The Geek Games HANDHELD NEWS – Sadly, the days of getting a powerful handheld PC for a three-digit sum in U.S. dollars appear to be over. Popular handheld PC and eGPU manufacturer OneXPlayer has unveiled its first gaming device equipped with an Intel Arc G3...
Polygon Enjoy steep discounts on some of Polygon’s favorite board games, including beloved party games and timeless classics.
Gizmodo It's $50 more than the previous model, and many of its other features, like the rear cameras, are downgrades.
How To Geek A Snapdragon chip helps make up for a few downgrades.
Apple Insider Apple's annual Back to School promotion is expected to return around July 1, giving eligible students a timely way to offset Apple's newly announced Mac and iPad price increases.MacBook NeoBloomberg's Mark Gurman reported Thursday that Apple's Back...
Techcrunch Un0 is an image-generation system tool that shows for the first time how the company's technology can replicate conventional AI systems.
Kotaku Microsoft is increasing the prices of Xbox Series consoles once more and introducing a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' option
Polygon Act fast if you want to take home these cuddly critters
New York Times - World The 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes left at least 164 dead and hundreds missing, the authorities said. The full scale of the damage was still becoming clear.
How To Geek A used Lexus SUV that still feels shockingly new inside, with a cabin quality most modern luxury SUVs just can’t match today.
Kotaku According to reports, the LGBTQ+ tag has been marked as 'inappropriate' on China's Steam store and can no longer be accessed
New York Times - World Techcrunch General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.
Techcrunch Market research company Klue told customers that it believes the hacking group that stole their data is now deleting it. The company, however, warned about a second group of hackers wanting ransom.
Gizmodo The new chip technology packs nearly 100 billion transistors into a fingernail-sized chip.
Truthout At the center of the case was label warnings about glyphosate, a weed-killing chemical that has been linked to cancer.
The Geek Games MOVIE NEWS – It appears that another actor’s child may be emerging in Hollywood, as every sign points to Robert De Niro’s 14-year-old daughter, Helen Grace De Niro, having landed a film role in the latest installment of the Meet the Parents...
New York Times - World A Spanish monitoring agency said an estimated 212 deaths could be attributed to the heat wave since Sunday. Five people in Italy have died from heat exposure this week, the country’s main news agency said.
New York Times - World As temperatures pass record levels in France, the heat wave-related death toll continues to rise.
The Guardian - US As we near the end of the group stage, writers from our newly expanded US soccer team Alexander Abnos, Pablo Maurer and Jeff Rueter are now online answering your World Cup questionsPost yours below the line nowAintmuch asks: Do you have statistics...
BBC - Innovation Apple said it had "never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly".
New York Times - World The continent’s second heat wave since May continued to disrupt daily life for millions. Officials in Spain said it might have contributed to a spike in deaths.
New York Times - World The court handed President Trump victories in his push to rescind deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of people and turn away migrants at the southern border.
Engadget The Galaxy A27 5G has a stronger chipset, at least.
How To Geek Connect all your configuration files and autogenerate code—Jsonnet is the missing piece for large code bases.
The Guardian - US ⚽ Latest news from day 15 | Vehicle hits crowd in Mexico⚽ World Cup Q&A: post your questions for our US team⚽ Player guide | Bracketology | Golden Boot | Mail JohnMauricio Pochettino’s US team are having a great time at home – but the last couple...
Gizmodo Apple veteran Julian Hoenig has a vision for the future of short-range rides.
Lifehacker Here are the best deals on audio, AI, and display smart glasses for sale right now.
Kotaku Who could have foreseen this?
The Geek Games MOVIE NEWS – Brad Pitt returns to theaters in a tense survival thriller with a dog at his side. Heart of the Beast reunites him with director David Ayer for the second time after their work together on Fury. Pitt plays a retired commando who...
Apple Insider Apple raised M5 MacBook Pro prices today, but Amazon still has the 1TB 14-inch model on sale for $1,549. Chances are the deal will sell out quickly.Save $450 on this M5 MacBook Pro after Apple raised the MSRP. - Image credit: AppleIf you've been...
Jalopinik Morgan is only going to make nine of these throwback coupes, which is a damn shame because just look at it!
New York Times - World Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court, and two colleagues are suing the administration, saying the sanctions were a form of retaliation.
The Guardian - US French capital hails ‘landmark decision’ against oil firm relating to disclosure of emissions from oil and gas productsA Paris court has ruled that the French oil company TotalEnergies must disclose the climate risks linked to emissions from its...
The Guardian - US Dr Mazen Al-Rantisi, a 71-year-old physician well known for providing care to low-income Palestinians, was arrested in the occupied West BankIsraeli forces on Sunday arrested a prominent 71-year-old Palestinian physician known as the “doctor of the...
