Steam Now Lets You Play Local Multiplayer Games With Your Friends Online

Steam’s latest new feature allows you to play local multiplayer games with your friends online across Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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Finely Machined Valve Controls Miniature RC Hydraulics

Hydraulic components are the industrial power transmission version of LEGO. Pumps, cylinders, valves – pretty much everything is standardized, and fitting out a working system is a matter of picking the right parts and just plumbing everything together. That’s fine if you want to build an excavator or a dump …read more

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News Wrap: Linux Utility Backdoor, Steam Zero Day Disclosure Drama

From a backdoor placed in the Webmin utility to vulnerability disclosure drama around zero-days in Valve’s Steam gaming clients, Threatpost breaks down this week’s top stories. Continue reading News Wrap: Linux Utility Backdoor, Steam Zero Day Disclosure Drama

Empa's low-cost FlexWork digital valve train uses up to 20% less fuel in testing

Full digital control over valve lift, opening and closing times for all valves, in a system ...

In this transitional period between the gasoline and electric ages, there’s still plenty of room, and plenty of motivation, for last-gasp improvements to the combustion engine – and a Swiss R&D facility says its electro-hydraulic, fully variable valve system is already delivering up to 20-percent fuel consumption reductions in testing.

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Hyundai announces "world's first" Continuously Variable Valve Duration engines

Hyundai/Kia have announced what they term the "world's first continuously variable valve duration" system

Set to debut in a new 1.6-liter 4-cylinder Smartstream turbo engine, Hyundai’s new valve tech is able to continuously change the duration of valve openings to suit driving conditions, which Hyundai says results in a 4 percent performance boost, 5 percent better fuel economy and 12 percent lower emissions.

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Everything You Probably Didn’t Know About FOV In HMDs

VR headsets have been seeing new life for a few years now, and when it comes to head-mounted displays, the field of view (FOV) is one of the specs everyone’s keen to discover. Valve Software have published a highly technical yet accessibly-presented document that explains why Field of View (FOV) …read more

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