Steam Upgrades Search Feature to Help You Find Exactly What You’re Looking For

Valve introduces a revamped Steam Search feature that makes it easier for users to narrow their search down and find exactly what they are looking for, quicker.
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A 3.3 V Tube Preamp Without An Inverter

If you’ve ever worked with vacuum tubes, you’ll probably have a healthy appreciation for high voltage power supplies. These components require higher potentials to get those electrons moving, or so we’re told. It’s not the whole truth though, as [Albert van Dalen] demonstrates with his tube preamplifier running …read more

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Creating Lookalike Valves With Resin Casting

Valves (tubes) certainly have a die hard fan base in the electronic community, praised for their warm sound, desirable distortion characteristics and attractive aesthetic. However, sometimes you just want the look of a valve for a prop or a toy, without actually needing the functionality. For those cases, this project …read more

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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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