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Games

When you love retro consoles so much you just need to hack them

We look at the Nintendo, Sega and PlayStation Classics and explore the modding scenes making the most of these amazing retro remakes.

Pentanet makes history

Monday, May 10, 2021. Pentanet makes history: A big moment for Australian esports overnight, with Perth’s Pentanet.gg becoming the first local team to make it out of the group stage of an international League of Legends competition. Pentanet split its victories with main group rival Unicorns of Love,

Toss a coin to your Twitter

Friday, May 7, 2021 (got that wrong yesterday…) Please, if you’re enjoying the new newsletter format and/or the daily podcast… Tell your friends to catch the Bits daily tech news bulletin Tell them to get this newsletter Either or both will help Byteside thrive! Brain food The Smithsonian

Computers

Intel NUC vs M1 Mac mini: which machine reigns supreme?

The new Mac Mini with an M1 chip has a lot of firepower. So how does it stack up against Intel's Hades Canyon gamer NUC? We run the tests.

Games finally catch a tax break

Thursday, May 6, 2021 Games industry finally catches a (tax) break: Digital Economy Minister Jane Hume has announced that the upcoming federal budget will include a tax offset for videogame development in Australia for the first time. The support will take the form of a 30% refundable offset, in line

Health

Australian AI bot aims to help us better understand individuals with dementia

Dementia Australia and Deakin University have launched an AI bot with dementia to help train carers to better help humans with the disease.

The realest lightsaber yet?

Officeworks removes AirTags: Officeworks has removed Apple AirTags from store shelves over child safety concerns. After initially going on sale, the products have been removed from shelves and from the online store, including AirTags accessory products. The ACCC confirmed to Gizmodo Australia that it is aware of concerns over accessibility

Would you pay for Facebook?

Tuesday, May 4, 2020 CSIRO evolves Wi-Fi into satellite startup: A new partnership between the CSIRO and venture capital group Main Sequence is launching a new space industry startup, Quasar Satellite Technologies. The technology aims to enabled ground stations to communicate with hundreds of satellites at a time, with the

Culture

Digimon X brings the battling virtual pets back to Australia

Virtual pets are back! Digimon X is coming to Australia later this year, along with several new features including a new quest mode.

Security

The little helicopter that could

The ACCC lets rural presses work together against the tech giants, AFP tackles local scammers, the Martian helicopter rules, and loads more.

Doing (B)it(s) daily

The Bits daily tech news bulletin has been a fun evolution for what we’ve been doing at Byteside and I’ve realised the work of putting it together has put me into a place where taking the newsletter daily is also a more viable idea than ever before. Starting