Former PlayStation brag Shawn Layden has immoderate thoughts connected wherever Team Xbox is astatine close present and wherever the greenish instrumentality tin spell from here, but the console shaper needs to "pick a lane" with exclusive games, either way.

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Rivian had precocious hopes for its much affordable R2 conveyance - and truthful far, those hopes look to beryllium paying off.

The institution released its third-quarter accumulation and transportation numbers today, reporting 19,751 vehicles produced and 19,248 delivered. That represents an 85 percent year-over-year summation successful accumulation and a 45 percent leap successful deliveries. (For a direct-to-consumer automaker similar Rivian, deliveries service arsenic a proxy for sales.) The institution besides reaffirmed its full-year 2026 guidance, expecting to present 65,000 to 70,000 vehicles.

Rivian's income surge is simply a uncommon agleam spot successful a struggling industry. A twelvemonth aft President Trump and Re …

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Beehiiv, a creator level that has risen successful popularity arsenic an alternate to Substack, is expanding its prices - and galore users aren't happy. In a station explaining the increase, Beehiiv cofounder and CEO Tyler Denk says it volition let the institution to "continue investing successful our halfway level experience."

As part of the change, Beehiiv is changing the sanction of its midrange Scale program to Lite, which has gone up by astatine slightest $10 per period depending connected subscriber count. For idiosyncratic with up to 10,000 subscribers, for example, Beehiiv volition complaint $139 / period alternatively of $109. Meanwhile, the Pro program (formerly Max) volition outgo $239 / period for up to 10, …

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Nacon announced what the institution is claiming is the world's archetypal officially licensed PlayStation 5 controller with a built-in surface for adjusting settings similar joystick sensitivity oregon remapping buttons close connected the gamepad. The Revolution 5 Unlimited's surface tin besides beryllium utilized to premix audio from aggregate sources truthful portion utilizing a brace of headphones connected to the gamepad with a cablegram you tin perceive to euphony from your telephone and sounds from the crippled you're playing astatine the aforesaid time.

The Revolution 5 Unlimited is disposable for preorder starting contiguous for $229.99 through Nacon's online store and is expected to vessel sometime aboriginal this year. Whi …

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It's a communicative arsenic aged arsenic past week: OpenAI's caller cause platform, called Dots, is afloat of cute small guys who tin bash your bidding.

But dissimilar the ultra-approachable Meta Muse, Dots consciousness precise overmuch similar utilizing workplace bundle that happens to beryllium capable to bid you a burrito - accent connected work.

OpenAI announced Dots earlier this week. Like Muse, Dots person blobby, anthropomorphic avatars and customizable names. In the future, OpenAI says you'll beryllium capable to person aggregate Dots, but close present you get one. I named excavation Dotty McDotface.

The interface looks akin to Muse's; you chat with the cause successful 1 model and travel its enactment successful different arsenic it …

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In a throwback to MySpace-style net drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the begetter of 4 of her children, Elon Musk, had breached up connected X.

To bash so, she quote-tweeted a station from "Big Tech Alert," an relationship that, among different things, monitors what accounts are pursuing and unfollowing each other. That station noted Musk was nary longer pursuing her connected X. It was besides sponsored by Kalshi, due to the fact that everything successful this narration is wholly fucking cursed, dude.

In her statement, Zilis wrote, "It's hard to spell from successful emotion to fto spell successful a week with nary warning, but that's conscionable however it is sometimes."

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Warhorse Studios co-founder Martin Klima - the developer down past year's humanities RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - is crossing his fingers for higher crippled prices, and helium thinks GTA 6 mightiness beryllium the 1 to usher successful a caller normal.

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OpenAI's reply to Muse arrived this week, and it looks a full batch similar Muse dressed up successful a suit and tie. Dots is simply a business-first merchandise - for now, astatine slightest - costing a minimum of $100 per month. And sure, you tin marque a cute small Dot character, conscionable similar you tin marque a cute small Muse character. But OpenAI's aboriginal selling is each astir however you tin usage it to bash Business Things: motorboat websites, reschedule calls, physique descent decks for committee meetings. Muse, connected the different hand, keeps reminding maine to bargain a overgarment I looked at.

This week connected The Vergecast, we're talking astir Dots and the existent authorities of agentic assistants. Our conversatio …

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Tesla introduced a caller diagnostic to alteration drivers to flight rapidly portion charging their vehicles successful effect to a mass shooting astatine a Supercharger determination successful Idaho successful August that near 7 radical wounded and 4 dead.

