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History of the Gem Desktop Environment

Sometime in 1988, the keyboard of my Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K was finally broken beyond repair, and I asked my parents for a 128K version of the same computer. Instead, they surprised me with an Atari 520 ST. It was my first real-world experience with a graphical desktop environment, complete with windows, icons, and a mouse. The ST was an amazing machine, not only compared to my poor old “Speccy” and similar cheap home computers, but even to the IBM PC compatibles in my school’s comp-sci lab,

Sony’s InZone Buds are great for gaming, and right now they’re cheaper than ever

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A quality pair of headphones can make a huge difference in your gaming experience, and Sony’s InZone Buds are among the best wireless gaming earbuds available. They’re currently $143.98 ($86 off) at GameStop, dropping them to a new all-time low price. The Verge’s commerce editor, Cameron Faulkner, says they deliver excellent sound quality and versatility, with a USB-C audio transmitter that allows them to co

F1 in Italy: Look what happens when the downforce comes off

Formula 1 held its Italian Grand Prix at Monza this past weekend. It's the third-oldest purpose-built racetrack on the planet, and even includes an old and rather dangerous-looking oval that, while no longer in use, is accessible on foot if you feel like exploring. It's a deceptively simple-looking track where it's all about top speed, and nailing your braking into the four heavy deceleration zones. Downforce is actually an impediment here, and that means the pecking order that we have become fa

Show HN: Gonzo – A Go-based TUI for log analysis (OpenTelemetry/OTLP support)

Gonzo - The Go based TUI for log analysis A powerful, real-time log analysis terminal UI inspired by k9s. Analyze log streams with beautiful charts, AI-powered insights, and advanced filtering - all from your terminal. See it in action Main Dashboard Stats and Info Everyone loves a heatmap ✨ Features 🎯 Real-Time Analysis Live streaming - Process logs as they arrive from stdin, files, or network - Process logs as they arrive from stdin, files, or network OTLP native - First-class support

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I'm Enjoying Sony's New Inzone H9 II Gaming Headset, but Its Price Is Startling

Sony isn't so known for its PC gaming accessories, but it's trying to change that by leveling up and broadening its Inzone line with five new accessories. These include the upgraded flagship Inzone H9 II wireless headset ($350), Inzone E9 in-ear monitors ($150), Inzone KBD-H75 keyboard ($300), the Inzone Mouse-A gaming mouse ($150) and two mousepads, which were all developed in collaboration with the prominent esports team Fnatic, and are optimized for first-person shooters. They're available n

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Sony Inzone launches new peripherals in collaboration with Fnatic

Inzone dropped a fresh batch of gaming peripherals today. Sony introduced the Inzone line in 2022 and it offers peripherals such as monitors and earbuds for gaming consumers. The new wave of gaming gear was developed with major esports organization Fnatic, and the specs are meant to target competitive players. All of the items are available for pre-order today. The lineup includes a pair of audio devices: the Inzone H9 II Wireless Gaming Headset and the Inzone E9 In-Ear Monitor. The H9 II heads

Sony Inzone H9 II Review: The Best-Sounding Gaming Headset for PC and PS5

You don’t need to do much more to sell me on a pro-level gaming headset than Sony did with its latest Inzone H9 II. Take the Sony WH-1000XM6 ANC headphones—currently the crème de la crème in both sound quality and active noise cancellation—and stick a mic on them, wash your hands, and call it a day. It was never going to be that simple. The Sony Inzone H9 II is simply the best-sounding gaming headset you can get right now. But for $350, you expect perfection, and you won’t find that with the H9

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I'm Enjoying Sony's New Inzone H9 II Gaming Headset but Its Price Is Startling

Sony isn't so known for its PC gaming accessories, but it's trying to change that by leveling up and broadening its Inzone line with five new accessories. These include the upgraded flagship Inzone H9 II wireless headset ($350), Inzone E9 in-ear monitors ($150), Inzone KBD-H75 keyboard ($300), Inzone Mouse-A gaming mouse ($150) and two mousepads, all of which were developed in collaboration with the prominent esports team Fnatic, and are optimized for first-person shooters. They're available now

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I Tried Inzone's New Gaming Mouse. It Made My Aim Better

During a heated game of Marvel Rivals, my team raids the Asgard throne room. An enemy healer playing Dagger is in the distance, working their way down the stairs to the control point, so my job as Punisher is to pull hard and focus fire on them as soon as possible. My aim tracks their movement and I whittle away their health bar before they can retreat behind a pillar, securing an important elimination to start the fight. I owe my success in that scuffle to the Inzone Mouse-A, a wireless gaming

