Esa Riutta/Shutterstock By Eli Becht/July 31, 2023 5:00 pm EST Getting a Steam Deck gives people the power to play games from their PC on a handheld device. The games are running natively on the Steam Deck, so you'll have to grab a storage device big enough to hold everything, but that's not your only option.
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Sneak Peek at the $2.3B MSG Sphere’s Huge Immersive Screen,
We got to experience demos of some of the technology powering the MSG Sphere arena, opening this fall in Las Vegas. Jesse Orrall Senior Video Producer Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for CNET. He covers future tech, sustainability and the social impact of technology. He is co-host of CNET's "What The Future"
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Twitter’s rebrand to X is causing scam alerts on Microsoft
'Twitters swift rebrand to X is generating yet another issue. As reported by Bleeping Computer, the social media platform is causing Microsoft's Edge browser to throw up a warning, indicating some sort of security problem. It seems to be related to how Edge and other Chromium-based web browsers deal with favicons (or 'Progressive Web App
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Vivaldi, Mozilla raise alarms over Google’s proposed ‘DRM for the
Image: StackCommerce A proposed Google specification for ensuring trust on the Web has come under fire for potentially giving websites control over which browsers have the right to access them — and potentially blocking an unwanted browser from accessing a site owned by Google or Microsoft. At issue is what Google calls Web Environment Integrity
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Meta’s Threads finally adds a following feed
Image: Dominik Tomaszewski / Foundry Text is hotter than ever. Threads, the “Instagram but with a tech focus” social media app built by Facebook, now has a feed dedicated to following…the people you follow. Meanwhile, TikTok, the Chinese social video app, has also followed Threads’ lead by adding its own text-only posts. Meta chief executive
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AMD ‘Zenbleed’ bug lets hackers steal data from Ryzen CPUs
Image: AMD A new vulnerability has been discovered in AMD’s Zen 2 processors—one that allows data like passwords and encryption keys to be stolen from the CPU. Disclosed publicly this week by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy, this bug affects consumer chips as well as server, including Ryzen 3000 series parts. As detailed by Ormandy
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The world’s leading language learning software is an extra $30
Image: StackCommerce Before you head out on your summer vacation, it’s a great idea to learn the language of your destination. It will help you navigate a new country and avoid coming off like the Ugly American. And right now is a great opportunity to start learning because a lifetime subscription to Rosetta Stone is
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Beat roaming charges on your summer travels with this eSIM,
Image: StackCommerce If you’re traveling abroad this summer, you may already be worrying about the roaming charges. Well, you don’t have to, because an aloSIM Mobile Data Traveler Lifetime eSim Plan will help you beat the charges in more than 120 countries, and it’s currently half off to get started. This digital SIM card gives
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Microsoft Team’s newest filter applies your makeup for you
Image: Microsoft Most people know the feeling of having an off-morning—e.g., sleeping past your alarm or the coffee just not kicking in. Putting on a full face of makeup is one way to shake yourself out of the doldrums before your video meetings, but it takes time. Or at least, it did before Microsoft’s newest
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Google releases Nearby Share, its Android AirDrop clone for Windows
Image: Google You now have a new way to connect your Windows PC to an Android device to share files: Nearby Share, an app Google released Wednesday and which will be bundled with upcoming PCs. As the name suggests, Nearby Share allows you to share files back and forth between Android devices and PCs. It’s