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Forget rice for wet phones: UAG launches line of rescue pouches that pull moisture from tech

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Even if your phone boasts a robust IP rating for water resistance, real-world exposure to heavy downpours, accidental dunks, or even sweat can still push moisture into speaker grilles and charging ports. Your phone will survive this moisture, but you will likely see […]

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Chinese company reportedly building its own DUV chipmaking machines, and that’s a really big deal

A Chinese state-backed company has begun mass producing deep ultraviolet lithography machines, reports The Information. That’s a big step towards China’s semiconductor biz standing on its own two feet. It takes a complicated lithographic machine to produce a modern chip, and there are two main types: EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography) and DUV (Deep Ultraviolet Lithography).

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Google’s Pixel phone pricing is about to take a turn for the worse

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Samsung has already had to battle this twice this year, raising the prices of the Galaxy S26 series and — most recently — its foldable models. Motorola’s entire lineup faced price increases, the most aggressive being the Razr Ultra. It kept most of

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You won’t have to worry about limited bandwidth or data now that Valve has fixed local network game transfers on Steam

One saving grace of a flat mate is setting up ‘family sharing’ on each other’s Steam libraries at the earliest opportunity. Another saving grace is leveraging local network game transfers to then have a go at whichever game has become your roommate’s flavour of the month, and judging them accordingly. Recently though, Steam’s local network

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Monster Hunter Wilds’ latest patch makes online-only missions playable offline, alongside some other useful updates

Patch 1.042 is set to arrive next week, on 4th August, and it’s bringing two major features to the monster-hunting action game. First, Event Quests and Challenge Quests will now be available to play offline. Event and Challenge Quests are essentially Monster Hunter’s sole live service element. These missions rotate weekly, and task players with

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Two arrested for checking into esports hotels and stealing RAM, making off with over $2,000 in profit in just one month

Two people have been arrested by Chinese police for allegedly staying at esports hotels for the sole purpose of stealing memory from rigs. Yeah, I was unfamiliar with esports hotels too. Initially, Li worked alone, staying at a hotel in Shihezi City, according to Guangming Online (via Tom’s Hardware). With the memory crisis in full

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Arc Raiders is changing its matchmaking again to fully soothe your self-defence fears

Over the past few months, Embark has been pulling some levers behind the scenes to improve Arc Raiders’ matchmaking. Despite the devs previously saying matchmaking wasn’t “binary,” it didn’t feel like that in practice. My solo lobbies were peaceful walks in the park, while trio lobbies were much more violent. From these experiments, “one change

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Now that OnePlus is dead in the US, there’s another Android brand I’m worried about

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. The OPPO-owned company’s decision to narrow its focus to the Asian market has been framed as part of a broader global strategy that will reallocate resources to markets where it can have the greatest impact. These kinds of vague explanations really say very

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