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Throw Elon Musk in the trash (in Cyberpunk 2077)

Image: CD Projekt Red Spoilers ahead for Cyberpunk 2077. If you’ve ever wanted to experience throwing Elon Musk down a garbage chute, there is, to my knowledge, at least one option: a side quest in Cyberpunk 2077. For a video game about dystopian wealth disparity, AI-driven cars, and downloading your consciousness into other bodies, Cyberpunk

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Self-Propelled Chainsaw Reduces Injuries

[Advoko] is an expert at milling logs into various sizes of boards. He typically uses nothing but a chainsaw to enable him to mill on-site without needing to bring any large or expensive equipment. The only problem is that sometimes he gets a little carried away running his mill non-stop until he has enough lumber

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First things to do with your new Android phone

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority You’ve just lifted your new Android device from its packaging, and you’re beaming. Maybe your hands are shivering with anticipation. Your mouth is dry, and your pupils are dilated. Okay, perhaps you’re not that excited, but a new phone is certainly a cause for celebration. What comes next, though?

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Q&A with author and labor lawyer Orly Lobel about AI’s ability to help mitigate human biases in hiring and compensation, privacy regulation, and more (Jennifer Conrad/Wired)

Jennifer Conrad / Wired: Q&A with author and labor lawyer Orly Lobel about AI’s ability to help mitigate human biases in hiring and compensation, privacy regulation, and more  —  Author and labor lawyer Orly Lobel says AI can help mitigate human biases in hiring and compensation.

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Virtualizing iPhoneOS 1.0

Virtualizing computers is nothing new. However, Apple devices always present challenges. Just ask anyone who has built a Hackintosh. At least computer hardware is usually exposed, but on phones, the challenge is even harder due to mysterious devices. [Martijn] managed to reverse engineer the iPod Touch 1G enough to run iPhoneOS 1.0 on it and

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The quest to save a Stadia exclusive

Image: Q-Games Earlier this year, Google announced that it was shutting down its game streaming service Stadia, a short three years since its launch in 2018. While it’s mostly fans of the service feeling the impact of the closure, there are a handful of developers with Stadia exclusives that will unfortunately lose their games when

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15 best Android games released in 2022

Mobile gaming continued its domination in 2022. There were a number of high-profile releases, and some of them already have tens of millions of downloads with a healthy active player base. It’s that time of year to find out the best ones and reward them appropriately. Like most years, most of the games on the

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Encoding NTSC With Your Hands Tied

Generally, when trying to implement some protocol, you are constrained by your hardware and time. But for someone like [EMMIR], that’s not enough. For example, NTSC-CRT is a video signal encoding/decoding simulator with no hardware acceleration, floating point math, or third-party libraries. Just basic C. While NTSC has officially gone dark in America, people still

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