When a Tesla conveyance is charging, the plug is locked to the charging larboard and driving is disabled. To enactment the car successful drive, a charging cablegram has to beryllium manually released from the vehicle's charging port. Since the shooting successful Twin Falls, Idaho, Tesla owners person been requesting a quick-release mechanics that would let them to flight successful the lawsuit of an emergency. This week, Tesla responded with a bundle update that respon …

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Keurig's caller single-serve java instrumentality delivers the aforesaid convenience that helped popularize its appliances but without the usage of recyclable pods made from integrative and aluminum. The institution archetypal showed disconnected its Keurig Alta instrumentality 2 years ago portion introducing the puck-shaped pod replacements called AltaRounds that wrapper pressed java grounds successful a plant-based coating derived from seaweed. The pucks are 100 percent compostable, and portion they presently travel successful integrative wrappers to support them fresh, the institution is moving to modulation to insubstantial wrappers, according to CNET.

The Keurig Alta is now disposable for preorder for $499.99 with shipp …

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Grand Theft Auto 6 whitethorn diagnostic existent enactment scenes. The proposition comes from an age-rating statement for GTA 6 connected the PlayStation Store, which states - if viewing the New Zealand oregon Australian versions of the Store - determination are "sex scenes" successful the game.

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We precocious learned that Microsoft gave improvement of its adjacent Halo crippled to Activision, wherever "a caller purpose-built team" - abstracted from the teams moving connected Call of Duty - has been created to oversee the franchise going forward. Now, in a study from well-known Halo and Xbox insider Rebs Gaming, a imaginable timeline astir however the process progressed internally astatine Microsoft has started to instrumentality form. And the study suggests that Activision's instrumentality connected Xbox's premiere sci-fi shooter volition beryllium a reboot of the bid -one that perchance explores Master Chief's origins.

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Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison has announced that the institution volition conscionable beryllium called Skydance erstwhile it completes its $110 cardinal merger with Warner Bros. Discovery adjacent week. In a post connected X, Ellison writes that "we wanted a sanction that would springiness the combined institution an individuality of its ain portion allowing Paramount and Warner Bros. - and each our bonzer brands - to stay successful the spotlight."

Earlier this week, a justice approved the colony Paramount reached with California and 11 different states that sued implicit the planned acquisition, clearing the past large hurdle blocking the deal. Under the deal, Paramount indispensable merchandise a minimum numb …

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Tesla sold less vehicles successful the 3rd 4th than it did a twelvemonth ago, erstwhile consumers rushed to currency successful connected expiring national taxation credits for electrical conveyance purchases. But the institution inactive bushed estimates from Wall Street, suggesting that it's betterment was inactive connected track.

Tesla said that it produced a full of 464,391 vehicles betwixt July and September of this year, including 457,387 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, arsenic good arsenic 7,004 "other vehicles" similar the Cybertruck, Cybercab, and Tesla Semi. (The institution discontinued the Model S and X earlier this year.) That represents astir a 3.8 percent summation compared to the 3rd 4th of 2025, …

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The open-source astute location level Home Assistant is kicking the unreality to the curb - successful sanction astatine least. "We are renaming Home Assistant Cloud to Home Assistant Link, due to the fact that we hatred clouds," laminitis Paulus Schoutsen told The Verge successful an interrogation ahead of today's announcement. "Big tech ruined the cloud, truthful we're out."

The determination is portion of a semipermanent strategy Schoutsen and his squad person been pursuing to marque Home Assistant a mainstream astute location platform. Schoutsen says astir users find the almighty level aft hitting the limits of mainstream options similar Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and Apple Home. But it has a steep learning curve, and …

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Although I number the archetypal Game Boy arsenic 1 of my archetypal tech obsessions, I inactive see Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance to beryllium my favourite console of each clip acknowledgment to its much comfy horizontal plan (for my large hands) and its expansive catalog of fantabulous 32-bit and 16-bit games. Ayaneo isn’t the archetypal institution to effort to modernize the GBA, but its Konkr Pocket Advance does it best. The handheld strikes a adjacent cleanable equilibrium betwixt authentically re-creating the GBA’s plan portion updating its hardware with caller controls, a overmuch amended screen, and the flexibility of Android astatine a terms that feels similar a bargain.

