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Gaming Software

Steam could soon show estimated FPS based on crowd-sourced player data

Users could input their hardware to see estimated frame rates before buying

The takeaway: Valve appears to be preparing a new feature that could make one of PC gaming's biggest uncertainties – performance – more transparent. Newly uncovered code in the Steam client suggests players may soon see estimated frame rate data for each game derived from real-world gameplay metrics shared by other users.

Full story By Skye Jacobs, April 4, 2026, 1:38 PM 14 comments

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NASA is crowdsourcing lunar loo ideas

NASA needs a toilet that can work in microgravity and lunar gravity

By Shawn Knight, June 25, 2020, 10:46 AM

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Borderlands 3 now has a mini game that crowdsources gut biome research

You do realize that you are helping to study poo, right?

By Cal Jeffrey, April 8, 2020, 12:00 PM

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Walmart announces 'Spark Delivery,' a crowd-sourced, Uber-like grocery delivery program

Walmart is doing its best to compete with Amazon

By Cohen Coberly, September 6, 2018, 5:18 PM

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Hawkeye, ZTE's crowdsourced smartphone, hits Kickstarter for $199

By Shawn Knight, January 17, 2017, 12:30 PM

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Win $30,000 by designing a way for astronauts to poop in their spacesuits

Pooping in space is a serious matter

By Rob Thubron, November 29, 2016, 12:00 PM 29 comments

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Hardware Mobile

Crowdsourced Eve V 2-in-1 specs finalized ahead of Indiegogo debut

By Shawn Knight, November 11, 2016, 10:30 AM 7 comments

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ZTE invites the public to help design its next mobile product

By Shawn Knight, August 3, 2016, 1:00 PM

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Mobile Industry

Jolla: All of our backers will not get a Jolla Tablet

By Shawn Knight, January 4, 2016, 5:00 PM 9 comments

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Crowdsourcing used to search satellite images for missing Malaysia Airlines plane

By Shawn Knight, March 14, 2014, 6:15 PM

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The Web Industry

Google hires thousands of humans to rank search results manually

By Rick Burgess, November 27, 2012, 6:30 PM 8 comments

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Google Maps gets real-time traffic, crowdsources Android GPS data

By Rick Burgess, March 30, 2012, 5:30 PM 8 comments