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[ORIGINAL STORY] With only three days separating us from the official launch of the Steam Deck, users might be scrambling to check out which of their games will actually work on Valve’s handheld PC. Luckily, there’s an automated tool called CheckMyDeck that will do that for you. There’s one caveat, though: it needs your SteamID. In case you don’t know what that is, there’s another automated tool available to help, the SteamID Finder....

Speaking on the game’s subreddit, Hogwarts Legacy Community Manager FinchStrife addressed some of the difficulty concerns, confirming that the gameplay showcase footage was played on normal difficulty by someone who has been playing the game dealy for a long time, making everything look easy. Some of the attacks used, such as the Unforgiveable Curses, have crowd-control effects that made the AI look dumb, but that won’t be the case most of the time....

But first of all, what is Netflix? Netflix is one of the most popular streaming video services on the Internet provided by Netflix Inc. The users can watch movies and TV series (including Netflix originals. These original series are only available on Netflix platform) on a web browser or on their mobile devices (android and iOS) for a small monthly fee. Netflix subscription is free for 30 days but you will need to enter your credit card to proceed....

It would be absurd to pay for a new edition of Windows to have this feature. Therefore, we have come up with a way by which you can install the Local Security Policy manager on your system running Windows 10 Home edition. What is SecPol.msc The Local Security Policy Manager is used to manage and administer different security parameters of the host computer. This includes policies like managing a user’s account password....

If you have low disk space issues, but all of your files and folders are important enough not to delete them, you can compress your existing data to create additional space on your computer. Windows provides an option to compress the complete drive (from drive properties). If you don’t want to compress the whole drive, you can use Compactor utility. Compactor is an easy-to-use Graphical User Interface (GUI) based application that uses the existing Windows compact....

If you are a developer and wish to test out a website before publishing it, or want to run an internal Content Management System (CMS) for an organization, then you need to enable IIS on the server to host it. This post shows you how to enable or disable the feature if needed, how to check its version, and for whom it is useful. What is Internet Information Services (IIS) As we mentioned, IIS is used to host HTML websites or static pages that can be accessed from the internet or the intranet....

Apple to Launch Redesigned iMac Pro in the Summer, Spring Event Ruled Out by Display Analyst It was previously reported back in December of last year that Apple will launch the redesigned iMac Pro with a mini-LED display in the spring. Moreover, Mark Gurman from Bloomberg also reported the same time frame, potentially March or April. Now, Ross Young, who works as an analyst for Display and Supply Chain Consultants, has stated that the iMac Pro launch might happen in summer....

The new trailer, which has been shared on YouTube by ENFANT TERRIBLE, features work from several different artists and developers that have used the power of Unreal Engine 5 to deliver some great-looking visuals that also feel quite faithful to the source material. As already mentioned, it has been some time since the announcement of the Indiana Jones game by MachineGames. Very little is currently known about the game, as both Bethesda and MachineGames did not say much about it following its announcement in early 2021: A new Indiana Jones game with an original story is in development from our studio, MachineGames, and will be executive produced by Todd Howard, in collaboration with LucasfilmGames....

Meta Wants You to Appreciate Your Favorite Instagram Creators with an Option to Gift Them According to a Meta spokesperson, the company is in the process of testing a feature called “Gifts.” Although the feature seems to be in work, the prototype feature is currently only being tested internally. The feature was first spotted by Alessandro Paluzzi back in July. The developer found a toggle under a menu called “Content Appreciation” on Instagram, with the feature at the time being called a way for fans to send a token of appreciation to a creator....

Intel Confirms Full Arc Desktop Graphics Card Lineup Ramp, Shipping Arc A770 16 GB & A750 8 GB To Reviewers Soon! It’s definitely been a long wait and while drivers may not be in their best state, Intel has given the green light and the company states that it has started receiving the top Arc 7 series graphics cards with packaging, ready for final testing before sampling with the press. The Arc 7 series will include both the Arc A770 16 GB and Arc A750 8 GB graphics cards....

Intel Core i9-12900KS 5.5 GHz CPU Wrecks AMD’s Ryzen 9 5950X In Leaked Single & Multi-Core Benchmarks While the Intel Core i9-12900KS doesn’t launch until next month, it’s already been listed and being sold by various retailers. Some lucky buyers have got their chips early and proceeded to take snaps of the packaging while others have posted benchmarks. Reddit user, Seby9123, is one such person who managed to get the chip and has posted the first benchmarks of the retail unit....

