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There’s a reason Metaphor: ReFantanzio’s battle music sounds as cool as it sounds– BC

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Metaphor: ReFantanzio is one of the best games of 2024 and has racked up a slew of Game Awards, including Best Role-Playing Game, Best Art Direction, and Best Narrative. But one category in which Metáfora particularly stood out was its music. The soundtrack, produced by Shoji Meguro, the veteran musical director of the Person The […]

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This solid aluminum keyboard costs as much as a MacBook Pro– BC

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If statement keyboards are your thing and you have some serious money to spend, you should check out this brutalist flagship offering from Serene Industries. The icebreaker is a wedge-shaped mechanical keyboard constructed from a single block of CNC-machined aluminum, featuring hot-swappable aluminum keycaps with configurable RGB backlighting. Pre-orders are now availablewith prices starting at

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Trump announces new technology policy options for his second term– BC

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in a couple of Social Truth publications On Sunday, Donald Trump announced a series of picks for his administration’s technology policy team that will report to David Sacks, Trump’s “AI and cryptocurrency czar.” Those chosen include Michael Kratsios, who will lead the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) if confirmed by the Senate. Kratsios,

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Amazon Prime Video: the best shows of 2024– BC

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Amazon’s Prime Video had several solid releases in 2024, ranging from a surprisingly excellent video game adaptation to a visually pleasing fantasy spinoff. There’s even an update to the most daring superhero show on streaming. It also had plenty of other series worth watching, even with the annoying commercial breaks Prime Video started showing during

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US ends CHIPS Act funding for Samsung and Texas Instruments– BC

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The US Department of Commerce has granted Samsung and Texas Instruments with a combined total of more than $6 billion in “direct funding under the CHIPS Incentive Program Commercial Manufacturing Financing Opportunity,” according to a pair of announcements released Friday. Samsung will take home the largest of the two prizes: $4.745 million. He Department of

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Qualcomm wins legal battle over Arm chip license– BC

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A federal jury in Delaware determined on friday that Qualcomm did not violate its agreement with Arm by acquiring Nuvia in 2021, a startup founded by three former Apple engineers. As previously reported by Bloomberg and ReutersThe decision stems from a two-year legal battle that accused Qualcomm of misusing chip designs that Arm granted to

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Bluesky now has a mentions tab in your notification area– BC

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Bluesky now has a specific tab for mentions in your notifications as part of the app update 1.96 just released. With the mentions tab, it is much easier to see your responses or conversations in which you have been tagged on the platform. Speaking of replies, update 1.96 gives you easy access to settings that

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iOS 18.3 release date: When can you try this fun new feature– BC

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The next big iOS update probably isn’t too far away, but don’t expect much from it. Apple’s next software update will be iOS 18.3, or at least, that’s what everyone expects right now. Since iOS 18.2 just came out, that would make sense. It’s worth noting that we don’t know specifically when iOS 18.3 will

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Here comes Sandisk with a rebrand– BC

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SanDisk is now SANDISK. Now it’s also Sandisk. The company is announcing a new rebrand this week with a new logo that ditches the between-the-caps style generally maintained since 1995 for one inspired by “a single data point” or a “pixel.” In a new video, Sandisk says its “slab serif is back and bolder” and

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Intel Finally Scores a GPU Victory and Confirms Arc B580 Is Running Out of Stock After Stellar Reviews– BC

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Intel is having an incredibly difficult year, but at long last, the company’s discrete graphics card initiative has produced a card worth celebrating. While we haven’t managed to review it ourselves due to a fortuitous issue, the $250 Arc B580 “Battlemage” GPU released to near-universal praise has already sold out almost everywhere, and Intel says

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