Microsoft has started rolling out a new home screen to Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S users, which allows for quicker access to certain functions. Among other things, they have added a quick menu at the top of the interface on the new home screen, where users can quickly access their game library, Xbox store, […]
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Alfa Romeo will release a super sports car
At the end of August, Alfa Romeo will unveil its next super sports car, in some way a successor to the Alfa Romeo 8C. This car will be based on the same platform as the Maserati MC20 but electrified and delivering 800 horsepower. That’s what the rumor says. The rumor also suggests that all the […]
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Spotify is gaining more and more users
Spotify has now provided more details about its latest quarter, and it looks good. They now have a total of 551 million active users, of which 220 million are premium users. This is an increase of 27% and 17%, respectively, compared to one year ago. There are 343 million users who use the service with […]
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds gets a musical episode
During San Diego Comic-Con, it was revealed that the Star Trek series Strange New Worlds will have a musical episode scheduled to air next month. In the episode titled “Subspace Rhapsody,” the characters in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will perform ten specially written songs for the episode, along with a lyrical version of the […]
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Robert Oppenheimer talks about the atomic bomb
Yesterday, the much-discussed movie “Oppenheimer” premiered, which delves into the history behind the inventor of the atomic bomb, Robert Oppenheimer. In the clip here, you can listen to what the main character himself thought about inventing the atomic bomb. The clip was recorded in 1965, 20 years after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the […]
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Cloud service for retro games is coming to Xbox
Now, the cloud service Antstream Arcade has become available for Xbox players who want to play retro games through the cloud for a monthly fee. Antstream Arcade offers approximately 1300 retro games and bills itself as the “World’s largest retro gaming platform.” Among the titles are classic games like Space Invaders, Metal Slug, and Bubble […]
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80s nostalgic Mythforce will be released on September 12th
Mythforce draws inspiration from the superior children’s programs of the 80s and was released in early access on PC earlier this year. For those who didn’t get a chance to try the unfinished version, we now have an official release date for the game, namely September 12th. It will be available not only on PC […]
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Microsoft has launched the ID@Xbox Demo Fest
If you enjoy trying out games before buying them through various demos, Microsoft has now kicked off this year’s ID@Xbox Demo Fest. This event offers Xbox One or Xbox Series X/S owners the opportunity to try out 47 different game demos until July 17th. Here you can find games like Lies of P, Alisa, Demonschool, […]
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Soon you can build Wolverine’s claws in Lego
Lego’s collaboration with Marvel continues, and soon a building set will be released that allows you to assemble the so-called adamantium claws, the retractable claws that Wolverine from X-Men usually brings out when it’s time to fight. Wolverine’s adamantium claw is built with 596 Lego pieces and, when fully constructed, including the pedestal it stands […]
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Big-mouthed: Introducing the Dali Oberon Grand Vokal
Dali already has a compact center speaker in the popular Oberon series, but now they’re stepping it up with a larger model: the Oberon Grand Vokal, specially designed to match the floorstanding Oberon 7 and Oberon 9 speakers. Dali Oberon Grand Vokal The center speaker can be considered the single most important speaker in a […]
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Stream Deck gets its own app store
Elgato, the company, has announced that they will launch an app store for apps and plugins for Stream Deck, Elgato’s small extra keyboard used to control streaming and other functions through hotkeys. Elgato already has a section on their website showcasing apps and plugins available for Stream Deck (see image below). However, that page only […]
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Nothing releases Ear (2) in black
Nothing’s Ear 1 and Ear 2 headphones have been seen on people relatively often. The latest model, Ear (2), has so far only been available in white, but now Nothing is releasing a new black model. At the same time, Nothing has taken the opportunity to update its app with a new “advanced” equalizer, featuring […]
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Synapse for PlayStation VR2 is great stuff
Yesterday, the VR game Synapse, developed by nDreams, was released for PlayStation VR2. In the game, you play as a special agent who must infiltrate the mind of a supervillain and stop his plans for a terrorist attack. It’s all a bit trippy but serves as a good excuse for the game’s aesthetic style and […]
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Rumor: Team Ninja’s Rise of the Ronin combines Assassin’s Creed, Ghost of Tsushima, and Dark Souls
Team Ninja knows a thing or two about Asian melee combat games, and after taking us to an alternate version of China in Wu Long: Fallen Dynasty, they are once again heading to Japan in the upcoming Rise of the Ronin. It was announced last year as an action role-playing game with an open world […]
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Director Roland Emmerich presents Space Nation Online
Roland Emmerich, the director behind films such as Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow, and Moonfall, is launching something called Space Nation Online. Space Nation Online appears to primarily be an MMO game that will incorporate various NFT elements that players can purchase. In addition to that, there are also plans for TV […]
