This relaxing take on Civilization wrapped in Windows 2000 style just hit 1.0, it's completely free, and I'm mesmerized

Gray windows and simple graphics make CivIdle a 4X strategy game you could get away with playing on office time, back in 2001 anyway.

Inside the Windows 1.0 reunion: How a scrappy team shipped the product that changed everything, eventually

A core group of early Microsoft developers and business leaders reunited this week, 40 years after releasing Windows 1.0, ...

This well-received colony sim from the creator of The Settlers just hit 1.0, with a deep discount and a new campaign

From a key mind behind one of the most influential city builder games, Pioneers of Pagonia just launched with more than we ...
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You can turn a cluster of Macs into an AI supercomputer in macOS Tahoe 26.2

Who needs a revamped Mac Pro when you can just turn several Mac Studios into a unified computing system? With the upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.2 release, Apple is introducing a new low-latency feature that ...
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Google launches Gemini 3 with state-of-the-art reasoning, ‘generative UI’ for responses, more

Google today announced Gemini 3 with the goal of bringing “any idea to life.” The first model available in this family is Gemini 3 Pro with the rollout starting today for the Gemini app and AI Mode.