9to5 Mac Last year, Notion expanded its productivity suite to include Notion Mail, an AI-powered email client. Today, the company announced that it’s shutting down the Notion Mail inbox service this fall.
Jalopinik Tractors aren't typically thought of as speed demons. However, this tractor holds the record as the world's fastest and is a marvel of engineering.
The Guardian - US People in Caracas and coastal towns describe powerful quakes that collapsed buildings and killed at least 164As a double whammy of powerful earthquakes rattled Venezuela’s northern coast on Wednesday, residents of the capital, Caracas, scrambled...
Lifehacker Great deals on portable speakers, AI-powered smart speakers, and more.
The Guardian - US Heatwave-related deaths climb in Spain, Italy and France as continent battles another day of extreme temperaturesFarryn StockOver in the UK, South East Water has announced a temporary hosepipe ban in Kent amid growing strain from the ongoing...
The Guardian - US Charlotte get Naz Reid, seven draft picksMinnesota also add guard Josh Green in swapBall to pair with fellow 2020 draftee Anthony EdwardsThe Charlotte Hornets have agreed to trade LaMelo Ball, their starting point guard, and Josh Green to the...
Mashable The ongoing global memory shortage has taken another very prominent victim: Apple.
Mashable Apple is raising prices on the MacBook Neo. This budget laptop is still available at Amazon for $589.99 for a little while longer.
Daring Fireball The WebKit blog (back during WWDC): If you look through the lists of features and fixes in Safari 27, you’ll notice that, although there are 58 brand-new features and 525 fixes — the largest pile of fixes in any Safari release in recent...
Kotaku Joker and Batman sitting in a tree, K-I-L-L-I-N-G (each other...sensually)
Mashable With RAMageddon, memory prices are going way up. Shop rare Prime Day deals on portable SSDs, HDDs, and microSDs from Samsung, SanDisk, and Lexar.
How To Geek Throwing back to a bygone era full of bootlegs.
The Guardian - US Consumer prices rose 4.1% in May from a year earlier – a sign rising costs could pose problem for Trump in midtermsThe Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge rose to a new three-year high in May as gas prices peaked, a sign rising costs could...
The Geek Games MOVIE NEWS – Christopher Nolan’s latest film, The Odyssey, based on Homer’s epic poem, has received an R rating from the Motion Picture Association. This is an interesting turn when looking back at the filmmaker’s hugely successful career. Since...
New York Times - World Temperature records have been broken in several European countries this week.
Truthout The poll also found that close to 6 in 10 voters want political candidates to back action on the climate crisis.
The Geek Games TECH NEWS – SteamOS will therefore be essentially ready to use out of the box not only on AMD graphics cards. Although the Steam Machine has been widely criticized for its disappointingly weak performance and excessively high price, for some...
The Next Web Netris, a Santa Clara startup that automates the networking layer inside GPU data centres, has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The round follows what the company says is 800 percent annual recurring revenue growth...
New York Times - World Twin earthquakes like those that ripped through the region are unusual but not unheard of. Scientists are already gathering data needed for a more detailed picture.
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The Guardian - US Opposition figures fear changes will further tighten 83-year-old president Emmerson Mnangagwa’s hold on powerZimbabwe is on the brink of amending its constitution to give the president more time in office, a change that the government says will...
The Guardian - US Kennedy repeatedly said 2019 Samoa trip had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’. An email from his then colleague says they were on a vaccine-related ‘mission’New evidence has emerged that Robert F Kennedy Jr was on a vaccine-related “mission” when he...
Polygon A list of all games in development from people who worked on The Witcher 3, including those still at CD Projekt Red and those who founded new studios.
How To Geek Stop trusting your external HDD without checking these numbers first
Gizmodo Tom Glynn-Carney (King Aegon) and Matthew Needham (Lord Larys Strong) talk about being the show’s most unlikely duo in season three.
Den of Geek Absolute Batman is the biggest thing in comics right now… literally. It’s not just that the series is set in an alternate universe where evil is the moral center. It’s that the series imagines Bruce Wayne as a 400-pound hulk, who grew up in...
Engadget Google Finance is a standalone Android app now, with an iOS version on the way.
Lifehacker The Suunto Run is one of my favorites—and there are also deals on the Vertical, Race, and Peak lines too.
Techcrunch "There were employees doing things like, 'Claude is so helpful for me — it analyzes my calendar and my email and puts together a plan for me,'" he says. "That person was spending at a run rate of $30,000 a year for this."
Techcrunch Users will be able to access their watchlists, real-time market data, live financial news, and Google's AI-powered "Key Moments" feature, which explains why stocks moved.
Mashable We found 100+ great Prime Day Lego deals at Amazon. Popular Star Wars, Botanicals, Technic, and Harry Potter sets are on sale for 20% off.
Polygon Pokémon Go's "Flying Taxi" event introduces Squawkabilly to the game. Here's how to find one near you.
