Lorelei and the Laser Eyes studio Simogo just announced a new bundle that collects seven of the developer’s early titles in one package. They range from the haunting adventure Year Walk to the interactive spy novel Device 6, and the collection will be available on the Switch and Steam on December 2nd.
History tells us that Warner Bros. Discovery’s plan to sell itself is probably going to end in disaster.
The company still hasn’t revealed pricing or a release date, but a new video of the upcoming Anbernic RG DS confirms that while playing single screen games the handheld’s second display can be used for other thing like watching a walkthrough video or searching for game tips.
Prologue: Go Wayback!, the survival roguelike from PUBG creator Brendan Greene’s PlayerUnknown Productions, is launching in early access on November 20th. It’s the first of three games that are part of an ambitious plan for the studio.
Elon Musk’s political activities — buying Twitter, renaming it X, and letting election deniers and white supremacists back on; donating nearly $300 million to elect Donald Trump; heading DOGE — have dramatically harmed Tesla’s financial fortunes, according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research by Yale University economists. Musk’s polarizing behavior likely cost the company up to 1.26 million vehicle sales in the US alone, the group estimates. Meanwhile, EV sales from other automakers popped 17-22 percent, as Musk-disgusted shoppers spent their cash elsewhere.
OpenAI’s new browser is great at providing AI-generated responses, but not so great at searches.
Coal-fired power plants pumped out as much as 20 percent more particle pollution during the last federal government shutdown in 2018 and 2019 as the US Environmental Protection Agency froze inspections.
The current shutdown has lasted nearly a month now, inching closer to the 2018-2019 record for the longest in history.
A few years ago I wrote about a project to revive the early 3D virtual community Cybertown, and yesterday, I got an alert that Cybertown is “back and fully restored” as of this month. There’s a bit more detail on the Facebook page, including info about its mayoral race.
The It prequel series is a half-hearted attempt at crossing Stephen King’s opus with Stranger Things.
YouTubers will be soon be able to make use of Adobe Premiere editing tools through a new hub, Create for YouTube shorts. It’s launching soon, both inside the new Premiere mobile app and built directly into YouTube itself.
Expect “exclusive effects, transitions, templates and more.”
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Elon Musk’s xAI has launched Grokipedia, and no-one was more surprised than us to discover that some pages appear to have been lifted wholesale from Wikipedia. But fortunately Verge commenters have led the way on the best possible response.
bigcow:
hold on let me go donate to wikipedia
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In the meanwhile, on October 29th, Google will have to change its Android app store in big ways. “While we will comply, it forces us to weaken vital security protections, jeopardizing user safety and the open Android model that supports millions of developers,” writes Google spokesperson Dan Jackson.
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November 2nd will mark 25 years of continuous human occupation aboard the International Space Station, and Ars Technica points out this new ISS in Real Time website lets you revisit each and every day.
You can see crew rosters, camera footage, the astronauts’ schedule, and even listen to recorded announcements.
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The Roomba robot vacuum maker reported in a regulatory filing that its last potential buyer has withdrawn. The company, which has been seeking a sale since its deal with Amazon was scuppered by EU regulatory scrutiny, warned it could be forced to seek bankruptcy.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy called it “a sad story” and an example of regulation gone wrong in an interview with CNBC today.
When you’re actively using Gaming Copilot in Game Bar, it can use screenshots of your gameplay to get a better understanding of what’s happening in your game and provide you with more helpful responses. These screenshots are not used to train AI models, and Gaming Copilot is an optional feature that only has access to gameplay when you’re playing a game and actively using it.
The words “will never” do not appear in Microsoft’s statement.
Sources tell Reuters and Bloomberg that the job cuts could start on Tuesday, potentially impacting almost 10 percent of Amazon’s 350,000 corporate employees across logistics, gaming, payments, and cloud computing teams.
Amazon last held a major round of job cuts at the end of 2022 and into 2023, when it laid off 27,000 workers.
In late December, DJI may no longer be allowed to import new products into the US — it seems someone woke up and smelled a business opportunity in that! Products DJI decided not to bring to the US are suddenly on Amazon’s shelves, including the Mavic 4 Pro and Mini 5 Pro.
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Fibit’s head of product Andy Abramson briefly teased new devices in the coming year during a media briefing covering the company’s new AI health coach. Mentioning that the health coach would roll out fully in 2026, he said it would be supported by “new Fitbit hardware” and that we should “stay tuned for an exciting year.”
I’m gonna put my money on a ring, only because I think that would be pretty rad.
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The $15,000 Nissan Sakura kei car is breaking records in Japan — and I badly want this new prototype version with an always-active solar roof that nearly doubles in size when you park. At 500W, Nissan estimates it can add 1,864 miles of range per year. Here’s the YouTube video.
