Topic: accessibility features
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Stream Deck Keyboard: A Monster of Gaming Innovation
The Corsair Galleon 100 SD is an all-in-one mechanical keyboard with a fully integrated Stream Deck module, offering extensive control over digital tasks through customizable buttons, dials, and a vibrant plugin ecosystem. It features a high-quality, gasket-mounted keyboard with hot-swappable swi...
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Google Confirms Android Bug Disrupting Volume Keys
A Google software bug causes Android's physical volume buttons to malfunction when the **Select to Speak** accessibility feature is enabled, incorrectly adjusting accessibility volume instead of media or camera controls. The issue disrupts core functions like adjusting audio for media playback an...
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Star Wars Outlaws Gold Edition Review: A Shining Switch 2 Adventure
The Nintendo Switch 2 port of Star Wars Outlaws Gold Edition offers exceptional value, bundling the full game with all major DLC expansions and delivering a smooth, visually impressive performance that often rivals more powerful consoles. The game provides a faithful and content-rich Star Wars ad...
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Google TV's Gemini Gets Nano Banana & Voice Controls
Google TV's Gemini assistant is gaining creative AI features, including Nano Banana and Veo support, to generate and edit videos and images directly on the television screen. The update enhances Gemini's visual responses, allowing it to curate content from Google Photos and provide interactive de...
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Google Chrome's Android Reading Mode Gets a Major Seamless Upgrade
Google Chrome's Reading Mode on Android is now more accessible, with a dedicated option in the browser's menu for launching a distraction-free view of articles. The feature allows users to customize font, text size, and background color, with settings that are remembered and applied across differ...
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Turn On Your iPhone Flashlight Without Touching the Screen
Your iPhone offers multiple hands-free methods to activate the flashlight, including the Control Center, Action Button, and Back Tap feature, for convenience when your hands are full. The Action Button on iPhone 15 Pro and later models can be reprogrammed in Settings to serve as a dedicated flash...
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Neuro-AI Ethics: Navigating Tech, Law & Regulation
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Dispatch Review: A Superhero Story That Defies Expectations
Dispatch is a narrative-driven game that blends workplace comedy with superhero themes, focusing on redemption as a retired hero manages a team of former villains. The game features strong character development and voice acting, with player choices shaping relationships and a strategic gameplay l...
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Master Your ROG Ally Xbox: Essential Setup Tips
The ROG Ally is a Windows-based handheld gaming device that integrates with Xbox services, requiring initial setup steps like configuring the fingerprint reader for security and using the Xbox dashboard for navigation. Key features include efficient navigation via the Game Bar and Command Center,...
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iOS 26.2 Update Is Secretly Changing a Key iPhone Feature
Apple's iOS 26.2 update has changed its default settings to automatically download and install future software updates, potentially overriding user preference for manual control and prior assessment. The update introduces unannounced accessibility features, including an expanded "Flash for Alerts...
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New Mixed Reality Game Night: Robot Boxing Meets Sumo
A new free minigame called **Final Throwdown** has been added to *Game Night*, combining robot boxing and sumo wrestling with intuitive hand-tracking controls for physical, chaotic play. The minigame features short, high-intensity rounds where players knock opponents out of an arena, with shiftin...
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iOS 26 Leak Reveals Dozens of New Apple Features
A leaked iOS 26 build reveals Apple's internal roadmap, hinting at numerous future hardware and software features, though all plans are subject to change. The leak points to upcoming products like a new home accessory (J229), an enhanced AirTag 2, and significant AirPods and Vision Pro updates pl...
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Meta's AI Glasses Update Adds Conversation Boost Feature
Meta's new **Conversation Focus** feature for its smart glasses uses directional microphones to amplify a speaker's voice, improving clarity in noisy environments. The update also introduces a Spotify integration where the Meta AI assistant can generate context-aware playlists based on a user's v...
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PlayStation Portal Update Shows Sony Needs a New Handheld
The PlayStation Portal's major software update enables cloud streaming for over 3,000 personally owned digital games, significantly expanding its utility beyond just mirroring a local PS5. Despite its commercial success and incremental improvements, the device remains fundamentally a streaming ac...
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iOS 26.2: 8 Exciting New Features Coming to Your iPhone
The iOS 26.2 update introduces several user-focused refinements, including a new Liquid Glass slider for customizing the Lock Screen clock's opacity and offline lyric support for Apple Music. Key productivity and accessibility features are added, such as alarms for urgent reminders in the Reminde...
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16 Must-Know Windows 11 Updates for December
Microsoft's final major Windows 11 update for 2025 arrives in December, delivering sixteen notable changes focused on polishing the user experience, expanding AI, and addressing feedback. Key enhancements include deeper AI integration with a new "Share with Copilot" taskbar feature, visual refine...
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Samsung One UI 8.5: All the New Features
Samsung's One UI 8.5 beta introduces a highly customizable Quick Panel and a refined, modern design with 3D app icons and updated interface elements. New features enhance connectivity and productivity, including Storage Share for device-to-device file access, weather backgrounds for alarms, and v...
