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Major video game studios' pursuit of ultra-realistic graphics has led to diminishing returns and industry-wide layoffs, as younger players gravitate toward simpler, more social games, New York Times is reporting.
Sony's Insomniac Games spent $300 million developing Marvel's Spider-Man 2, triple the budget of its predecessor, before laying off staff amid Sony's 900-person reduction in February. The industry has cut more than 20,000 jobs in the past two years. Meanwhile, games with basic graphics like Minec
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Europe has emerged as one of the world's leading centres for open-weight AI, with companies including Mistral, Black Forest Labs and Helsing contributing to a growing ecosystem focused on open models ... Read more ›
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A new behind-the-scenes video reveals the meticulous engineering and rigorous safety testing behind smartphone power. Read more ›
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A capable portable power station that delivers excellent value, even if it lacks the polish of the market leaders. Read more ›
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OpenAI researcher Alisa Liu described the job hunt as "challenging but also super rewarding," and recommended plenty of sleep before interviews. Read more ›
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Google's Pixel a-series phones are like the younger sibling to the Pixel line. They're usually a lot cheaper, for one thing. How does Google reduce the prices? Read more ›
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In September, some PlayStation customers will no longer be able to access some purchased movies and shows. It underscores the fact that digital purchases are really more like long-term rentals. Read more ›
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Апрель 2026 года поставил точку в истории прямых платежей Apple на российском рынке: с первого числа любые транзакции в App Store и смежных сервисах оказались заблокированы. Купить приложение, продлить подписку или совершить внутриигровую покупку теперь можно лишь при наличии заранее пополненного баланса Apple Account. Последний из доступных каналов — пополнение через счет мобильного оператора — также прекратил работу. На сегодняшний день единственным реальным инструментом остается оплата App Store через ак Read more ›
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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is set to finish the story that started all the way back in 2020 with the original Final Fantasy 7 Remake. But that ending may not be as definitive as you might have expected. Read more Read more ›
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Когда надо удалить фон с фото? Допустим сняли идеальный кадр на фоне красивого здания, а через час замечаешь, что на заднем плане чужая собака делает свои дела прямо под окном. Или выложили милое фото с парнем, а в комментах пишут: "а кто эти два бомжа на скамейке позади вас?". Фотошоп тут не спасение - там нужно руки, слой-маски и полчаса нервов. Нейросеть делает то же самое одной фразой. Читать далее Read more ›
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Earlier today we found out that the entire Galaxy S27 family is rumored to have the Privacy Display feature that made its debut on the Galaxy S26 Ultra. Now, a new rumor brings some news about the Galaxy S27 Pro and Galaxy S27 Ultra, specifically their selfie camera. This will allegedly be a new 16MP one. The source of this information assumes that it might be a square sensor, emulating... Read more ›
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London-based AI visibility startup geoSurge has raised $12m (£9.4m) in an oversubscribed seed funding round. Founded in 2025, geoSurge provides tools to help businesses track and manage how their brands are represented within generative AI systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. According to the firm, instead of focusing on real-time search citation tracking—a practice often ... Read more ›
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Что бывает, когда в компании безоговорочно выполняют приказы некомпетентных в конкретных вопросах руководителей.Дело было в декабре 2025-го.До Нового года оставалось каких-то 1,5 недели, когда один из новых руководителей небольшого ТЦ в центре Москвы решил, что как-то тухло у них с искусственным освещением фасада. Читать далее Read more ›
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Проектная документация редко становится предметом гордости команды. Обычно это сотни артефактов, разрозненные системы, ручная синхронизация и ощущение, что половина работы уходит не на разработку, а на обслуживание процесса. Мы попробовали изменить эту логику: не отказаться от привычных инструментов, а собрать вокруг них единый контур проектирования. Рассказываем, что из этого получилось.Привет, Хабр! Мы — Анастасия Назарец, Артем Вожаков и Антон Филин из отраслевого центра компетенций IBS в машиностроении. Read more ›
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Elon Musk has called a Wall Street Journal report "utterly false" after it claimed SpaceX showed investors a handset-like AI device ahead of its IPO. Read more ›
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В 1825 году император Александр I внезапно умирает в Таганроге. Страна, только что победившая Наполеона, стоит на пороге смуты. Новый царь, Николай I, — младший брат, которого не готовили к престолу. Вместо балов он в 15 лет изучает гидростатику и механику. Вместо фавориток — чертежи и инженерные доклады. Именно этот «генерал-инженер» на троне принимает страну, где мануфактуры работают вручную, а о железных дорогах никто не слышал (вернее, не хотел слушать).... Read more ›
