Google Play is copying one of the Nintendo Switch’s handiest features

Google Play Games Sidekick can now save the previous 30 seconds of Android gameplay, borrowing a familiar Nintendo Switch trick without requiring players to record an entire session ahead of time.

X has a creepy new way to make you promote your posts, and nobody asked for it

A strange hand pointing at the promote button is popping up while X users write posts. Is it a spooky Halloween joke or X’s boldest upsell yet?

Robot dogs were supposed to help humans. Now humans are being asked to babysit them

Dimensional advertised $20-an-hour robot dog walkers who might need to carry the machines home. Its software and Anthropic’s research show how much human help useful AI-powered robots can still require.

Dictionary.com’s word of the year is one that you’re tired of seeing everywhere on the internet

Dictionary.com just crowned maxxing its 2026 word of the year. Here’s what the word means and how it went from gaming slang to everyday talk.

Acer is bringing a Predator gaming handheld to the US for the first time
Acer is bringing a Predator gaming handheld to the US for the first time

It’s been several months since Acer unveiled its Predator Atlas 8 gaming handheld, but now we finally know that it’s coming to the US, and how much it’ll cost. The Intel Arc G3 Extreme variant – the more powerful of the two models announced in May – will be available exclusively at Best Buy on […]

Forget smartwatches; this smart bed could soon help keep you safe from being a fall risk

Sleeptite and RMIT University have secured a US patent for flexible sensors built into mattress protectors, designed to monitor body position and help caregivers identify potential fall risks.

Ollama brings free, local text-to-speech to your Mac with natural-sounding AI voices

Ollama now lets Mac users turn text into natural-sounding speech locally with Phonon, a family of small text-to-speech models from Gradium. No subscription required.

You can now play Zelda and Mario Kart on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, no emulator needed

A new open-source project called nxnative lets you play your Nintendo Switch games natively on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and some titles even run at 60 FPS.

OpenAI announces three big science discoveries and a new way to work with academics
OpenAI announces three big science discoveries and a new way to work with academics

Less than a month after its mass release of hundreds of manuscripts that it said contained solutions to long-standing mathematics questions, OpenAI is back with three more “major” discoveries in math, computer science, and physics. What’s different this time is the choice to have external experts that OpenAI describes as “shepherds” guiding the results in […]

Researchers develop a new forensic tool that can recover deleted AI chats from your phone’s memory

Think deleting an AI chat erases everything? Georgia Tech researchers developed a forensic tool that can recover deleted conversations from local AI apps and rebuild the information into a working session.