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Work With Pi Pico Temperature Sensors
This month, we are looking at sensors that can measure temperature and humidity (in the case of the DHT11). We’ll be using MicroPython on a Raspberry Pi Pico, but you can also use a Raspberry Pi Pico W. The goal is to learn how these sensors work and
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Logitech G915 X Lightspeed
PRICE $399 WEB logitechg.com The Logitech G915X Lightspeed is the top-of-the-line keyboard from the market-leading peripherals maker. Mechanical, packed with RGB and sporting Logitech’s low-profile keys, the G915X is a refresh of the widely loved G9
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Boost Privacy settings
IT WILL TAKE 15 mins YOU WILL LEARN The key security features on your Mac YOU’LL NEED macOS 15 or later With the launch of macOS Sequoia, Apple has made many of macOS’s security features easier to find and easier to use, and there’s more consistency
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Make Office better
One of the best tools in LibreOffice 24.8, released in August, is a new Find option that stays open in a sidebar. Press the Alt+9 keyboard shortcut and it’ll appear at the top right. Type a word ( 1 in our screenshot above), press Enter, and it’ll sh
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Parcel Corps
PRICE $50.95 PLATFORM PC, XB1/S/X, PS5, Linux WEB tinyurl.com/APC540parcel You play as a well-muscled person with a predilection for tight clothing, chosen from three different courier firms. Despite the cars and buses that circle the city, occasiona
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Make Windows better
With a quick registry hack you can add the option to open Windows Update settings to your right-click menu. First, search for and open registry editor, then in the address bar at the top type Computer\HKEY_ CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\ shell. P
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Noctua NH-U9S chromax.black
PRICE $130 WEB noctua.at There are certain brands that have cemented themselves as the true kings of the fields they inhabit. They have a reputation that’s almost unprecedented, backed up by years of experience, design, creativity, and brilliant per
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PDFgear 2.1.8
NEEDS Windows 10 or 11, or macOS WEB www.pdfgear.com PDFgear was one of our favourite discoveries of 2023, but other than a few small tweaks, it’s been fairly quiet in 2024 – until now. Version 2.1.8 brings a host of superb new tools and improvement
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Boost Your SSD Performance
YOU’LL NEED • CrystalDiskMark Download it from https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskmark Millennial APC readers may find it hard to fathom that solid-state drives first hit the market 33 years ago in 1991. SSDs rely on non-volatile memory
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How Do We Know How Smart AI Really Is?
We explore the trends and technologies that are set to shape the future As AI becomes increasingly competent at answering emails, making funny pictures and solving complicated science problems that have long stumped us humans, it raises a question:
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Reviews
35 MetaQuest 3S 36 Acer Swift 14 AI 37 Logitech G915 X Lightspeed Wireless Tactile 38 LG UltraGear 32 39 Logitech Pro X Superlight 2 DEX 40 Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max 41 Samsung Galaxy S24 FE 42 TCL 50 Pro Nxtpaper 5G 43 Apple Watch Series 10 44 Gamemax
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Shattered Space
The games we play PRICE $49.99 PLATFORM PC, XBS/X WEB tinyurl.com/APC540space Starfield’s vision of the future was just too timid. The squeaky clean corridors of New Atlantis did less for me than the crime-riddled backwater of Riften, and the averag
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Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred
PRICE $59.95 PLATFORM PC, XB1/S/X, PS4/5 WEB diablo4.blizzard.com Diablo IV’s first expansion, Vessel of Hatred, marks the end of its redemption arc and the start of its vision for the future. That vision includes a brighter, more expressive Diablo I
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Clean Up Filenames
Filenames come in all shapes and sizes, and are often made up of unsavoury characters. That’s because there’s no defined rules for naming files, which are often a reflection of the user’s mind. You’ll find files with unnecessary spaces, hyphens, unde
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Flailing Arms
You know that sinking feeling moment you get when something is not really quite right? That nagging doubt that it shouldn’t be like this? It was just like that when I read that Qualcomm has cancelled its Snapdragon X developer kit, a desktop Mac mini