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Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Review - A Stunning Return
The game successfully recaptures the atmospheric exploration and visual brilliance of the original *Metroid Prime* series, with stunning environments and a compelling sense of isolation. Significant flaws include a disappointingly large and empty desert zone (Sol Valley) and a surprising lack of ...
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Google's AI Notification Summaries Coming to More Android Phones
Google is expanding its AI-powered notification summary feature from Pixel exclusivity to a wider range of Android 16 devices, initially focusing on condensing messages from chat apps into scannable snippets. The Android 16 update introduces a new notification organizer to quiet low-priority aler...
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Unlocking Brain Health: A New Graph Signal Approach to Neurodegeneration
Advancing our understanding of brain health requires innovative tools, and a new graph signal processing method is emerging as a powerful technique for analyzing neurodegeneration. This computational approach models the brain as a complex network, ..
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ChatGPT's Voice Mode Is Now Seamlessly Integrated
The latest ChatGPT Voice update integrates voice conversations directly into the chat interface, eliminating the need for a separate screen and allowing simultaneous viewing of text and visual content. This enhancement enables real-time text responses during voice interactions, making conversatio...
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Unlocking Neuroimaging with Domain-Randomized Deep Learning
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Limited-Edition iPhone Accessory Boosts Accessibility
Apple has launched the Hikawa Phone Grip & Stand, a limited-edition MagSafe accessory designed to enhance iPhone usability for people with accessibility needs, marking 40 years of the company's commitment to accessibility. Developed by artist Bailey Hikawa, the silicone accessory functions as bot...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Review - Stellar Multiplayer, Flawed Campaign
Black Ops 7 excels in multiplayer and zombies modes, offering refined action, but its co-op campaign feels rushed and disjointed, failing to match the series' legacy. The co-op campaign suffers from pacing issues, repetitive combat, and mechanics borrowed from Warzone, making it feel less cinemat...
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Microsoft's AI-Powered Windows Update: What's New
Microsoft is integrating advanced AI features like Copilot and AI agents into Windows to boost productivity, though many are exclusive to Copilot+ PCs, raising accessibility concerns. New AI capabilities include taskbar-accessible agents, voice activation with "Hey, Copilot," and tools for summar...
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Xbox Partner Preview: New Third-Party Games Revealed
The next Xbox Partner Preview is scheduled for November 20, featuring new game reveals, extended gameplay trailers, and announcements related to Xbox Game Pass from third-party developers. Every game showcased will be part of the Xbox Play Anywhere program, allowing players to access their games ...
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Google's Android 17 to Boost Controller Gaming Experience
Google is developing native controller remapping for Android 17, enabling users to customize button layouts system-wide without third-party tools. This feature addresses accessibility needs, competitive gaming optimization, and compatibility for retro gaming, as current remapping options are limi...
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Nintendo Switch 2 Update 21.0.0: Full Patch Notes Revealed
Nintendo Switch firmware Version 21.0.0 introduces visual indicators for physical or digital games on the HOME Menu and allows users to cancel all queued downloads at once. Social and communication features are enhanced with expanded friend-finding in GameChat, persistent chat sessions during mod...
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2020 Single-Player Game Dominates PlayStation 5 Play Charts
PlayStation 5 players have collectively spent 100 billion hours across over 7,500 games, with Fortnite leading multiplayer titles and Assassin's Creed Valhalla topping single-player games. The console has sold 84.2 million units, making it the ninth best-selling console ever and surpassing all Xb...
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iOS 26.2 Beta: Liquid Glass, Reminders Alarms & New Features
iOS 26.2 beta introduces a Liquid Glass slider for customizing the Lock Screen clock's opacity and appearance, allowing for transparent or frosted effects. The Reminders app now includes an alarm feature for urgent tasks, and live translation for AirPods has expanded to the EU after compliance wi...
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Switch 2 & Switch Updates: More Than Just Stability
The update introduces new visual icons on the HOME Menu to clearly distinguish between physical and digital game copies, with specific colors for the Switch 2 and original Switch. Significant GameChat improvements include preventing the console from entering sleep mode during active chats, disabl...
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Tales of Xillia Remastered Proves This Classic RPG Deserved an Upgrade
Tales of Xillia Remastered revitalizes the 2013 JRPG with enhanced visuals and fluid combat, making it the definitive version despite minor audio and animation issues. The game features a compelling narrative with profound themes, a memorable cast of characters, and a unique dual-story perspectiv...
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Anno 117: Pax Romana Review - A Stunning Roman City Builder
Anno 117: Pax Romana offers a visually stunning and accessible city-building experience, streamlining mechanics to welcome newcomers but potentially feeling less deep to series veterans compared to Anno 1800. The game introduces a compelling, shorter campaign with narrative depth and two playable...
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Discover the New Features in iOS 26.2 for Your iPhone
The iOS 26.2 beta introduces key app enhancements, including an "Urgent" task alarm in Reminders and offline lyrics with translations in Apple Music. Updates include AI-generated podcast chapters, a redesigned Apple News app with navigation shortcuts, and a recalibrated Sleep Score for Apple Watc...
