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    XBox E3 conference, start time, how to watch, livestream

    Microsoft holds its biggest event of the year Sunday June 9th. Halo: Infinite? Gears 5? Project xCloud plans? What will we see at E3 2019? Join us at the E3 Briefing at at 1 p.m. PT (4 p.m. ET) for: World premieres New game reveals Big surprises And MORE...
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    “WHAT HAPPENED????” How a remote tech writing gig proved to be an old-school scam

    Enlarge / Maybe this is the "Mark Taylor" I seek... (credit: Getty Images | vladru) After a layoff dumped me into the job market for the first time in more than a decade, I had an all-too-close encounter with a new breed of digital fraudsters who prey on the unemployed. These high-tech...
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    How to hack any game tutorial

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    HBO’s new Chernobyl mini-series shows how good science is undermined by secrecy

    Chernobyl (2019) | Official Trailer | HBO When reactor four at the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded in April 1986 outside of Pripyat, Ukraine, the whole world watched in horror as tidbits of information leaked out of the tightly controlled Soviet Union. But conflicting official and scientific...
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    Detective Pikachu film review: This is how you adapt a video game for theaters

    Detective Pikachu, not just standard Pikachu? Clues: the hat, the magnifying glass, the lush fur.">Enlarge / How do you know it's Detective Pikachu, not just standard Pikachu? Clues: the hat, the magnifying glass, the lush fur. (credit: Warner Bros. / The Pokemon Company) Pokémon: Detective...
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    How To Create An Augmented Reality App

    This video provides a step-by-step guide explaining how to create an augmented reality (AR) app using Unity and Vuforia - a popular game development engine you can download for free from www.unity3d.com AR apps allow you to define and recognize objects in the real-world and overlay...
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    How Steve Jobs and Bill Gates defined a decade of tech—according to CNN’s The 2000s

    The promo for The 2000s. "We're in for the communications ride of our lives," CNN's Greg Lefevre says in a January 2, 2000, broadcast dug up for the news network's latest decade documentary, The 2000s. "The coming years see cell phones small enough to fit in your pocket, the promise of video...
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    Leaks, riots, and monocles: How a $60 in-game item almost destroyed EVE Online

    (credit: Opening image based on Eve Online assets courtesy CCP Games.) Long before loot boxes became the bane of the Internet's existence, in-game purchases at large could cause a bit of commotion within certain gaming communities. Roughly seven years ago, for instance, a simple monocle almost...
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    1990, meet 2018: How far does 20MHz of Macintosh IIsi power go today?

    Enlarge / Have you ever seen a more glorious sight? (credit: Chris Wilkinson) Back in September 2014, Ars Technica’s Andrew Cunningham took on a Herculean challenge in modern computing. Egged on by his coworkers, he used a PowerBook G4 running OS 9.2.2 as his “daily driver” for a couple of...
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    The President Is Missing… a few finer points on how the cyber works in this novel

    Enlarge / LONDON: A President Trump impersonator poses in a mock-up of the Oval Office to promote the global release of James Patterson and Bill Clinton's book, The President is Missing at Waterloo Station. (credit: Eamonn M. McCormack / Getty Images) If you hadn't heard, former President...
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    How American Vandal expertly crafted a doc (that just happened to be fiction)

    The American Vandal creative team chats with Ars at ATX TV Festival 2018. (video link) AUSTIN, Texas—Among the reasons Netflix’s American Vandal worked: dedication, not just to the bit but to the DNA. The creative team had an obsession with true crime documentaries, obviously. But they didn’t...
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    How ARKit 2 works, and why Apple is so focused on AR

    Enlarge / A LEGO app using Apple's new ARKit features. (credit: Apple) Augmented reality (AR) has played prominently in nearly all of Apple's events since iOS 11 was introduced, Tim Cook has said he believes it will be as revolutionary as the smartphone itself, and AR was Apple’s biggest...
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    Talkin’ Treble: How Android engineers are winning the war on fragmentation

    Enlarge / Google's logo for the Android P Developer Preview. (credit: Google) With the launch of Android 8.0 last year, Google released Project Treble into the world. Treble was one of Android's biggest engineering projects ever, modularizing the Android operating system away from the...
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    How to make your old Game Boy as good as (or better than) new

    Enlarge / Fixing and upgrading old Game Boys is a fun way to revive and personalize your old tech; it's also a great excuse for revisiting some classic games. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Old Nintendo consoles are clearly having a Moment. This interest has been spurred in part by official...
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    How To Connect A Nintendo Switch To A TV

    Sponsored by Nintendo. Open the back cover of the Nintendo Switch Dock. Connect the USB plug from the Nintendo Switch AC adapter (model No. HAC-002) into the top terminal of the dock labeled "AC ADAPTER," then connect the other end of the AC adapter to a wall outlet. Connect one end of the...
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    How to Hack NES ROMs

    How to Hack NES ROMs This was written by: Tony Hedstrom [email protected] Make sure that you read the "Updates" at the end of this document. This document explains in detail how to hack a NES ROM. When I say "hack", I mean that you will be able to change a NES ROM (or game) to...
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    How to Create NES Game Genie Codes

    Create NES Game Genie Codes This document was written by: Tony Hedstrom [email protected] This document explains how to make Game Genie codes for Nintendo (NES) games. This method of making GG codes works best only on RPG type games (or games like R.C. Pro Am 2 that have...
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    How to Make SNES PAR Codes

    How to Make SNES PAR Codes (Part One) This document was written by: Tony Hedstrom [email protected] In this document, I will explain in detail, how to make Super Nintendo (SNES) Pro Action Replay (PAR) codes. Once you see how easy it is to make your own PAR codes, I'm sure...
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    Learn how to Create Sega Genesis Game Genie Codes

    Make Sega Genesis Game Genie Codes This was written by: Tony Hedstrom [email protected] I've seen lots of documents (many from GGCCC) that explain how to make GG codes for NES, SNES, & GB. But I haven't seen too many for the Sega Genesis. So I thought I'd write one. Please don't pick it...
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    How To Mod Minecraft

    You've explored every cave, you've grown every crop, and your home in the Nether is bigger than your main base. Now it's time for the final frontier of Minecraft: Mods. A Word of Warning Because you'll be mucking around in the guts of the game, it's important to backup the things you don't...
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