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Epic Games brings cross-platform voice chat to Fortnite and its services
Game and yap from across Epic's ecosystem. Game and yap from across Epic's ecosystem.
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Game and yap from across Epic's ecosystem. Game and yap from across Epic's ecosystem.
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This series explores AI use cases: how AI can help you reach a solution or outcome. Remember that AI is probabilistic and can make mistakes, so anything it helps produce should be clearly labelled as AI-assisted and validated by a human It should also have a disclaimer similar to what most chatbots display beneath their output. I had a story on my writing list about how I use AI. I wanted an examp…
Part 1 of Engineering HaloLog: making high-performance telemetry claims reproducible and falsifiable. 23.9 ns/op is a dangerous number. It is precise enough to be repeated and incomplete enough to mislead. Without the work unit, output contract, clock semantics, sink, concurrency model, hardware, toolchain, and competing configurations, it is not yet an engineering result. It is only a number with…
Anker has announced a new eufyMake fabric printer It can print straight on to fabrics or on to film surfaces We're still waiting on pricing and an exact on-sale date The product announcements out of IFA 2026 continue apace, and we're very taken by the new eufyMake printer that was just unveiled by Anker. Described as a "personal fabric printer", it's capable of putting designs on a wide variety of…
If we're being honest, Amazon could have picked absolutely anybody to host the new season of The Grand Tour on Prime Video . From a random but established presenter who is trying something off-brand to a complete unknown fresh from a internship — you name it, they could have had the job. But for two of our three new faces, their casting in the new series feels incredibly predetermined. James Engel…
Tottenham Hotspur, a professional soccer team that’s part of the Premier League, has saved over 85 percent in licensing fees by replacing its stadium's VMware instance with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s (HPE’s) Morpheus VM Essentials (VME) virtualization software. Tottenham hasn’t disclosed which VMware products it used or how much it previously paid the Broadcom firm. The soccer organization confi…
This is especially noteworthy, as the cans cost just $150. This is especially noteworthy, as the cans cost just $150.
Every year, Hot Girl Summer arrives with the same promise that this will finally be the season when you meet someone. You’ll have a summer fling, fall in love on vacation, or somehow find your future boyfriend while drinking an Aperol spritz on a rooftop. Then Aug. starts winding down, you’re still single, and it can feel like you missed your chance. But there’s no need to panic,…
The upcoming fall season is the perfect excuse to buy a new pair of running shoes as the weather cools down and we can enjoy the outdoors again. Amazon's Labor Day sale surprisingly has excellent deals on top-rated running shoes from brands like Nike, Skechers, Hoka, Brooks, and more. • Shop Amazon's full Labor Day sale I've rounded up the best running shoe deals for women and men below, with savi…
TikTok backed out of a congressional committee's "public roundtable" set for this month over concerns it would be asked about child safety practices, the chair of the committee said . After negotiating "in good faith" to bring TikTok's chief security officer before the House Select Committee on China to answer questions about Chinese government access to Americans' data and the TikTok algorithm, C…
Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving defenders the same tools as bad actors could ultimately improve cybersecurity.
OpenAI says its ChatGPT service is recovering from a limited outage this morning amid similar problems affecting SpaceX's Grok and Anthropic's Claude. It might not be a good time for a chat. "A routing error starting around 7:43 am PT on Thursday, September 3 made ChatGPT and Codex unavailable for some users across platforms," a company spokesperson told The Register. "As of about 8:17 am PT on Th…
Fruit flies aren't exactly famous for their brainpower; you've probably drowned more than one in a wine glass left too long on the patio table. And yet, working with roughly 140,000 neurons—a brain smaller than a poppy seed— Drosophila can sort through a huge range of smells in a fraction of a second, and then retain the memory of that scent for a long time. In this, they do much better than curre…
For its new Muse Spark model, intended for operating coding and other agents, Meta is offering an explicit discount averaging out to about 95% for users who "contribute" to the development of future models by sharing their prompts and model outputs.
Summer has put a serious financial squeeze on consumers. According to a new report, three main expenses drove up financial pressure this summer more than anything else—none of which were luxurious trips to the ocean. The August 2026 report comes from the consumer trends research platform Pymnts. According to the research, the majority of consumers will be paying off summer debts into the fall: 58%…
Anything but your console or PC can be an Xbox for 5-15 hours a month. Anything but your console or PC can be an Xbox for 5-15 hours a month.
Samsung’s Q990F is a full home audio system in a single box. | Image: The Verge Researching, buying, then finally assembling a sound system for your TV is daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. If you want one of the best kits you can get at a rare discount, Best Buy and Amazon are selling the Samsung Q990F Soundbar for $999.99. It normally retails between $1,300 and $1,600. This bundle includes a 4…
A lawsuit claims the policy was stricter on third-party developers than Apple itself. A lawsuit claims the policy was stricter on third-party developers than Apple itself.