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Battlefield REDSEC Review: The Circle Closes
Battlefield REDSEC is a polished but unoriginal battle royale game that launched in 2025, borrowing heavily from established genre mechanics and competing in a crowded market. The game excels with Battlefield's signature destructible environments, a class system, and vehicle combat, while introdu...
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Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity Review - Princess Powerhouse
The game serves as a direct prequel to *The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom*, detailing the Imprisoning War with a strong premise, though the narrative sometimes sidelines key characters like Zelda and lacks emotional depth. Combat is significantly enhanced with new features like Sync Strik...
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The Mystery of the Vanishing Captcha
Traditional CAPTCHAs have largely disappeared, replaced by more whimsical and bizarre tests that sometimes involve identifying animals with specific traits or swiping through unusual items. The original purpose of CAPTCHAs was to distinguish humans from bots using tasks like deciphering distorted...
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Mirror's Founder Unveils 'Board,' a New Connected Gaming Screen
Brynn Putnam, founder of Mirror, has launched Board, a gaming console that combines physical board games with digital features, announced at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. Board features a 24-inch touch-sensitive screen that recognizes physical game pieces, supports 4–6 players, and retails for $500 wi...
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Windows 11 Update Adds Administrator Protection Security Feature
Microsoft has released an optional preview update (KB5067036) for Windows 11, introducing a redesigned Start Menu and the new Administrator Protection security feature for testing before broader deployment. The update includes a range of fixes addressing issues in authentication, display, install...
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Tales of the Shire Review: A Disappointing Wait for Little Reward
Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game fails to deliver a cozy Hobbit life simulator due to technical issues, uninspired writing, and monotonous gameplay that turns simple tasks into a grind. The game's development faced multiple delays, yet the final product still feels undercooked with sh...
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OpenAI's New Acquisition Paves Way for OS Integration
OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Incorporated (SAI) to enhance AI integration at the operating system level, bringing in the team behind the macOS interface layer Sky. The acquisition will integrate Sky's seamless macOS capabilities and design into ChatGPT, with the entire SAI team trans...
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Keeper Review: Bold and Bright, But Lacks Depth
Keeper is a visually stunning adventure game featuring a sentient lighthouse and a seabird companion exploring a surreal post-human world, though its narrative and puzzles are considered somewhat shallow. Gameplay centers on manipulating light and directing the bird to solve environmental puzzles...
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Just Dance 2026 Review: The Ultimate Party Game Returns
Just Dance 2026 Edition introduces a revolutionary camera scoring system that tracks movements without requiring handheld devices, resolving long-standing input issues and enhancing the dance experience. The game features a diverse soundtrack of approximately forty tracks spanning multiple genres...
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Meta Ray-Ban Display: A Glimpse Into a Stunning, Scary Future
The Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses combine audio and visual features to reduce phone dependency, offering capabilities like live captioning, map navigation, and message responses through a small display and Meta AI integration. While the glasses deliver moments of technological magic with their 600...
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Pokémon Legends: Z-A Revolutionizes Shiny Hunting
Pokémon Legends: Z-A introduces a new mechanic that prevents shiny Pokémon from despawning under normal conditions, such as time changes or fast travel, ensuring they remain available for capture. The community is divided, with some players appreciating the reduced frustration and improved access...
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Windows 11's Gaming Copilot: Ready for Take-Off?
Microsoft introduced Gaming Copilot, an AI assistant in the Game Bar that provides in-game help, game recommendations, and answers about gaming history via voice commands, though it's currently in beta and may have performance issues. A Network Quality Indicator for Xbox Cloud Gaming has been add...
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Microsoft's AI Lets You Control Your PC With Your Voice
Microsoft is embedding AI deeply into Windows 11, transforming PCs into intelligent companions that respond to voice commands and aim to make AI central to the user experience. The company is introducing features like "Hey, Copilot!" for voice control and Copilot Vision for contextual screen anal...
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ChatGPT Evolves Into an App Platform, Aiming to Be Your OS
ChatGPT is evolving from a chatbot into an application platform, allowing developers to build interactive software directly within its interface through a new Apps SDK. The platform enables deep integration with partner apps like Canva and Zillow, letting users perform tasks such as designing pos...
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Windows 11 October 2025 Update: 9 Exciting New Features
Microsoft's Windows 11 October 2025 update introduces AI integrations, security enhancements, and accessibility improvements, including the migration of legacy Control Panel features to the modern Settings interface. New features include relocatable on-screen hardware indicators, AI-powered conte...
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Star Wars: Beyond Victory Review - A Thrilling New Adventure
Star Wars: Beyond Victory fails to deliver on its immersive VR podracing promise, with a rushed story that can be completed in about an hour and lacks depth in character development and plot. The gameplay is underwhelming, featuring simplistic VR segments and podracing viewed from a bird's-eye pe...
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