Helldivers 2 boss says devs may make a critically important Galactic War mechanic easier to understand: “We are talking about making this more clear”

What you need to know Arrowhead Game Studios’ co-op PvE shooter Helldivers 2 has a Galactic War metagame in which players are tasked with attacking or defending specific planets by Major Orders. The game doesn’t explain this, but you can only fight on a world if it’s near one players control. This is called the […]

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Billionaire investor warns “The faster and higher things go up, the harder they fall” while talking about skyrocketed AI stocks, which will predictably lead to an inflationary economic slowdown

What you need to know DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach says the current AI wave reminds him of the dot-com era. The billionaire investor warns that the current market is grabby and momentum-driven, citing that the rush to invest in AI is a huge risk and will eventually accrue massive losses. The CEO attributed that […]

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman says there’s no ‘big red button’ to stop the progression of AI while talking about its regulation alongside Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in an interview

What you need to know Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI’s Sam Altman recently touched base with The Economist’s Editor-in-Chief to talk about the future of AI, what’s next for ChatGPT, and more. Sam Altman pointed out that he measures the success of ChatGPT based on the percent of human work it’s able to accomplish, […]

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I was skeptical at first, but after trying XREAL glasses and talking with CEO Chi Xu about their real-world applications, I get it

“So what? Why should I care? That’s a big waste of money.” These are the phrases that have popped into my head over the last year each time a company has revealed its own augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) glasses. Despite each brand’s attempts to tell me that their product is important, I’ve […]

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There’s a Huge Covid Surge Right Now and Nobody Is Talking About It

Since 2021, all dominant Covid variants have descended from Omicron. The 2023–2024 booster was tailored for the XBB.1.5 strain of Omicron, but JN.1 is about as different from XBB.1.5 as Omicron was from Delta. Even so, researchers from China and the US have posted preliminary analyses suggesting that the newest vaccines still effectively defend against […]

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Not enough people are talking about this game-changing upcoming Xbox feature

This past week, Microsoft announced a game-changing new Xbox feature to little fanfare, but it could become one of the most important new features Xbox has gotten in years.  Announced on Xbox Wire a couple of weeks back, Microsoft detailed how it’s planning to bring full keyboard bindings to Xbox controllers, as part of the […]

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The MacRumors Show: Talking Through watchOS 10’s Huge Redesign

On this week’s episode of The MacRumors Show, we talk through some of the key aspects rumored for watchOS 10‘s substantial UI redesign. Last week, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reported that ‌watchOS 10‌ will introduce an all-new system of widgets for interacting with the Apple Watch. He explained that widgets will become a “central part” of […]

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Galaxy S23 Ultra’s great battery life has a benefit no one is talking about

We’ve been singing praises of the Galaxy S23 Ultra ever since it got announce and we got the chance to use it. The Galaxy S23 Ultra is the same as the Galaxy S22 Ultra in most regards, but it leaves the S22 Ultra biting the dust in both performance and battery life. Much of the […]

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A new approach to talking about sound

To misquote an increasingly popular Disney character: you’ll have to look hard to find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than the world of hi-fi and headphone reviews. Putting it politely, the prose used in mainstream audio product reviews could be described as pseudoscientific at best, or as nonsensical rambling at worst. Shibboleths […]

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