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Poll: Did You Get Into The Duskbloods Switch 2 Beta Test?
Bamco: First Blood. On Friday, FromSoftware fans with a Switch 2 get their first chance to go hands-on with a brand new game from the makers of Dark Souls and Elden Ring. Or more accurately, some FromSoft fans get the chance – specifically the ones that successfully applied for the network test. Read the full…
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Poll: Did You Get Into The Duskbloods Switch 2 Beta Test?
Bamco: First Blood. On Friday, FromSoftware fans with a Switch 2 get their first chance to go hands-on with a brand new game from the makers of Dark Souls and Elden Ring. Or more accurately, some FromSoft fans get the chance – specifically the ones that successfully applied for the network test. Read the full…
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AI isn’t close to curing cancer. This startup says it knows what it will take.
Vivodyne, a biotech startup spun out of the University of Pennsylvania, argues that AI drug discovery is being held back by a lack of good data on human biology, and says it has built the fix. Its robotic lab system, called HIVE, grows 20 types of human tissue and autonomously doses and monitors them, generating…
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You can Venmo your college tuition, for some reason
PayPal has announced that its Venmo app can now be used to pay college tuition, after partnering with education payment platforms Illumia, Nelnet Campus Commerce and TouchNet. The move turns Venmo, best known for splitting small everyday costs such as rent or takeaway orders among friends, into a channel for one of the largest bills…
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Will the future of gaming be powered by upstart indie developers?
As major games publishers such as Electronic Arts, Microsoft and Ubisoft pull back amid rising costs, redundancies and ownership changes, a wave of smaller, independent publishers is emerging to back grassroots studios with more experimental ideas. The Guardian’s Pushing Buttons column draws a parallel with 1990s independent cinema, when studios like Miramax and New Line…
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GitHub blames 8-hour outage on autoscaling fail and VS Code retry storm
GitHub has published a post-incident report attributing this week’s near eight-hour outage to a chain of infrastructure failures rather than a single cause. The company traced the problem to saturated load balancers in its Central US facility, a misconfigured autoscaling policy that failed to monitor a key concurrency limit, and a previously unknown retry bug…
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GTA 6 Leak Forces Stop Killing Games Movement to Distance Itself From Hacker Manifesto
The Stop Killing Games movement has distanced itself from the manifesto published by the alleged group behind last night’s GTA 6 leak, and cast doubt on their motivations.
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The Best Digital Wall Calendar (2026): Skylight, Everblog, Apolosign
WIRED’s 2026 guide to digital wall calendars explains why these devices, which sync with online calendars such as Google, Apple or Microsoft, have grown in popularity as replacements for paper calendars and traditional smart displays. They project a household’s schedule onto a wall-mounted or countertop screen that updates automatically, eliminating problems like illegible handwriting or…
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“Without us, Bethesda games aren’t Bethesda games”: Rallies against Microsoft layoffs at Elder Scrolls studio continue, with unionised devs’ morale “on the upswing”
Union rallies against Microsoft’s mass layoffs at Bethesda continued on 18 August, with the One Bethesda Game Studio (OneBGS) union and the Communication Workers of America (CWA) staging further protests across North America. Two unionised developers told Kotaku that while day-to-day morale among remaining staff is at an all-time low following the cuts, spirits around…
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The everyday tech I use to track my corgi
The article is a first-person piece by a Verge reporter explaining how she uses an Apple AirTag to keep tabs on her pet corgi, Jelly, attaching the tracker to the dog’s collar via a silicone holder. She argues that pet tracking is one of the most sensible uses for AirTags, comparing it to insurance: rarely…