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Stadia port of Terraria is coming after co-creator gets Google accounts back [Updated]

It’s unfortunately not a super uncommon issue for people to be randomly locked out of Google accounts, and in many cases the recovery process is full of a lot of frustrating waiting. That’s what happened to the co-creator of Terraria, and as a result the game’s upcoming port to Google Stadia was canceled entirely. Update 2/26: Well, things have changed yet again. In a post today (via…
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How smart home energy monitors could avert huge bills

During last week’s power crisis in Texas, prices surged to the market price cap of $9,000 per megawatt-hour for several days, resulting in some huge bills for a lot of homeowners. (To put that in perspective, the state’s seasonal average is $50 per megawatt-hour.) The…
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Nikon Z7 II sample gallery update

Nikon’s Z7 II has a 45MP sensor in a fantastically solid and well-sealed body, so when the snow started coming down across western Washington State, it seemed like the perfect camera to document our first major snow event in two years. Thankfully, the controls are…
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Sources: New Nest Hub looks like the original, Soli sleep tracking tied to Google Fit

At the start of 2021, we reported that Google is working on a new Nest Hub that will use Soli radar for sleep tracking. 9to5Google can now confirm other details about this upcoming Smart Display, including its design, sleep tracking, and other hardware features. During the October 2018 announcement of its first Smart Display, Google said it “spent countless hours on the design of Hub.” In…
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Top US Air Force general isn’t ready to buy E-7 Wedgetail just yet

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force’s top general wants to take a deliberative approach to replacing its aging E-3 airborne early warning and control planes. In other words, he isn’t ready to commit to the Boeing-made E-7 Wedgetail, despite support from the service’s top general in the Asia-Pacific region. “I want to actually look at what options do we have,” Air Force Chief of Staff…
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More missiles, dispersed forces are key to stopping Chinese invasion of Taiwan, says former US Navy official

MELBOURNE, Australia — The U.S. military needs to quickly deploy more anti-ship missiles capable of targeting invading forces heading to Taiwan, and ensure American assets within range of Chinese missiles are sufficiently dispersed or hardened against a preemptive strike. At least that’s the recommendation made by Thomas Shugart, a former U.S. Navy submarine commander, during a Feb. 18…
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