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How To Use Playstation and Xbox Controllers With Raspberry Pi

Playing games on your Raspberry Pi is far easier with a good game controller. Many different game controllers can be connected to your Raspberry Pi using USB. Furthermore, some well-known console controllers can also be linked up using Bluetooth. In theory, all controllers should work with any Raspberry Pi projects. This covers everything from generic… Read more

How to Turn a Rotary Phone into Google Assistant with Raspberry Pi

I have some old telephones lying around – few of them fully functional anymore. I was going to throw out one of them when I realized I could replace the inner wiring with a Raspberry Pi, and have the Google Assistant running on it. While it’s certainly easier to call “hey google” across the room,… Read more

How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel

The University of Minnesota’s path to banishment was long, turbulent, and full of emotion On the evening of April 6th, a student emailed a patch to a list of developers. Fifteen days later, the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel. “I suggest you find a different community to do experiments… Read more

How To Make A Magic 8-Ball With Raspberry Pi and Sense HAT

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Raspberry Pi Foundation released its Sense HAT add on back in 2015 and yet this board remains one of the best Raspberry Pi HATs, because it still packs a full scientific platform and an 8×8 RGB LED matrix for a little fun in your Raspberry Pi projects. The… Read more

MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC: all the audio file formats explained

Home Advice Organising your digital music collection, you might be struck by the number of different audio file formats in your library. Almost everyone’s heard of MP3, but what about OGG, AIFF, MQA or DSD? If the list leaves you wondering whether all those songs studied at different universities to get such official-looking letters after… Read more

Spotify now lets you subscribe to podcasts

Home News (Image credit: Spotify) Spotify has launched its paid podcast subscription service. This lets podcasters who host their shows on Spotify’s Anchor platform to charge listeners for their podcasts. As rumoured, podcasters can choose to offer subscriber-only extras such as bonus content and no adverts. Spotify has opened a waiting list that podcasters can… Read more

Microsoft addresses PC gaming issues introduced in latest Windows 10 update

Matthew Wilson 1 day ago Featured Tech News, Operating Systems, Software & Gaming Last week, a lot of PC gamers ran into issues after updating Windows 10. The update seemed to diminish performance and introduced errors with V-Sync and BSOD crashes. If you’ve been experiencing these issues then we have some good news for you,… Read more

The Linux Foundation Has a Few Demands for Banned University

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) The researchers who got the University of Minnesota (UMN) banned from contributing to the Linux kernel are going to have to do more than apologize for their actions. ZDNet reported that the Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory board sent a list of demands the university will have to meet before it… Read more

Arm Details Neoverse V1 and N2 Platforms, New Mesh Design

Home News (Image credit: Arm) Yesterday marked the 36th anniversary of the first power-on of an Arm processor. Today, the company announced the deep-dive details of its Neoverse V1 and N2 platforms that will power the future of its data center processor designs and span up to a whopping 192 cores and 350W TDP. Naturally,… Read more

Android bug exposed COVID-19 contact tracing logs to preinstalled apps

The Android version of Google and Apple’s COVID-19 exposure notification app had a privacy flaw that let other preinstalled apps potentially see sensitive data, including if someone had been in contact with a person who tested positive for COVID-19, privacy analysis firm AppCensus revealed on Tuesday. Google says it’s currently rolling out a fix to… Read more

How To Use CircuitPython on a Raspberry Pi

CircuitPython is a programming language designed to simplify experimenting with low cost boards, typically microcontroller boards made by Adafruit. CircuitPython can also be used on the Raspberry Pi and via two projects we introduce how to use CircuitPython with the Raspberry Pi. The first project is the humble LED, controlling how to blink an LED… Read more

Amazon is making in-garage delivery an option for all grocery delivery orders

Amazon is expanding its in-garage delivery option today to every city where it offers grocery deliveries. According to the company, that’s now over 5,000 US cities where Key by Amazon Garage Grocery Delivery can be used to have Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods orders left directly in your garage. You can check to see if… Read more

Microsoft Admits to Game Performance Issues

Home News (Image credit: Microsoft) Operating system updates are meant to improve features and performance, but sometimes they don’t. And that’s exactly what happened to Microsoft’s latest update for Windows 10, which degraded performance in games for many users, and even made Nvidia issue a comment encouraging GeForce users to roll back. The updates in question are… Read more

How to Use a Minidump File to Fix Your Windows BSOD

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) It finally happened. Out of the blue, you’re enjoying a game, watching a movie, or just reading on the internet, when your operating system decides it doesn’t want to cooperate and suddenly you’re facing down a BSOD or Blue Screen of Death. A BSOD is something that no Windows… Read more

With Batman: Zero Point, Fortnite’s lore makes a lot more sense

Comics have never been bigger: with Marvel TV shows, DC movies, and indie adaptations growing by the day, comic books have never been more prominent in pop culture. This biweekly Verge column recommends comic series new and old, whether you’re a longtime fan or a newcomer. I’ve played a lot of Fortnite over the years,… Read more