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Wool, clay, and elbow grease: bringing stop-motion games to life
One of the biggest lessons of working on stop-motion video games? Rolling up your sleeves â literally. “It’s such a nightmare,” Talha & Jack Co developer Jack King-Spooner told me over a video call. “You spend maybe half an hour doing one of the cutscenes. The cutscenes are the most precarious things because you have…
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Gyroscope-on-a-Chip Targets GPS’s Dominance
This year, two companies—Santa Clara, California-based Anello Photonics and Montreal-based One Silicon Chip Photonics (OSCP)—have introduced new gyroscope-on-a-chip navigation systems, allowing for precise heading and distance tracking without satellite signals. Such inertial navigation is increasingly important today, because GPS is susceptible to jamming and spoofing, which can disrupt navigation or provide misleading location data. These…
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Roblox, Discord, OpenAI, and Google found new child safety group
Roblox and Discord have faced criticism for failing to protect children on their platforms. Google, OpenAI, Roblox, and Discord have formed a new non-profit organization to help improve child safety online. The Robust Open Online Safety Tools (ROOST) initiative aims to make core safety technologies more accessible for companies and provide free, open-source AI tools…
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Lyft eyes robotaxi launch in 2026
Lyft says it will launch a fleet of robotaxis, using self-driving technology from Intel’s Mobileye, in Dallas in “as soon as 2026,” with plans to scale to ”thousands” of vehicles in additional markets in the months to follow. To signal its seriousness, the company tapped Marubeni, a Japanese conglomerate, to run fleet operations. Lyft’s news…
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Decoding OpenAI’s Super Bowl ad and Sam Altman’s grandiose blog post
Critics of OpenAI would say it’s more empty hype designed to continue placating OpenAI’s big-pocketed investors.Read More
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Roborock’s new AI-powered vacuums with market-leading suction are on sale now
The Roborock Saros 10 and 10R are dual flagship models unveiled at CES 2025, and they’re hitting the market today.
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Discord now lets you quietly block people
Discord is offering users a new way to block people without the confrontational nature of an actual block. The new feature, called Ignore, is essentially a mute function that can hide annoying or abusive users without attracting unwanted attention — thus avoiding unnecessary anxiety or flare-up drama. You can apply the new Ignore feature by…
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Roblox: all the news about the popular social and gaming platform
Roblox is a massive app — as of September 2023, Roblox says it has more than 65 million daily active users — and it’s becoming an increasingly interesting platform to watch amid growing competition from social and metaverse platforms like Epic Games’ Fortnite and Meta’s Horizon Worlds. While Roblox has traditionally been associated as a…
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The Practice Pro app has all the tools I want for music rehearsal
An iOS app called Practice Pro hit the App Store last week that might be the ideal music rehearsal app. It features a customizable interface with widgets like a digital tuner, metronomes, and audio recorder, and it’s an ad-free pay-once-and-its-yours affair. The app costs $0.99 cents right now, an introductory price that its developer, Joe…
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Teenage Engineering OP-XY review: extremely fun, extremely powerful, extremely expensive
The OP-XY is a surprisingly powerful — and unsurprisingly expensive — sequencer, synthesizer, sampler, and live performance instrument. Teenage Engineering is a design firm as much as it is a musical instrument company. Its devices rarely look or behave anything like what youâd buy from a Korg or a Moog. The best distillation of its…