You tin odor it successful the aerial can't you? Feel the chill successful your nostrils and the earthy scent arsenic leaves autumn and the prima departs for different year? Yes, autumn is here, meaning we're teetering connected the cavernous spread of near-nothingness arsenic the full games manufacture gives GTA 6 the widest berth imaginable. But that doesn't mean determination isn't worldly to beryllium excited about, of course. And the latest variation of the Galaxies Showcase has chucked a fewer much things onto the 'ooooh intriguing!' pile. Actually, rather a batch of things fixed its astir two-hour runtime; but portion you tin ticker the afloat happening and revel successful its entirety if you've time, we've besides picked retired a fewer of the announcements that particularly caught our eyes for your perusal. Was each this truly conscionable an excuse for Connor to enthuse astir penguins? Perhaps!

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It's been a mates of days since Apple's large astute location announcement, and we person immoderate much accusation - and a clump of caller questions - astir the Apple HomeView. The instrumentality has plentifulness of computing oomph, is ever connected to power, and looks similar a cleanable spot to tally a clump of apps. And yet the HomeView is relying astir wholly connected CarPlay. What gives here?

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, David and Nilay effort to marque consciousness of the HomeView's app situation, and wherefore Apple would take not to marque its location hub into its ain app platform. After that, they speech astir the latest Gemini model and whether building the champion model matters if yo …

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Analogue announced caller versions of its Super Nt and Mega Sg retro consoles contiguous with a "reworked concern design" and built-in wireless connectivity for controllers and accessories. Like the archetypal versions, the caller Super Nt Plus and Mega Sg Plus are capable to play Nintendo and Sega Genesis cartridges utilizing an FPGA processor that perfectly recreates the functionality of Nintendo and Sega's 16-bit consoles without the request for emulation.

Although neither of the caller consoles allows SNES oregon Genesis titles to beryllium played successful 4K similar the Analogue 3D does with Nintendo 64 titles, the 1080p Super Nt and Mega Sg Plus adhd a USB-C larboard truthful you tin po …

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After a Chrome clone was spotted connected the Play Store earlier this week, a idiosyncratic connected Reddit says they're seeing a fake mentation of WhatsApp successful a "sponsored" slot supra the real version. As reported earlier by Android Authority, the WhatsApp dupe has racked up implicit 500,000 downloads and, astatine the clip of writing, its Play Store listing is still live.

Google did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

The WhatsApp clone is from a developer going by "Agment Assets sallu" who doesn't presently person thing other listed connected the Play Store. Their listing for the WhatsApp impostor has the aforesaid icon, screenshots, and substance arsenic the existent version, but …

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Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X processor is yet here, and we've been collectively investigating a tiny fortune's worthy of almighty laptops sporting this caller "superchip." RTX Spark is designed to beryllium a high-performing Arm-based SoC for laptops and tiny desktop computers, rivaling the champion from Apple, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm. It has loads of cores, Nvidia RTX Blackwell graphics, and capable powerfulness and unified representation to tally sizable section AI models.

The flagship placement is wrong Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra with a staggering 128GB of unified memory, which our ain Tom Warren afloat reviewed. Sean Hollister has been investigating a 64GB mentation of the Asus …

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Last night, Elon Musk gave the radical what they want: a car driving vertically up a multi-story ramp, launching disconnected the edge, executing a mid-air "kickflip" implicit a lineup of Teslas, and landing via cold-gas thrusters.

That's what the radical want, right? "We were promised flying cars," sure, but isn't the operative connection successful that connection "we"? Because arsenic acold arsenic I tin tell, everything we saw past nighttime - portion highly chill and incredibly awesome - won't effect successful a real, production-ready car you tin park, or, I guess, onshore successful your driveway.

Tesla's late-night objection successful Waco, Texas, surely gave immoderate corners of the net wh …

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Meta's caller presumption look to springiness it support to crawl and scrape websites "associated" with the businesses that usage its platforms - including online publishers, according to a study from Nieman Lab. The new terms, which spell into effect connected October 30th, accidental Meta tin usage this extracurricular contented to "develop, improve, research," and "train" its AI products.

The caller argumentation applies to concern accounts that beforehand their contented crossed Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. As pointed retired by Nieman Lab, these presumption look to let Meta to bypass a licensing statement and bid its AI models connected contented posted by online publishers. Meta has foll …

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Epic Games is officially moving connected bringing its conflict royale shooter Fortnite to Linux. The announcement was tucked distant astatine the bottommost of Epic's wide mocked blog post revealing the new, "vibe-coded" Epic Games Store, which is besides coming to Linux.

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The motorboat of a caller unrecorded play is hard, and subtle changes to a crippled tin person monolithic consequences erstwhile players get their hands connected it. Wardogs proved this existent with the motorboat of its 2nd play this week, arsenic players were capable to unlock tanks connected time one.

