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Battlefield 6‘s open beta kicks off later this week, and EA have now painted a picture of what you can expect maps/modes-wise, as well as in terms of the changes the devs have made based on Battlefield Labs playtest feedback. Plus, there’s a new trailer that features yet more folks in camo running about amid booms. I’m glad to report …

Koduri Unveils GPU Hardware IP and Software Startup  EE Times Oxmiq Labs Inc.™: Re-Architecting the GPU Stack: From Atoms to Agents™  Business Wire Legendary GPU architect Raja Koduri’s new startup leverages RISC-V and targets CUDA workloads — Oxmiq Labs supports running Python-based CUDA applications unmodified on non-Nvidia hardware  Tom’s Hardware Ex-Intel Architect Bets Big On Custom AI Chips  Finimize Oxmiq Labs Inc.™ repense l’architecture …

Of all of gaming’s many genres, few have remained as spiritually pure as the 2D beat ‘em up. From the early arcade favorites like Final Fight to more recent home console hits like River City Girls, the simple premise of walking in a straight line and dropkicking waves of baddies is timeless — even elegant — and hasn’t really warranted …

As Steam and Itch.io continued to grapple with recent pressure by payment processors to withdraw NSFW games from their platforms, Mastercard has moved to distance itself from the ensuing censorship controversy, insisting it has not “required restrictions of any” game. But Valve says otherwise, pointing to a Mastercard rule saying the company can refuse to process anything it believes …

Motorola and Swarovski are teaming up to create the crossover they knew we always wanted: a . For those who just felt that their wasn’t special enough, the fancy new Pantone Ice Melt Razr features a 3D quilted leather-inspired finish with 35 hand-positioned Swarovski crystals, including one larger, 26-facet crystal on the hinge. The Pantone Ice Melt will cost a …

Cloudflare: Perplexity AI Acts Like North Korean Hackers, Ignores Scraping Blocks  PCMag UK Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives  The Cloudflare Blog Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it  Yahoo Finance AI company Perplexity is sneaking to get around blocks on crawlers, Cloudflare alleges  CyberScoop An AI Data Trap Catches Perplexity Impersonating Google  Business Insider Source …

NASA has selected six companies to produce studies focused on lower-cost ways to launch and deliver spacecraft of various sizes and forms to multiple, difficult-to-reach orbits. The firm-fixed-price awards comprise nine studies with a maximum total value of approximately $1.4 million. The awardees are: Arrow Science and Technology LLC, Webster, Texas Blue Origin LLC, Merritt Island, Florida Firefly Aerospace Inc., …

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Call of Duty Season 5 arrives in Black Ops 6 and Warzone on August 7, and Activision has now revealed the contents available in the brand-new battle pass. Season 5’s battle pass includes over a hundred items to earn across free and …

That version of the icon persisted through the Apple Silicon-era Big Sur redesign and was still with us in the first public beta build for macOS 26 Tahoe that Apple released last week. The new beta also updates the icons for external drives (orange, with a USB-C connector on top), network shares (blue, with a globe on top), and removable …

There’s that nagging voice again: “Put the phone away. No, really this time.” But we don’t; 84 percent of Americans say that they are online either several times a day or “almost constantly.” “On your deathbed, what kind of life do you want to look back on?” said Catherine Price, the author of “How to Break Up With Your Phone,” …