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Microsoft has added another exclusive to its own stable of games. Ark II, the sequel to the hottest bug simulator of the 2010s and starring Vin Diesel, will apparently debut as an Xbox exclusive, though it’s probably time-limited as opposed to permanently locked away from the platform.The interesting thing about Microsoft choosing to snag Ark…

Amazon's upcoming Project Kuiper service will be similar to Starlink, but the company claims its prototype Ka phased-array antenna will give it the edge.

The two planets will appear closest together on Monday, December 21, the day of the Winter Solstice, when—depending on your eyesight—they may seem to briefly merge into a single bright point of light before drawing apart again.

Surely, a game console from the 90s couldn't support ray tracing, right? Wrong. Game developer and engineer Ben Carter hacked ray tracing into the Super NES with a little help from an FPGA dev board.

Getting these precious samples ready for their online debut wasn't as simple as snapping a few photos and slapping some HTML together.

Sony has announced that it will pull Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store and award refunds to anyone who wants them. Meanwhile, events of the past week have proved CD Projekt Red misled investors as to the state of the game when it announced the last three-week delay in October 2020.

IBM and Fujifilm have announced a breakthrough that might one day enable tape cartridges at 580TB capacities or more.

Intel has announced a number of Optane and NAND storage devices coming to market in 2021, with a 3rd-generation Optane product on the roadmap thereafter.

Intel's Iris Xe Max has debuted, but the discrete GPUs performance is a bit odd, as new benchmarks show.

SolarWinds, the company at the center of the massive hack that hit US government agencies and corporations, doesn't exactly use cutting-edge password techniques.

Google promised iPhone support, but Apple's App Store policies got in the way. Now, there's finally a way to play Stadia on iOS — just fire up Safari and go to the Stadia site to use the new progressive web app.

Google has just acquired Neverware, and its CloudReady product is becoming an official Chrome OS offering.