Intel Raptor Lake-HX CPU Family To Feature World’s Fastest Core i9-13980HX Laptop CPU With 24 Cores & Up To 5.6 GHz Clock Frequency So far, we know about five Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake-HX Laptop SKUs which were leaked a while back. The lineup was initially going to feature up to a Core i9-13900HX with 24 cores, 32 threads & up to 5.4 GHz clock speeds but Intel has decided to design a ‘Halo’ SKU which will sit a tier above & offer the fastest performance of any laptop CPU out there....

Intel Meteor Lake-S CPUs To Feature 6 Performance Cores, Arrow Lake-S With 8 P-Cores On LGA 1851 Socket According to an internal Intel chart, the details of their 14th Gen and 15th Gen Desktop CPUs have leaked out. We know from previous reports that Intel is preparing a new socket known as “V” that will offer support for at least two generations of desktop CPUs, the Meteor Lake-S and Arrow Lake-S....

Intel’s Alder Lake-N CPUs Mark The End of Pentium & Celeron Brands, Intel Processor N200 & N100 Detailed Besides the Core lineup, the Intel Pentium and Celeron series mostly serve the entry-level CPU market on desktop and mobility platforms. The 12th Gen Alder Lake family got its share of the Pentium & Celeron chips but that comes to an end with the upcoming Alder Lake-N series that might be the first to step away from the older branding and adopt the new “Processor” CPU branding....

Intel Pushing Motherboard Manufacturers To Release 700-Series Chipset Motherboard With Only DDR5 Memory Support To Increase Adoption Rate According to a report by TechpowerUp, it is stated that motherboard makers are being pushed by Intel to release their next-gen motherboards based on the 700-series chipsets with DDR5 support only. The upcoming lineup of motherboards, which we talked about a few days ago, will hit shelves alongside the 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPU lineup....

Intel Core i9-13900K ‘Raptor Lake’ ES CPU Is 20% Faster Than Core i9-12900K ‘Alder Lake’ In Multi-Threaded Benchmarks The Intel Core i9-13900 ‘Raptor Lake’ CPU tested is an engineering sample like the one we saw earlier. It features an 8+16 core configuration. These include 8 P-Cores based on the Raptor Cove and 16 E-Cores based on the Gracemont core architecture. The Core i9-13900 Raptor Lake CPU carries 16 MB of L2 cache for the P-Cores (2 MB per core) and 16 MB of L2 cache for the E-cores too (4MB per cluster of 4 cores)....

Intel’s High-End Arc A730M Can Hardly Catch Up To NVIDIA’s RTX 3060 in Games, Gaming Performance Slightly Better Than An RTX 3050 It was known that the Intel Graphics software division has lagged behind severely versus the team that is designing the actual hardware. The hardware team has had GPUs up & running since the previous year but the software team has yet to release a driver that is fully tuned to unlock Arc’s true potential....

After discussing the inner workings of XeSS, Intel engineers briefly showcased the technology used in the upcoming Soulslike game Dolmen during the presentation. Gabriel Ferreira (CTO and Lead Programmer at Massive Work) joined the presentation to reveal that Intel XeSS was easy to integrate and helped the studio reach 60 frames per second with ray tracing enabled in Dolmen. Lucas Xavier, an Environment Artist from Massive Work, also talked briefly about the benefits of using XeSS in Dolmen....

June Wan, the Technology Editor of ZDNet, noticed that Apple increased the price of the iPad 10 to $449, which will make it difficult for some consumers to justify as they look to reduce their spending in an economy that is ravaging their finances. WIRED, too targets the iPad 10’s price, saying that it is difficult to justify a $120 price hike from the iPad 9, which features a starting price of $329....

Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Ultra Lost to Apple’s iPhone 13 in Benchmarks But The Real World Performance Might Vary The iPhone 13 series is powered by the company’s A15 Bionic chipset while the Galaxy S22 Ultra features Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip. Both chipsets are quite capable in their respective ways but Geekbench 5 benchmarks lean towards Apple’s chip. The test was conducted by PCMag, revealing a multi-core score of 3,433 for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip and 4,647 for the A15 Bionic....