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Star Wars Zero Company is a 30-40 hour linear game with no New Game+, and I’m totally OK with this

As someone who frequently finds themselves embroiled in gargantuan, branching RPGs and spends far too much time in live service romps, I really appreciate a game I don’t need to dedicate my life to—a nice palette cleanser that’s one and done. And it looks like Star Wars Zero Company falls into that category. In a […]

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Hideo Kojima’s worked out exactly how he wants to die: Kicking the popcorn bucket

Hideo Kojima sure has been thinking about death a lot lately. Though he’s a pretty spritely 62 years old, the Metal Gear and Death Stranding creator has made our pages recently for things like: talking about deciding to make Physint after a brush with death in 2020, making a game where you get old and

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Do we need to worry about burn-in as Macs transition to OLED screens?

Apple devices were long known for having some of the highest-quality LCD screens in the business, and that remains the case for today’s MacBooks. The company upped the ante first through retina displays and then mini-LED backlighting. This is the reason Apple has been in no great hurry to adopt OLED technology. It has, however,

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Fresh evidence from independent researchers confirms the first drop in PC shipments in over a year… and it’s only going to get worse

New research from Counterpoint corroborates that the PC market has finally been impacted by the memory crisis to the extent that global shipments have gone down for the first time since the first quarter of 2025. In the second quarter this year there were 4% fewer global PC shipments than the same time last year.

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Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good

White House science advisor Michael Kratsios said that Moonshot, the Chinese company behind the Kimi K3, the largest available open-weight LLM, built its model by copying Anthropic’s Fable LLM while using chips that aren’t cleared for export to China. “Large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary U.S. technology and undermining American research is unacceptable,”

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Indie game contest tasks devs with fitting their entire game on to a 1.44 MB floppy disk

1,474,560 bytes may sound like a lot for those unfamiliar with the realities of modern data storage, but it amounts to a single 3.5-inch floppy disk. The hey-day of such a relic of physical media has long since passed, but floppy disks obviously still hold a certain allure for some judging by a certain Korean

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5 smartwatches you should buy instead of the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra 2

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Remember how thick the original Watch Ultra was? The Watch Ultra 2 is much thinner. The Watch Ultra 2 is more durable than its predecessor, features a slightly larger (and significantly brighter) display, a much newer chipset, and a considerably larger battery. Add

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Star Wars Zero Company won’t have official mod support, confirms Bit Reactor, but it has ‘a lot of respect for the modding community’

Star Wars Zero Company developer Bit Reactor is made up of former XCOM veterans, a series which has a pretty lively modding scene, especially XCOM 2, which supports modding with official development tools. It’s even had its fair share of Star Wars mods over the years that completely transport it to a galaxy far, far

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If the Galaxy Z Flip 8 really is Samsung’s last model, the foldable world is in trouble

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. So when I came across the latest rumor, I won’t lie — it completely took the wind out of my sails. The idea that Samsung could end the Flip series after the Galaxy Z Flip 8 is genuinely disappointing, and I really hope

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Google wants your face to be your backup password with new selfie video sign-in

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Google is adding a new way for users to sign in and get back into their accounts when traditional recovery methods aren’t available. Called selfie video, the new feature allows users to record a short video of themselves and later use it to

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