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Everwild has reportedly been cancelled amid Xbox layoffs
In today’s gaming world, a decade of development can sometimes amount to nothing. Parent company Microsoft has reportedly cancelled Rare’s long-in-development project Everwild. The news comes amid broader layoffs across Microsoft’s Xbox division. Rare employees will likely be part of the Xbox layoffs, according to Video Games Chronicle. VGC and…
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How to buy a GPU in 2025
One of the trickiest parts of any new computer build or upgrade is finding the right video card. In a gaming PC, the GPU is easily the most important component, and you can hamstring your experience by buying the wrong model. The buying process can be frustrating, with many manufacturers…
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Crunchyroll’s lazy AI subtitles have anime fans furious
At the start of last year, Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini told The Verge the company was "very focused on testing" generative AI tools for subtitling and captioning speech to text. The comment came just months after the streamer temporarily took down the debut episode of one of its newest shows, The…
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ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it
US government officials have condemned ICEBlock and CNN’s recent coverage of it, leading to more people hearing about its existence and downloading it from the App Store. Now the application, which allows users to add a pin on a map to show where ICE agents have recently been spotted, has climbed…
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Nothing Phone 3 hands-on: A tiny, playful dot-matrix screen in the company’s most expensive phone yet
With the third generation of its smartphone series, Nothing made the unusual move to launch the cheaper ‘a’ line first, unveiling the Phone 3a and 3a Pro in March. Now, it’s time for its latest flagship. The Nothing Phone 3, starting at $799 (with a $899 option with 16GB of…
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Nothing’s first over-ear headphones want to be a quirky $300 AirPods Max alternative
After numerous waves of similar (and not-so-similar) wireless buds, Nothing is debuting its first pair of over-ear headphones. The Headphone 1 combines the company’s recognizable see-through aesthetic with an intriguing array of controls and up to 35 hours of listening with active noise cancellation (ANC). Handily, for its most premium…
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