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A whole new low in government trust

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Our country changed so quickly in the past week that it feels like the pod doors have been sealed shut and an anti-gravity switch flipped inside our borders. From the outside, it probably looks like a snow globe scene of… Go To Full Article

Nvidia covers the 2015 Shield in Nougat

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When we said the hardware inside the updated Nvidia Shield Android TV was "essentially unchanged," we weren't kidding. Nvidia has pushed out a software update for the original Shield that upgrades it with Android 7.0 Nougat and most (if not… Go To Full Article

BitTorrent's live TV app finally arrives on Android

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Despite troubles plaguing the company, BitTorrent has brought its peer-to-peer live streaming app to Android, a few weeks after making the iOS version available. The app can be downloaded from the Google Play Store, where it has already garnered a… Go To Full Article

Japan is getting a Final Fantasy XIV-inspired live-action TV drama

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When you hear the term "live action Final Fantasy TV drama," you probably imagine something akin to Game of Thrones. But don't get your hopes up too much. Final Fantasy XIV: Daddy of Light is actually an upcoming Japanese TV… Go To Full Article

Wine project spills out a 2.0 release

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Advances in virtualization technology and web applications coupled with ever-rising memory and storage capacities have progressively turned the stage lights away from Wine, a software tool for directly running Windows applications on Linux and macOS. The Wine developers kept on… Go To Full Article

'Gears of War 4' makes cross-platform multiplayer official

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Last December Microsoft tried out something it hadn't done in quite awhile: adversarial cross-platform multiplayer. For a single weekend, there was a test between folks playing against each other in Gears of War 4 on PC and Xbox One. Now,… Go To Full Article

Trump's first week: An affront to the web and science

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For those who opposed Donald Trump's ascension to the White House, the first week of his presidency confirmed a number of fears. Many of Trump's perceived worst characteristics were on full display. He openly lied about crowd sizes at his… Go To Full Article

FBI releases redacted report of its GamerGate investigation

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It's one thing to have read about (and reported on) the various threats of violence perpetrated by GamerGate, but seeing the FBI's collection of documents regarding the harassment campaign is entirely different. The Bureau recently released a 173-pag... Go To Full Article

Dell's XPS 13 2-in-1 nearly lives up to the original

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It was only a matter of time until Dell gave us a convertible spin on the XPS 13, our favorite Windows laptop for nearly two years running. While the original model is still ideal if you need a traditional laptop… Go To Full Article

'A Normal Lost Phone' is a game set entirely inside a smartphone

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"A Normal Lost Phone." That's precisely what you think after launching this curious new indie game. The text messages, calendar app and music player -- everything is made to look and feel like a smartphone. You're free to poke around,… Go To Full Article

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