Minecraft will drop two new games and more movie details
Source: Venture Beat Minecraft announced details for the next two game drops, Spring to Life and the next vanilla game drop, called Vibrant Visuals. Read Full Article
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Photo Mode is my new gaming obsession
Source: The Verge Infinity Nikki and Assassin’s Creed Shadows have become my twin obsessions for their meticulously detailed environments, textures, and weather. With open-world dress-up game Infinity Nikki, I continue to be agog at how clothing textures are rendered with such detail and fidelity that by mere sight, I know exactly what a piece of…
SwitchBot adds robot vacuums, smart shades, and its new Hub 3 to Home Assistant
Source: The Verge SwitchBot will integrate more than 45 of its products with Home Assistant during the first half of this year, the company said in an email to The Verge. That expansion includes The SwitchBot Hub 3 that was first revealed in a filing with the Connectivity Standards Alliance last week. Many of these…
7 cool indie games from GDC 2025
Source: The Verge The Game Developers Conference, an annual gathering that brings thousands of game developers to San Francisco, has just wrapped up. While most of the event is about networking and interesting talks about game design and technology, there were also a bunch of unreleased indie games that we got to check out. Yes,…
Fujifilm GFX100RF review: one sensor, nine cameras
Source: The Verge When Apple introduced the iPhone 15 Pro, Greg Joswiak, the company’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said the device’s three rear cameras would give consumers “the equivalent of seven camera lenses in their pocket.” We could spend multiple podcasts debating the technical validity of that statement, but what Joswiak was trying…
Less is more: UC Berkeley and Google unlock LLM potential through simple sampling
Source: Venture Beat With multiple sampling and self-verification, Gemini 1.5 Pro can outperform o1-preview in reasoning tasks. Read Full Article
People keep putting fake walls in front of Teslas
Source: The Verge Someone has responded to YouTuber Mark Rober’s Tesla fake wall test with a video that also tries to address the question of whether the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) features would detect a Wile E. Coyote-style road obstruction in the real world. Creator Kyle Paul posted his video Thursday and included two Teslas…
Lyft’s robotaxis will launch in Atlanta this summer
Source: The Verge Lyft will let users in Atlanta catch robotaxi rides starting this summer, as reported by NBC News. “Atlanta riders will have the opportunity to be matched with a fleet of autonomous Toyota Sienna minivans equipped with May Mobility’s autonomous technology, a deployment that Lyft and May Mobility aim to scale over time…
Apple’s Mythic Quest spinoff series is diving into the game
Source: The Verge Aside from cutscenes, most of Mythic Quest takes place in the real world. But Apple’s upcoming spinoff series Side Quest will give us a much better look at what the game looks like from within. While some of Side Quest’s four episodes focus on people’s lives outside of and away from Mythic…
No DEI allowed for US mergers and acquisitions, says the new FCC chair
Source: The Verge Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr said companies looking for regulatory approval should “get busy ending any sort of their invidious forms of DEI discrimination,” according to an interview with Bloomberg. Carr reportedly brought up Paramount’s merger with Skydance, Verizon’s purchase of Frontier Communications, and T-Mobile’s plans to acquire most of US…