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Mass Effect’s Pinnacle Station DLC is forever lost due to data corruption

The Pinnacle Station, a training facility added to the first Mass Effect, won’t appear in Mass Effect: Legendary Edition alongside over 40 other pieces of downloadable content. Game Informer reports that the Pinnacle Station, created by Demiurge Studios for the first game, can’t be salvaged due to data corruption. Legendary Edition repackages the original trilogy… Read more

MLB The Show is coming to both PlayStation and Xbox consoles on April 20th

We already knew Sony’s beloved sports exclusive MLB The Show would release on “additional consoles” as early as 2021. Today, Sony announced that MLB The Show 21 will release on April 20th on the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X / S. This is the first entry in the MLB The Show series… Read more

33 Spotify tips, tricks and features

Home Advice (Image credit: Spotify) As of February 2021, Spotify boasts 155 million Premium subscribers and 345 million monthly active users. The platform has long been the world’s most popular music streaming service, and with good cause – it got in on the ground floor and its simple interface and vast library make it a… Read more

Nvidia’s Ampere GPUs Steam Ahead to 1 Percent Bogus Market Share

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Valve has just updated its Steam Hardware Survey with results from January 2021. If you believe the numbers for videocards, Nvidia’s RTX 30-series GPUs now account for over 1% of the total gaming market on Steam. These are some of the best graphics cards, but demand is so high… Read more

Cyberpunk Vulnerability Gives Modders Full Access to Your PC

Home News (Image credit: CD Projekt Red) CD Projekt Red is warning players to “use caution” when installing Cyberpunk 2077 mods or custom saves after members of the game’s community discovered a vulnerability in how the game connects to your system’s DLL files that could allow creators of mods/crafted saves to take control of your… Read more

Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Bus-Saturating Performance in Style

Our Verdict If you’re looking for one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 SSDs on the market, Sabrent’s Rocket 4 Plus has you covered. Though its warranty coverage is a bit of a pain, it still offers a lot of bang for your buck. For Fast sequential performance Competitive pricing Large and consistent dynamic cache Attractive… Read more

DTS Play-Fi: what is it? What speakers and devices support it?

Home Advice (Image credit: DTS) What’s the first thing you think of when someone says the word ‘multi-room’? For most, we imagine it’s a dedicated set-up from a single manufacturer such as Sonos or Bluesound, with its connected ecosystem of speakers, soundbars, soundbases and hi-fi components. Or perhaps you’d think of AirPlay 2, a gateway… Read more

How to Use Your Raspberry Pi Pico With DC Motors

The Raspberry Pi Pico is an enticingly small, yet powerful board that offers users the chance to create projects both great and small. One type of project is robotics and for this we need motors. So how can we control DC motors with a Raspberry Pi Pico? Can we connect them directly to the GPIO?… Read more

Play Tetris on the Raspberry Pi Pico

Home News (Image credit: Jools64) Until the new Pimoroni PicoSystem is released, much of the maker community is itching to emulate and play games on the Raspberry Pi Pico—not because it’s effective but because we can. This maker, known online as Jools64, opted to create their own solution by programming a Tetris demo that runs… Read more

This modified 2004 iPod Classic has wi-fi, Bluetooth and Spotify streaming

Home News (Image credit: Guy Dupont (via YouTube)) The iPod Touch is not only the last official surviving member of Apple’s iPod music player dynasty, it’s also the only model Apple ever released with wi-fi connection. But what if the old iPod you’ve got in a drawer somewhere could be modified to add Bluetooth and wi-fi… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico vs Arduino: Which Board is Better?

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Before the Raspberry Pi Pico arrived, there was a sharp distinction between the Raspberry Pi and Arduino ecosystems. The Pi is a Linux computer that boots up into a full operating system and the Arduino is a microcontroller that just runs one program at a time. With the arrival… Read more

How to Buy a Motherboard: A Guide for 2021

Home Buying Guides Choosing the best motherboard is in many ways the most integral part of your PC build, although choosing the best graphics card and best CPU often get more attention. Every part of your PC plugs into the motherboard you choose. Its form factor dictates the size of your computer and how much you can plug into… Read more

Apple’s next iOS 14 beta will begin forcing developers to ask for permission to track you

Apple’s new privacy feature requiring developers ask for permission to track iOS users for ad targeting is at last going live in the next iOS 14 beta with a planned full release some time this spring for non-beta users, the company tells The Verge. The announcement coincides with Data Privacy Day, as well as a… Read more

Walmart is expanding its robot-powered fulfillment centers to ‘dozens of locations’

Walmart is planning to increase the number of local fulfillment centers across the United States, it announced on Wednesday. Walmart’s approach of more localized fulfillment centers is a direct parallel to Amazon’s strategy, as both companies continue to face off amid an increasing demand for online orders. The new fulfillment centers are warehouses that will… Read more

The new iPhone update fixes security bugs, so it’s best to install it ASAP

Apple just released iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4, and the update notes contain some worrying language (via TechCrunch). Under kernel updates, Apple notes that “a malicious application may be able to elevate privileges,” and under WebKit updates, it says “a remote attacker may be able to cause arbitrary code execution.” After both statements, the update… Read more