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Bungie’s latest closed playtest for Marathon has reportedly leaked online, revealing a new Runner and abilities, “multiple” Marathon ship maps, and more. Bungie’s extraction shooter Marathon is still in closed testing after the studio officially delayed the previously announced September 23, 2025, release date. In a development update, the dev team said it needed more time following Alpha feedback and …

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. IFA is Europe’s largest consumer electronics show, and this year was no different. IFA 2025 featured some of the most eye-catching innovations ever, so much so that it’s hard to narrow down the list of amazing products.  However, at a time when the tech world is saturated with artificial intelligence …

While Xbox and Bethesda Softworks’ MachineGames has recently returned from a visit to the world of Indiana Jones, the developer still hopes to revisit its brutal alternate-history Wolfenstein series with a third game. That’s per MachineGames studio head Jerk Gustafsson, who discussed the hopes to see a Wolfenstein 3 during a Noclip documentary discussing the team’s work on the rebooted …

For most Hollow Knight: Silksong players, the combat is challenging and the boss fights are punishing. However, there’s another layer of complexity for anyone playing the sequel in Simplified Chinese: the bizarre translations. On its Steam store page, Silksong currently sits at a “Mostly Positive” rating across reviews in all languages. Once you filter for the Simplified Chinese reviews, the …

Summary Wi-Fi signals and machine learning can noninvasively process heart rate with clinical-level accuracy in under 5 seconds. After being tested on 118 people, it read pulse during motion using a $30 Raspberry Pi chip. If successful, it could enable contactless heart monitoring without wearables. When you want to track your health, you’d usually have to shell out for a …

I just went to check to see how Silksong was doing on the Steam playercount charts, thinking that we were past its peak and I could write up what it maxed out at. Wrong, those numbers are still climbing as we speak, and there’s an adjacent story here that also in this very moment, the original Hollow Knight is hitting …

Apple is preparing to unveil the highly anticipated Apple Watch Series 11 and Apple Watch Ultra 3 during its September 9 event. While these models are not expected to redefine the smartwatch landscape, they promise meaningful upgrades in key areas such as display technology, performance, and health monitoring. For those seeking a more affordable option, the Apple Watch SE3 is …

Energy experts are pulling power from astounding places with record-setting results. Researchers at the University College London have developed solar cells that can capture electricity from indoor light with a production process that calls to mind a printing press.  That means that keyboards, remote controls, alarms, and sensors could soon operate without a battery, according to a UCL news release.  …

Nintendo has announced that it’s finally ending support for the final iteration of a much beloved console, and fans are getting a little misty-eyed following the official statement. It’s easy to forget these days, considering what a resounding success both the Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo Switch 2 have been, but the 2010s were a bit of an awkward decade …

After seeing all the banana-fanfare for Google’s newest generative AI tool, I knew I had to take it for a spin. Named Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, the model upgrades your ability to edit your photos natively in Gemini. AI enthusiasts have referred to it as the “nano bananas” model, spurred on by a series of banana-themed teasers from Google execs.  In the …