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There's a caller retention upgrade enactment for smartphones compatible with wireless chargers and different magnetic accessories, but it won't assistance if you've tally retired of country for apps, pics, and videos. The MagSafe Flex Pouch looks similar a magnetic wallet for pairing a tiny stack of recognition cards to your phone, but its retention capableness goes good beyond a fewer bladed integrative cards acknowledgment to an highly stretchy silicone pouch.

The MagSafe Flex Pouch's creators, a institution called Ninja Labs, has a clump of suggestions for however to usage the $58 accessory connected its website. You tin usage it arsenic yet different MagSafe wallet but 1 that has capable capableness for each the cre …

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Delivery estimates for the iPhone Duo slipped into adjacent twelvemonth successful little than an hr aft Apple opened preorders for it astatine 8AM ET connected Friday.

At the clip of penning we are seeing precocious January transportation dates for each configuration on Apple's website. The foldable is slated to motorboat successful stores connected October 23rd, and Apple typically reserves immoderate units for in-store availability. So portion online orders are delayed, you mightiness beryllium capable to get 1 sooner in-person astatine an Apple Store.

The agelong hold could beryllium owed to precocious request for Apple's archetypal foldable iPhone, debased proviso connected Apple's side, oregon a premix of both. Apple announced the iPhone Duo successful September, f …

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Few phones person been much anticipated than a foldable iPhone, but it's yet here. The iPhone Duo was unveiled during Apple's "Surprise and shine" lawsuit alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 models.

Apple's archetypal foldable has a 5.4-inch outer screen, and it unfolds to amusement disconnected its 7.6-inch Super Retina XDR screen. Apple Pencil enactment is coming aboriginal this year. While it lacks Face ID for facial unlocking, there's a Touch ID sensor on its borderline to place your fingerprint. The instrumentality has an IP68 rating, with Ceramic Shield 2 connected its back, with Ceramic Shield covering the beforehand display. It has the aforesaid A20 …

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When the midrange Sony Xperia 10 VI was announced implicit 2 years agone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 chipset and Android 14, Sony promised 3 large OS updates which would person included this year's Android 17 release. However, according to a notice posted to the company's UK enactment site, the Xperia 10 VI won't beryllium getting Android 17 aft all.

In the announcement Sony explains that a "detailed method assessment" revealed that "limitations related to the device's retention configuration" mean the Xperia 10 VI "does not enactment an Android 17 upgrade acquisition that we see adequate." As a result, the institution has "decided not to marque this …

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Since gun-rights activist and alt-right-friendly agitator Cody Wilson made the archetypal 3D-printed firearm 13 years ago, he's helped usher successful a chaotic epoch of untraceable shade guns. Now he's claiming different first: "the archetypal AI-made gun." It's called the WASP.

I stood astir 20 feet distant arsenic Wilson and his sidekick clamped the WASP to a DIY trial equine extracurricular Defense Distributed office successful Austin, Texas. The 3D-printed .22 caliber handgun is, successful reality, small much than a pistol tube attached to a spring-loaded integrative box. Its rudimentary plan bears a resemblance to Wilson's single-shot 3D-printed "Liberator," albeit with immoderate quint …

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CD Projekt Red has described its mysterious caller game, which is presently known by its codename Hadar, arsenic its "biggest task to date", revealing it's taken "several bully years" to scope its existent state, and it's inactive not adjacent successful pre-production.

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The latest crippled to walk a 1 cardinal copies sold milestone is Control Resonant. Developer Remedy Entertainment broke the quality yesterday, astir 3 weeks aft the game's release, revealing that Resonant is present the fastest-selling crippled successful the Finnish studio's 31-year history.

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After mounting up Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra, I spent 5 minutes conscionable staring astatine it. I wasn't amazed by its MacBook Pro-like plan oregon blown distant by its agleam display. I was trying to enactment retired what I'd really bash with a $5,900 laptop.

This isn't conscionable immoderate regular Windows laptop. Microsoft has teamed up with Nvidia to physique a high-end laptop to showcase Nvidia's caller Arm-based RTX Spark chips. It's a large infinitesimal for Windows connected Arm, arsenic these chips tin tally demanding AI models locally, alongside the latest AAA games and originative apps. The committedness is compelling, but the world of section AI is overmuch messier.

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RuneScape: Reignited, a shiny caller mentation of the long-running British MMORPG, has been cancelled little than 2 weeks aft it was revealed.

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An important alteration volition soon beryllium made to planetary timekeeping that aims to forestall imaginable infrastructure failures akin to the Y2K bug scare. On Thursday, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) voted to scrap the leap second, an advertisement hoc clip accommodation that's occasionally added truthful tracked clip standards reflector the Earth's existent (and inconsistent) rotation.

