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David J. Farber, ‘Grandfather of the Internet,’ Dies at 91

David J. Farber, a gregarious professor of computer networks sometimes called the “grandfather of the internet” because of the students he trained, died on Feb. 7 in Tokyo. He was 91. His son Emanuel said the apparent cause was heart failure. Professor Farber had been teaching at Keio University in

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DDR4 isn't the main reason the Nitro V15 loses performance

Acer's Nitro V15 arrives with entry-level gaming hardware — an Intel Core i7-13620H, an RTX 5050, a high-refresh IPS screen and 16GB of DDR4 RAM — but its asking price feels out of step with the market. Wider industry shortages and datacentres buying up NAND have pushed component costs up,

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Presidents' Day Apple deals 2026: AirPods, MacBooks, iPads, Watches

Presidents' Day sales have pushed discounts on Apple gear up to $300, with big savings across AirPods, MacBooks, iPads and Apple Watches. Compared with the Apple Store's modest markdowns, third-party retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart are offering much better prices. Pro tip: opting for

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Sideways on ice in a McLaren Artura: stability control tested

On a frozen lake near Saariselkä, Finland, the first slip of a rear end can feel exhilarating when expected and alarming when it is not. Modern electronic stability and traction control systems have been refining that boundary for more than 30 years, trimming engine power and applying individual brakes so

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How to turn on Private DNS on your iPhone — and why it matters

To install a configuration profile that controls DNS on an iPhone, open Safari and download the .mobileconfig file. Then go to Settings, General, VPN & Device Management, tap the profile name and install it; you will be prompted for your passcode. Profiles can be removed at any time, so install

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Court halts direct Asus and Acer gaming PC sales in Germany

A Munich court ruling has paused direct sales of Acer and Asus gaming laptops and desktops in Germany. The decision is the latest development in a patent suit filed last year by Nokia against those two companies and Chinese electronics firm Hisense. Nokia alleges Acer and Asus PCs—and Hisense

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Panther Lake's iGPU is basically an Arc A770 jammed into a mobile chip

After Intel's breakdown of the Xe3 architecture I tested a Panther Lake laptop and found the iGPU is very good. On paper that should be a given: the Arc B390 packs 1536 shaders, 16 MB of L2 cache and a 2.5 GHz boost clock, making it far

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Ring Ends Deal to Link Neighborhood Cameras After Super Bowl Ad

Amazon-owned Ring aired a Super Bowl commercial about a lost dog being reunited through images collected from a web of doorbell cameras. The 30-second spot showed the dog traced from porch to porch by a feature the company called "Search Party," which used images from other cameras in

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Master Collection Vol. 2 gets MGS4 right but misses key handhelds

Thursday's PlayStation State of Play announced Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2, with the biggest headline being the inclusion of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. The collection also brings the PSP mainstay Peace Walker and the surprising addition of the Game Boy Color title

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Beats Studio Pro headphones are 50% off right now - and I can vouch for them

I tested the Beats Studio Pro and found a pair of headphones with a muted, mature matte finish and strong cross-platform compatibility for both iOS and Android users. The design is cleaner than older Beats models, with smoothed hinges and improved ear cup materials called UltraPlush. In Deep Brown the

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Big Game Franchises Are Going Backwards

Sony’s recent PlayStation State of Play featured a short teaser for a remake of the original God of War trilogy, with TC Carson returning as the voice of Kratos. The announcement was notable not for a new entry but for a return to earlier games. That move fits a

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Bethesda devs recall 'glorious' post-Skyrim, pre-Fallout 4 period

Bethesda Game Studios developers have reminisced about the company's glory days following the widely successful launch of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim. Senior designer and writer Emil Pagliarulo said that by the time Fallout 4 "rolled around, our team was so tight" because of everything they

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Goggles Give Ski Jumpers Real-Time Takeoff Feedback

Researchers at ETH Zurich are testing wearable goggles that deliver instant corrective cues to ski jumpers as they race down the ramp and take off. Sensors on the athletes’ ski boots measure body position and pressure continuously, relaying that data to small red or green lights in the periphery of