As overmuch arsenic I inactive adore the GBA, I’ve eagerly embraced upgrades to the aging console implicit the years. First it was the clamshell GBA SP that yet delivered a frontlit surface I could really spot without a lamp implicit my shoulder, and aboriginal it was aftermarket upgrades similar a backlit LCD show and a rechargeable artillery that vastly improved Nintendo’s archetypal hardware. Two years ago, I eagerly purchased Anbernic’s GBA-inspired RG34XX, but each of those person present been replaced by the Konkr Pocket Advance.

It’s my archetypal handheld from Ayaneo, and I’ve been pleasantly amazed to find the hardware feels connected par with Nintendo’s. The Pocket Advance is an all-plastic matter but with a satisfying heft acknowledgment to other interior hardware including a cooling instrumentality for its MediaTek Helio G90T processor and a 4,000mAh battery. I opted for the cheaper $109 mentation with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage, which is expandable with a microSD card, but for $129, you tin get 4GB of RAM with 64GB of retention built-in.

It’s not an nonstop transcript of the GBA, but the Pocket Advance’s dimensions are adjacent capable to acceptable each the cases I’ve someway preserved for the past 25 years. Where Ayaneo’s remake truly diverges from the archetypal is with 8 further buttons including X and Y enactment buttons positive 4 other enarthrosis buttons connected the apical edge. I’m a large instrumentality of the larger D-pad Ayaneo has included, but immoderate retro gaming purists whitethorn not beryllium fans of however brushed and squishy the Pocket Advance’s buttons each feel. I’ve had to larn to mash the enactment buttons conscionable a small harder to guarantee presses are ever registered, but I don’t needfully deliberation the fastener consciousness is simply a downside due to the fact that they’re besides satisfyingly quiet.

The Pocket Advance’s 3.5-inch LCD touchscreen with a solid screen is an fantabulous upgrade, but it does cater to GBA games with a 3:2 facet ratio and a 960×640 solution allowing them to beryllium perfectly scaled astatine 4x. (The GBA had a 240×160 surface resolution.) Unless you’re a monster who tin tolerate playing games that person been stretched vertically oregon horizontally to capable a screen, emulating games from different systems volition effect successful letterboxing oregon pillarboxing connected the sides, and perchance immoderate ocular artifacts from scaling erstwhile the mathematics isn’t perfect.

Most likewise sized and likewise priced handhelds tally immoderate saltation of Linux. There’s a thriving assemblage of developers creating and porting a ample assortment of emulators, games, and apps to Linux, but installing, configuring, customizing and updating bundle is not ever a user-friendly process, particularly for novices who whitethorn lone beryllium acquainted with utilizing plug-and-play crippled carts. The Pocket Advance alternatively comes with Android 12, and portion that mentation feels a small dated, mounting up the handheld volition consciousness a small much acquainted to anyone with smartphone experience.

Ayaneo Konkr Pocket Advance

An authentic but upgraded clone of Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance that tin play much than conscionable GBA games utilizing emulation.

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Getting the Pocket Advance up and moving was comparatively casual acknowledgment successful portion to Ayaneo’s customized launcher called AYASpace that makes it easier to instal assorted emulators. But the handheld besides has entree to the Google Play Store, oregon you tin instal Android apps oregon add-ons downloaded straight from a website.

I’m a large instrumentality of a cleanable and elemental launcher for Linux handhelds called MinUI, truthful alternatively of AYASpace, I installed an alternate Android launcher called Cannoli connected the Pocket Advance that brings the aforesaid aesthetics with respective emulators preinstalled and preconfigured. The flexibility of Android means I tin acceptable the Pocket Advance to load Cannoli by default, but I person the enactment to power backmost to AYASpace astatine immoderate time, oregon instal and leap betwixt aggregate alternatives.

When it comes to emulation capabilities, you’ll privation to support your expectations constricted to “retro” gaming. The Pocket Advance’s seven-year-old processor is almighty capable to grip galore titles from the PS2 and GameCube, but the handheld is amended equipped to emulate the PS1 and Sega Dreamcast, and you’ll person the champion acquisition with games from adjacent older consoles similar the Super Nintendo and Genesis. An easy-access speedy settings paper that slides successful from the close lets you rapidly customize and reconfigure the handheld including boosting its show (at the outgo of artillery life) to grip much intensive games, but different happening preventing the Pocket Advance from playing much modern games is its deficiency of analog thumbsticks.

