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Retro Remake opens preorders for its PS One FPGA clone

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Retro Remake’s Taki Udon announced last night that preorders had opened for the SuperStation One, a...
Retro Remake’s Taki Udon announced last night that preorders had opened for the SuperStation One, a clone of the PS One variant of the original PlayStation. The $149.99 Founders Edition preorders are sold out already, but you can still preorder the standard $225 SuperStation One for $179.99 right now, with shipping ...
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Netflix won the streaming wars, and we’re all about to pay for it

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Whenever Netflix raises its prices — which seems to happen roughly as often as Ben Affleck...
Whenever Netflix raises its prices — which seems to happen roughly as often as Ben Affleck falls in love with an A-list celebrity — the company always gives the same reason. It needs the extra money, you see, in order to keep investing in the kind of programming and product its 302 million subscribers demand. That’s...
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Live AI on Meta’s smart glasses is a solution looking for a problem

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Here’s the scene: I’m wearing Meta’s latest Ray-Ban glasses with a new feature called Live AI,...
Here’s the scene: I’m wearing Meta’s latest Ray-Ban glasses with a new feature called Live AI, which can answer questions about the world around you. I’m preparing for a four-hour road trip to my in-laws for the Christmas holiday. I’m preplanning the next day’s breakfast because I’m 99.9 percent certain I will have ...
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The 2025 Android upgrade cycle has begun

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 68, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in...
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 68, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you’re staying warm and sane, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Kieran Culkin and insomnia and the eBay for fa...
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What handheld PCs should do to fight the Nintendo Switch 2

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I stopped buying most games for my Nintendo Switch the day I bought a Steam Deck....
I stopped buying most games for my Nintendo Switch the day I bought a Steam Deck. My Switch has been a Mario and Zelda machine ever since. It’s simple: the Steam Deck took the Switch’s best trick — pick-up-and-play portability — while offering more games that run better. I can easily resume the ones I started on my ...
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Oracle and Microsoft are reportedly in talks to take over TikTok

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Oracle and a group of investors that includes Microsoft are in talks to take over TikTok’s...
Oracle and a group of investors that includes Microsoft are in talks to take over TikTok’s global operations, reports NPR. The deal would reportedly see ByteDance keeping a minority stake in TikTok while “the app’s algorithm, data collection and software updates will be overseen by Oracle.” The outlet reports the Wh...
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Fubo’s cheapest streaming plan is now $85 per month

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All the news about Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs

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Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs are just around the corner, with the first releases — the RTX...
Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs are just around the corner, with the first releases — the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 — dropping on January 30th. The RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 will follow that with their own releases in February, but some are already getting a sneak peek at the GPUs’ software benefits through DLSS 4.Tom Warren...
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The best indie games we’re playing right now

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Splashy blockbuster games are great, but there are there are a huge number of indie and...
Splashy blockbuster games are great, but there are there are a huge number of indie and smaller video games worth playing, too. Whether they’re pushing the boundaries of the medium and or offering a creative spin on classic ideas, indie games can be just as interesting as big-budget epics.Sometimes, though, indie ga...
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Marvel Snap is coming back to app stores soon, says developer

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Mobile card game Marvel Snap is coming back to app stores, starting with Google Play. That’s...
Mobile card game Marvel Snap is coming back to app stores, starting with Google Play. That’s according to Developer Second Dinner, which announced yesterday it was starting the process of restoring the game to Google’s Android app store at 6PM PT / 3PM ET that day. The developer said in another post it expects the g...
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Windows 11 is getting colorful new battery icons that are easier to understand at a glance

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Microsoft is releasing a new Windows 11 Insider Preview Build today with some welcome improvements to...
Microsoft is releasing a new Windows 11 Insider Preview Build today with some welcome improvements to the operating system’s battery icon – possibly sparing you the realization that you’ve chosen a dead outlet, or improperly plugged in your power adapter, or let your battery drain too much, before it’s far too late....
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The $900 Ayaneo 3 is the most exciting PC handheld the company’s yet made