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Today the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is embracing open source and rolling out a statewide collaboration platform based on Nextcloud – with the goal of reaching more than 50,000 employees a... Read more ›
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A total of 293 funding deals were announced in June, up from 258 in May, representing a 14 per cent increase in deal activity. Despite the higher number of transactions, European startups raised €8.3 ... Read more ›
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Many Pixel users also complain of seeing the error every time they wake up Gemini. Read more ›
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Notion announced that it will shut down its email client on September 22. The company says more than half of users already manage email through Notion's AI agents without opening their inbox, so it is shifting its focus from a traditional email client to agent-run workflows. Engadget reports: It has published an FAQ for users to make sure that they don't lose any messages or data in the transition. Most... Read more ›
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schwit1 shares a report from The Wall Street Journal: The European Union Aviation Safety Agency has ordered (PDF) urgent inspections of 16 Airbus A380 planes operated by Emirates and Qantas, after cracks were found in a wing component on some aircraft (source paywalled; alternative source).. Cracks were found during earlier inspections of the wing spars structure, a key component of the wing, EASA said in a directive effective Wednesday. EASA... Read more ›
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Microsoft has quietly extended free Windows 10 security updates for consumers by another year, pushing the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program's end date from October 12, 2026, to October 12, 2027. "The ESU support page was updated with that date, and Microsoft's blog post on the program has a new editor's note confirming the change," reports Ars Technica. From the report: The prevalence of Windows across so many devices and... Read more ›
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"The US government has allowed Anthropic to release its powerful Mythos AI model to select companies and organizations," reports CNN, "revising license requirements after ordering an export block earlier this month in the wake of national security fears." Since the export ban earlier in June, "Anthropic has worked with the US government to address risks associated with the Covered Models," Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote to the company in a... Read more ›
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Astronomers have discovered two Jupiter-sized exoplanets with densities lower than cotton candy, making them the lightest known worlds of their size. The rare "super-puffs," located about 1,110 light-years away, are likely composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, with follow-up observations by the James Webb Space Telescope expected to probe their atmospheres. The Associated Press reports: [University of Oxford's George Dransfield] suspects these fluffy, wispy worlds are probably white or blue,... Read more ›
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Friday Bitcoin closed at just $59,948 — dropping 19% just for June and more than 50% lower than its record high in October of $124,310. To commemorate the occasion CNBC interviewed long-time bitcoin skeptic Jeremy Grantham, reporting that the 87-year-old cofounder/chief investment strategist of the massive asset-management firm GMO is "predicting it will gradually fade into irrelevance over decades." [The] longtime market commentator known for his calls on asset bubbles... Read more ›
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SpaceX plans to begin building an eight-mile natural gas pipeline called "Starpipe" next month to supply its Starbase launch site with fuel for a much higher cadence of Starship launches. The pipeline is expected to enter service in January 2027. Reuters reports: The pipeline plan, previously reported by Rio Grande Valley Business Journal, signals Musk's intent to accelerate Starship's development and lay the groundwork for a faster flight rate. The... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: For the most powerful voices in AI, it's all about being in the loop. Claude Code creator Boris Cherny recently said he doesn't write his own AI prompts much anymore. Thanks to loops, he doesn't have to. "It's an agent that prompts Claude," Cherny recently told CNBC, adding, "I don't write the prompt anymore. Claude writes the prompt, and now I'm... Read more ›
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Thursday the Free Software Foundation blogged about this year's 47 'LibreLocal 2026' meetups, highlighting 10 that took place in Australia, Mexico, the United States, New Zealand, Cameroon, Switzerland, Spain, Argentina, China, and Iran. "Far from each other in many parts of the world, they came together around one unifying belief: free software." We envisioned LibreLocal as a collage of in-person community meetups that would bring people together to swap ideas,... Read more ›
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Thursday the Free Software Foundation blogged about this year's 47 'LibreLocal 2026' meetups, highlighting 10 that took place in Australia, Mexico, the United States, New Zealand, Cameroon, Switzerland, Spain, Argentina, China, and Iran. "Far from each other in many parts of the world, they came together around one unifying belief: free software." We envisioned LibreLocal as a collage of in-person community meetups that would bring people together to swap ideas,... Read more ›
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