Idon’t remember my first Steam Deck ‘I can’t believe it can do this’ moment and that’s probably because there have been so many of them. The giddy new tech squees that feels like maybe, just maybe you might be touching the overgrown GameGear-shaped future. The first might have been when I was sitting on the…
A few notable mortgage rates decreased today. The average interest rates for both 15-year fixed and 30-year fixed mortgages slid down. For variable rates, the 5/1 adjustable-rate mortgage also decreased. Mortgage rates have been consistently going up since the start of this year, and are expected to keep climbing throughout 2022. Of course, interest rates…
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Rock The Spacebar is a twice-monthly column investigating the great music that underpins your favorite games. This week, Dom Peppiatt chats to Christopher Maddigancomposer of Cuphead and The Delicious Last Course, about Fantasia, recording with a 50+ piece orchestra, and how important music is to the overall effect games have on people’s minds. Cuphead, already,…
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Both 15-year fixed and 30-year fixed refinances saw their average rates shrink. The average rates for 10-year fixed refinances also shrank. Like mortgage rates, refinance rates overall have been increasing since the beginning of 2022, and we expect that trend to generally continue through the remainder of this year — although rates do fluctuate daily….
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Everyone likes to talk about Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) as some frontier technology that is going to ‘disrupt’ or even ‘revolutionize’ the technology landscape. Marketing teams invoke AR/VR in quasi-mystical ways – “the future,” with lots of hand waving. And they almost always get linked together as AR/VR like they were one…
What’s happening The Apple Watch is an excellent smartwatch and fitness tracker, but I’d like to see more wellness tools, longer battery life and additional uses for its U1 chip. Why it matters Apple is a leader in the wearables market, but competitors like Fitbit and Oura are ahead in certain areas. What’s next Apple…
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If you’re tired of constantly swapping dongles and relying on Bluetooth to connect, you should try using a USB-C hub or docking station. There are multiport adapters or powered USB hubs in the market that are so much more than an extra USB port. They transform a single USB-C connection on your laptop or desktop…
The best two-in-one laptops offer versatility like no other. The devices like the Surface Pro 8 offer a super-flexible work environment where you can type on the go and detach the display when needed. The segment is growing lately because people value flexibility in getting work done. The best two-in-one laptops help you do more…
by Michael Have you noticed that there have been a lot of stories about “unexplained creatures” in the news lately? Normally I don’t pay much attention to stories like that, but today my curiosity got the better of me and I decided to do some digging. What I found was that stories about mystery creatures…
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