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There are few pleasures in video games that can contend with a quick, clean, silent kill. And there’s no better place to find that than in a stealth game. The sneakiest of all the genres, stealth can be quite a surgical thing – an experience that rewards considered, methodical planning. But with that comes the risk of mistakes, and a …

WhatsApp on Wednesday launched a new artificial intelligence tool called “Writing Help,” designed to make message writing clearer, more professional and easier to compose directly within the app. The feature allows users to type a message, tap a pencil-shaped icon, and receive suggestions to improve tone, style or clarity—similar to tools like ChatGPT, but integrated into WhatsApp itself. According to …

Apple’s annual fall event takes place on Tuesday, September 9, when it is expected to unveil the new iPhone 17 lineup, an Apple Watch Series 11, a third-generation Apple Watch Ultra, and potentially AirPods Pro 3. It may also make some additional new products available, but there are a handful of rumored upcoming devices that we don’t expect to make …

The Chicago Bears on Thursday made the following transactions: Signed the following players to the Active Roster: LS Scott DalyWR Devin Duvernay Placed the following player on Reserve/Injured: Waived the following player from the Active Roster: Signed the following players to the Practice Squad: TE Nikola KalinicDB Dontae ManningDB Gervarrius Owens Released the following players from the Practice Squad: LS …

In one of the more wholesome video game stories of the year, veteran Helldivers 2 players who’ve seen and done it all on PC and PlayStation 5 are helping out Xbox newcomers, with player numbers hitting new heights. Arrowhead’s Sony-published third-person co-op shooter launched on Xbox Series X and S this week, and, according to the CEO of the developer, …

The director of Resident Evil Requiem says the option to switch to a third-person viewpoint was added because players found the first-person view in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard too scary. When Resident Evil 7 was released back in 2017, the game ditched the third-person view from Resident Evil 4, 5 and 6 and instead switched to a first-person viewpoint for …

You know when you’re friends with three people, then one of them suddenly pulls a Robbie Rotten and morphs into a real villain who terrorises your existence? No? Just me then, and also the protagonist of Ken Levine’s Judas, whose main foe you’ll get to dictate the identity of through your actions in the game. It happens via a villainy …

Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Norway-based browser maker Vivaldi, believes the tech industry’s efforts to automate web browsing using generative AI models have gone too far. “Every startup is doing AI, and there is a push for AI inside products and services continuously,” he told The Register in a phone interview. “It’s not really focusing on what people need.” On …

Gemini already had a powerful built-in image generation model that could edit real photos with text prompts. Nano Banana makes it even easier, bringing new abilities to Gemini. The new AI model’s main feature is character permanence. You can upload a photo of yourself to the AI and tell Gemini to create an avatar of you. The AI won’t change …

On Thursday, Xbox announced it’s widely rolling out cross-device play history. With the new update, even if you’re on a different Xbox console, Ally handheld, or PC, your recently played game list will remain the same, so you can jump right back in where you left off. The change, which first started testing with Insiders last month and is now …