Will Japan’s Weak Enconomy Mean a Cheaper Switch 2 in the US?Amid rising exchange rates, Nintendo prez looks to “affordable price that customers expect.”
PlayStation Fans Just Saw Firsthand the Biggest Problem With Digital GamesPlayStation Network’s 24-hour outage this past weekend has left players upset and shows the drawbacks of relying on digital games alone.
Kid-Friendly Gaming Franchise ‘Backyard Sports’ Is Back and Ready to ModernizeBackyard Sports returns with kiddie takes on Barry Sanders, Dan Marino, and Lisa Leslie for a new generation of gaming.
Did ‘Dragon Age: The Veilguard’ Undersell or Face Unrealistic Expectations?Not every AAA game is going to be a blockbuster.
Donkey Kong’s Famed Kill Screen Has Been Cleared for the First TimeNew method exploits a ladder-climbing glitch, emulator tools, and a bit of luck.
The Pebble smartwatch is making a comebackEric Migicovsky still wears his Pebble. Thirteen years after he founded the wearables company and found huge success on Kickstarter, and more than eight years after he sold the company to Fitbit, which was then acquired by Google, Migicovsky’s watch still works.
228. DeepSeek Has Been Inevitable and Here's Why (History Tells Us)TL;DR for this article: DeepSeek was certain to happen. The only unknown was who was going to do it. The choices were a startup or someone outside the current center of leadership and innovation in AI, which is mostly in the US clustered around trillion-dollar companies.
Time to Delete? The Most Invasive Apps List Includes Some of Your FavoritesEveryone wants your data. And why not? There’s a lot of money in selling or sharing the information apps collect about you. App companies leech data from your devices in exchange for whatever free service they’re offering, and sometimes, collection happens without your consent.
Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting DumberWriting about the current state of Apple Intelligence yesterday, I mentioned how utterly stupid and laughably wrong Siri is when asked the simple question, “Who won Super Bowl 13?”, and mentioned that that particular example came from a friend.
Call it Thatcher’s timebomb: the great council housing selloff of 2024, a crisis hidden in plain sightPerhaps only England could make its politician of the moment a woman who died more than a decade ago. Yet turn on Channel 4 and watch Margaret Thatcher: the drama. Radio 4 offers Margaret Thatcher: the play, while soon you can enjoy Thatcher: the opera.
These Are the Expert Spotify Audio Tips You Need to Use in 2025Spotify tries to make it as easy as possible to listen to your favorite songs. With its AI DJ and daylists, you don't have to hunt down your favorite albums to match your vibe. But when you want to be a little more hands-on, these are the Spotify settings you can use.
Ubuntu Was My First Distro—Here's Why We Went Our Separate WaysSummary I found Ubuntu very exciting in the early days, but I quickly grew disillusioned with the distro's design choices. Canonical's explorations away from the desktop toward phones and TVs felt misguided. The design of the Ubuntu desktop still feels like a bit of an afterthought.
Elden Ring Nightreign takes a big swing at a bigger audienceIt’s inaccurate and reductive to call Elden Ring Nightreign a Dark Souls take on Fortnite.
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Developing RAG Systems with DeepSeek R1 & Ollama (Complete Code Included)Ever wished you could directly ask questions to a PDF or technical manual? This guide will show you how to build a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system using DeepSeek R1, an open-source reasoning tool, and Ollama, a lightweight framework for running local AI models.