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New Metal Gear Solid collection omits Metal Gear Online

During last week's PlayStation State of Play, a new Metal Gear Solid collection was announced that includes Metal Gear Solid 4 and the PS3 HD version of Peace Walker. It’s welcome news for anyone who has been waiting for PC ports of those games. It doesn'

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Launching a new studio with former Forza Horizon and Codemasters devs

Gavin Raeburn became fixated on how arcade pixels worked as a boy in England's north east and has since built an extensive credits list, producing Codemasters titles such as TOCA and Colin McRae and serving as studio head and game director on the Forza Horizon series through Horizon

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'They can never kill emulation': players vexed as Nintendo targets Switch emulators

Nintendo Switch emulation has had a rough go of it. The first big Switch emulator, Yuzu, was targeted by a lawsuit in 2024 that its creators settled out of for $2.4 million, and senior editor Wes Fenlon called that outcome "an enormous blow to console emulation." Ryujinx

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Capcom adds Enigma Protector DRM to Steam ports of Dino Crisis 1 and 2

Capcom announced on February 12 that the first two Dino Crisis games—1999’s Dino Crisis and its 2000 sequel—are now available on Steam. The titles originally released for the PlayStation 1 more than 25 years ago and are being offered on Steam with a launch discount of 50%

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Sword Hero dev says players crave more interactive games

Csaba "ForestWare" Székely's Sword Hero is an ambitious, open-ended RPG built around complex NPC behaviors, physics interactions, and emergent gameplay. Székely affectionately describes it as a "eurojank" game, a term for ambitious but often flawed European attempts to replicate or advance '90s PC

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PlayStation Boss Joked It Felt Like Marrying Off His Daughter Over Horizon MMO

NCSoft revealed Horizon Steel Frontiers late last year as an MMO spin-off that will have players grouping on PC and mobile to hunt the franchise’s prehistoric machines. In a recent interview, chief business officer Lee Seong-gu shared structural and timing details and relayed a remark from Hermen Hulst, former

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Verizon offers free iPhone 17 Pro with $200 gift card

Verizon is offering the iPhone 17 Pro for free when you sign up for or switch to the Unlimited Ultimate mobile plan, and will also provide a $200 Verizon digital gift card. The deal covers the 256GB model only. New and current Verizon customers must opt into the Unlimited Ultimate

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Discord to decide which servers to age-gate using AI, automation and review

Discord will decide which servers to age-gate with a combination of automated detection, AI validation and human review. In March, it will roll out facial scanning and ID checks globally for users who don't want to be locked into a "teen-appropriate experience". Some of the content

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Players keep banning Overwatch's jetpack cat Fika in ranked

Jetpack Cat has emerged as a standout in Overwatch's relaunch. The support hero is exactly what she sounds like: a cat with a jetpack that can tether both friends and foes and fly them around the battlefield, giving players unexpected high ground or a quick tumble down the

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The cozy game boom is the clearest trend on Steam over five years of data

The GameDiscoverCo newsletter studies how people find the games they play. Its latest look at Steam is an in-depth study of keywords in capsule descriptions — the short paragraph under a game's icon that summarizes the experience. GameDiscoverCo compiled a spreadsheet of the top 1,000 keywords, filtering out

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Waymo and DoorDash pay drivers to close open robotaxi doors

Waymo and DoorDash confirmed they are working together to send people out to close robotaxi doors left open by riders. The arrangement came to light after a Reddit post showed the DoorDash app offering $6.25 to drive a few blocks and close a Waymo door; once the task was

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Overwatch patch tweaks new heroes but Jetpack Cat remains a pain

Adding five new heroes in one drop was always going to be a balancing challenge, and Blizzard pushed a patch with nerfs and buffs for all five just days after they launched. The update focuses on a few pain points in Domina, Anran, Emre, Jetpack Cat, and Mizuki, with Vendetta