As we approach the end of 2025, it's a good moment to look back at the many improvements Windows 11 has received throughout the year, most of which arrived through monthly cumulative updates.

Windows 10 has a new update as part of Microsoft's extended support scheme, but there are reports of this latest release causing trouble for some users. A notable issue that's been raised in multiple ...

In games, nothing breaks player flow like a loading screen, and in virtual reality this problem is amplified tenfold. ‘Presence’ or ‘immersion’, the magical yet fragile feeling of ‘being there’, is ...

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TL;DR: Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Shadows for Nintendo Switch 2 is optimized with reduced LOD, draw distances, texture resolution, and fewer NPCs to fit the console's limited performance. It replaces ...

The study showed no link between load-managed players and a decreased risk of injury. Shaun Powell The NBA sent data from an exhaustive study to its teams this week that showed no link between ...

In the first part of this series, I explained that there are occasionally situations in which hard coding a PowerShell interface really isn't an option because the script is almost certainly going to ...

Learn how to use loops and dynamic object naming in PowerShell to build GUI settings interfaces that can adapt as new parameters are added. For the past several months, I have been hard at work ...

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School’s out. Teens are bored. And the siren call of social media and video games beckons. Parents and caregivers bungling through new summer routines, or lack thereof, have long sought to balance the ...

Things have never been easy for Metallica’s 1996 album Load, a multiplatinum record nobody ever admits to liking, especially the band’s most avid fans. In early 1995, Metallica had a “good problem”: ...