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Gadgets
This isn’t a make or break product. What it is, is a clear representation of the company’s mission: Meta is ready to take its extensive experience in the VR and mixed reality world to the real world. The question is whether the Orion smart glasses wi
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Picture Perfect
PRICE Free PLATFORM PC, browser WEB incredulous.itch.io TURNS FUNNY PICTURES INTO CLEVER PUZZLES. You know all those pictures of people seeming to lean on the Tower of Pisa, or hold monuments in the palms of their hands? Well it’s all a matter of per
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Wispr Flo
PRICE US$15 per month NEEDS Mac with an Apple M1 chip or later, macOS 11 or later WEB flowvoice.ai The promise of computer speech recognition has never quite delivered. Whether it was IBM ViaVoice hearing “new paragraph” and printing ‘uterus’, macOS
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Market Watch
$1,229 tinyurl.com/APC540COM This system gets some surprisingly good basics nailed down. Starting with the CPU it’s none other than the value king i5 12400F. Seated in a H610 motherboard it’s unfortunate, but expected, given the limited budget and ma
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System News
From the front lines of the Australian PC market The Ryzen 9000 series has turned out to be a disappointment for consumers. For the most part the Zen 5 architecture only offered around five percent gains in typical scenarios over the 7000 series, an
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Microsoft Built A PC To Only Runs Cloud Apps
Everything you need to know from the month in tech Microsoft has just launched the Windows 365 Link, a mini-PC designed to run Windows 365 Cloud PCs. The company said on its blog that it starts at just US$349 (AU RRP TBA) and will connect quickly an
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Meta Quest 3S
PRICE From $499 WEB meta.com Meta is clearly determined to bring VR and AR to the masses. Along with slashing the starting price of the 512GB Quest 3 to $799, it has introduced the Quest 3S as a sub-$500 alternative. Despite this, it shares many of
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Apple iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max
iFixit is a global community of tinkerers dedicated to helping people fix things through free online repair manuals and teardowns. iFixit believes that everyone has the right to maintain and repair their own products. To learn more, visit www.ifixit
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Grammarly vs. QuillBot
GRAMMARLY $0/$12 per month (annual payment) / $30 per month (monthly payment), www.grammarly.comQUILLBOT $0/$12.49 per month (annual payment), www.quillbot.com Let’s face it, out of all the languages available, there’s a good argument that English i
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Nzxt H5 Flow RGB (2024)
PRICE $189 WEB nzxt.com The H5 Flow is on the block, newly released and newly tweaked, although nowhere near as aggressively as its H7 Flow bigger brother. There have been some serious alterations compared to 2023’s edition, though. Long gone is tha
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What’s Hot For Apple Watch
WatchOS 11 is the most beautiful watchOS yet. But in addition to its good looks there’s tons of substance to match its style – so while the three new watch faces and the redesigned widgets can make your Apple Watch even prettier, the big news is in t
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Exclusive Downloads
Download these APC exclusives free from: www.apcmag.com/exclusives Anyone who should ever sign a PDF document knows the problem: How do I convert a PDF into an image file so that I can insert my signature graphic in Paint or Photoshop at the desired
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Apple Watch Series 10
PRICE From $649 WEB apple.com/au It’s bbeen ten years since Apple unveiled its first smartwatch, and the anniversary brings an impressive update. Although the Watch Series 10 doesn’t look much different to previous models, it introduces some signifi
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Intel Core Ultra 200S CPUs
After what feels like years of mild stagnation, the Arrow Lake architecture is a significant shift in Intel’s approach to CPU design and construction. The Core Ultra 200S series introduces a platform built around new chiplet technology, updated memor
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Curse Of The Azure Bonds
Old games, new perspectives RELEASE 1989 DEVELOPER Strategic Simulations PUBLISHER SNEG LINK gbc.zorbus.net Years before Baldur’s Gate came along, the CRPGS made in the Gold Box engine, including Curse of the Azure Bonds, were my introduction to the
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