Before there was Steam, there was MS-DOS. A chunky, no-nonsense platform that ran some of the most unforgettable games of all time — games that shaped not just genres, but the entire medium.

20 iPhones: great for filming horror movies and protecting your modesty.Upcoming horror threequel 28 Years Later is far from the first Hollywood movie to be shot with the help of an iPhone, but it might just be the first shot on 20 iPhones. That’s how many phones director Danny Boyle had mounted on a special rig for select shots in the movie, which releases June 20th.For Boyle, shooting on iPhones is more than just a gimmick. He returns to the series after directing the 2002 original 28 Days Later, which was shot on a digital video camcorder, a meta nod to the fact that this was how home videos were shot at the time. He and returning cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle took that as an “influence” in choosing to shoot partially on a phone, the camcorder’s closest modern equivalent. It was first reported last year that Boyle had shot 28 Years Later on an iPhone 15 Pro Max, but according to IGN the movie actually uses a mix of regular cameras, drones, and iPhones, including three special rigs designed to hold eight, 10, or 20 iPhones at once.“There is an incredible shot in the second half [of the film] where we use the 20-rig camera, and you’ll know it when you see it,” Boyle told IGN. “It’s quite graphic but it’s a wonderful shot that uses that technique, and in a startling way that kind of kicks you into a new world rather than thinking you’ve seen it before.”Boyle calls the 20-phone rig “basically a poor man’s bullet time,” explaining that it allowed the crew to shoot some of the film’s more violent scenes in new ways. “It gives you 180 degrees of vision of an action, and in the editing you can select any choice from it, either a conventional one-camera perspective or make your way instantly around reality, time-slicing the subject, jumping forward or backward for emphasis.”It’s not the film’s only unusual cinematographic choice. It was also shot in an especially wide 2.76:1 aspect ratio, the equivalent of 70mm film, to keep viewers guessing about where the film’s infected could pop up: “If you’re on a widescreen format, they could be anywhere… you have to keep scanning, looking around for them.”

I've never solved a Rubik's Cube. The last time I had one, I didn't know about all the logic and reasoning involved. I just sort of twisted the segments around until I got bored and put the cube down again. Maybe if one crossed my path again, I'd actually put in the effort to solve one.

I’ve been a Docker enthusiast for ages. It’s easy to use, has a solid collection of images, and boasts a sleek ecosystem comprising add-ons, desktop apps, and a decent orchestration platform. But a few weeks ago, I began using Podman as my primary container runtime, and it’s a decision I don’t regret. After all, Podman is a lot more secure than Docker, supports systemd automation, and can run containers inside pods.

A redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks (RAID) is a collection of physical drives pooled together using virtualization technology to create one or more logical units for the purpose of storing data. Unlike a drive or two inside your desktop or laptop PC, a RAID consists of two or more drives combined to create storage pools that vary in size, with redundancy built into the array. Should one (or more, depending on the RAID) drive fail, the RAID should be able to recover from it without losing data, but there are some myths surrounding RAID that you may believe.

Sometimes, a 3D printer bed is just too small, no matter how big they are. They're usually the right size when doing smaller prints, but when it's time to make something bigger, you usually need to break it up into segments and stick them together once you're done printing.

NotebookLM has managed to convince me that AI can truly be a game-changer for productivity. If you aren’t aware, NotebookLM is Google’s AI-powered personalized research assistant. Take a moment to read that last bit again — research assistant.

Laurene Powell Jobs (left) said that Ive’s design process is a “wondrous thing to behold.” | Image: Getty ImagesThe mysterious AI gadget being created by OpenAI and former Apple design chief Jony Ive has been given the thumbs up from Laurene Powell Jobs. In a new interview published by The Financial Times, the two reminisce about Jony Ive’s time working at Apple alongside Powell Jobs’ late husband, Steve, and trying to make up for the “unintentional” harms associated with those efforts.“Many of us would say we have an uneasy relationship with technology at the moment,” Ive said, adding that working on the incoming AI device alongside OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is motivated by a sense that “humanity deserves better.” In May, Ive said his latest work is driven by owning the “unintended consequences” associated with the iPhone, alluding to smartphone-related concerns like users being addicted to screens and social media.Ive again acknowledged this, and says the collaboration with Altman has revived his optimism for technology. “If you make something new, if you innovate, there will be consequences unforeseen, and some will be wonderful and some will be harmful. While some of the less positive consequences were unintentional, I still feel responsibility. And the manifestation of that is a determination to try and be useful.”Powell Jobs, who has remained close friends with Ive since Steve Jobs passed in 2011, echoes his concerns, saying that “there are dark uses for certain types of technology,” even if it “wasn’t designed to have that result.” Powell Jobs has invested in both Ive’s LoveFrom design and io hardware startups following his departure from Apple. Ive notes that “there wouldn’t be LoveFrom” if not for her involvement. Ive’s io company is being purchased by OpenAI for almost $6.5 billion, and with her investment, Powell Jobs stands to gain if the secretive gadget proves anywhere near as successful as the iPhone. The pair gives away no extra details about the device that Ive is building with OpenAI, but Powell Jobs is expecting big things. She says she has watched “in real time how ideas go from a thought to some words, to some drawings, to some stories, and then to prototypes, and then a different type of prototype,” Powell Jobs said. “And then something that you think: I can’t imagine that getting any better. Then seeing the next version, which is even better. Just watching something brand new be manifested, it’s a wondrous thing to behold.”

Setting up my home lab was one of the best projects I have undertaken, and I'm very happy to have this computer at home that can store all my documents, photos, and even media so that I can consume it at any time without relying on the internet or expensive cloud services.

Modern digital security relies heavily on encryption algorithms grounded in difficult math problems, which is the backbone of what’s known as public-key infrastructure (PKI). From securing websites to protecting messaging apps, PKI allows two strangers online (or a client and a server) to establish secret keys and verify identities without having met. This is achieved through asymmetric cryptography (public/private key pairs) that current computers find infeasible to break. For example, algorithms like RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) underpin much of today's secure internet traffic, but the advent of quantum computing threatens to upend these protections.

It's been a quarter of a century since I first got a PC at home. For context, I'm 32 years old, and got an HP Brio pre-built when I was in third grade. According to what my father had told me, and calculating based on the USD-INR exchange rate around that time, the machine cost around $1,600. That's pretty much what my existing PC costs — although I didn't have to pay for it.

Doom: The Dark Agescame out last month in May 2025, and boy did I love the heck out of it. Inarguably the strongest entry in the revived Doom franchise, Doom: The Dark Ages, The Dark Ages managed to feel fresh with new ideas, new weapons, and an overall new feel to the game.