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2025 Hugo Award game finalists include Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and Dragon Age: The Veilguard

The Hugo Awards began honoring video games for the first time back in 2021. This week, the organization revealed the list of six finalists for the 2025 awards ceremony. It’s a cornucopia of critically-acclaimed titles from the past year or so.

Let’s go over the nominations. Two AAA

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How to use lossless audio on the AirPods Max

When the AirPods Max arrived in late 2020, there wasn’t much spatial audio content for Apple’s high-end headphones. What’s more, there wasn’t any support at all for lossless audio. The company hadn’t added Dolby Atmos and lossless tunes to Apple Music yet, but even

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Jackbox is back with new party games, including one based on sound effects

Jackbox has been making fun party games for well over a decade at this point, but it just held its first-ever direct livestream event. The company had plenty of news to share, including the pending release of both a new minigame collection and a standalone trivia title.

The Jackbox Pa

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Show HN: Kahuna, the IndexedDB-Manager Webextension

This has been my pet project and playground for a long time and has gone throught several framework changes, overhauls, etc.. Sometime last winter I realized that there has been a lot of progress since I started using plain javascript and lit-html and that it is time for a release. And then the hard work began...

But anyone who has used the browser's own developer tools for working with IndexedDB databases will probably agree that there must be more convenient methods. And even though Kahu

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4 Tips for Keeping Plants Alive While on Vacation

Don't let your greenery stop you from enjoying a trip. Here's how to prevent your plants from dying without human care. https://www.cnet.com/how-to/4-tips-for-keeping-plants-alive-while-on-vacation/#ftag=CADf328eec

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Will the FAFSA Still Exist if the Department of Education Is Shut Down?

The White House wants to close the federal education agency, but experts say students should fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid for next year. https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/loans/will-the-fafsa-still-exist-if-the-department-of-education-is-shut-down/#ftag=CADf328eec

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Here's How to Speed Things Up When Your VPN Slows You Down

Using a VPN can slow your internet speeds to a crawl, which can be a drag on streaming and gaming. Keep your connection fast with these tips. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/heres-how-to-speed-things-up-when-your-vpn-slows-you-down/#ftag=CADf328eec

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Facebook, Instagram and Threads Will Stop Fact-Checking As of Today

Meta's chief global affairs officer says the company will officially stop fact checking on Monday after announcing a shift to Community Notes in January. https://www.cnet.com/news/social-media/facebook-instagram-and-threads-will-stop-fact-checking-as-of-today/#ftag=CADf328eec

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 I laughed about Signalgate until I made my own massive privacy mistake

I made a huge privacy mistake and realized that sending sensitive information to the wrong person is easier than you might think.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/software/i-laughed-about-signalgate-until-i-made-my-own-massive-privacy-mistake

 2025's highest-rated Xbox game on Metacritic is coming to Game Pass in a matter of days — but you've never heard of it

Blue Prince is a genre-blending mystery game that drops players into an ever-shifting, puzzle-filled mansion with one simple goal: reach Room 46. It could be the sleeper hit of the year, and it's coming to Xbox Game Pass.

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/2025s-highest-rated-xbox-game-on-metacritic-is-coming-to-game-pass-in-a-matter-of-days-but-youv

You’ll take my personal files from my cold, dead hard drive. Here’s how to save yours
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Vaio is advertising ‘tariff free’ laptop prices for a limited time
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Pass off yard care to these new eufy lawn mowers ($300 off with discount code)
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Alienware’s new 4K OLED monitor just dropped to its best price ever
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Ring Outdoor Cam Plus review: Plus what?
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‘Expect pain at the cash register.’ I asked PC insiders about tariff impacts
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 TSMC and Foxconn hit hard in Taiwan following Trump's tariffs announcement

Taiwan's stock market suffered its worst-ever single-day drop after the U.S. announced a 32% tariff on Taiwanese goods and signaled potential duties on semiconductors, triggering panic selling of TSMC and Foxconn.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-and-foxconn-hit-hard-in-taiwan-following-trumps-tariffs-announcement

 Asus ProArt PA32UCDM 4K 240 Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor review: Precision, performance and elegance

Asus’ ProArt PA32UCDM is a precision reference OLED monitor that’s pro-gamer ready. It’s a 32-inch QD-OLED with 4K resolution, 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10, Dolby Vision, 1,000 nits, wide gamut color and all metal construction.

https://www.tomshardware.com/monitors/asus-proart-pa32ucdm-4k-240-hz-qd-oled-gaming-monitor-review

Even Realities G1 review: Limited but effective smart glasses

I appreciate devices that don’t try to do too much. There are too many products throwing too many features at the consumer in the hope one or two sticks. I’m reminded of the recently revived Pebble, which offers a pared down way to check your phone’s notifications from your wrist, and little else. That’s the best way to describe Even Realities’ G1 smart g

