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/ Right now, the small community is delightful to be a part of. And thanks to the AT Protocol, the service has a promising future.

/ Right now, the small community is delightful to be a part of. And thanks to the AT Protocol, the service has a promising future.

/ I have never gotten more questions about a gadget than I have about this $300 phone. For the past month, I’ve been using the Unihertz Titan Pocket, a phone released in 2021 that rocks a 3.1-inch display above a full Qwerty keyboard. To be clear, it’s been by choice — my editors didn’t assign me to do this as a prank (in fact, some of them have clowned on me for using it), and it’s not like I don’t have other options. I’ve got a perfectly good iPhone 12 Mini that I actively gave up to switch to this phone. So uh… why? The first reason is that it can just be kind of fun to try something new. Or, in this case, go back to something old; my first experiences with a smartphone were stealing my dad’s Navy-issued BlackBerry to email my significant other when I was in middle school. But for...

/ Sega is reportedly nearing a deal to acquire the company behind Angry Birds, Rovio Entertainment, for a cool $1 billion.

/ Sony’s Final Fantasy XVI State of Play revealed a ton more stuff you can do and showed off some pretty slick Eikon battles.

/ Forget 50mm/s — these companies claim 500 or even 600mm/s is possible right out of the box. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: Creality 3D printers can take hours or even days to produce simple parts — but it only took two weeks for the biggest names in consumer 3D printing to declare that era is over. On March 29th, Prusa announced the $799 Prusa MK4, its first new printer in four years. The company boasts it can print a “draft mode” 3DBenchy boat in under 20 minutes, four times faster than the 80 minutes it took with the previous generation. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:...

/ The 21-year-old allegedly shared a trove of classified US government documents with the members of a small Discord server.

/ Immortals of Aveum will be released on July 20th. EA on Thursday released a new trailer for Immortals of Aveum, a single-player “first-person magic shooter” the company is publishing under its EA Originals label. The game is being developed by Ascendant Studios, which is “made up of BAFTA and Game of the Year award-winning industry veterans,” according to a press release. Based only on the trailer, it’s hard to tell exactly what to expect with Immortals of Aveum outside of a standard saving-the-world plot — the characters use a lot of in-world jargon. But here’s EA and Ascendant’s official description of the game from the press release: Players experience this visceral and cinematic, story-driven game through the eyes of Jak, as he joins an elite order of battlemages, masters all three c...

/ A leaked hackathon project gives us an early look at Microsoft’s prototypes for improving Windows on handheld gaming devices. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: h0x0d (Twitter) Microsoft is exploring early concepts around a Windows handheld mode for devices like the Steam Deck. A leaked video posted on Twitter by h0x0d shows early concept and prototype work for an optimized Windows 11 UI for handhelds, and a launcher and Windows gaming shell that’s designed for touchscreens and controllers. The video is part of a hackathon project inside Microsoft from September, where emplo...

Twitter/ Tech / After fellow public broadcaster NPR said it wouldn’t be posting its articles to Twitter, PBS has also stopped tweeting from its main account.

/ Will the third time be the charm? a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>Hope nobody else applied for this job!

/ The FTC is investigating whether Twitter can continue protecting user data.