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Bowers & Wilkins introduces the 800 Series Signature
British hi-fi manufacturer Bowers & Wilkins is now introducing the new 800 Series Signature range. Since the brand’s founding in 1966, only seven speaker series have carried the Signature designation. The new Bowers & Wilkins 801 D4 Signature and 805 D4 Signature build upon a heritage that traces back to the acclaimed Silver Signature speaker […]
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Kingdom Eighties offers a delightful, pixelated 80s experience
The Kingdom series from Fury Studios (owned by Swedish company Raw Fury) is known for its beautiful side-scrolling adventure and micro-strategy games, primarily set in fantasy and medieval-inspired environments. However, the latest standalone expansion, Kingdom Eighties, takes place during the vibrant 80s. The loyal steed has been replaced with the obligatory BMX bike, while harps […]
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Trailer: The Collective
A young recruit to a mysterious agency of assassins finds himself going rogue on his first assignment, tracking down a dangerous group of human traffickers. Starring: Tyrese Gibson, Don Johnson, Ruby Rose
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Insta360 Go 3 seems to be quite fantastic
The category of action cameras hasn’t been interesting since, like, the GoPro 4 or something, and in recent years, it’s been quite dull. Sure, the cameras have slowly gotten better and better, but the desire to buy a new one has been low. However, now Insta360 is releasing its Go 3, and for the first […]
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Hyper Light Breaker gives us a glimpse of its colorful, open game world
Hyper Light Drifter is getting a “sequel” that differs quite significantly. Instead of pixelated 2D, it features a colorful 3D world to explore in Hyper Light Breaker, and the latest trailer gives us a look at what it might be like. There is a lot of environmental variation, including floating islands, grasslands, areas with giant […]
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Midjourney gets a zoom-out function
The company behind the text-to-image AI, Midjourney, has released a new version of its AI equipped with a zoom-out function, where the AI fills in elements in the image that are assumed to be present when zoomed out from the original image. We have previously seen a similar function in Adobe’s AI Firefly, which is […]
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Metal Gear Solid 4 appears to finally be released outside of the PlayStation 3
In the fall, a collection of Metal Gear titles called Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol 1 will be released. The collection will include Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. In addition to these titles, the collection will also include the classic 2D titles […]
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Meta showcases its text-to-speech AI, Voicebox
At the end of last week, the artificial intelligence Voicebox was unveiled, which appears to be a powerful AI for generating speech from text. Voicebox can generate different types of voices and speech based on the text it is fed. The AI can also remove background noise from recorded audio if desired. It is also […]
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New Steam released in stable version
In April, Valve unveiled a new version of Steam with a redesigned interface, and now the update is rolling out in stable version after being in beta for a month. In the video below, you can take a look at the new features, which include cloud saves, an improved web browser, screenshot manager, and message […]
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Mori3 is a modular robot composed of polygons
Robot researchers at the Swiss École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have showcased a new modular robot that they believe could be useful in the space industry in the future. The robot is called Mori3 and consists of triangular modules that can be connected to form various polygonal structures, as seen in the image above. […]
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OpenAI releases new functionality for its GPT models
OpenAI has introduced some new features to its language models (LLMs), GPT-4, and gpt-3.5-turbo, which may be interesting for developers who utilize them in their applications or other projects. The updates primarily involve enhancements to the API that developers use to communicate with OpenAI’s GPT models. One of the news is that function calls are […]
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Trailer for Disney’s Stan Lee Documentary
Here we have a first trailer for the documentary “Stan Lee” which, not surprisingly, is about the comic book creator Stan Lee. As we all know, Stan is most famous for all the Marvel comics and characters he created, such as Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Galactus. The documentary is directed by David Gelb (Jiro Dreams […]
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John Rhys-Davies in trailer for The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria
Gimli himself is heard as the narrator in the game where you are tasked with rebuilding Moria. In the fall, the game “The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria” will be released, which takes place during the Fourth Age after the events of the films and books. Here, it is up to the dwarves […]
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Mark Zuckerberg comments on Apple’s Vision Pro
The other day, Apple unveiled its AR/VR headset, Vision Pro, and now Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has shared his thoughts on it. In a meeting with Meta employees, Zuckerberg expressed his initial impressions of Apple’s Vision Pro, an AR/VR headset that may eventually compete with Meta’s VR headset, Meta Quest. Zuckerberg stated that from a […]
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The screens in Apple Vision Pro run at 90 Hz
We already know that Apple’s Vision Pro will feature dual microOLED screens with a total of 23 million pixels, but so far we haven’t heard anything about the screens’ refresh rate – until now. During the session “Optimize app power and performance for spatial reality,” we learn that the screens will primarily refresh at 90 […]