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Steam Deck has quietly turned into one of the best pocket-sized machines for playing every mainline and spin-off Pokémon game ever released, from the original Game Boy Advance cartridges to GameCube-era spin-offs like Pokémon Colosseum. The trick is that Valve’s handheld runs a full Linux desktop underneath SteamOS, and that desktop can host the same…
The U.S. Senate has opened a bipartisan investigation into Roblox, the gaming platform that puts more than 100 million daily users — many of them children as young as five — inside a marketplace of user-built worlds. On August 13, 2026, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chair and ranking member of…
Sony has raised the price of every PS5 model twice in less than a year, confirmed it will stop manufacturing physical game discs starting January 2028, and told investors it cannot commit to a launch date for the PlayStation 6. All three moves trace back to the same root cause: a global memory chip shortage…
Every framework migration argument eventually lands on the same battlefield: forms. Routing, state management, and component syntax get most of the attention, but forms are where React and Vue apps actually lose users, through slow validation, confusing error states, or fields that silently fail on submit. This tutorial builds the exact same production form twice,…
Nvidia dropped a detail at its SIGGRAPH 2026 keynote on July 20 that changes the calculus for anyone still deciding between an RTX 4090 and an RTX 5080: DLSS 5 ships this fall, and it runs exclusively on RTX 50-series hardware. No RTX 40-series support has been announced, which means the 4090, Nvidia’s own flagship…
Konami shipped Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 on August 27, 2026, and buried inside the routine $49.99 price tag is a bigger story than a stealth-game re-release. For the first time, a major third-party publisher put a legacy AAA compilation on Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam on…
A cyberattack that British officials privately link to Iran forced a small UK power generator offline for four days in July 2026, in what security researchers describe as the first confirmed case of an Iran-linked group successfully knocking a UK energy asset out of service. The incident, first reported by The Telegraph and the Financial…
Venure capital’s signal today is not that risk appetite has returned evenly across the startup market. It is that investors are paying aggressively for bottlenecks created by the deployment of artificial intelligence: electricity, model security, autonomous logistics, semiconductor design, licensed […] The post Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, August 25, 2026: Aramco Ventures, ARK…
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, ending a 21-year experiment in crowdsourced digital labor that once put humans behind tasks computers could not handle. The timing carries a certain irony: artificial intelligence is getting better at many of the jobs […] The post Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after 21 years as AI reshapes…
Startup investors put more than $546 million in disclosed dollar-denominated capital, plus €11.6 million, into the 10 most significant qualifying rounds identified in the latest 16-hour window. The biggest checks went to autonomous freight, AI data-center power management, and consumer […] The post Startup Funding News Today, August 26, 2026: Emerald AI, Gatik, Stellaria &…
