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Source: Venture Beat Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As the use of agentic AI continues to grow, so too does the need for safety and security. Today, Nvidia announced a series of updates to its NeMo Guardrails technology designed specifically to…
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Source: The Verge You can always count on Nintendo for a surprise. This is the company that followed the Game Boy with a strange dual-screened handheld and broke out of its GameCube slump with a console focused on motion controls. It’s the company that lost its lead with the Wii U and then gambled on…
Source: Venture Beat South Korean game publisher Smilegate recently made a strategic investment and became a partner in Absurd Ventures, a game studio founded by Rockstar Games cofounder Dan Houser. Houser spent more than 20 years at Rockstar games and drove the creative direction of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption franchises, which have collectively sold… Read…
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Source: The Verge The calculator is also available in five muted colors to better match your desk decor: off white, dark gray, grayish pink, grayish green, and grayish blue. It will be released on January 30th, 2025 in Japan for ￥3,850, or around $25. The calculator is available in off white, dark gray, grayish pink,…
Source: Venture Beat A brief snippet of today’s Nintendo Switch 2 reveal may have hinted toward additional uses of the hardware. Read Full Article
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Source: The Verge Image: The Verge, Nintendo We don’t know when the Nintendo Switch 2 will launch (aside from later this year), but we do know when you can get your hands on the hardware — at least briefly. Nintendo is taking the Switch 2 on tour with a series of events it’s called the…
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Source: The Verge The arrival of the Nintendo Switch 2 heralds some much-needed improvements over its predecessor, especially its Joy-Con controllers. Here’s a quick breakdown of what the announcement trailer showed us about the Switch 2’s Joy-Cons. Before the official reveal of the console, there were rumors alluding to how the new Joy-Cons would work…
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Source: The Verge Polestar may be facing a possible ban in the US, but the Sweden-by-way-of-China manufacturer isn’t going to let that stop it from releasing new products. The company provided a business update on Thursday, during which it announced a new model, the Polestar 7 compact SUV, that will be produced in Europe. Little…
Source: Venture Beat Onehouse tackles efficiency with new compute runtime that can accelerate queries across open table formats running across multiple vendors. Read Full Article
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Source: The Verge Art and commerce are unholy bedfellows, and nowhere more so than in the music industry — never a savory business, not in the mob days and not now. Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine, a dive into the history and workings of Spotify, is a useful guide to the way the streaming platform has altered…
