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Technical Writing Advice
Some advice for writing technical material.
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"Our players can swing different types of ways" - Warframe studio talks avoiding Protoframe burnout, and fending off fans' furious appetite for romance
Warframe's next update - Jade Shadows: Constellations - has finally arrived, bringing with it two new Protoframes: Ryoku and Vena. A relatively recent addition to the sci-fi shooter's playable repertoire, Protoframes - essentially human versions of the game's familiar Warframes - were a bold swin
Spotify’s reserved ticket sales to music superfans are now going live
Spotify is launching "Reserved," a new system that will hold two concert tickets for an artist's superfans before they're on sale to the public.
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For some reason, Riot Games is creating a Valorant 'pub' in east London hosted by a British takeaway guy who likes to yell "bosh!"
Ever watched a Big John video? He's a big guy from London who films himself eating food that'd probably floor me. I watched one video where he ordered three pies and two scoops of mash potato and some swamp-like sauce. Proper hearty food he calls it, then he said "bosh", and apparently he says bosh
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Rockstar reveals the Grand Theft Auto 6 box art, which is quite nice I suppose, and pre-order dates for the game
Rockstar Games has revealed the box art for Grand Theft Auto 6, which looks a lot like you'd expect it to look, and it's revealed pre-order dates for the new game. Read more
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Ditching the cloud for local AI — how I use two mini PCs to process millions of tokens a day and save money on costly API fees
As new data center buildouts hit planning walls and AI inference providers hike costs, is the future of AI to roll your own models?
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Noctua NL-LC1-36 Review: Compromise paves the way
We test Noctua’s first attempt at an all-in-one liquid cooler, focusing specifically on pump performance to determine whether Noctua’s AIO is truly a viable alternative to swapping the fans on another unit and the brand’s own legendary air cooler.
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As GTA Online readies for another large update, and GTA 6 approaches, Rockstar offers free upgrades to GTA 5 on PS5 and Xbox Series S/X
In a surprise move, Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games is giving players of GTA 5 on PS4 or Xbox One a free upgrade to GTA 5 on PS5 or Xbox Series X/S. Read more
Adobe adds its AI assistant to Premiere, Illustrator, and InDesign
Adobe is updating its Firefly AI assistant with new chops, and adding it to Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io.
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Battlefield Studios addresses annoying Battlefield 6 Season 3 bugs, including the mysterious black void, but many issues remain
Battlefield Studios has rolled out a new hotfix for Battlefield 6 players across PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. The small patch, version 1.3.2.1, went live Wednesday morning. This is the first client-side patch to arrive in response to the mess of bugs and issues that made their way into the game wi
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Vampire Survivors studio Poncle is "reviewing" its Fortnite collaboration after the State of Unreal show and Epic's focus on generative AI
Last night, during its State of Unreal presentation, Epic unveiled a number of upcoming Fortnite collaborations with Control Resonant, Sonic Crossworlds Racing, Phantom Blade Zero, and the award-winning Vampire Survivors. However, a mere matter of hours later, Vampire Survivors developer Poncle sai
The Download: a new hunt for dark matter and Kenya’s case for going solar
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The search for dark matter has been blown wide open For decades, physicists have hunted for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for
Pixi’s new iOS app turns text messages into interactive AR experiences
Forget stickers, GIFs, and emoji reactions. Pixi is betting that the next evolution of messaging is interactive augmented reality (AR).
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The Winner of the AI-Pocalypse? The Full-Stack Generalist (But Probably Later Instead of Sooner)
We've been told since late 2022 that "within 6 months, we won't need software engineers anymore". I...
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No, Tom Cruise wasn't nearly Halo's Master Chief, and Julia Roberts wasn't nearly in the series either - but there was this conversation at a party
Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise didn't nearly voice Halo's famous protagonist Master Chief, and Hollywood superstar Julia Roberts wasn't nearly in Halo either. There was a conversation at a party once, between a casting agent and Halo voice director and composer Marty O'Donnell, but that's as far as
HSBC expands AI banking partnership with Google Cloud
HSBC has entered a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud to develop and deploy artificial intelligence tools across its global operations. Announced at Google Cloud Summit London 2026, the agreement covers work in wealth management, financial crime risk management, and internal decision support.
Geoengineering still faces major practical challenges
Solar geoengineering is often portrayed as a sort of emergency brake. Something along the lines of Pull in case of climate emergency to scatter light-reflecting particles to bounce sunlight out of the atmosphere and cool the planet. But it might be less like a simple brake and more like a complicate
Microsoft sells OpenAI models in China. OpenAI and Anthropic won’t.
Microsoft has quietly become the main supplier of OpenAI models in China, selling the technology to the country’s largest internet companies even as OpenAI and Anthropic keep their own models out of the market on intellectual-property and misuse grounds. The arrangement, detailed this week by Bloomb
The search for dark matter has been blown wide open
Underneath an Apennine massif, below the Jinping Mountains of Sichuan, and at the bottom of a South Dakota mine, there is a cosmic hunt afoot. Isolated deep beneath these rocky shields, massive detectors filled with liquid xenon aim to make the first direct detections of dark matter, the long-sought
The new bottleneck
Engineering teams have upgraded their tools. Have they upgraded how they work?