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Apple announces new M1-based iMac in 7 fancy colors

posted onApril 20, 2021
by l33tdawg
Credit: Arstechnica

Apple announced iMac updates today at its event in Brooklyn, New York. As expected, the updates improve the desktop's performance with new processors while maintaining the design we've known iMacs to have for the past couple of years.

How Microsoft secured the Surface Laptop 4 from the inside out

posted onApril 19, 2021
by l33tdawg
Credit: Windows Central

Microsoft recently announced the Surface Laptop 4. The newest member of the Surface family has plenty of options, including allowing people to choose an AMD or Intel CPU as well as either a 13.5-inch or 15-inch body. To protect the Surface Laptop 4 and any information people store on it, Microsoft built in several security measures. Microsoft breaks down the security features in a recent post. Specifically, the post breaks down the security elements of the AMD-powered Surface Laptop 4.

A Firmware Issue Threatens to Make PS4 Games Unplayable

posted onApril 19, 2021
by l33tdawg
Credit: Wired

Unless something changes, an issue lurking in older PlayStations' internal timing systems threatens to eventually make every PS4 game and all downloaded PS3 games unplayable on current hardware. Right now, it's not a matter of if but when this problem will occur.

Check out this insanely great hacked GameBoy that’s now an Apple TV remote

posted onFebruary 4, 2021
by l33tdawg
Credit: 9-to-5 Mac

YouTuber Otto Climan has turned a GameBoy Color into an Apple TV remote. Yup, you read that correctly. This incredibly cool project was posted about a month ago and shared earlier today by Gizmodo. It’s a really slick hack that takes advantage of the GameBoy Color’s IR sensor and button array.

Climan’s custom GameBoy isn’t just an Apple TV remote, it’s also a supercharged modern custom handheld. This GameBoy has a new bright backlit display rather than the original old school dark one I’d play games on with a book light.

New MacBook Pro models will arrive this year with MagSafe, M1 successor

posted onJanuary 15, 2021
by l33tdawg
Credit: Arstechnica

According to a report in Bloomberg, Apple plans to launch new versions of its MacBook Pro laptops "around the middle of the year," and these machines will feature speed and display enhancements, as well as a return of the MagSafe charging design seen in MacBook computers several generations ago.

Citing "a person with knowledge of the plans," the Bloomberg story claims that Apple's 13-inch MacBook Pro will get a 14-inch successor, just as the 15-inch MacBook Pro became a 16-inch model when the screen bezel was reduced to allow more screen real estate in a similarly sized chassis.

How one developer is sneaking emulators through a hole in the Xbox Store

posted onNovember 26, 2020
by l33tdawg
Credit: Wikipedia

Modern gaming consoles have exploded with indie games and apps, but one category has always proven an exception: emulators. This week, however, Ars has learned of an apparent loophole in Microsoft's Xbox Store system being used to distribute high-performing emulators on the platform.

How to Train your Raspberry Pi for Facial Recognition

posted onOctober 18, 2020
by l33tdawg
Credit: Flickr

When you unlock your phone (FaceID) or allow Google or Apple to sort your photos, you are using facial recognition software. Many Windows PCs also let you use your face to log in. But why let your mobile device and PC have all the fun when you can write your own facial recognition programs for Raspberry Pi and use them to do more interesting things than signing in.

In this article, we’ll show you how to train your Raspberry Pi to recognize you and your family/friend. Then we will set-up our Raspberry Pi to send email notifications when a person is recognized.