Anbernic has announced the RG DDS, a dual-screen handheld gaming device styled after the Nintendo 3DS, following up on last year's RG DS. The device pairs a 4.7-inch 1,200x720 main screen with a 4-inch 960x720 secondary screen, runs on Qualcomm's Snapdragon G2 Gen 2 chip, includes a 6,000mAh battery, an extra analog stick, a retractable stylus, and an unexplained dedicated AI button. Anbernic did not disclose pricing or a release date.
Lego has hinted at a potential crossover set tied to an upcoming Star Wars/Marvel comic, which has recently received new cover art. No official product details or release date have been confirmed yet.
A quirk in Apple's Clock app has resurfaced online: rapidly scrolling the hour and minute wheels when setting an alarm hits a hard stop at 4:39 (16:39 in 24-hour format), rather than scrolling infinitely. The behavior doesn't restrict users from actually setting an alarm for any time; it only affects how far the scroll wheel spins before snapping to an end.
At New York Comic-Con, a panel promoting Prime Video's animated series Helluva Boss was interrupted when an audience member repeatedly shouted over the discussion. Series star Brandon Rogers responded by cursing at the heckler on stage, telling them to stop and threatening to confront them directly, according to Entertainment Weekly's account of the incident.
iFixit's teardown of Valve's Steam Frame VR headset found that most components are repairable, but the internal cooling fan is buried deep within the device. Reaching it requires removing the optical assemblies and navigating past thermal hardware and cables, even though the fan and heat pipe are separate parts.
This submission is not a news story but the opening passage of John Berger's 1972 book Ways of Seeing, which argues that seeing precedes language and shapes how humans understand and relate to the world. It discusses examples like sunsets, medieval beliefs about Hell, and the experience of love to illustrate the gap between seeing and knowing.
Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney has released a four-hour biographical documentary titled 'Musk' that portrays the tech mogul as a stock-pumping promoter rather than a visionary inventor. Before its release, the film reportedly drew Musk's anger and the threat of a defamation lawsuit, along with unconfirmed rumors that Universal Pictures hesitated over international theatrical distribution.
A developer-focused article walks through arena allocators as an alternative to standard malloc/free memory management in C. It explains how typical manual allocation leads to problems like forgotten frees, memory leaks, and slow performance from many small allocations, before introducing arena allocators as a solution and detailing their implementation.
A project called Nanolathe has rebuilt Total Annihilation as a 2.5D RTS engine released under an MIT license, allowing anyone to study, modify or extend the code. It ships with three original demo missions playable directly in desktop Chrome, Edge or Safari using just a keyboard and mouse, with no installation or game files required.
New York City's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection has finalized a rule requiring businesses to let customers cancel subscriptions as easily as they signed up. The rule, described as the first of its kind among U.S. municipalities, takes effect October 1, 2026, with violators facing civil penalties starting at $525 and possible consumer refunds.
A troubleshooting guide details why PlayStation 5 games sometimes show a padlock icon, blocking access, and outlines steps to resolve it. Causes include being signed into the wrong account, PSN outages, lapsed PlayStation Plus subscriptions, removed Plus titles, or gamesharing settings not being configured correctly. The guide walks through checking account status, transaction history, subscription status, and using the 'Restore License' option to regain access.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple will unveil a smart home display device called HomeView at Tuesday's event, with shipping expected in mid-November. The device uses an A18 chip, acts as a Siri-based HomeKit hub, and will come in countertop and wall-mounted versions. Gurman also reports Apple plans to show a new Apple TV box with an A19 chip and an updated HomePod mini with an S10 chip at the same event.
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