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The wildly ambitious Crimson Desert goes gold ahead of March 19 release
Developer Pearl Abyss recently announced that Crimson Desert, one of TechSpot’s most anticipated PC games, has gone gold, with a final release date set for March 19. The studio also published the system requirements for both Windows and macOS.
As NASA delays ISS replacement plans, Vast is pushing ahead with its own space station
Vast’s first platform, Haven-1, is deliberately modest in scale but ambitious in both schedule and purpose. The station is designed as a roughly 15-ton autonomous outpost that will launch uncrewed aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, initially operate as a free-flying satellite, and later transition to hosting short-duration human missions.
Hubble Space Telescope reveals why some stars refuse to grow old
In the most extensive ultraviolet study of blue stragglers ever performed, an international research team used NASA’s and ESA’s Hubble observatory to survey 48 globular clusters scattered across the Milky Way.
Hyundai plans to deploy humanoid robots by 2028, union warns of job losses
Hyundai Motor Group showed off Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot at CES earlier this month. The company said it plans to build a factory capable of producing 30,000 robots annually by 2028 and to begin deploying humanoid robots at its Georgia plant that same year, with plans to roll them out…
Ubisoft is hitting reset again: cancels games, closes studios, and delays releases
Ubisoft plans to overhaul its internal structure over the coming months and years and significantly revise its release lineup. Intensifying its focus on open-world games, live-service titles, and player-facing generative AI, the company has delayed seven games and cancelled six, including the long-in-development remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands…
Stranger Things and NFL pushed streaming to record highs on Christmas Day
Nielsen says (via The Hollywood Reporter) that US streaming figures for December 25 beat the previous 2024 record, also set on Christmas Day, by 3.9 billion minutes.
This robotic hand can crawl away from its arm to grab things
Unlike traditional robotic grippers fixed to stationary arms, this dual-mode manipulator functions both as a conventional end effector and as an independent mobile tool. Once undocked, it can navigate toward objects on its own, using a coordination system that lets each digit crawl and reorient in multiple directions.
Apple is reportedly working on an AI pin roughly the size of an AirTag
News that Apple is working on an AI gadget was first reported by The Information. The device is described as resembling a flat, circular disk with an aluminum and glass shell – a thicker AirTag, essentially.
Nvidia has overtaken Apple as TSMC's largest customer, Jensen Huang says
Huang made the remark about TSMC during an interview on the A Bit Personal with Jodi Shelton podcast. When the host referred to TSMC founder Morris Chang’s recollection that a young Huang once promised to become one of the foundry’s biggest clients, Huang laughed and said, “Morris will be happy…
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