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It’s no longer taboo to meet your partner on the internet. The evidence is everywhere: It’s on your refrigerator door, where you’ve hung up the wedding invitations of friends who met on Tinder. It’s on your Instagram feed, where a friend shares a sappy post about her one-year anniversary with a woman she met on Hinge. But when Zeke Rothfels …

Brilliant Labs is the startup behind Frame, the open-source smart glasses designed for hackers and other creative types. Today, the company is launching Halo, a new pair of glasses that, predictably for the age we live in, are being sold on the back of their AI features. Halo is a wayfarer-style pair (compared to the Panto-styled Frame) and, if you’re …

– StoryIvalice—a kingdom blessed by the light of the gods and ruled by the Two-headed Lion. A year after her defeat to Ordallia in the Fifty Years’ War, the king succumbed to malady, leaving a mere boy of two to ascend the throne. Whoever was named regent would rule in truth, and thus emerged two rival candidates: dukes Goltanna and …

The Galaxy Z Fold 7, Flip 7, and Flip 7 FE were just announced, set for pre-order, and launched within the last month. Just a few days after the official, widespread launch, Samsung is pushing a software update to these devices, including the Z Fold 7. The Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7 are Samsung’s best foldable, and they’ve …

During the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase, a new Square Enix HD-2D action-JRPG game was announced, called The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales. According to the trailer, the game takes place in a land called Philabieldia that’s overrun by beasts, where humans must use a spell of safekeeping to keep their only remaining city, the Kingdom of Huther, safe from …

Bloober Team’s twisted sci-fi nightmare, Cronos: The New Dawn, is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 with a release date of September 5, 2025. The studio revealed its release date plans during today’s July 2025 Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase, narrowing its launch window down to a specific September date. It comes with the news that Cronos is coming to Switch 2 …

Microsoft has announced that Game Pass has hit almost $5 billion in revenue over the last fiscal year, with 500 million active users. In fact, the whole of Microsoft has just reported annual revenue of $76.4 billion, up 18 percent on the previous year. These figures are being announced less than a month after the company fired 9,000 employees and …

We will learn a whole lot more about Battlefield 6 today in a reveal event, which EA is hoping will finally be a legitimate competitor to Call of Duty after being dormant a while, and its past 2042 misfire. But we already know one bit of good news. In yet another example of this happening, gamer pushback appears to have …

Google’s been on a tear with visual updates for its apps lately. In June, some users started seeing changes in Google’s phone app, though that rollout was limited to beta testers. Today, it seems like the rollout is finally going wide: multiple members of AP’s staff (myself included) report that Phone by Google has a new look on their devices. …

Apple’s first foldable iPhone is launching next year, a full seven years after Samsung’s original Galaxy Fold debuted. But based on quotes from Samsung, it seems Apple’s launch timing for the iPhone Fold could be nearly spot-on. Samsung says years of tech improvements have led to new mainstream success Samsung has published a new press release touting the success of …