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The Morning After: PlayStation vs. Xbox in 2024
The current generation of consoles landed in roughly the same week in November 2020. At launch, the PS5 had seven new exclusive games to the Xbox Series’ two. Sony had a better showing too, with the likes of Demon Souls (sure, a remake) and Spider-Man: Miles Morales. Four years on,…
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Blue Prince preview: Build your own escape room and then live there
Blue Prince has been making the rounds at physical and virtual conventions like EGX, Gamescom and the PC Gaming Show, and it’s already high on the puzzle community’s figurative list of most anticipated titles for 2025. It was just featured in the Day of the Devs showcase before The Game…
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The Morning After: X adds, then quickly removes, Grok’s new photorealistic image generator
A new image generator called Aurora briefly opened for testing for some Grok users, and the tool’s results shared on X appeared far more realistic than X’s previous image generators. It was a brief debut, though. By Sunday afternoon, Aurora was gone. For a short time, there was a Grok…
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The Morning After: Google DeepMind’s Genie 2 can generate interactive 3D worlds
Google DeepMind has just revealed Genie 2, a world-modelling AI capable of creating 3D worlds and sustaining those environments for significantly longer. Genie 2 isn’t a game engine. It’s a diffusion model that generates images as the player (either a human being or another AI agent) moves through the world…
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The 70 best Cyber Monday tech deals under $50
What can you get for under $50? Turns out, quite a bit. For Cyber Monday, we’re seeing dozens of deals for smaller devices like speakers and Bluetooth trackers, as well as accessories like cables and chargers — all of which fall well (or just) below the $50 mark. Of course,…
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The 70 best Black Friday tech deals you can still get under $50
The expensive tech gets all the attention — thousand-dollar phones and $500 tablets. But the supporting players, the cables and batteries and chargers that make those devices work properly, are just as important. Right now for Black Friday, many of those smaller gadgets are on sale for less than $50…
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