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Sean Hollister

Sean Hollister

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    Sean Hollister
    The average Xbox Series X game draws 122 watts.

    That’s an overall average — many 4K 60FPS games pull over 160W, and some are well over 180W. You also might be surprised when they’re gulping the juice: pause menus average 137W, far more than cutscenes and loading screens. Multiplayer lobbies average 122W. The company’s working on tools to help/shame developers into lowering those.

    Valve announces Counter-Strike 2, a free replacement for CS:GOValve announces Counter-Strike 2, a free replacement for CS:GO
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    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Facebook’s former culture of secrecy, in one Zuckerberg email.

    Facebook famously provided new employees with a Little Red Book full of propaganda, designed to help establish a productive and secretive culture at the company. Among other things, it contained an email from Mark himself asking a leaker to fall on their own sword.

    Now, you no longer have to be an employee to read the “Please Resign” email for yourself.

    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    What gadget should we X-ray?

    ICYMI, we’re now sticking our gadgets into a CT scanner that spits out ghostly 3D images of their insides. We’ve got more videos like this Polaroid on the way — but if there’s some small gadget you think The Verge’s audience would love to see scanned, hit me up! I’m at sean@theverge.com.

    I used an incredible X-ray machine to look inside my gadgets — let me show you

    See inside a classic Polaroid, PalmPilot, and more.

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