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Phasmophobia Quality of Life Part 2 update release date and all new features
Plenty of changes, additions, and improvements to explore. The post Phasmophobia Quality of Life Part 2 update release date and all new features appeared first on Destructoid.
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Ego 1300 Electric Mower Review: Tame Your Lawn Without Gas
Ego’s newest, biggest, self-propelled mower handles larger yards in less time with impressive performance and battery life.
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Xbox promises that the causes of the recent outage, which rendered even game discs unplayable, have been fixed
Xbox says it has fixed the underlying problems behind its major July outage, which prevented users from accessing digital content and, in some cases, playing games on physical discs. The incident matters because it exposed how dependent modern consoles are on online licensing systems, even for games bought on disc. The outage began with a…
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Lego shut down a Bionicle fangame 8 years in the making—1 year later, its developers are back with something legally distinct and arguably cooler
Lego reportedly forced the closure of a fan-made Bionicle game after eight years of development, but the team has returned a year later with a new project designed to avoid using Lego’s intellectual property. The case highlights how fan developers can lose long-running projects to trademark and copyright enforcement, while also showing how their work…
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The Best Action Cameras for All Your Craziest Adventures (2026)
WIRED’s 2026 guide recommends action cameras for different needs, with the GoPro Mission 1 Pro named the best overall option. It highlights improved image quality, durability and increasingly capable alternatives from DJI and Insta360, while noting that 360 cameras may also suit some users. – GoPro Mission 1 Pro: best overall; $599–$700, with a 1-inch…
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McDonald’s Built a 515-Page Dossier on Me. It Says I’ll Never Stop Eating There
A WIRED journalist obtained a 515-page record of data held by McDonald’s after using California privacy rights to request it. The dossier shows how the company’s loyalty app tracks purchases and engagement, then uses that information to predict future visits, spending and the likelihood that a customer will stop buying from it. The case illustrates…
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If the markets reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US should nationalize them | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders
Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders argue that, if OpenAI and Anthropic fail to meet investors’ expectations, the US government should nationalise them and operate them as democratically controlled national laboratories. They say this could restore the firms’ original public-interest aims and prevent powerful AI systems from being governed chiefly by corporate profit motives. The…
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Reservoir raises $8M to make water heaters that people — and the grid — will actually want
Reservoir Climate has raised $8 million in seed funding to develop smarter, heat-pump water heaters designed to lower household energy use while helping electricity grids manage demand. The Boston-based company argues that water heaters are an overlooked but significant source of household costs and water damage, and aims to make its product attractive through practical…
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Google Pixel 11 launch: Live updates as the company unveils new devices, AI features and more
Google is due to unveil its latest Pixel devices and AI features at a hardware launch event in New York on 12 August. The event matters because it should provide official confirmation of products that have already been teased and widely rumoured. Expected announcements include the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro Fold…
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Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts
Neuroscientist Rafael Yuste describes experiments in which his team decoded visual signals in mice and then used lasers to recreate those signals directly in their brains. The work made mice behave as if they were seeing moving images that were not actually present, illustrating both the potential of brain-computer technology and the ethical concerns around…