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Overcooked 2 is a great game to play with friends, provided everyone is ready for the shouting that comes with it. One person is trying to chop vegetables, another is panicking over burning rice, and someone else has probably fallen off the edge of the map with the only clean plate. Naturally, it works best when the whole group can jump in together. But that gets a little confusing if your friends are spread across PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Overcooked 2 has been released on several platforms, but cross-platform support depends heavily on which version of the game…
Gaming handhelds have become surprisingly expensive. Between premium models like the Steam Deck, ASUS ROG Ally, and Lenovo Legion Go, getting a portable gaming machine often means spending hundreds of dollars before you’ve even bought a game. Acer’s latest idea takes a very different approach. Announced alongside a flood of new products, the Nitro Blaze Link is a handheld gaming device that doesn’t actually run games itself. Instead, it streams them from a compatible gaming laptop, turning your Predator or Nitro notebook into a personal gaming server. If that sounds familiar, that’s because the concept isn’t entirely new. Tools like…
Meta’s ambitions for smart glasses are no secret anymore. The company has spent the past few years convincing people that AI belongs on their face. Now, if a new report is accurate, it wants to move even closer to them. According to a report from The Information, Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant that it plans to begin testing over the next year. The wearable would join an increasingly crowded lineup of AI hardware, but unlike smart glasses, this device may spend its days quietly listening from around your neck. That idea sounds familiar because it is. Meta acquired AI…
The race to build the next great affordable laptop is heating up, and Acer thinks it has a strong contender. The company today unveiled the Swift Air 14, a thin-and-light Windows laptop that combines a premium design, AI-ready hardware, and impressive battery claims for a starting price of just $699. At a time when even mainstream laptops are creeping toward four-figure price tags, Acer’s latest machine feels refreshingly straightforward. It’s aimed at students, remote workers, and anyone who wants a laptop that looks and feels expensive without draining their bank account. The Swift Air 14 is powered by Intel’s new…
The last time a selfie camera really impressed me was the iPhone 17’s Center Stage front camera, but no Android manufacturer even comes close. It looks like smartphone makers have forgotten the front cameras, as there has been no serious innovation in the last few years. Well, Oppo might change that arrangement this year. Chinese tipster Digital Chat Station (via Weibo) claims that Oppo is testing a 100MP square-format front camera sensor for its purported Find X10 series. If it makes the cut to a commercial release, the Find X10 would be the first Android smartphone to ship with a…
Scanning documents from a phone has always been a frustrating experience, especially on Android smartphones. You’ve to scan one page at a time, blurry captures you don’t notice until after, or accidentally hovering over the same page twice; all these issues bother users on a day-to-day basis. Well, Google Drive’s new document scanner redesign fixes all three problems at once. Announced by Sameer Samat, the President of Android Ecosystem at Google, the feature is now rolling out for Android users. What’s actually new in the Google Drive scanner? The biggest change, in my opinion, is Smart Batch Scanning. Instead of…
Samsung’s smartwatch health tracking has never really suffered from a lack of data. If anything, the problem has been the opposite. Galaxy Watches already collect data on heart rate, sleep patterns, body composition, and activity metrics, but much of that information ends up buried in graphs that most people glance at once and never revisit. That may finally be changing. According to a post shared by tipster TonySamsunglove on X, Samsung is preparing to launch the first beta version of One UI 9 Watch. From tracking your health to interpreting it For years, smartwatch makers have competed on how much…
Elon Musk has been promising a fully autonomous Tesla for the better part of a decade. If you believe him, that future is right around the corner. But a new Reuters investigation suggests the people closest to the technology, the ones actually training it, want nothing to do with it. Hundreds of Tesla workers spend their days watching footage captured by cars running Full Self-Driving. They watch cats, dogs, and deer getting struck without the car braking, near-misses with children, and Teslas blowing through speed limits by 20 to 30 mph. Things seem dire, and yet Elon Musk keeps telling…
Google has quietly shipped one of the more meaningful browser security updates, and chances are you’ll never notice it’s there, which, I think, is the entire point. Device Bound Session Credentials, or DBSC, is now available in Chrome on Windows for all Google Workspace users, including Individual subscribers and users with personal accounts. The feature is enabled by default, so that you don’t have to fiddle with any settings. What is DBSC and why does it matter? Every time you log into a website, your browser stores a small file called a session cookie for subsequent visits, so you don’t…
A new collaborative study by UC Riverside computer and social scientists has found that as people increasingly rely on AI for answers, the internet risks losing the very thing that made it interesting in the first place: human emotion, lived experience, and messy, opinionated thinking. The study compared how AI systems like ChatGPT and Gemini respond to subjective questions versus traditional web searches. The researchers asked both AI and web search engines opinion-heavy questions, such as whether governments should ban fossil-fuel cars or whether the US healthcare system needs reform, and analyzed the reasoning behind each response. Is AI actually…