Sony just launched five new PC gaming peripherals, so I tried them all at once

Sony is finally ready to take on the likes of SteelSeries, Razer, and Logitech with its InZone brand of PC gaming accessories. While InZone started with monitors and headsets in 2022, with a few new products since then (including its great InZone Buds and the sleek but pricey M10S OLED), Sony is making a concerted effort to take over your desk. It just launched two new headsets, a gaming keyboard, a wireless mouse, and even a couple of mousepads, all developed alongside esports organization Fnat

Massive Allianz Life data breach impacts 1.1 million people

Hackers have stolen the personal information of 1.1 million individuals in a Salesforce data theft attack, which impacted U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life in July. Allianz Life has nearly 2,000 employees in the United States and is a subsidiary of Allianz SE, which has over 128 million customers worldwide and ranks as the world's 82nd largest company based on revenue. As the company disclosed last month, information belonging to the "majority" of its 1.4 million customers was stolen by attack

Allianz Life data breach affects 1.1 million customers

The July data breach at U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life allowed hackers to steal the personal information of 1.1 million customers, according to data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned. Allianz Life disclosed the data breach in late July, confirming that hackers stole the personal information of the “majority” of its 1.4 million customers and its employees from a cloud-stored customer relationship database. Allianz has so far refused to confirm exactly how many people are affected by

A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection

A brain scan (artificially coloured) produced by magnetic resonance imaging. Credit: K H Fung/Science Photo Library A brain implant can decode a person’s internal chatter — but the device works only if the user thinks of a preset password1. The mind-reading device, or brain–computer interface (BCI), accurately deciphered up to 74% of imagined sentences. The system began decoding users’ internal speech — the silent dialogue in people’s minds — only when they thought of a specific keyword. This

Scientists Say They’ve Found a Way to Vocalize the “Inner Voices” of People Who Can’t Speak

Image by Getty / Futurism Neuroscience/Brain Science New advances in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology may make speech for those who've lost the ability to do so easier than ever before. In a new, groundbreaking study published in the journal Cell, researchers from Stanford University claimed that they have found a way to decode the "inner speech" of those who can no longer vocalize, making it far less difficult to talk with friends and family than previous BCIs that required them to e

Radicle 1.3.0

Radicle is a peer-to-peer, local-first code collaboration stack built on Git. Radicle 1.3.0 The Radicle team is delighted to announce the release of Radicle 1.3.0 (29043134a). This release contains 48 commits by 7 contributors. We would like to thank everyone for their continued effort in helping us improve the Radicle protocol and tooling via their contributions and usage reports 👾 Installation curl -sSf https://radicle.xyz/install | sh -s -- --no-modify-path --version=1.3.0 Canonical Refe

Cellular Starlink expands to support IoT devices

SpaceX’s cellular Starlink system isn’t just for phones in cellular dead zones. In New Zealand, the satellite technology now covers IoT devices, starting with equipment to monitor beehives. In December, New Zealand mobile carrier One NZ was the first to start offering cellular Starlink service to consumers, about a month before T-Mobile kicked off its own beta in the US. On Tuesday, SpaceX and One NZ notified the US Federal Communications Commission about their plan to use more radio spectrum

SpaceX's Cellular Starlink Expands to Support IoT Devices

SpaceX’s cellular Starlink system isn’t just for phones in cellular dead zones. In New Zealand, the satellite technology now covers IoT devices, starting with equipment to monitor beehives. In December, New Zealand mobile carrier One NZ was the first to start offering cellular Starlink service to consumers, about a month before T-Mobile kicked off its own beta in the US. On Tuesday, SpaceX and One NZ notified the US Federal Communications Commission about their plan to use more radio spectrum

ReproZip – reproducible experiments from command-line executions

ReproZip ReproZip is a tool aimed at simplifying the process of creating reproducible experiments from command-line executions, a frequently-used common denominator in computational science. It tracks operating system calls and creates a package that contains all the binaries, files and dependencies required to run a given command on the author's computational environment (packing step). A reviewer can then extract the experiment in his environment to reproduce the results (unpacking step). Q

Hackers stole Social Security numbers during Allianz Life cyberattack

Hackers who breached U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life earlier this month stole reams of customer Social Security numbers, according to notifications filed with several U.S. states and seen by TechCrunch. Allianz Life disclosed the July 16 breach this past weekend, confirming to TechCrunch the unidentified hackers stole the personally identifiable information belonging to the “majority” of its 1.4 million customers, as well as financial professionals and some Allianz Life employees. The compan

Archaeologists Unearth 6-Foot-Tall Bronze Age Warrior Clutching a Spear

In a massive burial mound in the plains of western Azerbaijan, archaeologists discovered the remains of an ancient, towering warrior still clutching a four-pronged spearhead in his hand. The man’s skeleton measures over six feet six inches (two meters) in height and dates back to the Middle Bronze Age, approximately 3,800 years ago. Scientists believe he may have been a prominent military leader, due to the way in which he was laid to rest. The discovery offers a glimpse into the social and rel

