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Gamescom usually sells the next console, the next season pass, the next reason to stay up too late. This year IKEA arrived with a nine-piece line called YXSTABY, built with Xbox designers piece by piece, and the pitch is quieter than the hall around ...

Rockstar and Netflix put twenty-six minutes of actual GTA 6 gameplay on screens this afternoon, all captured on a regular PlayStation 5, and for the first time the wait stopped feeling like rumor. Jason and Lucia walk into a dim apartment building .. ...

Reports this week put a possible NVIDIA purchase of Hugging Face near $13 billion. This morning the company's Bordeaux robotics group still went ahead and opened pre-orders on something far smaller: Microduck, a 25-centimeter biped from Pollen ...

Google and The Pokémon Company spent Pokémon's 30th anniversary year pairing a screenless fitness band with the one app that already treats sleep like a daily hunt. Fitbit Air Special Edition Pokémon Sleep arrived this morning as a $129.99 US / ? ...

Boston Dynamics spent years sending Atlas over boxes and through parkour courses with almost nothing on top that looked like a head. Hydraulic Atlas lived as a research machine built for flips, runs, and balance tests. Forward sensors were enough ...

SpaceX spent seven years looking for a stretch of Earth quiet enough, empty enough, and rich enough in natural gas to fly Starship the way airliners leave a busy airport. On Tuesday, August 25, company leaders and Louisiana officials said they found ...

Andrea Ricci wanted a language model to do more than answer questions. He wanted it to walk a corridor, notice a door, raise a shotgun, and live long enough to tell you what just tried to kill it. He put that test on a board small enough to sit in a ...

A weathered yellow breadbox just walked out of Gamescom looking like it survived a Watson shootout, and CD Projekt Red put its name on the badge. Commodore announced the Commodore 77 today, as the first special edition of its Commodore 64 Ultimate .. ...

Amazon still markets this little black dongle as a way to watch movies. That pitch misses half the point. Second-generation Fire TV Stick 4K Max is a $49.99 (was $85) HDMI stick that also runs Xbox Game Pass, Amazon Luna, and GeForce NOW, so a living ...

Inside a 60-foot steel sphere at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, a team has begun a new series of tests that look simple on paper and get complicated fast. They fire scaled rocket exhaust into a shallow bin of jagged gray powder ...