It's been almost 10 years since the iPhone X set the design language for Apple's flagships, and the company hasn't released such an unconventional gadget since. The iPhone Duo is Apple's first foldable smartphone, and...

In grand strategy games, the victory screen has become a rare artifact that plenty of players have never actually seen. It is a genre where hundreds of hours logged offer zero guarantee that anyone will...

Google Research announced the completion of work neuroscientists had been waiting decades for. For the first time, the brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly have been fully mapped. The model...

Christopher Nolan's adaptation of the Greek epic has moved within striking distance of becoming Universal's highest-grossing movie ever. The Odyssey has now crossed $1.6 billion worldwide, and the gap with the current leader is shrinking...

Economists from Stockholm University and the University of Hong Kong published a paper tracking how generative AI affects academic performance among 26,811 Chinese students. The sample covers students from grades 7 through 12, meaning teenagers...

Developer Marcelo Guibout published on GitHub an add-on for ReShade called mgpu_bridge, which offloads DLSS 5 neural rendering workloads to a second graphics card in the system. This approach almost entirely eliminates the massive frame...

The idea looks simple enough. Surround the town center with four gates so no free tile remains underneath for enemy troops to stand on. The player who posted the concept in the Age of Empires...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit shared a series of photos showing how cities around the world have changed in recent years after switching from sodium lamps to LED lighting. Across 23 years and four missions to...

OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 Astra access to a limited number of organisations this week. According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang via X, the model was trained on "~100K Nvidia Grace Blackwell NVLink72" server racks,...

While RAM prices keep breaking records, ordinary components have turned into an asset nobody used to think twice about. Reddit user VastOption8705 found a stash of DDR4 modules in his own garage that's now worth...

Sometimes the most convincing lore theory doesn't need a single line of item description text or an hour spent rereading dialogue. All it takes is looking down from the screen to your own hands resting...

Designer Meng To, founder of the Design Code learning platform, showed off an isometric RPG built entirely by GPT-6 Astra. The model didn't just write the code in Three.js – it also recreated every scene...

A player going by bushGiant shared thoughts after replaying Red Dead Redemption 2, noting how much his perception of the game shifted the second time around. The first playthrough happened on a borrowed PS4, and...

A Steam account owner whose account was registered more than a decade ago ran into a lockdown over suspicious activity. To prove ownership, he sent Steam Support old email addresses, past passwords, the last four...

When life feels heavy, a gamer basically has two contradictory prescriptions, and both work. Either dive headfirst into melancholy, into the fog, the empty ruins, and the lonely hero nobody thanks for anything, or fire...

The debate over the best Fallout game has turned into something like a religious ritual at this point: every couple of years someone brings it up again, and the whole cycle starts over. Sometimes it...

Japan's Self-Defense Forces have signed an agreement for mass procurement of Terra B1 interceptor drones, whose bodies are manufactured using 3D printers. The device is built on the already combat-tested A1 model from Terra Drone....

Medieval strategy games have a habit of dressing up disasters as triumphs in their post-battle screens. The result flashes a proud "victory," but look closer at the numbers and you'll often find nothing left but...

Emily Wilson, a University of Pennsylvania professor whose 2017 translation of The Odyssey served as one of the inspirations for Christopher Nolan's film adaptation, has revealed that she's tackling Homer's poem a second time. This...

V-Color has finally launched what it teased earlier this year – 1 1 DDR5 kits pairing a real memory stick with a dummy filler module. The second stick has no actual memory chips inside, just...