlib, which he describes as "some of the most widely used software in the world" with 130 million downloads each month.) "Two days ago an OpenClaw AI agent autonomously wrote a hit piece disparaging my character after I rejected its code change." "Since then my blog... Read more ›
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The Crew-12 mission, SpaceX’s 20th human spaceflight, launched at 5:15 AM Eastern on February 13 from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It’s expected to dock with the International Space Station today, February 14, at 3:15 PM, and you can watch the event below as it happens. By the time the mission’s Dragon capsule docks with the ISS, it will have traveled approximately 34 hours since lift off. Inside are NASA astronauts... Read more ›
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Following the announcement of impending chip import tariffs in January, the Trump Administration is now planning to offer major U.S. tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon the ability to circumvent them. However, the number of TSMC-made chips exempt from the tariffs may be directly tied to the Taiwanese chipmaker's scale of investment in American operations. Read more ›
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The MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z unleashes a surprising amount of extra performance from Nvidia’s highest-end gaming GPU, thanks to dual power connectors and much higher power limits than the RTX 5090 Founders Edition. We’d go so far as to call it the best RTX 5090 yet made. Read more ›
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The Ampinel GPU power adapter finally goes on sale following a three-month delay, bringing real-time six-channel load balancing and meltdown prevention features Read more ›
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Taiwan authorities have no problems with TSMC investing in the U.S. as long the bulk of its fabs and leading-edge process technologies remain in Taiwan. Read more ›
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Scientists based at Hiroshima University have devised a novel way of 3D printing with one of hardest engineering materials used by industry. Read more ›
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Cursor, an AI-assisted development environment, essentially an IDE, is being used by Nvidia internally to boost coding efficiency. Cursor says the Green Team's internal code commits have tripled since its implementation while the bug rate has stayed flat, leading to increased productivity across every phase of the development lifecycle. Read more ›
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John Carmack considers fiber as an L2 cache for streaming AI data. Read more ›
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The introduction of AI to the operating theater doesn’t always work out as optimists, or the FDA, might expect. Read more ›
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Bipartisan group of lawmakers want the U.S. government to impose export controls on all wafer fab equipment bound to China except those that can be made locally and make allies do the following. Read more ›
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Nvidia is pushing back against claims that it trained AI models on pirated books, telling a federal court that alleged contact with Anna’s Archive doesn’t amount to proof of copyright infringement. Read more ›
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