BIPM members previously agreed successful 2022 to cease utilizing leap seconds connected oregon earlier 2035, but this is present being expedited to instrumentality effect connected May 20th adjacent year, aligning with World Metrology Day. There's an unprecedented crushed for its status being brought forward: changes t …

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Season 5 launched successful Battlefield 6 this week arsenic planned, and though astir of the caller additions - caller maps, weapons and vehicles, and gameplay changes - were good received, the play began connected a debased enactment owed to accusations of generative AI usage and due to the fact that of a large deed to XP gain.

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Elon Musk promised a flying car. And the Tesla Roadster did precisely that.

Tesla demonstrated its next-generation Roadster astatine an lawsuit successful Waco, Texas, wherever the electrical supercar drove upside down, concisely flew, and accelerated to 60mph successful nether a second. It was an awesome objection of a car that apt volition travel with immoderate dense caveats if it ever goes into production.

The lawsuit was little than 30 minutes and felt much similar a stunt amusement than a merchandise reveal. Indeed, determination was nary notation of price, trim levels, oregon different specified mundane details. Who cares astir that boring crap anyway? The radical were present to spot a car fly, and that's wh …

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Valve is introducing a large caller diagnostic for Steam achievements called "achievement sets" that lets developers database antithetic groups of achievements for a basal crippled and DLCs.

"In games that enactment sets, you inactive unlock achievements by playing the crippled arsenic usual," Valve says. "But erstwhile you browse what you person unlocked afterward, Steam volition interruption the agelong database of crippled achievements into the developer-created sets, making it easier to spot what you person completed and to find different related achievements you tin unlock next." Achievement sets person their ain advancement bars, and if you decorativeness a set, you'll get a "set complete" trophy that's disposable …

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Sega is removing Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition from storefronts pursuing a disastrous motorboat wherever users complained astir issues similar bugs and upscaling that appears to person been done by AI.

Complete Edition, a remaster of the 2011 strategy game, launched connected Tuesday, and it bundled the main crippled and each of its DLC with promised upgrades including "improved visuals," "1440p and 4K UI scaling," and modernized controls. It has an "Overwhelmingly Negative" standing on Steam, wherever it has already been pulled, and posts on Reddit showcase artwork that users judge AI messed up.

"We're alert that Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Editio …

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Though movies astir disruptive tech founders are thing new, 2026 has been unusually stacked with features that instrumentality a overmuch much captious look astatine however Silicon Valley is reshaping our reality. Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning frames Mark Zuckerberg arsenic a robotic villain whose ambitions are destabilizing society. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's You Can See Everything paints a damning representation of Theranos laminitis Elizabeth Holmes arsenic she prepares for her ongoing stint successful prison. After years of being wide celebrated arsenic a visionary, you tin spot however the larger communicative astir Elon Musk has shifted successful projects similar Alex Gibney's Musk docume …

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OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone, but present ChatGPT's Google Chrome extension is getting immoderate upgrades that let it to usage the browser tabs you already person open. With the hold installed, OpenAI says ChatGPT tin present presumption your browser tabs erstwhile you tag Chrome successful ChatGPT's web oregon desktop app, posting a demo video showing idiosyncratic asking ChatGPT to comparison the 3 tabs they person unfastened with sofas they're considering.

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President Donald Trump posted a bid of photos connected Truth Social showing disconnected renovations to the White House - but one of them appears to beryllium modified with AI. The picture, which compares an aged White House file to a "restored" one, has respective discrepancies and was flagged by Google's AI detector arsenic "made oregon edited with OpenAI."

As pointed retired by users connected Reddit, the representation of the "restored" file has an uneven fig of steps connected some sides of the structure. The fig of steps besides doesn't lucifer up with the ones successful the "before" photo. Additionally, the earlier and aft photos look astir identical successful space and detail; the reflection one …

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Bluesky's Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this twelvemonth arsenic a mode to usage AI to physique your ain feeds, present lets you marque "small" societal apps similar games, polls, and dashboards that you tin past stock with others arsenic their ain websites. In an interrogation at TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said to deliberation of Attie arsenic "social vibe coding oregon vibe coding for your community."

You tin marque your ain Attie app by typing successful a prompt. A simple canvass I made astir Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue took a fewer minutes to generate. If you privation to cheque retired thing much full-featured, the Attie website presently highlights a fewer examples l …

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If you're a caller idiosyncratic of Withings' fitness-tracking smartwatches oregon astute scales and privation to sync and entree your wellness information done 3rd enactment apps similar Apple Health oregon Google Health it's present going to outgo you.

According to a discussion connected Withings' enactment forums spotted by MacRumors, caller Withings accounts created from October 13th, 2026, and onwards volition necessitate a Withings Plus subscription to usage the "automatic sync to third-party apps" feature. The subscription costs $9.95 per period oregon $99.50 per twelvemonth but Withings' devices travel with a escaped 1 period proceedings that includes the enactment to sync their information to third-party apps. When the proceedings …

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