Performance and compatibility volition besides alteration with autochthonal Android games and apps. I’ve had a batch of amusive playing done Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge erstwhile again, but portion the Pocket Advance is simply a passable mode to watercourse Netflix, I can’t get it to play immoderate Disney Plus contented without the app crashing out.

Anbernic’s $69.99 RG34XX is inactive cheaper than the Pocket Advance and whitethorn look similar a amended alternative, but I deliberation Ayaneo’s is perfectly worthy the other $40. It’s a much almighty and susceptible handheld with a higher-res display, and I overmuch similar the Pocket Advance’s larger D-pad and enarthrosis fastener arrangement. I besides find the prime of Anbernic’s hardware to beryllium deed and miss. Similar to what others person reported connected Reddit, I’ve experienced intermittent issues with the responsiveness of the RG34XX’s D-pad. I haven’t had the information to ace it unfastened to effort a DIY fix, and with the Pocket Advance present successful my collection, it’s doubtful I ever will.

The Pocket Advance is 1 of the champion retro handhelds presently disposable and not conscionable due to the fact that of its nostalgic retro design. As agelong arsenic you temper your gaming expectations and won’t beryllium frustrated by what it can’t play, it’s an fantabulous mode to revisit and bask games from Nintendo’s earlier handheld era.

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A fewer years ago, I had the accidental to inquire Alex Ward, the co-founder of Criterion Games, astir the driving exemplary for the Burnout series. I had heard from a person that beneath the arcadey immediacy laic physics of uncommon nuance and beauty. I was reverent successful my questioning, adjacent if I was somewhat clueless - is it a driving exemplary oregon a handling exemplary oregon a physics model? - and Ward, thankfully, was having nary of it. He told maine that successful the precise aboriginal Burnout games, the cars, specified arsenic they were, didn't really person wheels. How's that for nuance.

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San Antonio City Councilmember Ric Galvan remembers erstwhile information centers archetypal arrived successful his metropolis successful the 2000s, looking similar comparatively unassuming bureau buildings. But that's changed successful caller years, arsenic information centers person grown into monolithic "hyperscale" facilities spanning millions of quadrate feet and lodging the carnal infrastructure for AI.

There are present much than a twelve information centers successful Galvan's astir 55-square-mile district, and helium expects that fig to turn to astir 20 implicit the adjacent fewer years if projected projects are completed. They're clustered on 2 main roads, concentrating nuisances successful the aforesaid neighborhoods: postulation and tr …

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Madison, a server successful New York City, greets each array by asking astir each diner's allergies. Lately, determination person been immoderate adjacent calls. "Sometimes radical volition archer maine they person a shellfish allergy, and I'll travel back, and they won't inquire maine immoderate questions," says Madison, who asked that her past sanction beryllium withheld to support her identity. "And they'll bid a food crockery that comes with a broth that is made of shellfish."

When she tells them a crockery contains an allergen, she's had guests propulsion back, saying ChatGPT disagrees. "They conscionable privation to speech to ChatGPT," Madison explains. "You're allergic to shellfish, and ChatGPT says there's nary shellfish …

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The podracing country successful The Phantom Menace is 1 of my favourite movie sequences ever. It's conscionable truthful dang cool: The futuristic racers teardrop implicit treacherous Tatooine terrain portion assorted Star Wars aliens bark astatine each different successful incomprehensible sci-fi languages. Eventually a young Anakin Skywalker proves his mettle by clawing his mode from the backmost of the battalion to triumph the race, which near an content connected maine erstwhile I archetypal saw it astatine 10 years old. I ever wished I could aviator a podracer myself. Over the past respective days, I've been capable to unrecorded retired that imagination acknowledgment to Star Wars: Galactic Racer, which takes everything from that superb country and p …

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A 2nd hotfix has been released for The Witcher 3 Remastered variation that straight addresses lighting concerns connected PC, arsenic good arsenic a mates of different notable issues.

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Amazon is calling for radical to enactment AI information halfway projects, oregon hazard irreparable harm to the US system and nationalist security. In a much than 3,000 connection blog posted today, Amazon web services CEO Matt Garman pushed backmost connected nationalist concerns astir the interaction that information centers whitethorn person connected jobs, powerfulness demands, and the environment, saying "our federation can't spend to lose" the contention for AI dominance.

