Google’s TV Streamer 4K doubles as a smart home hub and it’s on sale
Between March Madness and the Oscars, now might be a good time to improve your TV setup. Google’s TV Streamer 4K is currently on sale for $79.99 ($20 off) at Amazon, Target, and Walmart, which is its second-best price to date and only $5 more than its all-time low. As a streaming device, it’s terrif
Tesla becomes a utility in the UK, setting up showdown with Octopus Energy
The new Tesla Energy Ventures division was approved by Ofgem to sell electricity directly to customers.
Tomb Raider I-II-III Remastered now available for Switch 2, iOS, and Android alongside ‘Challenge Mode’ update
Publisher Aspyr and developer Crystal Dynamics have released a Switch 2, iOS, and Android versions of Tomb Raider I-II-III Remastered alongside a free…
We Finally Have Our First Look at Crimson Desert Running on PS5 Pro - but We're Still Waiting on Base PS5 and Xbox Series X and S
After some fans expressed concern about the performance of ambitious new open world game Crimson Desert on consoles, we finally have a look at the game on a PlayStation 5 Pro.
Silent Hill 2 Remake passes 5m copies sold, so Konami's hosting a big ol' sale on the PlayStation store - Eurogamer.net
Silent Hill 2 Remake has sold over 5m copies across PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. It and Silent Hill f are on sale.
How ‘Handala’ Became the Face of Iran’s Hacker Counterattacks
Amid a paralyzing breach of medical tech firm Stryker, the group has come to represent Iran's use of “hacktivism” as cover for chaotic, retaliatory state-sponsored cyberattacks.
Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan returns with a Western survival shooter
After spending many years as the public face of Overwatch, Jeff Kaplan stayed well out of the limelight after leaving Blizzard in 2021. Five years later, the former Blizzard vice president and Overwatch lead director is back with his own studio and a new game, which you might be able to play pretty
Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks
Neo is the first MacBook in a long time with an easily replaceable keyboard.
PC will overtake console revenue by 2028, says Newzoo - GamesIndustry.biz
Data firm also predicts market will see its "first notable expansion since the pandemic slowdown"
Anthropic’s Claude AI can respond with charts, diagrams, and other visuals now
Anthropic's latest update to Claude will allow the AI chatbot to generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations during your conversation. If Claude determines a visual is useful based on the context of your chat, it will insert the image in-line, rather than in its side panel. As an exam
Claude can now generate charts and diagrams
With Claude enjoying a moment of newfound popularity among regular people, Anthropic is previewing an update designed to make its chatbot better at explaining some concepts. Starting today, Claude can generate charts and diagrams as part of its responses, either when asked directly or when it decide
Honda cancels three EVs that were months away from US production
Honda has announced it is canceling three electric vehicles it was months from starting production on at its EV Hub in Ohio. The Honda 0 SUV, the Honda 0 sedan and the Acura RSX are all being wound down. The company showed off all three models, and touted them as in near-production form at CES 2025.
Google built a flash-flood prediction tool using Gemini and old news reports
Flash floods are notoriously difficult to predict, but Google might have a novel solution. The company just revealed Groundsource, a prediction tool for flash floods that uses Gemini to source data from old news reports. This is the first time it has used a language model for this type of work. Flas
Phil Spencer Was Good for Xbox, but His Legacy Is Complicated
Was Phil Spencer good for Xbox? Whatever you think of the retiring boss’s decade-plus tenure, there was rarely a dull moment.
Gumloop lands $50M from Benchmark to turn every employee into an AI agent builder
Benchmark’s new patner Everett Randell, sees enterprise automation as the largest opportunity in AI.
Yoshi And The Mysterious Book's Switch 2 Box Art Is Suitably Adorable - Nintendo Life
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Meta exec hopes VR teens will stick around
Free-to-play titles like GorillaTag are popular with young teens with little disposable income. | Image: Another Axiom Inc. This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. "It is a pr
Google starts selling 3-in-1 charging dock for Pixel phones, Buds, and Pixel Watch 4 - 9to5Google
Google has started selling a couple of new Pixel accessories including a 3-in-1 charging dock for your phone, Buds, and...
Microsoft's Copilot Health can use AI to turn your fitness data and medical records 'into a coherent story'
Microsoft has unveiled Copilot Health, an AI-powered tool it claims can help make sense of your medical records, health history and fitness data from wearables, should you grant it access to that information. The company said it will be in a "separate, secure space" in the Copilot app and that the i
Microsoft’s head of experiences and devices is retiring, triggering a shakeup
Rajesh Jha, executive vice president of Microsoft's experiences and devices group, is retiring after more than 35 years at the software giant. Jha was a big part of the team that helped move Microsoft's Office suite to the cloud, and has recently been overseeing Microsoft 365 Copilot, Windows, Offic
PEGI’s new age ratings will restrict FC 27 to kids over 16
Loot boxes like the virtual card packs featured in EA’s FC franchise will soon be taken into consideration for PEGI age ratings. | Image: EA The Pan-European Game Information (PEGI) body previously assigned its age ratings based on the presence of sex, drugs, violence, bad language, and fear. Now it
Alexa+ gets a new ‘adults only’ personality option that curses but won’t get into NSFW content
The new Sassy style can curse and roast you, but the fun ends there.
Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense
Steam maker says settling the case would be easier but would set a bad precedent.
WordPress launches an in-browser website creator
WordPress.org is launching a new tool that lets you create a private website directly in your browser, according to an announcement on Wednesday. You can access the tool by heading to my.WordPress.net, which opens up a workspace where you can start building a website without signing up to WordPress,