A few days ago, my building was struck by lightning, which fried my cable modem, router and DVR. As far as I can tell, the only other casualty is the HDMI connection between my TV and homebuilt PC.

Developers and enthusiasts continue to find new ways of running Doom on increasingly unusual hardware, the latest of which is an Apple HDMI adapter cable. This is only possible because the Lightning ...

The lightning connector can push uncompressed 1080p. The A6 cannot encode the screen output into 1080p h.264 in real time, so it pushes a lower-res stream to the adapter, which then turns it into raw, ...