The disgruntled security researcher known as Nightmare Eclipse (aka Chaotic Eclipse, Infinite Nightmare, and now also MSNightmare) is moving away from their singular Microsoft vendetta and on to other vendors. On Thursday, they dropped a new zero-day bug called FalconFlank that affects CrowdStrike’s Falcon endpoint security platform - albeit with a Windows link. According to the prolific zero-day…
Pangram hired an "attack dog" to shame alleged AI users on social media. But the campaign blurs two things that aren't the same: Pangram only somewhat reliably measures whether AI was used, while the shaming implies the person didn't think or work on their own. A high AI score hits a text built on hours of original research just as easily as one cranked out from a ten-second prompt. The article Pa…
OpenAI leaders think the company’s next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development.
OpenAI claims that Astra represents "a new frontier on computer and browser use," and that it handles tasks with unmatched "speed, accuracy, and safety."
At $85, the hardware only costs a little bit more than the game. At $85, the hardware only costs a little bit more than the game.
OpenAI on Thursday released GPT-6 Astra , which president Greg Brockman called a "generational leap" and said could eventually be seen as the arrival of artificial general intelligence, or AGI. Why it matters: Astra pushes AI agents closer to doing complex professional work on their own — while also raising questions about how safely they can be deployed. Driving the news: Brockman says he persona…
Microsoft is switching up its reporting structure for the AI era. As of the next fiscal quarter, its current three reporting segments— Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing—will be replaced with two brand new ones: Devices and Consumer, and Agents and Infra, according to The Wall Street Journal . Devices and Consumer is a pretty self-explanatory segmen…
Uber is reducing its workforce by 10%, or about 3,300 workers, in its largest job cuts since the pandemic, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced yesterday . The changes, which follow a period of solid growth at the ride-sharing giant, are intended to speed up decision-making by reducing the number of management layers, Khosrowshahi wrote in a memo to employees . The number of workers who sit seven or mo…
DJI Osmo 360 II DJI fixes the major oversight in the original, that brings the Osmo 360 II up to speed with Insta360 DJI Osmo 360 An impressively capable first-gen 8K 360 camera, but a couple of design choices left it behind Intsta360 DJI has upgraded its original 360 camera, the Osmo 360 , in typically swift fashion with the second-gen Osmo 360 II , which arrives almost exactly one year later in…
Chinese companies have spent the past four years filling gaps left by US bans The number of IPOs centered around semiconductors has increased China is also concentrating on supply chain self-sufficiency New Morgan Stanley data cited in a South China Morning Post report has demonstrated a shift in the companies reaching China's public markets, per the analysis of 229 IPOs on Shanghai's Star Market…
For only the second time in a quarter century, a majority of Republicans — 52% — approve of labor unions , according to a new Gallup poll . Why it matters: Despite Americans' rising approval , union membership remains near a modern low. Congress has repeatedly blocked labor's biggest priorities, and House Republicans are now investigating unions, even as their own voters approve of them. Republica…
CERN is moving several thousand computers that control its particle accelerator hardware from Red Hat-family Linux distros to Debian. CERN – the place that runs the Large Hadron Collider – generates a lot of data, and that means it uses a lot of computers. Most of them run Linux, and for over 20 years, it used distros in the Red Hat family. Now, that's beginning to change: it’s moving what it call…
Latest iPhone 18 rumors at a glance: Release date: We're expecting the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max to be announced at a Sept. 9 launch event , but rumor has it the iPhone 18 may not arrive until early 2027. Colors: Possible leaks point to four main color options for the Pro models this year: light blue, silver, dark gray/black, and dark cherry. Key upgrades: Besides iOS 27 and the Siri AI…
Billionaire investor Leon Black refused to appear for a sworn deposition before Congress on Thursday and instead sued the House Oversight Committee, asking a federal court to block subpoenas issued as part of its investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein . The House Oversight Committee served Black with two subpoenas during a closed-door voluntary interview in June after lawmakers sai…
It's also letting people upload multiple photos at once when reacting to a post. It's also letting people upload multiple photos at once when reacting to a post.
The chief exec of Hugging Face says he wants to take the platform to 100 million users within the next few years, and Nvidia’s backing could help it get there, despite rejecting an investment offer from the chip giant last year. On a conference call to discuss Nvidia's agreed $12.9 billion takeover of the AI model hub, Clément Delangue said it gives Hugging Face the security to think about the lon…
Smart ring company Circular reveals its Circular Ring 3 series The series contains the more powerful Circular Ring 3 Pro and the slender Ring 3 Slim Both rings contain NFC contactless payments in addition to health monitoring tools, with the 3 Pro offering blood pressure and ECG functionalities The best smart rings are usually stuffed with health-monitoring features, such as the Oura Ring 5 , whil…
Check your Halloween candy—because here’s a story that’s spooky for all the wrong reasons. Crystal Temptations is recalling its Halloween Chocolatey Eyeballs because the candy contains undeclared milk allergens, according to a safety alert from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). People who have an allergy, or severe sensitivity to milk, run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergi…
On Thursday, the Trump administration imposed a 100 percent tariff on foreign-made drones, alarming critics who warn that high tariffs would harm public safety and devastate thousands of US businesses. Guidance posted by US Customs and Border Protection says that starting Thursday, a 100 percent tariff will apply to imported drones that use thermal imaging or weigh more than 55 pounds. Additionall…