PlayStation Portal update adds public Wi-Fi support and more this week
Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has detailed the latest system software update for PlayStation Portal.
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Fetch the popcorn: US government sues Adobe, says it's 'trapped' consumers with a subs model that's 'absurdly hard to cancel' and 'ambushed' them with late fees
In news that will delight any user of Photoshop, the US government is suing Adobe for allegedly harming consumers by «enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing important plan terms.»
Emulation proves the inevitable Achilles' Heel of Qualcomm's new PC chips when it comes to gaming
Two weeks ago I was in a hotel in downtown Taipei prodding some of Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Elite laptops, and I was impressed with how well they ran Baldur's Gate 3 and Metro Exodus. Both are compiled for the x86 CPU architecture, yet the co-created Microsoft/Qualcomm Prism emulation layer still delivered impressive gaming performance from proper PC games. And I was happy. A few days later I was happier still as I checked out the Works on WoA microsite to see about game compatibility and this is what I saw:
Hero coder finds bug in Lunar Lander after 55 years—'I suspect everybody else was just happy to play the game and have fun'
Apollo 11 touched down on the moon's surface on July 20, 1969, an achievement for all humankind that put a full stop on the first iteration of the space race. Neil Armstrong stepped into history as the globe watched and among the millions in awe was 17 year-old schoolboy Jim Storer.
This 8-bit demake of Baldur's Gate 3 was made for a 40-year-old laptop, and it's a massive shot of pure 1980s gaming nostalgia
Demakes of the latest popular 3D games are often designed to emulate how they might look on hardware a few years old, sometimes a couple of decades. Taking Baldur's Gate 3 and getting it to run on something that's over 40 years old, though, is on a whole new level—but that's exactly what one ingenious software engineer has managed to do.
Hyte Thicc Q60 AIO cooler review
Take a look at the Hyte Thicc Q60 and you might come to the conclusion that this is an all-in-one liquid cooler that pushes appearance over performance. That's not strictly true, however. Yes, the Q60 is adorned with a 5-inch screen, a litany of RGB LEDs, and some tidy cabling—but there's also a chunky CPU cooler beneath it all.
Every Brutal DOOM: The Dark Ages Weapon Announced (So Far)
was announced recently at the Xbox Games Showcase, accompanied by a crunchy trailer that introduces many new and outrageous weapons to the Slayer’s arsenal. As the title suggests, the theme this time around is everything medieval, though ’s interpretation predictably has more in common with dark fantasy and metal album covers than it does with smallpox and Chaucer. Considering all the vicious weapons on display, from rail-guns and chainsaw shields to skull-spitting miniguns, hell’s demons will likely have a poorer life expectancy than even the sickliest tenth-century peasant once the player shows up.
Huawei’s HarmonyOS NEXT Rumored To Remove All Source Code That Is In Any Way Linked To The U.S., Including Linux And Android
Apart from introducing its Mate 70 flagship smartphone series later in the year, Huawei is said to launch HarmonyOS NEXT, its actual in-house operating system, which will give the former Chinese giant the freedom to rid itself of Google’s Android and the looming threat of the U.S. However, to sever any linkage with foreign entities, Huawei is said to remove all source code from HarmonyOS NEXT, including Linux and Android.