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Master Chief in Unreal Engine 5. | Image: Halo Studios
Microsoft is moving its Halo development to Unreal Engine 5, after more than a year of rumors of an engine switch following a leadership overhaul at 343 Industries, layoffs, and other changes. 343 Industries is now becoming Halo Studios as part of this engine change announcement, hoping to mark a new chapter in the history of Halo.
Halo moving to Unreal Engine 5 is being positioned as the first step of a transformation for Halo Studios to change
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Apple's new Vitals app for watchOS 11 appears to be impressing some users with its ability to detect potential illness days before symptoms manifest, according to recent reports on Reddit. The Apple Watch app, which analyzes key health metrics measured during sleep over the last seven days, appears to be providing early warnings of impending sickness for at least some Apple Watch wearers ahead of time. It's available on Apple... Read more ›
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Vegetation has grown more than tenfold over the past four decades, a new study finds. Read more ›
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PubMatic said the layoff, which affected 1% of its overall head count, was part of a plan to streamline its operations. Read more ›
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It’s back to the races for artificial intelligence startups that require billions of dollars—and the investors that want to own a piece of their growth. OpenAI’s $6.6 billion capital raise and startups’ high computing costs have sparked new funding discussions between AI startups—including xAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and ElevenLabs—and investors hoping to kick-start deals. In some cases, pressure to close investments before the holiday lull sets in has added urgency. Read more ›
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Samsung has taken the wraps off its Galaxy A16 5G and it brings a few notable upgrades over its predecessor including a larger 6.7-inch display and 6 years of Android version updates alongside 6 years of security patches. That level of software support is unheard of for budget devices and means the A16 5G will be fully supported and running the latest Android until October 31, 2030. Galaxy A16 5G... Read more ›
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Today's announcements by the newly-rebranded Halo Studios - formerly 343 Industries - that multiple new Halo games are in development has excited fans of Microsoft's flagship Xbox franchise. But is there cause for celebration for PlayStation 5 owners too? Read more Read more ›
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In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Sauron is pure evil. He is the acolyte of Morgoth, a Satan figure in Tolkien’s mythos. Morgoth creates sun-hating minions, the orcs, during his reign of darkness — hellspawn, in other words, created by a devil figure to do his bidding. These are the villains our protagonists […] Read more ›
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Executive turnover is on the rise at adtech startups as investors seek growth and profit. CTV and retail media offer growth, but challenges remain. Read more ›
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343 Industries, developer of the Halo series, has confirmed it is working on multiple new games for the franchise under a new name: Halo Studios. Read more Read more ›
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Lithuanian customs intercepted military supplies leaving the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, bound for Moscow. It said it handed them to Ukraine. Read more ›
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The Middle East is plunging deeper into violence and conflict a year after the October 7 massacre ignited a powder keg in the region. Read more ›
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Ukrainian intelligence said it took out a $10 million Russian Osa system with a drone worth just a few hundred dollars, and shared footage. Read more ›
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"I had four employees, and I couldn't keep the lights on," said Witherspoon, the founder of Hello Sunshine. That was her "aha moment" to seek help. Read more ›
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The Caper Cart. | Image: Instacart If you always have trouble finding that specific pasta sauce like I do, there’s a smart grocery shopping cart that can map it out for you. Instacart’s Caper Cart, which has a touchscreen and payment terminal up front where you’d normally seat your toddler or play Jenga with your produce, now has a new store map system that can help navigate you to products... Read more ›
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Assassin's Creed and Star Wars Outlaws studio Ubisoft has acknowledged last week's buyout reports, stating it "regularly reviews all its strategic options in the interest of its stakeholders". Read more Read more ›
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Jack Forsdike, a 28-year-old from the UK, was on a 996 team for several months at a video game developer. He says he'll never go back to that life. Read more ›
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AI expert Gary Marcus says OpenAI may be forced to "become a surveillance" company to make money. "The mask has come off," he told Business Insider. Read more ›
