How to Design Gifting Features People Actually Use: Evidence from 58 Apps
American shoppers spent about $29 billion on gift cards over the 2025 holiday season, and 43 percent of them bought at least one. This put gift...
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Agoda Replaces 72-Shard SQL Server Price Cache with DragonflyDB
Agoda migrated its 1.5 TB hotel Price Cache from 72 SQL Server shards to DragonflyDB to handle growing read and write volumes. The migration used staged...
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Need for Speed Underground 2 now runs directly on Nintendo Switch — other Classic Windows titles playable thanks to custom firmware boot
Retro gaming fans who own Nintendo Switch consoles now have several classic Windows titles they can now enjoy.
Read moreRemoving Drivers For Outdated ARM Platforms Will Lighten The Kernel By ~247k Lines
The Linux kernel is going to see the removal of a number of recently deprecated ARM 32-bit platforms. Following the deprecation in Linux 7.3, removing the...
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Moss developer Polyarc has shut down
The Seattle-based VR specialist has closed its doors after over a decade.
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Why Cross-Border 3D Printing Is Closing the Speed Gap with Local Manufacturing
The fastest 3D printing supplier in your shortlist may no longer be the one closest to your office. That sounds unlikely to many engineers. For years,...
Read moreMore than 9,000 patches total in the seven stable kernels for Monday
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 7.2.6, 6.18.52, 6.12.110, 6.6.157, 6.1.188, 5.15.221, 5.10.270 stable kernels. According to Kroah-Hartman, this batch may set a record for the number...
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In a big change for Blizzard, it sounds like the new StarCraft shooter won't be a live-service game
Blizzard has revealed more tangible details about what the new StarCraft game actually is, beyond it being an open-world shooter due for release in 2030. In...
Read moreStreaming TV Prices Rising Faster Than Cable Ever Did
Now that streaming subscriber growth has slowed, we’ve noted repeatedly how the streaming TV sector is falling into all of the bad habits that ultimately doomed traditional...
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SPEE3D Appoints New Global CEO to Support Expanded US Focus
A couple of years ago, in the title of an interview I did with the CEO of SPEE3D, Byron Kennedy, I referred to SPEE3D as “the...
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Sony letter spells the end for unreleased The Last of Us Part 2 multiplayer mod, its creator says
A multiplayer mod for The Last of Us Part 2 which was originally set to release this month no longer will, with its creator citing a...
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