Humble Bundle Are you looking to sharpen your coding skills? If so, Humble Bundle has teamed up with the publisher Packt for the All-in-One Python Bundle. This bundle offers your choice of three, eight, or twenty-four books. These books will help you become a better Python programmer whether you want to work on websites, data…
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Microsoft has never been shy about asking its customers for money — the $9.99 per month price for Microsoft 365 Family is proof of that. But you need to pay more, far more, than that to use Microsoft’s new video editing app, Clipchamp, in the way you’d expect. Clipchamp is being added to the stable…
Garmin When it comes to smartwatches, most people think of big brands like Apple or Samsung. However, there’s a whole world of alternative smartwatches out there and we’ve found one at a good price. Amazon is selling the Garmin Venu for $175 (50% off). That’s about $75 cheaper than the Galaxy Watch 4 right now…
Rob Schultz / IDG One of the best advances in earbuds has been the outright elimination of cables in true wireless earbuds—or at least, the minimization of them to just a short one in other wireless earbuds. Another is good active noise cancelling, which makes wireless earbuds incredibly useful for travel. Apple’s AirPods are probably…
StackCommerce Books have chapters to make information easier to find. But video doesn’t offer that luxury. You either have to watch the whole thing or move the slider and hope you land on the part you’re looking for. Which is why VidTags was created and why, if you engage in video marketing, it’s a must-have. VidTags is…
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Hitman 3 developer Io Interactive apologizes for expensive Steam launch with free upgrades
by Tech NewsIn brief: This week, Io Interactive announced a promotion to appease fans who didn’t respond well to Hitman 3’s launch on Steam. Early buyers can get some extra content for free from now through most of February. When Hitman 3 was first released on Steam last week, it immediately started getting bad reviews from fans…
In brief: The MediaTek Kompanio 1380 isn’t the most advanced mobile chipset, and it certainly lacks the 5G connectivity of the Kompanio 1300T. That doesn’t stop the Taiwanese company from pitching it to OEMs such as Acer, who are looking to build premium Chromebooks and Chrome OS tablets at a more affordable price point. MediaTek’s…
Why it matters: Someone at Valve recently published an update on how Vulkan on Radeon graphics cards handles VRS to save power. Although the update is for the Steam Deck, it could also benefit PCs. Valve’s Samuel Pitoiset has been changing the Radeon Vulkan (RADV) driver to offer more control over how variable rate shading…
Two of the biggest laptop vendors have chosen to pass over Microsoft’s blossoming vision for PC chip security, Pluton. But the reason why may be less complex than it appears: Both companies are apparently sticking with an established relationship with Intel’s vPro technology, instead. The Register reported this week that both Dell and Lenovo planned…
Valve Though the Steam Deck runs a highly-customized version of Valve’s Linux-based SteamOS, and uses it to get some rather amazing gaming performance out of its AMD hardware, the gadget is more than capable of running other operating systems. Naturally, people have wanted to install Windows on the Steam Deck ever since the portable PC’s…