Allianz Life says 'majority' of customers' personal data stolen in cyberattack

U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life has confirmed to TechCrunch that hackers stole the personal information of the “majority” of its customers, financial professionals, and employees during a mid-July data breach. When reached by TechCrunch, Allianz Life spokesperson Brett Weinberg confirmed the breach. “On July 16, 2025, a malicious threat actor gained access to a third-party, cloud-based CRM system used by Allianz Life,” referring to a customer relationship management (CRM) database containing

Allianz Life confirms data breach impacts majority of 1.4 million customers

Insurance company Allianz Life has confirmed that the personal information for the "majority" of its 1.4 million customers was exposed in a data breach that occurred earlier this month. "On July 16, 2025, a malicious threat actor gained access to a third-party, cloud-based CRM system used by Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz Life)," an Allianz Life spokesperson told BleepingComputer. "The threat actor was able to obtain personally identifiable data related to the majorit

Allianz Life says ‘majority’ of customers’ personal data stolen in cyberattack

U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life has confirmed to TechCrunch that hackers stole the personal information of the “majority” of its customers, financial professionals, and employees during a mid-July data breach. When reached by TechCrunch, Allianz Life spokesperson Brett Weinberg confirmed the breach. “On July 16, 2025, a malicious threat actor gained access to a third-party, cloud-based CRM system used by Allianz Life,” referring to a customer relationship management (CRM) database containing

Mercedes-Benz’s Latest Decision Signals Trouble Ahead for EVs

We are likely to see this story repeat itself, with only the names at the top changing. Mercedes-Benz’s latest announcement does not bode well for the future of electric vehicles in the United States, especially as federal tax breaks are set to expire. On September 30, the federal incentives introduced under the Biden administration to support EV adoption will officially disappear. These tax credits were designed to offset the higher cost of EVs compared to gas-powered vehicles. But with the cl

Donkey Kong Bananza Review: Like Mario And Zelda Smashed Together on Switch 2

Summers are about big, fun, mind-numbing movies. Great escapes in the best of ways. I need that right now, and maybe you do too. I'm happy to say that Donkey Kong Bananza is here to whisk you off to multilevel worlds of satisfyingly smashing madness, to cheer you up and give you an excuse to punch the heck out of things. It's a game my 12-year-old son has loved playing along with me, although I've had to find ways to wrestle the game back to play for myself. I was wowed by Bananza during an ear

Donkey Kong Bananza Is Satisfyingly Smashing Madness

Summers are about big, fun, mind-numbing movies. Great escapes in the best of ways. I need that right now, and maybe you do too. I'm happy to say that Donkey Kong Bananza is here to whisk you off to multilevel worlds of satisfyingly smashing madness, to cheer you up and give you an excuse to punch the heck out of things. It's a game my 12-year-old son has loved playing along with me, although I've had to find ways to wrestle the game back to play for myself. I was wowed by Bananza during an ear

2026 Mercedes-Benz CLA feels like a real car, not a science experiment

Mercedes provided flights from Detroit to Copenhagen, Denmark, and accommodation so Ars could drive the CLA with EQ Technology. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. The Mercedes-Benz CLA is a marked departure from Mercedes' EV efforts. Instead of a dedicated line of EQ vehicles—like the EQB, EQC, and EQS—we're getting vehicles "with EQ Technology." It started with the electric G Wagon, but the CLA is the first mainstream product to make the change. The thing is that the change is signifi

Mercedes-Benz will let you use an in-car camera in Microsoft Teams while driving

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. I like to drive without the distractions of my work life interrupting me, but if you’re eager to stay connected then Mercedes-Benz is ready. You’ll soon be able to join a Microsoft Teams call in some Mercedes‑Benz vehicles and use the in-car camera to chat with colleagues while you’re driving. Mercedes‑Benz is the first car maker to enable in-car camera use for Microsoft Teams

Donkey Kong Bananza Review: The Best Switch Game in Years Is a Switch 2 Exclusive

Summers are about big, fun, mind-numbing movies. Great escapes in the best of ways. I need that right now, and maybe you do too. I'm happy to say that Donkey Kong Bananza is here to whisk you off to multilevel worlds of satisfyingly smashing madness, to cheer you up and give you an excuse to punch the heck out of things. It's a game my 12-year-old son has loved playing along with me, although I've had to find ways to wrestle the game back to play for myself. I was wowed by Bananza during an ear

Donkey Kong Bananza turns destruction into joy

My first thought upon starting up Donkey Kong Bananza was, “Why yes, I actually would like to go ape shit.” The game starts by having Donkey Kong smash through a wall to reveal a glittering gem waiting to be liberated from the rock. But instead of punching the bright yellow gem into bite-size pieces, I kept punching through the walls and floors, digging tunnels into the landscape. With the Nintendo Switch 2 finally out in consumers’ hands for more than a month now and the luster of the console’