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Ayaneo builds the best-looking handheld PCs in the business, but they’ve always been boutique. The 2023...
Ayaneo builds the best-looking handheld PCs in the business, but they’ve always been boutique. The 2023 Ayaneo 2, for example, cost $1,300 for an arguably worse experience than the $400 Steam Deck. But that experience isn’t dampening my excitement for the new 7-inch Ayaneo 3. Not only does this one start at $900, wi...
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Here are the best robot vacuum deals right now

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We’re in an age where you can realistically delegate tasks to smart hunks of metal, whether...
We’re in an age where you can realistically delegate tasks to smart hunks of metal, whether it’s a self-driving car or a robot that can clean on your behalf. Most of us probably won’t be able to afford the helpful sentient humanoids being developed in our lifetimes, but robot vacuums are an affordable way to experie...
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Rivian will add hands-free driver assist to vehicles this year, ‘eyes-off’ next year

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Rivian is planning to launch a hands-free driving assistant system for its electric R1T and R1S...
Rivian is planning to launch a hands-free driving assistant system for its electric R1T and R1S vehicles later this year, followed by an “eyes-off” version in 2026, reveals Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe in a press roundtable interview according to a post on Rivian Forums and reported by Electrek. The first part of the syst...
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Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know he has a big AI data center, too

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects to spend as much as $65 billion on AI in 2025...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects to spend as much as $65 billion on AI in 2025 as part of a “massive effort” to further the company’s AI ambitions. Part of the plan includes a Louisiana data center that Zuckerberg says “is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan,” he wrote on Threads today.The announ...
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Meta’s censoring of abortion information is nothing new

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Earlier this week, several posts on the Instagram page of Aid Access, an abortion pill provider,...
Earlier this week, several posts on the Instagram page of Aid Access, an abortion pill provider, were inaccessible to the public. Some images were blurred out, with no option to click through and view the post. Others appeared simply as a gray square with nondescript alt text, as if the image didn’t load. Aid Access...
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Threads is offically getting ads

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The Ram 1500 Rev’s 500-mile battery option is reportedly canceled

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Stellantis is reportedly canceling the 500-mile range version of the upcoming Ram 1500 Rev, leaving the...
Stellantis is reportedly canceling the 500-mile range version of the upcoming Ram 1500 Rev, leaving the electric truck with only one option that maxes out at an estimated 350 miles on a single charge. The news comes from Mopar Insiders, which got hold of internal emails telling suppliers to stop working on truck com...
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2025 looks like a great year for Xbox

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There’s a long-running joke in the Xbox community that Microsoft will finally hit its stride with...
There’s a long-running joke in the Xbox community that Microsoft will finally hit its stride with Game Pass and Xbox releases “next year.” The joke has been going around since 2018, when Microsoft made a series of big studio acquisitions to create more Xbox games and make Game Pass more appealing. Year after year, X...
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Live translations on Meta’s smart glasses work well — until they don’t

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I was in middle school the last time I took a Spanish class. I remember enough...
I was in middle school the last time I took a Spanish class. I remember enough for toddler talk — phrases like “Donde está el baño?” and “mi gato es muy gordo” — but having a meaningful conversation in Spanish without a translator is out of the question. So I was genuinely surprised the other day when, thanks to the...
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This is the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge

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Xbox beta tests support for massive amounts of external storage

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Xbox has a new beta software update rolling out today for Insiders in the Alpha Skip-Ahead...
Xbox has a new beta software update rolling out today for Insiders in the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring that enables Series X and S systems to support much larger external hard disks. Previously, the Xbox could only support up to 16TB of space on a single USB-connected drive.With the new update, Xbox systems can now partiti...
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New survey reports one in 10 game developers have lost their jobs in 2024

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One in 10 game developers lost their job in 2024. That’s according to the results of...
One in 10 game developers lost their job in 2024. That’s according to the results of the annual Game Developers Conference state of the video game survey. The survey sampled over 3,000 developers and covered a number of topics including industry layoffs and what kind of games developers are working on.Prolific layof...
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Dozens of subreddits are banning links to X

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Dozens of popular subreddits are banning links to X after Elon Musk made a gesture that...
Dozens of popular subreddits are banning links to X after Elon Musk made a gesture that historians and human rights groups have described as a Nazi salute. Communities that have instituted a ban on links to X include r/formula1, r/military, r/nursing, r/TwoXChromosomes, and r/nintendo.The shift is spreading across R...
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