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Nintendo says the Switch 2 Joy-Con controllers don't have Hall effect thumbsticks

While the Nintendo Switch 2 had its splashy debut last week, including details about the hardware and launch games, there's still lots about the console that

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Gemini live video and screensharing starts rolling out to Pixel 9 and Galaxy S25 phones

Later than expected, Google has begun rolling a pair of new Gemini Live features to Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25 devices. The company first previewed Gemini live video and screensharing during

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The Death Stranding movie now has a writer and director

Movies based on video games have become a pretty big deal in recent years. Just look at those box office returns for A Minecraft Movie for proof of that. This means that more films are coming down the pike, including a motion picture based on Hideo Kojima’s delivery simulator

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The Last of Us season two review: Amplified action and crushing drama

HBO’s The Last of Us took a riveting action game bolstered by intimate human moments and made a richly human drama supported by terrifying action. In returning for season two, and now using the sequel game as source material, showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil D

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Google AI Mode rolls out to more testers with new image search feature

Google is bringing AI Mode to more people in the US. The company announced on Monday it would make the new search tool, first launched at the start of last month, to millions of more Labs users across the country.

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Show HN: Uncurl.dev – Convert curl commands to a shareable, executable UI

Hey HN,

I built uncurl.dev to scratch my own itch: I kept getting curl commands in API docs, bug reports, or Slack messages and wanted a quick way to visualize, run, and debug them without firing up Postman or writing code to dissect them. It was also sometimes painful to create a test page specifically for non-tech users to consume an API. I originally vibe-coded this over a weekend just to make it easier for myself to debug API requests shared as curl commands. It slowly grew into someth

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Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends

I'm a senior at MIT studying Course 6 (EECS), and I'm graduating soon with no job lined up. I've applied to tons of places, done interviews, built side projects, but nothing has landed—and it's not just me. A lot of my classmates, some of the smartest and hardest-working people I know, are also unemployed or under incredible stress trying to figure things out.

It's honestly demoralizing. I came to MIT hoping to build a better life—not just for myself, but for my family. Now I’m facing the

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Feeling Like I Have No Release: A Journey Towards Sane Deployments

Deploying like an idiot comes down to a mismatch between the tools you use to deploy and the reward in complexity reduced versus complexity added.


Feeling Like I Have No Release: A Journey Towards Sane Deployments originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the

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 NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, April 8 (game #401)

Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/nyt-strands-today-answers-hints-8-april-2025

 NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, April 8 (game #667)

Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

https://www.techradar.com/gaming/nyt-connections-today-answers-hints-8-april-2025

 NVIDIA driver issues branded "absolutely abhorrent and completely embarrassing" — Gamers Nexus replicates bugs plaguing PC gamers

NVIDIA's RTX 50-series launch hasn't been smooth, and driver issues have now been proven as the cause of some major bugs affecting countless users. Here's what you need to know, including some workarounds.

https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/cpu-gpu-components/nvidia-drivers-dlss-issues-replicated

How to buy a decent CPU that’ll last you at least 5 years
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Lenovo’s RTX-powered Core i7 gaming laptop is $400 off today
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This fast-charging USB-C wall plug with 4 ports is at its lowest price
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Always hit the wrong buttons on your monitor? Try this hack
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Microsoft blocks latest Windows 11 24H2 update due to driver crashes
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Nvidia RTX 5060 and 5050 laptops spotted from Lenovo, LG, and Razer
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I tested Microsoft’s new Copilot features. 2 have big potential—the others, meh
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How to disable ‘Save As’ to OneDrive in Microsoft 365 apps
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Microsoft is removing yet another years-old feature in Windows 10
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Eufy’s new robot mowers use smart vision to trim your grass

Anker’s lifestyle brand Eufy has already swallowed a big chunk of the robot vacuum market and now it’s got its sights on your yard. The company has been sharing details of its first two robot mowers since the start of the year, and now they’re ready to start selling them. Eufy’s E15 and E18 are designed to autom

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A four-pack of Chipolo One trackers drops to an all-time low of $50

The weather is turning warmer, so it's about time to hang up that winter coat with the big pockets you use to store everything. That also means things might be a bit harder to keep track of now — I lost my phone, alone, multiple times over this sunny weekend. But, now there's a (cheaper) potential solution: The Chipolo One bluetooth tracker.

Right now, a

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Our favorite portable SSD is up to 33 percent off right now

Nothing has enough storage these days. Whether it's a Mac or a PS5, it feels like everyone I know spends far too much time deleting things on their devices to clear up space. That annoyance is what makes SSDs so appealing, especially the

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