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Hololive vtuber says new rhythm game on Steam is surprisingly true to their personas for a reason: ‘We had tons of involvement with the script and dialogue’

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Although Steam has a handful of Hololive vtuber games already—that is, games featuring members of the popular vtuber agency—none of them are as comprehensive as Hololive Dreams. A rhythm game with a huge list of collectible characters to meet, Hololive Dreams is the closest thing we’re getting to a vtuber theme park—at least until someone […]

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‘What is it?’ We snooped around in our favorite gaming characters’ inventories: can you identify the weird stuff they’re carrying?

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I love the subreddit r/whatisit for a couple of reasons. It’s a fun way to let people use their extremely niche knowledge to identify the unusual items people come across, but mainly it’s chance to see paranoid parents and insecure partners snoop around in their loved ones’ stuff and find what they always assume are

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Apple Maps in iOS 27 makes my favorite recent feature even better

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Apple Maps recently added a new ‘Suggested Places’ feature in iOS 26.5, but it’s getting even better in iOS 27. Here’s how. When iOS 26.5 launched in May, it came with a pair of Apple Maps-focused changes, including ‘Suggested Places.’ The feature offers recommendations inside Maps’ search screen of places you should check out. Suggested

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BeamNG.drive just had a graphics overhaul so we can finally watch a family hatchback navigate a speedbump at 100mph with dynamic ambient lighting

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BeamNG.drive, a mainstay of our list of the best racing games thanks to its dedication to being a vehicular sandbox for soft-body crash-damage enthusiasts, as well as its PvP and modability, just had its biggest update. The patch includes “massive graphics changes”, which means shadows should be more stable, there’s HDR output support on Vulkan

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OpenAI president admits new ChatGPT desktop app is ‘kind of a mess,’ teases tab-free design

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In a wide-ranging interview with Joanna Stern, OpenAI president Greg Brockman addressed the company’s recent changes to the ChatGPT desktop app and discussed its plans for a tab-free interface. Watch it below. A few days ago, Joanna Stern published a teaser of an upcoming interview with OpenAI president Greg Brockman on her new YouTube channel,

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Proving Doom can actually run on anything, one programmer has made a working build for Commodore 64

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You can play Doom on a vape, a printer, an oscilloscope, a pregnancy test, an ATM, and inside Doom itself, but can you play it on a Commodore 64? The old 8-bit powerhouse was discontinued just a year after Doom’s 1993 release, and while it was capable of small miracles for its time, it was

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Runna now automatically adapts training paces based on heat and humidity

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Personal running coaching app Runna announced three updates today designed to support users throughout the entire training cycle, from hot-weather workouts to post-race recovery. With the new Adapt for Heat feature, available starting today, Runna will help users identify cooler times to run and recommend adjusted pace targets based on the feels-like temperature, workout duration,

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DOJ fights Apple’s bid for records from 14 federal agencies in antitrust case

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The US Department of Justice has asked the court to reconsider a recent ruling that would allow Apple to pursue records from 14 federal agencies in its antitrust case. Here are the details. Earlier this month, retired federal judge Jose Linares, who is serving as a special discovery master in the case, rejected the government’s

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Almost all future robot vacuums were just banned by the US government

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Yesterday the US government announced its was updating its list of banned foreign-made products to include “advanced robotic devices,” and today an FCC spokesperson confirmed that applies to robot vacuums too. When the Trump administration announced yesterday that it was banning “advanced robotic devices” from entering the United States, the headlines were all about humanoids.

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