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As Roblox embraces text-to-world tools, Japanese creatives brace for fallout
The new Roblox feature is built on the same underlying technology as Roblox Cube, the company’s 3D asset generator introduced last year. While the first iteration produced only static geometry, the updated engine links prompt-based generation to the platform’s runtime physics, collision, and scripting layers, allowing newly created assets to…
PlayStation 5 outsold the Switch 2 during the holidays, helped by Ghost of Yōtei
That 8 million figure matters because it puts PS5 ahead of Nintendo’s brand-new Switch 2 in the same calendar quarter. Nintendo’s latest investor presentation shows Switch 2 hardware sell-in of 7.01 million units for its fiscal Q3 (Oct – Dec 2025). In other words: Sony’s five-year-old console still managed to…
Upcoming Apple M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips leaked in iOS 26.3
The discovery, made by software researcher Nicolás Alvarez and shared with MacRumors, points to two chip identifiers: T6051 and T6052. Each is tied to platform codes H17C and H17D, which align with Apple’s internal numbering for its M-series processors. Within this scheme, 17 denotes the M5 generation, and the trailing letters…
Police drones will respond to emergencies before officers in Detroit area
The DFR program uses drones from Skydio that can reach the scene of a crime in 2.5 minutes, according to the press release.
Valve delays Steam Machine and Steam Frame as memory prices surge
In its first hardware-related blog post since announcing the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller 2 in November, Valve confirmed that it has internally delayed the upcoming devices. The three products were set to debut sometime before the end of March, but Valve and its hardware partner, AMD, recently…
Warm skin, eye contact, and microexpressions: world's first "biomimetic AI robot" revealed
Robotics company DroidUp (also known as Zhuoyide) revealed the robot, named Moya, at Shanghai’s Zhangjiang Robotics Valley.
New website helps you find the cheapest storage by cost per gigabyte
The idea emerged from Levesque’s own frustration while sourcing hard drives in bulk. Traditional online retailers emphasize total price, but that metric can obscure how much actual storage value a user receives.
BMW admits heated seat subscriptions were a mistake, but the paywalls aren't going away
BMW faced a wave of criticism in 2022 when heated seats were offered as part of its ConnectedDrive functions-on-demand program in markets like the United Kingdom, Germany, and South Korea. Owners could pay the equivalent of around $18 per month to access the feature – more than the $12 per…
Survival horror classic 'Alone in the Dark' trilogy is free on GOG for a limited time
The package, available for free until Thursday morning, includes Alone in the Dark 1, 2, and 3 – all emulated through DOSBox. Like most titles sold on GOG, the DRM-free downloads come with digital manuals, soundtracks, and other supplementary materials. Because the trilogy is part of GOG’s preservation program, the…
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