Polygon PlayStation Studios update on Bungie: The studio behind Halo, Marathon, and Destiny is hit with mass layoffs by Sony after final Destiny 2 update.
MacRumors Apple's annual Back to School promotion will return by next week, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Last year, college students and educational staff could receive a free accessory like AirPods 4 or an Apple Pencil Pro with the purchase of a...
The Geek Games MOVIE NEWS – George Lucas’ name is synonymous with the Star Wars universe. The legendary filmmaker opened the door to a galaxy far, far away for generations, fundamentally changed the face of Hollywood and pop culture itself, not to mention the way...
Digital Tends When I first got my hands on a smart ring years ago, I was extremely skeptical. Is the sensor accurate? What about the fragility? Can they match the biosensing chops of smartwatches? And more such doubts kept swirling through my mind. The...
The Geek Games Paradark Studio’s game, described by its creators as a cyberwestern, has finally secured a new publisher after Null Games completely withdrew from publishing it. ExeKiller is a single-player action-adventure game that places narrative, player...
Kotaku Bungie is laying off ‘most’ of the Destiny 2 team, and some developers working on Marathon
Polygon A list of all Jaguar cars from the 1980s in Forza Horizon 6 that can be used to complete the #SnapCat photo challenge.
The Next Web The Trump administration has barred Polestar from selling new electric vehicles in the United States, denying the Geely-owned automaker authorization under the Connected Vehicle Rule. The decision, first reported by TechCrunch, means Polestar will...
New York Times - World The push to rebrand the country, which started in the last decade, was inspired by politicians and coincided with an international public relations campaign.
The Next Web OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft are bankrolling a new nonprofit to retrain American workers for the AI economy. RAISE US, led by Gina Raimondo, has already raised more than $500m. The biggest names in AI agree on at least one thing. The...
InVerse One of the most stylized comics characters is getting a spinoff in a stylized genre.
9to5 Mac Apple Notes in iOS 27 adds a variety of new features, including one I just discovered that power users are sure to appreciate: section links.
Gizmodo New research has identified a potential, if small, added risk of smell and taste disturbances linked to GLP-1 use.
Digital Tends Prime Day has dropped prices on the Pixel Buds Pro 2 and Beats Studio Buds+, making these earbuds much easier to recommend.
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Hack-A-Day Even though GPS makes it possible for us to easily navigate around the planet in almost any vehicle we’d like, whether that’s a passenger vehicle, airplane, or cargo ship, it’s …read more
How To Geek A smart home is nothing without hardware.
9to5 Mac Day 3 of the Prime Day bonanza is underway and the deals are flying. Alongside the ongoing deal price on AirPods Pro 3 at $70 off, there’s still time to land a giant $150 off AirPods Max 2 (almost sold out), and after today’s wild price hikes on...
MacRumors Apple has raised the prices of Macs and iPads across its Certified Refurbished online store, following the sweeping new product price hikes introduced earlier today. Across the affected products in Apple's refurb inventory, prices went up by...
Mashable Get live updates on the first Prime Day of 2026. We found record-low prices on Samsung TVs, DJI drones, Kindles, Sony headphones, and more.
Polygon After years of pleading with the studio, Zach Cregger's directorial debut Barbarian is coming to 4K UHD with tons of bonus features.
9to5 Mac As promised a week ago, Apple just increased prices across a range of product lines. While rising RAM costs are to blame, according to Apple, Wall Street isn’t too impressed with the move.
The Next Web Adobe is buying Topaz Labs, the Emmy-winning maker of AI image and video enhancement tools. The deal hands Adobe upscaling, restoration and on-device AI as creators blend captured and generated footage. Adobe has agreed to buy Topaz Labs, an AI...
The Next Web Toyota is gaining on General Motors in the race for America’s sales crown, and the gap is now the narrowest it has been in half a decade. A new forecast from Cox Automotive, released on Wednesday, projects Toyota will sell approximately 1,250,000...
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How To Geek If 200,000 miles sounds ambitious, this American SUV has a habit of making it look like just another milestone.
BBC - Europe Temperatures in Germany could hit 40C in some areas while French officials say deaths linked to the heat are being seen among young people.
Lifehacker Tim Cook warned us price hikes were coming, and now they're here.
The Next Web Scaled Cognition has raised $100M led by Khosla Ventures to build AI that does not hallucinate. The startup says its model will not give a wrong answer, a bold claim in a field built on probability. Scaled Cognition, a Mountain View AI lab, has...
Mashable 'Grand Theft Auto VI' is almost upon us, but only the single-player portion. Will we get an online mode?
Lifehacker Garmin offers such a wide range of watches, it can be hard to know which to buy. Here's my breakdown.
Gizmodo These events killed at least 164 people in Venezuela and injured several in California and Japan.