Two of the world's most populous nations are joining a growing global movement to ban teenagers from social media services

Steam Machine, Steam Controler dan Steam Frame diumumkan tahun lalu dengan ia pada asalnya akan dilancarkan awal tahun ini

"In November Steam on Linux use hit an all-time high of 3.2%," reports Phoronix

A blog post from Valve itself sparked concerns that the Steam Machine would be pushed back to 2027

Companies can degrade the functionality of your car or effectively destroy your connected washing machine with a software update, says the report

If Sony's allegedly going to take away the ability to play its PlayStation exclusives on PC, you can rebel by converting the PS5 into a straight-up PC

Valve's latest announcement puts the Steam Machine release for "this year," after changing the console's expected arrival date from the first quarter to the first half of 2026

Hardware shortages might delay 2026 release of Valve's Steam Machine

Its a busy time for the reviews team and Engadget, and with Apple announcing new devices this week, we arent letting up any time soon

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As part of a Year in Review blog detailing changes Valve made to Steam in 2025, the company shared a minor update on its hardware plans that doesn't sound good for anyone hoping to buy a Steam Machine, Steam Controller or Steam Frame in 2026

In a blog post on Thursday, System76 CEO Carl Richell criticized new state laws in California, Colorado, and New York that would require operating systems to verify users' ages and expose that information to apps, arguing the rules are easy for kids to bypass and ultimately undermine privacy and freedom more than they protect minors

There is so much to love about Dell's new XPS 14, it's hard for me to discuss it without sounding like a total fanboy

Capcom revealed during its March 5 Spotlight showcase that Pragmata , its repeatedly delayed dystopian sci-fi adventure game, will release on April 17 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC via Steam

Apple has removed the 512GB RAM configuration for the Mac Studio, leaving 256GB as the new maximum

Survey of UK bosses find 62 percent rely on LLMs for help Most business leaders in the United Kingdom appear to have outsourced a lot of their decisionmaking to machine learning models, according to a survey of 200 suits published by data streaming tools vendor Confluent

If your Playdate wishlist is anything like mine (endless), here's a good excuse to actually go ahead and free some of those games from limbo: Panic is running a two-week-long sale on the Playdate Catalog to celebrate its three-year anniversary

You made a time machine vapemobile ..

For an electric car to survive in this incentive-free , tariff-laden , emissions-loving world, it has to be very, very good

Apple is looking to gain a foothold in the more budget-friendly end of the laptop market with the MacBook Neo

Apple just announced the MacBook Neo , a 13-inch laptop offering the full macOS experience for just $599

The most interesting product Apple announced this week was its cheapest and least powerful laptop, the MacBook Neo

Sony is pulling a U-turn on its multi-platform strategy, with Bloomberg s Jason Schreier reporting that first-party PS5 games soon to become exclusive once again, at the expense of PC players

Apple had promised a big week for the company as rumors swirled that it had a number of product announcements lined up

Whether you want a beast of a machine with dedicated graphics or a light, easy-to-upgrade PC, we have the perfect rig for you.

Rhythm games never really went away after the decline of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, but it feels like theyre having a bit of a moment again

The indie gaming news has been flying out of Nintendo's event today at a rapid-fire pace

Time to dust off your boomboxes and your walkmans: musical coming-of-age game Mixtape is due out this spring

OpenAI is amending its Pentagon contract after CEO Sam Altman acknowledged it appeared "opportunistic and sloppy." On Monday night, Altman said the company would explicitly restrict its technology from being used by intelligence agencies and for mass domestic surveillance

Sure, Blue Prince has the most name recognition among the indie games that had a surprise debut on Nintendo Switch 2 today

There's more waffling going on about the future of electric vehicles in America right now than you might expect at a Belgian breakfast buffet

A keyboard is one of those pieces of gear you interact with constantly, yet its easy to overlook how much it affects your day-to-day comfort

The Library of Congress has restored Gugusse et l'Automate, an 1897 short by Georges Melies that likely features the first robot ever shown on film

The latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey for February 2026 has shown that the GeForce RTX 5070 has become the platform's most popular gaming graphics card, but there are some doubts about the survey methodology

The Analogue Pocket handheld retro console has proven to be extremely popular, as initial runs have sold out

Lenovo's ThinkBook Modular AI PC Concept debuted at IFA, with a detachable display and keyboard to personalize the device to the way you want to use it

The potential of modular laptops has never fully translated to the real world

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Researchers at Cortical Labs used living human neurons grown on a chip to learn how to play Doom in about a week

An anonymous reader shares a column: I'm going to take the diplomatic hat off here and say with brutal honesty: basically everybody in the music business hates Spotify except for the people who work there

The $200 billion video game industry is caught between studios eager to cut ballooning development costs through AI and a player base that has grown openly hostile to the technology after a string of visible blunders

After suggesting a version of AMD's FSR 4 could be ported to the PS5 Pro last year, it looks like Sony is finally rolling out an update with the upscaling tech in March

If theres one thing that stops people using their smart rings over the long term, its the battery life

Android 17 is building up steam with Google's aggressive Beta pace.

