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In 2010, when Microsoft unveiled the Kinect, it pitched the camera as a revolutionary new gaming device. Swing an imaginary lightsaber and that would be translated onscreen. Throw a football and it would be caught on your TV. Fifteen years later, we know the Kinect as an expensive failure. Microsoft overestimated the demand for playing games with your body. But the Kinect did still turn...
The Switch 2 console has now surpassed 10 million sales.
The Switch 2’s popularity has exceeded even Nintendo’s anticipations, with the company raising its sales forecast for the console by more than 25 percent. In its latest earnings release, covering April 1st to September 30th, Nintendo now predicts that it’ll sell 19 million Switch 2 units by March 2026, compared to its previous...
OpenAI says ChatGPT’s behavior “remains unchanged” after reports across social media falsely claimed that new updates to its usage policy prevent the chatbot from offering legal and medical advice. Karan Singhal, OpenAI’s head of health AI, writes on X that the claims are “not true.”
“ChatGPT has never been a substitute for professional advice, but it will continue to be a great resource...
Apple has just released iOS 26.1, which includes a new transparency toggle for Liquid Glass, expanded language features, and new controls for the Apple Music and Camera apps. The toggle helps address some of the legibility issues introduced in iOS 26 by allowing iPhone users to tone down the glassy design for buttons, tabs, and other navigational elements.
As teased during the iOS 26.1...
This could be you in the near future, bingeing The White Lotus while your Cadillac Escalade handles the driving. But what happens when the car makes a mistake? | Image: GM
Last month, General Motors added its name to the growing list of automakers who are pursuing a novel type of partially automated technology called "eyes-off driving." What they didn't do, though, is provide a thorough...
Apple has launched its App Store on the web, offering a central hub where you can browse through different categories of apps across all of the company’s devices, as spotted earlier by MacRumors and 9to5Mac. Now, when you navigate to apps.apple.com, you’ll see the revamped interface instead of a webpage that just contains information about the App Store.
There’s no way to download apps...
A person claiming to be one of the University of Pennsylvania hackers says that about "1.2 million lines of data" will be kept private for the group to sell before it is made public. The group also plans to make other documents public.
In comments to The Verge, the hacker or hackers distanced themselves from earlier hacks of other private universities including Columbia - which were aimed...
Google’s discounted TV Streamer (4K) functions as both a streaming device and a Matter-compatible smart home hub.
With everything from the next Knives Out movie to the final season of Stranger Things on the way, there’s going to be a ton of great stuff to stream in the coming weeks. And if you want to watch it all in glorious 4K resolution, Google’s TV Streamer (4K) is a great streaming...
Apple has shared a new intro sound and video that will accompany things you watch on the newly-renamed Apple TV streaming service. Apple rebranded Apple TV Plus to just Apple TV last month, and the previous intro prominently highlighted the plus, so it makes sense that Apple made a new version to accompany the updated name.
The new sound is composed by Finneas, who is Billie Eilish’s...
The Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA), an anti-piracy organization representing Japanese IP holders like Studio Ghibli and Bandai Namco, released a letter last week asking OpenAI to stop using its members’ content to train Sora 2, as reported by Automaton. The letter states that “CODA considers that the act of replication during the machine learning process may constitute...