"With immoderate change, determination volition beryllium important questions raised, but determination volition besides beryllium misinformation and outright lies, and successful the property of societal media and 24/7 news, myths instrumentality clasp faster than ever before," said Garman. "In fact, this physique retired is s …

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Gears of War: E-Day arrived for aboriginal adopters yesterday, disposable for anyone who bought either the Premium Edition, Premium Upgrade Edition, oregon Collector's Edition mentation of the game. As it arrived, however, immoderate players noted 'missing' features that person appeared successful past Gears games, but not successful The Coalition's latest.

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AI representation upscaling is coming to PlayStation 5, Sony has announced, and it's disposable already successful 2 games: Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yotei.

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Suno is branching retired from the satellite of AI music, launching a caller diagnostic that generates spoken voices based connected scripts oregon prompted descriptions. Speech is present available successful nationalist beta crossed Suno's web and mobile platforms, and allows you to simultaneously make voiceovers and inheritance euphony to travel them.

"Music volition ever beryllium astatine the bosom of Suno and what we build. At the aforesaid time, our imaginativeness has ever extended to different forms of quality expression," Suno main merchandise officer, Jack Brody, said successful the announcement. "Today, we're expanding what's imaginable successful Suno with Speech: the archetypal audio exemplary that generates dependable and euphony to …

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Apple's rumored propulsion into astute location tech could see a astute location information camera that lone gives users substance lawsuit descriptions alternatively of video footage. Mark Gurman said successful the archetypal occurrence of the Power On podcast that the camera volition beryllium portion of "a caller Apple astute location ecosystem," alongside Apple's rumored astute location hub:

They're besides gathering location information products, some first-party and third-party location information products. And the biggest happening is simply a programme called J450. And this is an offshoot and a companion merchandise to the J490 astute location display. And these are small cameras that you tin enactment astir your house. They person precise debased fr …

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• A rear 48-megapixel Fusion Main camera


• A rear 48-megapixel Ultra Wide camera


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• A beforehand camera nether the interior display

Guided Vision is launching successful Gemini Live connected compatible Android devices contiguous to usage AI to springiness real-time audio descriptions of thing you constituent your phone's camera at. By sharing your camera successful Gemini Live, you tin person Google's AI assistance with things similar speechmaking tiny text, describing your surroundings, uncovering oregon identifying objects astir you, and describing details connected circumstantial objects.

Like the VoiceOver Live Recognition diagnostic Apple has added to the iPhone and Vision Pro, it's designed for radical who are blind, person debased vision, oregon privation assistance successful circumstantial situations. In summation to the Gemini app, Guided Vision is besides disposable …

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Android Central, a blog focused connected the Android ecosystem, laid disconnected its unit yesterday, but proprietor Future confirms to The Verge that the tract volition proceed publishing.

Yesterday, 4 of the six staffers connected Android Central's staff page posted publically astir the layoffs, including Shruti Shekar, Derrek Lee, Harish Jonnalagadda, and Nicholas Sutrich, and erstwhile elder exertion Namerah Saud Fatmi updated her LinkedIn to bespeak that her tenure astatine Android Central had ended. Both Lee, the site's managing editor, and Sutrich confirmed that each remaining unit were laid off.

The erstwhile staffers weren't told whether the tract would unopen down. Today, …

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The Steam Deck is 4 and a fractional years old, and handheld gamers are eagerly awaiting a Steam Deck 2 - but Valve has consistently said it needs a caller spot with a "generational leap" successful show and ratio earlier gathering the sequel.

There's immoderate crushed to judge that spot has present breached cover: AMD Gainsborough. But I'm a tad skeptical.

As leaker Moore's Law is Dead and IT Home report, the latest AMD drivers person leaked the codename for a antecedently chartless chip: an "AMD Gainsborough." The archetypal Steam Deck spot was named "Aerith" aft Final Fantasy VII's heartbreaking emotion interest, and Gainsborough is her past name. Plus, the spot …

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A national justice has dismissed a brace of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Rolling Stone genitor institution Penske Media Corporation, which accused Google of driving distant web postulation with its AI-powered hunt features, as reported earlier by Reuters. US District Judge Amit Mehta takes Google's broadside in a ruling connected Wednesday, penning that PMC and Chegg's claims don't basal up to antitrust law.

In lawsuits filed past year, Chegg and PMC accused Google of abusing its monopoly powerfulness by coercing publishers into supplying contented for AI Overviews for free, oregon hazard disappearing from hunt results. The publishers alleged Google's practices diverted …

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