DefenseNews

NATO says all allies to meet 2% defense-spending target this year

PARIS — NATO said all alliance members will spend at least 2% of their GDP on defense this year, the first time for that to happen since the spending target was set more than a decade ago. Three countries – Poland, Lithuania and Latvia – are on track to meet a more ambitious target for 3.5% spending, set at a meeting just over two months ago, according to data on allied defense spending…
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ComputersNews

How to turn a USB flash drive into a portable games console

A lot of gamers go to great lengths to find a portable retro gaming device with the lightest and most compact kit. The Linux powered Raspberry Pi 5 does a decent job on that front. But what many players don’t know is that an even smaller and lighter solution is available…
ComputersNews

I don’t need Windows 11 anymore. One final tool freed me from Microsoft

I’ve been using Windows for as long as I can remember. It was on the very first PC I recall using, literally on my father’s knee. But I don’t need it anymore. That’s a weird thing to say as a writer for a site named PCWorld. But it’s been a long time coming, a slow mix of broad tech trends, feeling betrayed by multiple brands, and a little bit of intention on my part. To be clear, I…
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GamingNews

The Big Dawn of War 4 Interview: How a New Developer Took On Warhammer 40,000's Flagship RTS, Why It Returns to Kronus, and Why Chaos Isn't Here… Yet

Gamescom’s Opening Night Live is, by its very nature, a show that thrives on big surprises, but few would have tuned in expecting to see Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4. After all, a remaster of the original game had only just arrived days prior, and developer Relic Entertainment – now independent after a decade-plus of being owned by Sega – didn’t seem ready to deliver a massive new…
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NewsSpace

NASA debuts new Orion mission control room for Artemis 2 astronaut flight around the moon (photos)

With shiny new next-generation spacecraft come the complex systems required to track their technologically advanced systems. When it comes to NASA’s Orion spacecraft, that need is a whole extra room of monitors. NASA has opened a new complex in the Mission Control Center at its Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston ahead of the Artemis 2 mission to send astronauts around the moon aboard the…
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