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What Sundar Pichai’s ‘long-term’ hardware commitment means for the Pixel

The Verge

Last week, I wrote about Google’s somewhat confounding hardware strategy in the wake of a report about internal conflict from The Information. The whole interview is worth a listen, of course. And he definitely made fun of me for being obsessed with RCS Chat before getting into his thinking on Google’s communication apps.

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Nintendo explored making a portable Switch-style GameCube, leak suggests

The Verge

There’s also a leaked presentation which suggests that Nintendo explored the idea of releasing a high-definition console that would have competed more directly with the PS3 and Xbox 360. Of course, Nintendo never followed through with these plans, and instead released the Nintendo Wii in 2006.

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Nvidia’s DLSS has come to Linux gaming (but not the Steam Deck obviously)

The Verge

As Phoronix reports (via Tom’s Hardware ), Proton 6.3-8 DLSS won’t come to the AMD-powered Steam Deck, of course, since it requires proprietary Nvidia machine learning silicon, but we recently learned the Steam Deck will support AMD’s arguably much less capable FSR. Ball’s in definitely in the developers’ court.).

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Apple says it every year, but the iPhone 13 cameras do seem much improved

The Verge

Which you’d hope for, of course. As ever, the question will be what Apple is able to wring out of its hardware with image processing and software. Apple isn’t outgunning Android phones on hardware. The Pro does have significant hardware tweaks, though, since Apple has increased the aperture to f/1.8 The large 1.9?m

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Qualcomm’s new partnership aims to improve haptic feedback on Android devices

The Verge

Qualcomm recently announced (via 9to5Google ) that it’s working independently with a company called Lofelt to enhance haptics through software , not hardware. That initially read as a puzzling decision, since hardware — not software — seems to play the bigger role in the quality of the vibration.

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What’s Free at Linux Academy — May 2019

Linux Academy

Courses Free in May. LPI Linux Essentials — This course teaches the basic concepts of processes, programs, and the components of the Linux operating system. This course covers objectives for the LPI Essentials exam version 1.5. If so, this is the course for you. 3) Join us on YouTube!

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Interview: Why Valve launched a new version of its handheld Steam Deck device

GeekWire

The result is what Yang describes as “the definitive first-generation Steam Deck.” Playing games, of course, but also doing homework, making music, and controlling robots. We’ve also seen how motivated players have been to mod their Steam Decks in both software and hardware to personalize their gaming experiences.

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