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Reservations Go Live for Valve's Steam Frame VR Headset. An Experiment in Progress? (slashdot.org)

2026-09-15 | by Posted | get Meta Quest 2 VR Headset → | tags: steam frame, valve, steam os

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Valve's Steam Frame launches at $1,059, and Half-Life: Alyx comes free (techspot.com)

2026-09-14 | by Daniel Sims | get Valve Index VR Kit → | tags: steam frame, half-life alyx, valve

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Valve's Steam Frame VR headset starts at $1,059 and ships with Half Life: Alyx (engadget.com)

2026-09-14 | by Steve Dent | get Valve Index VR Headset → | tags: steam frame, half life alyx, valve

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Valve Steam Frame review: Solid standalone VR that's too little, too late (engadget.com)

2026-09-14 | by Devindra Hardawar | get Valve Index VR Kit → | tags: steam frame, half-life alyx, valve

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1,000+ shoes reviewed and cut in half (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-14 | tags: shoes, shoe review, cut in half

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Valve has ported Half-Life: Alyx to ARM, and it’s free with Steam Frame (theverge.com)

2026-09-14 | by Sean Hollister | get Meta Quest 3 VR headset → | tags: half-life alyx, steam frame, arm64

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Valve’s Steam Frame costs $1,059 (theverge.com)

2026-09-14 | by Jay Peters | get Meta Quest 3 VR headset → | tags: steam frame, valve, half-life

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Huge 12TB Leak Exposes a Decade of Steam’s Game Data (cnet.com)

2026-08-31 | by Zachary Mcauliffe | get Steam Deck OLED handheld gaming console → | tags: steam, valve, half-life

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A 12TB Steam 'Teraleak' Spills More Than a Decade of Lost PC Gaming History (slashdot.org)

2026-08-31 | get Seagate Expansion 12TB desktop external hard drive → | tags: steam, valve, portal 2

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A decade's worth of Steam files totaling more than 12TB has leaked (engadget.com)

2026-08-30 | by Jackson Chen | get Seagate Expansion Desktop 16TB external hard drive → | tags: steam, valve, half-life

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Enormous 12TB Steam leak includes abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets (theverge.com)

2026-08-30 | by Terrence O'Brien | get Portal Companion Cube plush → | tags: steam, half-life 2, valve

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Percy Jackson Cast Teases ‘Some People Get What They Deserve’ in Season 3 (cnet.com)

2026-08-24 | by Corinne Reichert | get The Titan's Curse Percy Jackson book 3 → | tags: percy jackson, disney plus, titan’s curse

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Valve was founded 30 years ago today — changed PC gaming forever with Half-Life, then Steam (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-24 | by Mark Tyson | get Steam Deck OLED handheld gaming console → | tags: valve, half-life, steam

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Valve is 30 years old today, and it all began with two former Microsoft employees and a risky bet on games (techspot.com)

2026-08-24 | by Zo Ahmed | get Steam Deck OLED handheld gaming → | tags: valve, gabe newell, half-life

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Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: half-life, valve, mac os 9

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Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: half-life 2, haikuos, refind

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Insulator-free topological photonic multi-lane highways (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-22 | by Cui | tags: topological photonics, gyromagnetic honeycomb, photonic crystals

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Steam now has 50% more users than PlayStation, and Sony's own decisions might be pushing more players there (techspot.com)

2026-07-10 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: half, maus, million

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Court Approves $46 Million 23andMe Settlement For 2023 Data Breach Victims (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-07 | get 23andMe DNA Test Kit → | tags: breach, customers impacted, half

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How to watch Summer Games Done Quick 2026 (engadget.com)

2026-07-03 | by Kris Holt | get Gaming Marathon Streaming Kit → | tags: twitch, summer games done quick, donkey kong country 2

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Half-Life 2 in a Browser (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-25 | get Half-Life 2 Steam Key → | tags: half-life 2, browser gaming, valve corporation

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Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-24 | tags: wine, steam, factorio

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Nvidia releases RTX Remix 1.5 with new RTX IO compression reducing mod file sizes by up to 37% — update also adds Smooth Normals and 'RTX Remix Skills' Agents (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-17 | by Hassam Nasir | get Nvidia RTX Remix Software → | tags: nvidia, rtx remix, rtx io

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ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-13 | get ReactOS Compatibility Pack → | tags: reactos, half-life, windows

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A dumpster arrived behind my university's library (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-12 | get Portable Dumpster Rental → | tags: book, books, derrida

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What does it mean to be a chief design officer? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-12 | tags: boardroom, business leader, design

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They Just Opened Their 1,700th Cafe and Have 900 More Signed. Here’s the Strategy Fueling This $1.5 Billion Franchise. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-11 | by Jonathan Small | get Starbucks Coffee Mug → | tags: cafe, food, growing

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A developer ported Half-Life to a Nokia N95, and it runs at 30fps with Bluetooth keyboard support (techspot.com)

2026-06-10 | by Alfonso Maruccia | get Nokia N95 Smartphone Case → | tags: coding, game, half

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Logitech’s new Mobi Fold squeezes a lot of functionality into a tiny folding mouse (theverge.com)

2026-06-10 | by Andrew Liszewski | get Logitech Mobi Fold Mouse → | tags: fold, half, logitech

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The AI boomerang effect: more data suggests employers are reversing AI layoffs (techspot.com)

2026-06-09 | by Daniel Sims | get AI Workforce Analytics Tool → | tags: eliminated, firms, half