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Nintendo Teardown: Here’s what the inside of the Switch looks like

The Nintendo Switch's teardown has shown a lack of adhesive, which should make it quire repairable for home hackers in the future.
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WD My Cloud web interface could give hackers the key to your files

Western Digital's My Cloud range of NAS drives has been shown to be vulnerable to a number of relatively simple exploits.
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Factory living: Turning a disused industrial space into a garden home

La Fabrica is Spanish Architect, Ricardo Bofill's renovated factory home and it blends gardens and the original industrial space beautifully.
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AMD: Ryzen CPU gaming performance inhibited by lack of optimization

AMD has said that Ryzen CPU gaming performance will improve in time as developers implement optimizations for the new hardware.
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‘Ip Man,’ ‘Rogue One’ star Donnie Yen lands lead role in ‘Sleeping Dogs’ movie

Chinese action star Donnie Yen will take on the starring role of Original Film's upcoming Sleeping Dogs movie adaptation.
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‘No Man’s Sky’ maker wants to help developers dodge pitfalls it already fell in

Hello Games wants to help others avoid its mistakes in the procedurally generated gaming space, with its new Hello Labs initiative.
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Amazon's Lumberyard demo shows off direct support for fancy anti-aliasing effects

Amazon has used this year's Nvidia GDC showcase to show off various visual effects for Lumberyard, its VR-compatible game engine.
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Hololens tech supports augmented reality museum exhibit in Manhattan

Microsoft's Hololens has helped art curators develop a virtual museum exhibition within an existing gallery, to the delight of patrons.
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Microsoft OneDrive's one-terabyte-per-user quotas now coming into play

Microsoft has begun its promised culling of OneDrive unlimited packages, limiting them to one terabyte per user.
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Google bumped up Gmail's incoming attachment limit to 50MB

Google has increased the size of incoming attachments on its Gmail webmail service to 50MB, doubling the previous limit.
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Nvidia’s GTX 1060 and 1080 cards may come with faster memory at a lower price

Nvidia is offering hardware partners the chance to upgrade the speed of GTX 1080 and 1060 memory for new factory-overclocked versions.
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How well does your system handle VR? Nvidia’s FCAT VR benchmark will tell you

Nvidia's GCAT VR will make measuring your PC's capabilities in virtual reality easier than ever when it debuts in mid-March.
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Solar Skins could help aesthetics-conscious homeowners go green

Sistine Solar's Solar Skins could be the way forward for homeowners concerned with their energy needs and the look of their roof.
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LG Ultrafine 5K displays are being re-released with adequate shielding

LG's Ultrafine 5K display with previously inadequate shielding is set to be in stock and shipping out to customers by as soon as March 8.
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LG’s ‘next-generation’ virtual reality headset will debut at GDC this week

Valve has confirmed LG is going to debut a prototype of a Steamworks VR headset, with 'next-generation' features and capabilities.
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Qualcomm's VR developer kit specs blow Vive and Rift out of the water

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 VR developer kit can track your hands, eyes, and body, offering true freedom of movement in virtual reality.
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Toshiba 512Gb memory chips are now shipping to manufacturers

Toshiba has started shipping out limited samples of its BiCS3 3D flash memory to partners, ahead of mass production later this year.
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Chrome 58 Canary update adds MacBook Pro Touch Bar support

Google's upcoming update for the Chrome browser, 58, will likely see it add Touch Bar support, as the latest Canary build includes it.
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‘Street Fighter V’ load times almost disappear with new mod

A new mod for Street Fighter V which boosts the frame rate of the VS screen has seen load times decreased by huge margins.
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2017 Gear VR will come with a one-handed controller

Samsung's next iteration of its Gear VR headset will come with a one-handed controller, matching Google's Daydream View.
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Booze and boobs net ‘Breath of the Wild’ series-first ratings from ESRB

The ESRB has rated the upcoming Nintendo Switch launch title, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, as having some "use of alcohol."
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Blizzard is ditching XP and Vista — for real this time

Blizzard is set to ditch XP and Vista support for its games for good, which means soon, those games will no longer run on the old OS's.
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HTC Vive bundle lets you climb Everest, walk the plank for free till end of March

The HTC Vive bundle has been expanded to include two more free games -- Everest VR and Richie's Plank Experience -- until the end of March.
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Envelope internet: Google's Project Loon balloons can now hover in place

Google's Project Loon is ballooning internet to many remote regions using the power of clever navigation and air currents.

‘Injustice 2’ is coming to mobile, and it’s bringing a new combat system with it

Injustice 2 will launch on mobile as well as Xbox One and PS4, with new features and game modes, and a brand new combat system.
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Intel's Optane memory will only work with 7th-generation chipsets

Intel launched a new landing page for its Optane Memory storage system, showing it to be a caching drive for HDDs and SSDs.
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Mobile Pokémon game all about Magikarp is coming in the spring

A new mobile game based on everyone's favorite underpowered Pokémon, Magikarp, is set to debut in Japan in the Spring.
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Vive-like sensor spotted in new Sony patent could make its way to PlayStation VR

Sony could be working on a new type of virtual reality sensor that looks very much like HTC's Vive Lighthouse trackers.
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HTC smartphone VR headset coming by end of the year

HTC's mobile virtual reality headset is coming before the end of the year and will support its new, top-tier handset, the U Ultra.
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'Mastered' Unreal Engine now officially supports Nintendo Switch

Nintendo's Switch console is now officially supported by Epic Game's Unreal Engine, thanks to the latest 4.15 update.
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Take your glasses off — Stanford is making adaptive VR headset displays

Stanford University is developing a new type of adaptive display VR headset, which can be personalized for short- or long-sighted users.
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Oculus Rift replacement accessories are finally available in its online store

Oculus VR now sells replacement accessories for its Rift headset, including a remote and four meter headset cable.
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How do you teach AI to play nice? Give them some games to play together

Cooperation is key, especially if you're an AI of the future. That's why Google's DeepMind has been learning to make them place nice.
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Nidhogg developer’s aerobatic spaceship game ‘Flywrench’ is coming to the PS4

Flywrench, the second game from U.S. developer Mosshof Games, is coming to the PlayStation 4 on Valentine's Day, February 14.