GameSir put a tiny force feedback steering wheel on its new Swift Drive controller

GameSir is no stranger to experimenting with unique controller features – its Tarantula Pro can automatically swap its face button labels to accommodate alternate layouts, and its Pocket 1 clamps Game Boy controls onto your phone. What sets its new Swift Drive controller apart is a small steering wheel located smack-dab in the middle of … Read more

The FCC has probably killed a plan to improve smart home security

The US Cyber Trust Mark Program, an Energy Star-style certification for smart home security, could be winding down less than a year after it launched. Safety testing company UL Solutions has announced that it is stepping down as the program’s lead administrator, just a few months after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began investigating it … Read more

The New “Front Door” of Care: What Support Agents Know About Members That Clinics Don’t

As healthcare organizations rethink access and experience, a growing body of evidence suggests the first signs of member confusion don’t appear during clinical visits; they surface earlier, in support conversations that reveal where care journeys break down before providers ever see the problem. The front door of care is often assumed to be the clinic. … Read more

This smart garden turned my black thumb green

The Gardyn Studio is that rare piece of tech that looks good inside my home. I can’t grow anything. Multiple attempts to create a cottage garden, first in Idaho and now in South Carolina, have brought disappointment. Both are challenging climates, but where others have succeeded, I’ve been left with little more than a pile … Read more

How Supercell Powers its Massive Social Network with ScyllaDB

Supercell scaled real-time, cross-game social features for hundreds of millions of players using ScyllaDB Cloud. With just two engineers, they built Supercell ID for account management, chat, presence, and notifications, leveraging hierarchical key-value storage, Change Data Capture, and low-latency writes to handle massive concurrent events efficiently and reliably.