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Influencer marketers are ditching deals with micro and nano influencers and hiring big stars as campaign performance and cost efficiencies slip away. Read more ›
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The Ducati Scrambler is an impressive machine, but it may not be an affordable one. Fortunately, there's a number of comparable motorcycles for every budget. Read more ›
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Meta’s glasses include a privacy light, but it’s not always easily visible. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Two Harvard students have created an eerie demo of how smart glasses can use facial recognition tech to instantly doxx people’s identities, phone numbers, and addresses. The most unsettling part is the demo uses current, widely available technology like the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and public databases. AnhPhu Nguyen,... Read more ›
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Gamers hoping to spend an evening in front of their PlayStation 5 or PlayStation 4 may be out of luck, as Sony’s gaming network is suffering a massive outage on Monday night. The official PSN Service Status page confirms problems affecting everything “Other, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, PS5, Web.” If it’s PlayStation — it’s not working. On my end, attempting to launch a... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Verizon is experiencing a huge outage affecting its mobile services across the country. “During the incident we received reports from Clermont, Naples, Ocala, St. Petersburg, Decatur, Carmel, Cloverdale, Indianapolis, Caldwell, Ottawa, Shawnee, Lexington, Louisville, Wentzville, Elizabeth, Dallas, Houston, McGaheysville, Keyser, Chillicothe and 53 other cities,” according to a website tracking the outage. There are also more than 90,000 user reports of problems on D Read more ›
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Flooding in Boone, NC, about an hour northeast of Spruce Pine. | Photo by Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images Hurricane Helene brought historic rainfall and flooding to western North Carolina last week, leaving dozens dead and catastrophic damage stretching across the state’s mountain towns. The devastation also reached the small town of Spruce Pine, which is home to the purest quartz on Earth. Spruce Pine’s high-quality quartz is an essential ingredient... Read more ›
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Image: Microsoft Microsoft is releasing a new version of Office this week, designed for people that don’t want to subscribe to Microsoft 365. The standalone Microsoft Office 2024 release is now available for both consumers and small businesses, and includes locked-in-time versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook across both Mac and PC. Office 2024 includes a lot of the updates that Microsoft has been delivering to Microsoft 365... Read more ›
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Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Facebook is announcing a host of updates to its platform today, many of which focus on pushing users outside of their social bubble of friends and family. Among the updates are new tabs being added to Facebook that are meant to surface more content for users, including recommendations based on a person’s location. A new “Local” tab will collect content from other Facebook... Read more ›
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nintendo may have just won its battle to put the most popular Nintendo Switch emulators out of business. In March, it sued Yuzu out of existence — and now it may have convinced Yuzu’s primary competitor, Ryujinx, to go away too. Ryujinx’s download page is now empty. Its GitHub is gone. And the emulator’s X social media page and official Discord now contains... Read more ›
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Fasetto’s Audio Cu sends audio signals to surround sound speakers over a home’s existing power lines. | Image: Fasetto Fasetto has announced that its Audio Cu system, which connects TVs and other audio devices to speakers and subwoofers using the existing power line wiring in a home, has received Dolby Atmos Product Certification from Dolby Laboratories. Similar to powerline networking solutions that can leverage existing electrical wiring to share internet... Read more ›
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Image: MKBHD via YouTube MKBHD’s new wallpaper app has received its first big update after users criticized the app over pricing and the advertising setup for free accounts. On Friday, the Panels account announced on X that people using the app for free can now download high-resolution images — not just standard-definition ones — by watching a single ad. The app previously required users to sign up for a $11.99... Read more ›
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The ring will come in six colors. | Image: Oura Oura is giving its popular smart ring and app a substantial makeover. The company just announced the $349 Oura Ring 4, which will feature a slimmer design, improved accuracy, and more sizes. Starting today, the Oura app will also be getting a complete redesign to better organize the swath of new features introduced over the past few months. At a... Read more ›
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