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Engadget

Cyberpunk platformers, gallivanting geckos and other new indie games worth checking out

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. Once again, there are some neat new games for ...

Apr 18, 11:00
15 years after 'Video Games,' Lana Del Rey has an actual video game song

The James Bond franchise has a long history of getting pop stars to record its theme songs (perhaps most memorably with ...

Apr 17, 22:19
The PBS Artemis II documentary is streaming on YouTube

The crew of NASA's Artemis II mission have safely returned to Earth, but if your Moon fever has yet to break, or you...

Apr 17, 21:03
A lot of you panic-bought PCs to avoid RAMaggedon 2026

The specter of price hikes caused by the current AI-driven demand for memory and storage appears to have convinced a fai...

Apr 17, 20:02
Sam Altman's 'human verification' company thinks its eye-scanning orbs could solve ticket scalping

Sam Altman's cryptocurrency turned identity verification startup Tools for Humanity is offering a new set of perks t...

Apr 17, 17:15
Bluesky blames DDoS attack for server outages

Bluesky is once again having a wobble. The platform said some of its systems are down and that it’s “investigating a...

Apr 17, 16:47
NASA restarts work to support Europe's uncrewed trip to Mars after years of setbacks

NASA has confirmed the pending launch of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosalind Franklin rover, which is being s...

Apr 17, 16:15
Panic says the Playdate Catalog won't accept games made with generative AI

Panic, the company behind the tiny and excellent Playdate console, is taking a stand on generative AI. The company has p...

Apr 17, 16:06
Exit 8 is cinema for the livestreaming era

The rules of Exit 8, both the cult indie game and the recent film adaptation, are simple: You're stuck in a subway s...

Apr 17, 15:11
Anthropic now has a design assistant too

In hindsight, I suppose it was only a matter of time after Anthropic made Claude capable of generating charts and diagra...

Apr 17, 15:00

TechCrunch

The App Store is booming again, and AI may be why

New data from Appfigures shows a swell of new app launches in 2026, suggesting AI tools could be fueling a mobile softwa...

Apr 18, 13:00
Once close enough for an acquisition, Stripe and Airwallex are now going after each other

For most of its life, Airwallex and Stripe have mostly operated in different geographies, selling to different buyers. T...

Apr 18, 05:20
Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.

World, which has raised eyebrows (but also a lot of interest) with its Orb-centered anonymous verification project, is l...

Apr 17, 22:34
Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are leaving OpenAI as the company shuts down Sora and folds its science team, signaling a sh...

Apr 17, 20:38
Man who hacked US Supreme Court filing system sentenced to probation

Nicholas Moore hacked into three U.S. government networks using stolen credentials, and then bragged about it and posted...

Apr 17, 20:16
Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges

Returning backers a16z and Thrive are expected to lead the round.

Apr 17, 19:17
‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think

There's a lot more code — but it's a lot more expensive and requires a lot more rewriting.

Apr 17, 18:42
Hackers are abusing unpatched Windows security flaws to hack into organizations

A security researcher published details of three security vulnerabilities in Windows Defender, and the code used to expl...

Apr 17, 17:48
Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings

Meeting platform Zoom has announced a partnership with World, Sam Altman's human ID verification company, to ensure that...

Apr 17, 17:15
Gigs turns your concert history into a personal live music archive

New iPhone app Gigs uses AI to turn old tickets, screenshots, and emails into a personal concert archive with stats, mem...

Apr 17, 16:55

The Verge

Dyson’s handheld fan is more powerful and louder than I expected

Two years ago I attended a picturesque outdoor wedding in August where the hot and humid weather had guests occasionally...

Apr 17, 21:15
There’s nothing like an RPG over vacation

With a vacation comes a big choice: What game should I focus on during the trip? I thought about grinding out the harder...

Apr 07, 22:44
The AI apps are coming for your PC

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 124, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here...

Apr 17, 20:35
OpenAI’s former Sora boss is leaving

Last month, OpenAI gave up on its Sora video generation tool, and on Friday, the Sora team's leader, Bill Peebles, annou...

Apr 17, 21:13
Should you stare into Sam Altman’s orb before your next date?

Tinder users who prove they're a real person by visiting an identity-verifying orb will soon be able to get five free bo...

Apr 17, 20:42
Anthropic’s new cybersecurity model could get it back in the government’s good graces

The Trump administration has spent nearly two months fighting with AI company Anthropic. It's dubbed the company a "RADI...

Apr 17, 23:16
Betting on the news raises ethical questions for journalists

Prediction market exchanges have created an environment where just about any piece of information is potentially monetiz...

Apr 17, 18:24
This charming gadget writes bad AI poetry

I've never been as charmed and frustrated by one gadget as I have with the Poetry Camera. It's a delightful object. Whit...

Apr 17, 17:11
Our new favorite budget phones

Over the last few months, every phone maker under the sun has refreshed its lineups, especially at the affordable end, w...

Apr 17, 16:01
The best budget smartphones you can buy

Some of us take a kind of “eat to live” rather than a “live to eat” approach to gadgets. They’re tools that he...

Apr 17, 19:22

Ars Technica

Great white sharks are overheating

The sharks might also be the most physiologically vulnerable to warming waters. ...

Apr 18, 11:07
US-sanctioned currency exchange says $15 million heist done by "unfriendly states"

Grinex says needed hacking resources "available exclusively to ... unfriendly states." ...

Apr 17, 21:28
Man with @ihackedthegovernment Instagram account tells judge, “I made a mistake"

Probation for man who used stolen logins and posted private info on social media. ...

Apr 17, 19:31
Trump picks qualified, normal health leader to head CDC; experts still cautious

She's well qualified but will need to navigate RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda. ...

Apr 17, 19:19
$25,000 buys plenty of used EVs: Here are some options

Is $20,000–$25,000 a sweet spot for secondhand electric cars? We think so. ...

Apr 17, 18:31
Satellite and drone images reveal big delays in US data center construction

Data centers face construction delays and energy bottleneck as resistance grows. ...

Apr 17, 18:08
Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore

The two newest Fire Sticks block apps from outside of Amazon's store.

Apr 17, 17:42
Ridley Scott's post-apocalyptic The Dog Stars drops first trailer

"The world that was, doesn't exist. It's just us, trying to hold onto what was." ...

Apr 17, 17:32
Artemis II pilot talks about what it was really like to fly and land in Orion

"I've been thinking about reentry for three straight years."

Apr 17, 16:59
Meta's AI spending spree is helping make its Quest headsets more expensive

Prices for "critical components" are surging because of massive data center investments. ...

Apr 17, 16:23