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Ubisoft has named the co-CEOs of its new Tencent-backed subsidiary, including current Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot’s son, Charlie Guillemot. The French publisher announced the unnamed subsidiary, which is partly owned by Tencent after a €1.16 billion investment, earlier this year. The aim is for the subsidiary to  oversee Ubisoft’s three biggest IPs, Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow …

The current trend in USB chargers isn’t adding more power or ports, it’s integrating charging cables that disappear when not in use. Anker was one of the first companies to release a charger with a built-in retractable USB-C cable last October, but its latest charger brings the same convenience to the desktop alongside three AC outlets you won’t need to …

Recently, the developer of some of the most iconic video games and the company behind the biggest PC game store made such a decision, updating the “things you shouldn’t publish on Steam” section of its Rules and Guidelines with a new clause that many have understandably seen as Gaben bending to the will of Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal – effectively …

We introduce two multilingual, multimodal foundation language models that power Apple Intelligence features across Apple devices and services: (i) a ∼3B-parameter on-device model optimized for Apple silicon through architectural innovations such as KV-cache sharing and 2-bit quantization-aware training; and (ii) a scalable server model built on a novel Parallel-Track Mixture-of-Experts (PT-MoE) transformer that combines track parallelism, mixture-of-experts sparse computation, and …

Today is Donkey Kong Bananza launch day, and what better way to celebrate than with a discount? The Nintendo Switch 2-exclusive game is currently $62.99 ($7 off) at Costco for members. Nintendo games rarely go on sale, even after several months on shelves, so any amount off the retail price is a big win on launch day. If you were …

Skate developer Full Circle has shared a fresh look at the upcoming reboot’s neighbourhoods. This revival of EA’s Skate games was first announced back in 2020, and with that early access release due some time this year, the team has been sharing a few snippets of what players can expect via a series of dedicated blog posts known as The …

Apple has addressed yield issues with the scratch resistant anti-reflective display layer that it wants to use for some iPhone 17 models, and now it looks like the iPhone 17 Pro and ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max might feature the upgraded technology. A reliable source that spoke to MacRumors said Apple suppliers have been able to achieve a high enough yield …

Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. Submit questions here. Dear Prudence, I recently bought a rock on eBay for my wife for her birthday (she has an extensive collection). The thing is, my wife has a tendency to find out what I’m going to give her no matter how well I hide her gifts. So I asked my brother-in-law, “Blake,” if …

Travel Buddies  A series exploring the highs, lows, and bumpy in-betweens of vacationing with other people. Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photo: Getty If you happen to find yourself in Portland, Maine, on Friday, July 18, you might notice a curious influx of visitors: couples in their 40s — the men in slick athleisure, the women wearing designer sunglasses — passing through …

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google has released the third and final beta for Android 16’s first quarterly platform release (QPR1). Android 16 QPR1 Beta 3 is available without a detailed changelog, which is typical for these releases. We’ve already started digging into the build to find out what’s new, though, and here’s what we’ve discovered so far. Note: At …