Were still waiting for releases dates for Remedys in-development Max Payne remakes , but if youre in need of a noir fix sooner than that, keep an eye on Liquid Swords Samson: A Tyndalston Story , which just got a release date of April 8

A team of researchers discovered that they can break cryptographic client isolation on a number of wireless routers by taking advantage of how Wi-Fi networks work

How much would you pay for a good night's sleep? This is a question I've asked myself repeatedly over the last few weeks as I've been testing the Dreamie, a $250 alarm clock and "bedside companion" that I couldn't stop thinking about after I first encountered it at CES

Burger King, the chain that leans into creepy when others don't dare, is at it again

New York state has filed a lawsuit against Valve alleging that randomized loot boxes in games like Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2 amount to a form of unregulated gambling, letting users "pay for the chance to win a rare virtual item of significant monetary value." From a report: While many randomized video game loot boxes have drawn attention and regulation from various government bodies in recent years, the New York suit calls out Valve's system specifically for "enabl[ing] users to sell the virtual items they have won, either through its own virtual marketplace, the Steam Community Market, or through third-party marketplaces." The vast majority of Valve's in-game loot boxes contain skins that can only be resold for a few cents, the suit notes, while the rarest skins can be worth thousands of dollars through marketplaces on and off of Steam

Machine Games has reportedly released a casting call for an unannounced project, and it sounds like it could be attached to the studio's next Wolfenstein game

The ability to resell Steam items for real value is key to the state's case.

New York Attorney General Letitia James has accused Valve of promoting illegal gambling through its video games in a lawsuit filed by her office

In January's Steam Hardware Survey, adoption of 8 GB GPUs was at almost 30% despite marking a 3.11% decline, while 16 GB GPUs were up an impressive 5.85%

Apple has officially confirmed that it will host its first event of the year on 4 March

Rumors about the Oppo Find N6 featuring a 200MP camera have proven true, as an Oppo employee took to Weibo today to confirm the presence of a 200MP camera on the Find N6

An anonymous reader shares a report: Brian Merchant, writing for Blood in the Machine, reports that people across the United States are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras, amid rising public anger that the license plate readers aid U.S

Last year, it felt like Samsung relied a bit too much on AI when trying to convince people to upgrade to itsflagship phone

The wait is over

With its ProArt lineup , ASUS has commendably addressed a glaring hole in the PC market by targeting video editors and other creative pros

As spicy as the PlayStation State of Play that took place a couple of weeks ago was overall, there was one major first-party game that was notably absent from the showcase: Marvels Wolverine

When a one-line fix triggers thousands of PRs, something's off A Go library maintainer has urged developers to turn off GitHub's Dependabot, arguing that false positives from the dependency-scanning tool "reduce security by causing alert fatigue."

Oppos latest midrange wireless earbuds are now official in China

Fellows new espresso machine offers capabilities previously seen only in commercial machines

King of Meat 's reign is ending

Oppo is launching the Find N6 very soon, and ahead of that, today in China the purported contents of the Find N6 'gift box' (machine translated from Chinese) got outed

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Researchers at ASML Holding say they have found a way to boost the power of the light source in a key chip making machine to turn out up to 50% more chips by decade's end, to help retain the Dutch company's edge over emerging U.S

It's getting to be that time of year again

Mafia: The Old Country demands to be played on an enormous screen

Climate scientists trying to predict how much hotter the planet will get have long grappled with a surprisingly stubborn problem -- clouds, which both reflect sunlight and trap heat, account for more than half the variation between climate predictions and are the main reason warming projections for the next 50 years range from 2 to 6 degrees Celsius

You dont need to spend a fortune to get a capable Windows laptop

Lockheed Martin's F-35 combat aircraft is a supersonic stealth "strike fighter." But this week the military news site TWZ reports that the fighter's "computer brain," including "its cloud-based components, could be cracked to accept third-party software updates, just like 'jailbreaking' a cellphone, according to the Dutch State Secretary for Defense." TWZ notes that the Dutch defense secretary made the remarks during an episode of BNR Nieuwsradio's "Boekestijn en de Wijk" podcast, according to a machine translation: Gijs Tuinman, who has been State Secretary for Defense in the Netherlands since 2024, does not appear to have offered any further details about what the jailbreaking process might entail

Last week an AI agent wrote a blog post attacking the maintainer who'd rejected the code it wrote

The handheld console is still available in Australia, the U.K., Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan

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Anthropic doesnt want its AI used in autonomous weapons or government surveillance

Slay the Spire 2 will launch in early access next month