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MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Your thermostat may not look like a power plant. Neither does your electric vehicle, home battery, or HVAC system. But utility and energy companies increasingly want to treat them like one. A virtual power plant, or VPP, is a collection of household devices (such…
Last updated: 28 August 2026 GamStop lets you self-exclude from UK Gambling Commission-licensed online gambling for a minimum of 6 months, 1 year, or 5 years, and once your chosen period expires it does not end automatically — if you take no action, the exclusion continues for a further 7 years. To actually remove it,…
Last updated: 28 August 2026 Big Bass Splash by Pragmatic Play carries an RTP of 96.71%, high-to-very-high volatility, and a maximum win of 5,000x the stake — more than double the 2,100x cap of the original Big Bass Bonanza, despite sharing the exact same RTP. The game runs on a traditional 5×3 grid with 10…
Android’s retro gaming scene has quietly consolidated around three names. Sideload marketplaces, Reddit threads, and Discord servers dedicated to emulation keep circling back to the same trio: RetroArch, Lemuroid, and EmuBox. Each promises the same basic pitch — one app, dozens of consoles, no need to hunt down a separate emulator for every system you…
Last updated: 28 August 2026 Boku deposits at UK online casinos are typically capped at £30 per transaction, with daily limits usually falling between £30 and £40 depending on your mobile network and the specific operator. As a pay-by-mobile method, Boku charges deposits either to your monthly phone bill if you’re on contract, or deducts…
Apple used a Tuesday morning press release instead of a keynote to introduce the biggest jump in Mac silicon since the M1 Ultra launched in 2022. The M6 and M5 Ultra chips, unveiled August 25, 2026, land in a redesigned Mac mini and a refreshed Mac Studio, and the headline numbers are hard to ignore:…
ANBERNIC just gave Nintendo something to think about. The Shenzhen manufacturer behind the brand, Bounty Hunter Technology Co., Limited, built its name on cheap, Linux-powered retro slabs like the RG35XX and RG SP. Its newest device breaks that pattern. The RG 55G1 is ANBERNIC’s first handheld built around a Qualcomm chip, and the resemblance to…
Google AI Pro costs $19.99 a month. Google AI Ultra starts at $99.99 and tops out near $199.99 for the highest-limit tier. Those numbers look simple on Google’s own pricing page, but the real cost of getting into Gemini’s top model depends heavily on where you live, what payment methods your bank supports, and whether…
The advisory arrived from CISA on August 12, 2026, and it read like most of the ones before it: patch known exploited vulnerabilities, keep offline immutable backups, and segment the network so a single infected laptop can’t become a company-wide outage. That last instruction is the one most organizations still skip. The NIST Zero Trust…
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a fresh set of campaigns targeting government and diplomatic organizations in Romania, Spain, and Türkiye between late September 2025 and early April 2026. These campaigns, per Recorded Future Insikt Group, have led to the deployment of a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed HOOKEDGE, a lightweight Windows batch script that’s distributed via
