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Microsoft open-sources the original Zork trilogy, unlocking a huge piece of gaming history
Posted on Friday November 21, 2025
Microsoft recently introduced its latest effort in digital game preservation by making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT license. Turning the main Zork trilogy into an open source project will make sure students, teachers, and developers can study the original code, play the games, and...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
GeForce Now Fast Pass turns budget Chromebooks into capable cloud gaming machines
Posted on Friday November 21, 2025
GeForce Now Fast Pass mirrors much of the functionality found in Nvidia's existing free tier. It gives users access to more than 2,000 "Ready to Play" games that can be streamed directly from their existing Steam, Epic Games Store, or Xbox accounts.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
PowerToys 0.96 upgrades Advanced Paste with local AI support
Posted on Friday November 21, 2025
PowerToys 0.96 upgrades Advanced Paste with a redesigned UI and support for multiple AI endpoints, including Azure, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, and local models like Foundry Local and Ollama. The release also improves the Command Palette and PowerRename tools.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
YouTube dominates, X stalls, Snapchat drops: survey reveals US social media preferences
Posted on Friday November 21, 2025
The Pew Research Center's latest Americans' Social Media Use report shows that YouTube remains the most widely used "online platform," which seems like Pew's preferred term for the video-sharing site – the argument over whether YouTube should be classed as a social media company has raged for years.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
The age of household robots might finally be here: Meet Memo
Posted on Friday November 21, 2025
In a Mountain View kitchen, a wheeled robot named Memo methodically prepares an espresso, illustrating the technical progress underway at Sunday Robotics. The machine, roughly the size of a compact dishwasher, features two articulated arms with pincer-like grippers, a height-adjustable central column, and a display that mimics a cartoon face...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
AirDrop is finally compatible with Android – no thanks to Apple
Posted on Friday November 21, 2025
The interoperability will enable both iPhone and Android users to quickly and securely share photos, videos, music, and documents between the two platforms without using third-party apps like SHAREit, Send Anywhere, and InShare.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Microsoft is now testing the Xbox full screen experience on all Windows 11 PCs
Posted on Friday November 21, 2025
The announcement came at the end of Microsoft's November 2025 partner direct event. Making the full screen experience generally available could significantly streamline the process of launching games on devices like the Lenovo Legion Go, MSI Claw, GPD Win, and earlier Asus ROG Ally models.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Putin's reaction to Russia's new AI robot is painfully awkward
Posted on Friday November 21, 2025
The AI exhibition, shown on state television, was staged by Sberbank, Russia's largest bank.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Apple ditched Broadcom for its own Wi-Fi chip, N1 makes the iPhone faster
Posted on Friday November 21, 2025
Apple's latest iPhones introduced a significant shift in the company's approach to wireless connectivity. For the first time, Apple replaced third-party Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips – previously sourced from Broadcom – with its own custom silicon, the Apple N1. This move marks a new phase in Apple's push to control...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
2008's Spore was among the games that sold a single physical copy in the US last month
Posted on Friday November 21, 2025
Mat Piscatella, video game analyst and senior director of Circana, often reveals sales figures for multi-million-selling games and hardware. On Bluesky, he revealed something a little different: some of the games that sold a single physical unit in the US last month.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »