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TechRadar3d ago

Ukrainian combat FPV drone simulator Remote Reaper hits Steam 1.0 with real-world EW jamming and vehicle weak spots

Remote Reaper reaches version 1.0 after its Early Access period Armored vehicles feature vulnerable areas that affect simulated damage outcomes Players can customize drone frames, motors, propellers, cameras, and payloads Remote Reaper: FPV Combat Drone Simulator has reached its first full release on Steam , ending an Early Access period that began during development. Created by Ukrainian develope…

TechRadar4d ago

NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, October 19 (game #960)

Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Sunday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, October 18 (game #959) . Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle…

TechRadar4d ago

NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, October 19 (game #1226)

Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Sunday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, October 18 (game #1225) . Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever…

TechRadar4d ago

Quordle hints and answers for Monday, October 19 (game #1729)

Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Sunday's puzzle instead then click here: Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, October 18 (game #1728) . Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going…

Engadget4d ago

An Xbox Series X can now run PlayStation 5 games, but there's a catch

The idea of PS5 games running on an Xbox Series X -- made possible by how both consoles were built around closely matched hardware -- is certainly exciting. The idea of PS5 games running on an Xbox Series X -- made possible by how both consoles were built around closely matched hardware -- is certainly exciting.

Engadget4d ago

Starlink has two $55 plans that are wildly different — here's how

It's a trade-off between download speeds and data caps. It's a trade-off between download speeds and data caps.

Engadget4d ago

Router and modem or gateway: What's actually in your home network?

A gateway pulls double duty, but a modem and router combo can give you a lot more flexibility and power. A gateway pulls double duty, but a modem and router combo can give you a lot more flexibility and power.

The Verge4d ago

A Savannah police officer gave her Flock login to her ICE agent husband

Now, former Savannah police officer Amber Harpe was fired in August following a department investigation that found she had shared her Flock login information with her husband, Tyler Harpe, an ICE agent. SPD does not share its Flock data with ICE and said sharing access to the system violated the department's security protocols. While he had unauthorized access to the system, Tyler Harpe conducted…

TechmemeTrade4d ago

Sources: Nscale faces investor pushback on its ~$30B IPO valuation, with some urging a lower valuation of $16B to $19B, as Microsoft exits a UK data center deal (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)

Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg : Sources: Nscale faces investor pushback on its ~$30B IPO valuation, with some urging a lower valuation of $16B to $19B, as Microsoft exits a UK data center deal — Nscale Ltd. is facing opposition to the valuation target it's pursuing in its initial public offering, according to people familiar …

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TechRadar4d ago

Save 15% on this Orico Obook Ryzen 7 6800H laptop, down to $587 — but you have to pre-order it before 10/23 to get the discount

ORICO enters the laptop market with the OBook15 after 17 years of making storage accessories The Ryzen 7 6800H processor delivers eight cores and sixteen threads An empty M.2 slot supports additional PCIe 4.0 storage up to 4TB Accessories maker ORICO has entered the laptop market with the Obook15, which is now available for preorder in the US and the Philippines. The company spent 17 years selling…

Mashable4d ago

Edit, sign, and convert PDFs with this $79.99 lifetime Mac app

TL;DR: Get lifetime access to PDF Expert for Mac for $79.99 (reg. $139.99), with tools for editing text, rearranging pages, signing forms, and working with scanned PDFs. Opens in a new window Credit: Readdle PDF Expert Premium Plan: Lifetime Subscription (Mac) $79.99 $139.99 Save $60.00 Get Deal Your Mac can handle some pretty impressive things, so it’s a little annoying when editing a PDF b…

Mashable4d ago

Keep your projects organized with Microsoft Project 2024 for $39.97

TL;DR: Get a lifetime license to Microsoft Project Professional 2024 for Windows for $39.97 (reg. $1,129.99), with Gantt charts, scheduling tools, and built-in reports. Opens in a new window Credit: Microsoft Microsoft Project Professional 2024: Lifetime License for Windows $39.97 $1,129.99 Save $1,090.02 Get Deal Remember group projects where one person did all the work and everyone else showed u…

TechRadar4d ago

How to watch Snapped: Killer Moms online — stream the true crime series for FREE

Watch Snapped: Killer Moms live on YouTube TV (free trial) Use NordVPN to watch your YouTube when outside US Airs on Oxygen on Sunday, October 18, 2026 If you've ever watched any of the other Snapped true crime TV shows, you'll know exactly what you're letting yourself in for here. The latest spin-off, Snapped: Killer Moms , details the experiences and shocking true stories of a range of different…

TechRadar4d ago

I’ve played the first 45 minutes Final Fantasy VII Revelation

Following its expansive Gamescom 2026 demo, I just got to experience a much more linear segment from Final Fantasy VII Revelation set right at the start of the new game — it sets Cloud and the gang up to finally face the biggest twist from the original, albeit a lot earlier than they did in 1997. The demo itself was pretty short — I blasted through in around 30 to 45 minutes — but I got to play ar…

Engadget4d ago

What is Apple's Image Playground app for and how do you use it?

Apple's image generation tool got some noteworthy updates this fall. Apple's image generation tool got some noteworthy updates this fall.

TechRadar4d ago

'The GPU never reads the same text twice': Belgian startup Corbenic wants to turn your server's SSD into AI memory, but its 14x speedup owes more to reading less

Corbenic AI's Galahad beta saves a model's KV cache to encrypted local NVMe so servers can skip rereading text after GPU memory is cleared or after a restart Founder Sietse Schelpe tells TechRadar Pro no special hardware is needed, but the paper credits most of the 14x speedup to Blaise, a retrieval component, not SSD loading LMCache, Nvidia Dynamo and CMX, WEKA and Phison already persist KV cache…

TechCrunch4d ago

No agenda, no rush, no leaving San Francisco: Benchmark’s partners on investing in a frenzied market

Benchmark may have grown its funds and swapped out some partners, but onstage the five who are left sounded like friends who just happen to be running one of the Valley’s most storied firms

TechCrunch4d ago

Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’

Anthropic said that it will commit 5% of its shares to the fund.

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Engadget4d ago

After five years, Inscryption is finally coming to mobile

The studio celebrated Inscryption's five-year anniversary with a Twitch stream. The studio celebrated Inscryption's five-year anniversary with a Twitch stream.

TechRadar4d ago

PhoneBot uses an old $50 Android smartphone brain with its cameras as eyes — tech Frankenstein is an open source humanoid robot platform for makers

PhoneBot uses cheap Android smartphones for vision, sensing, and walking control UCLA researchers built a humanoid robot with approximately $400 in hardware Four Android phones handled PhoneBot’s core sensing and computing tasks Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), have developed PhoneBot, a compact humanoid robot that reuses cheap smartphones for sensing and computing.…

TechRadar4d ago

Behold, Intel plans a 480GB GPU, a video card with more memory than the average laptop SSD has storage — but of course it's for AI, and curiously, it will use LPPDR5X, not even GDDR7

Intel's GPU D-series sets a new GPU memory record with 480GB of LPDDR5X Intel chose LPDDR5X instead of GDDR7 for its high-capacity AI accelerator The D-series supports models containing up to 300 billion parameters At the recent Open Compute Project Global Summit, Intel unveiled a graphics processor with up to 480GB of memory, an unusually large capacity designed for demanding AI inference workloa…

TechmemeTrade4d ago

Sources: industry execs expect only 7-10 of hundreds of neoclouds to survive, as Nvidia supports them with easier credit terms, site finding, and $20B in leases (Phoebe Liu/The Information)

Phoebe Liu / The Information : Sources: industry execs expect only 7-10 of hundreds of neoclouds to survive, as Nvidia supports them with easier credit terms, site finding, and $20B in leases — How many young AI cloud providers can the market, and Nvidia, support? — That's one of the big questions after a week …

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The Verge4d ago

Mister Organ is one of the most unsettling documentaries I’ve ever seen

Mister Organ doesn't reach the level of societal horror of The Act of Killing or the creepypasta-meets-true-crime gruesomeness of Beware the Slenderman , but there's something deeply unsettling about Michael Organ and his intimate campaign of terror against everyone who enters his life. Mister Organ is a documentary by David Farrier, an Auckland, New Zealand journalist. The movie starts with Farri…

Mashable4d ago

Anthropic is pitching Congress its own AI safety bill, report says

Anthropic has been privately pitching lawmakers on a draft bill to regulate frontier AI safety and security, POLITICO reported Friday . The outlet cited three people familiar with the effort and obtained a copy of the confidential draft. An Anthropic spokesperson told POLITICO the bill reflects the company’s Advanced AI Framework, which it has promoted to lawmakers since June. The spokespers…

TechCrunch4d ago

Everyone’s watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything’

"You Can See Everything" is having the second biggest opening weekend ever for a documentary film.

Engadget4d ago

What is the star button for on your Roku remote?

While the Roku remote doesn't have confusing colors or weird symbols, the star button can confuse some folks at first. While the Roku remote doesn't have confusing colors or weird symbols, the star button can confuse some folks at first.

Engadget4d ago

Here's how the Slate truck gets software updates without built-in infotainment

Basically, it's on you. Basically, it's on you.

The Verge4d ago

A woman was arrested in Philly for blocking a delivery robot

Carolyn Marvin was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after blocking the path of an Uber delivery robot and refusing to get out of the way. Marvin told Philadelphia's ABC13 "I know they're taking the jobs of human delivery workers and so, I have been protesting them whenever I saw them by standing in front of them and preventing them from going forward." Police responded to the scene and…

Mashable4d ago

Watch Japan launch the first ever Mars-bound mission designed to come back

Japan will launch the first spacecraft designed to travel to Mars and return to Earth on Monday, bringing back soil from one of the planet's potato-shaped moons . The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency , known as JAXA, leads the Martian Moons Exploration mission, or MMX, with NASA as a partner. The rocket lifts off from Tanegashima Space Center at 3:41 p.m. ET on Oct. 19, or 4:41 a.m. Tuesday in J…

Engadget4d ago

From the Royole FlexPai to the iPhone Duo: How the modern foldable phone has evolved

Apple's iPhone Duo likely forecasts a shift in the market toward foldables becoming more common. But it took a while to get here. Apple's iPhone Duo likely forecasts a shift in the market toward foldables becoming more common. But it took a while to get here.

TechRadar4d ago

Fake VPN download site steals administrator credentials to give attackers direct access to corporate networks — but delivers official signed software so victims never suspect a thing

Fake WatchGuard VPN website steals administrator credentials while delivering legitimate software Attackers collected VPN server addresses, usernames, and passwords The fraudulent website rejected initial submissions to collect credentials a second time A fraudulent WatchGuard download website stole VPN login details while supplying the authentic installation package, experts have claimed. Securit…

TechRadar4d ago

Sony ULT Tower 7 review: a top-class party speaker with pounding bass

Sony ULT Tower 7 review The Sony ULT Tower 7 is another strong entry in Sony’s refreshed ULT line, coming in with newly developed, rounded woofers for enhanced deep bass, a swathe of connectivity options for personal or professional use, and customizable lighting for highly immersive listening. This model is the mid-sized option in Sony’s new ULT Tower lineup, sitting above the Tower 5 and below t…

Engadget4d ago

Should you limit your FPS in games? Here's when it makes sense

While it's natural to want to get as many fps from your rig as possible, there are reasons to limit frame output from your GPU. While it's natural to want to get as many fps from your rig as possible, there are reasons to limit frame output from your GPU.

Engadget4d ago

TikTok reportedly bans ads for Musk documentary before its wider US release

The platform attributed the decision to "political content that goes against its policy." The platform attributed the decision to "political content that goes against its policy."

TechCrunch4d ago

Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce

After chatbot startup Character.AI filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, many of its employees will have the opportunity to take jobs at Disney. Character.AI’s former CEO Karandeep Anand recently became the entertainment giant’s first CTO, and the startup previously said that Disney had agreed to acquire some of its assets for $20 million. A legal […]

The Verge4d ago

Video game ownership bill introduced in Congress

Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York's 15th congressional district in the Bronx introduced the Power To The Players Act this week. If passed, the bill would direct the Federal Trade Commission to establish regulations that guarantee consumers ownership of a game when they pay for it, rather than a licensing agreement. It's increasingly common for games sold to require a connection to a server. Meaning…

Ars Technica4d ago

Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access

Anthropic has granted external evaluators “employee-like access” to assess the risks of its models, following through on a commitment to increase safeguards over concerns the technology could run catastrophically out of control. METR, a nonprofit that has worked with leading labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta, now has a team embedded in the Claude maker’s office with access to its h…

Engadget4d ago

How to fix scaling and app size issues on your Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8

If you have trouble getting apps to scale properly on your foldable, read on. If you have trouble getting apps to scale properly on your foldable, read on.

TechCrunch4d ago

TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian’s next act

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

TechRadar4d ago

How to watch Chargers vs Chiefs for FREE: live stream NFL Week 6 game online from anywhere

Watch Chargers vs Chiefs on 7Plus (Australia) / TVNZ Plus (NZ) Unlock your stream with IPVanish (save up to 83%) Chargers vs Chiefs kick-off: Sun, Oct 18 at 4.25pm ET / 9.25pm BST / 7.25am AEDT (Mon) The Chargers vs Chiefs has the potential to deliver the shock of Week 6, with Los Angeles at 0-5 in the midst of the single worst run of Jim Harbaugh's career, and Kansas City undefeated at 4-0 and co…

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