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9to5Mac Daily: July 25, 2025 – Public betas are here

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Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Season 4's Last Double XP Weekend Is Live Now

With less than 13 days left in Black Ops 6 Season 4, players are running out of time to finish up the latest Call of Duty battle pass. If you're struggling to knock out the last few pages of the pass, advance in the CODtoons event or find the willpower to keep playing Grief -- developer Treyarch has your back with another double XP weekend and three boosts for players to take advantage of. You'll be able to speed through battle pass tiers, account levels and weapon attachment unlocks to kickstar

Elden Ring Nightreign is adding two-player co-op next week

Elden Ring Nightreign is finally adding a two-player co-op mode on July 30. Prior to this, FromSoftware's spinoff could only be played solo or with three players. The so-called Duo Expeditions come as part of patch 1.02. This is something fans have been asking for, as not everybody has two friends available at once to tackle a tough-as-nails 3D adventure. FromSoftware has released a trailer to accompany this news, so you can see the two-player co-op in action. Beyond Duo Expeditions, the forth

Lyft’s self-driving shuttle buses are coming soon

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Lyft is partnering with Benteler Mobility to launch a self-driving shuttle service. In late 2026, Lyft plans to deploy the company’s all-electric Holon Urban shuttles in airports and cities around the US, allowing users to book trips from its ride-sharing app. Holon, a subsidiary of Benteler, says its rectangular bus has enough room to fit up to 15

Lyft to add autonomous shuttles in 2026 as Uber inks more self-driving deals

Lyft will add autonomous shuttles made by Austrian manufacturer Benteler Group to its network in late 2026, the company announced Friday. The shuttles will be deployed in partnership with U.S. cities and airports, according to Lyft, but could expand out from there if things go well. The partnership will let Lyft use urban electric shuttles made by Benteler’s mobility division under the Holon brand. The shuttles will not have a steering wheel or pedals and will feature inward-facing seats for up

We Smashed Around While Waiting for ‘Twisted Metal’ Season 2

Here’s a pro tip. Don’t try to film while driving a Twisted Metal bumper car. Because, A, you might drop your phone, but also B, you will get called out and made fun of. That’s what happened to me, in the most on-brand moment possible, Thursday at San Diego Comic-Con. A few blocks from the convention center, Peacock had an activation for the second season of its fun video game adaptation, returning July 31. The show is about cars that fight like warriors, so, short of actually letting you blow c

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway

Tuvalu is preparing to carry out the first planned migration of an entire country in response to the effects of climate change. Recent studies project that much of its territory could be submerged in the next 25 years due to rising sea levels, forcing its inhabitants to consider migration as an urgent survival measure. This island nation in Oceania is made up of nine coral islands and atolls inhabited by just over 11,000 people. The country’s average altitude is just 2 meters above sea level, m

Revisiting Moneyball

You can build a player in aggregate. The A’s discovered they could construct effective offensive production by combining players with complementary skills rather than seeking complete players. This insight challenged the traditional scouting preference for “five-tool players” who could hit for average, hit for power, run, field, and throw. Instead of expensive superstars, the A’s assembled a roster where different players contributed specific, undervalued skills: Scott Hatteberg: Exceptional

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 25, #1497

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle is a pretty tough one. I honestly don't think of it as an actual dictionary-approved word, but rather a slang term. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read

Lyft Now Lets You Favorite and Block Drivers. Here's How It Works

Lyft has a new feature that can help take the awkwardness out of riding with strangers. On Thursday, the ride-sharing company announced that you'll be able to favorite or block a driver in the app after a ride. It's good news if you enjoyed your ride and wouldn't mind having that driver give you a ride again. And, if you're like me, it gives you a chance to be more comfortable with who you're riding with from the airport or dinner. Here's how it works and what drivers can also expect to see on

Lyft Finally Lets You Favorite and Block Drivers. Here's How It Works

Lyft has a new feature that can help take the awkwardness out of riding with strangers. On Thursday, the ride-sharing company announced that you'll be able to favorite or block a driver in the app after a ride. It's good news if you enjoyed your ride and wouldn't mind having that driver give you a ride again. And, if you're like me, it gives you a chance to be more comfortable with who you're riding with from the airport or dinner. Here's how it works and what drivers can also expect to see on

The ‘Doctor Who’ Comic-Con Pop-Up Offers a Fun Peek at UNIT’s ‘Black Archive’

Across the street from the San Diego Convention Center, there’s a secret trove of artifacts from some of the biggest clashes across time and space. Well, it’s not so secret: there’s a TARDIS photo op right in front to help you find it. Doctor Who‘s future isn’t yet known—even the identity of the next Doctor isn’t certain—but the show’s SDCC pop-up ties into the show’s past as well as its upcoming spin-off, The War Between the Land and the Sea. The “Black Archive”—inspired by the 2013 50th anniv

9to5Mac Daily: July 24, 2025 – tvOS 26 features, more

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Seven Sisters eclipse will temporarily block stars from view

Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news Key Takeaways on the Seven Sisters Eclipse The Seven Sisters Eclipse occurs when the moon in its waning crescent phase moves across the Pleiades and blocks the stars from view. The event is not rare and has taken place every month since September 2023. The July 2025 event will occur on July 20 in the early hours of the day. The Pleiades contain more than a thousand young stars bound together by gravity, the brightest of which can b

Show HN: NativeSwap – Low cost cross-chain swaps without wrappers or bridges

1 Connect Your Wallet Securely connect your preferred wallet (Ctrl, Metamask, or any Web3 wallet) to access your assets across blockchains. Your private keys remain in your control at all times. 2 Select Your Assets Choose your source and destination cryptocurrencies from our extensive list of supported assets. View real-time rates, fees, and estimated transaction times before proceeding with your swap. 3 Confirm Transaction Review the swap details, including exchange rate, fees, and destinati

Google’s AI Overviews have 2B monthly users, AI Mode 100M in the US and India

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared an update on the adoption of consumer-facing AI apps and features, including Google Search’s AI Overviews, Gemini, and AI Mode. On the company’s Q2 2025 call with investors, Pichai shared that AI Overviews — a Google Search feature offering an AI summary of search results available in 200 countries and territories — now has 2 billion monthly users, up from 1.5 billion in May 2025. In addition, Google’s Gemini app has grown to 450 million monthly acti

Palantir Goons Reportedly Want to Remake Hollywood Into a Libertarian Dream Factory

Rightwing forces in the U.S. have long coveted a key fixture of American liberalism’s soft power: Hollywood. The “dream factory” that deeply influences the ways Americans see themselves and the world around them has often been accused of (perhaps rightfully so) having a liberal bent. Now, it appears that a group with ties to America’s military-industrial complex has a plan to take over Tinseltown and mold it in their own image. Semafor writes that a new production company with ties to a current

Tim Burton and Jenna Ortega Claim No Knowledge of ‘Beetlejuice 3’

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice—the decades-awaited sequel to Tim Burton’s spooky-season classic—was a box-office hit, meaning that even if it didn’t make quite the same cultural impact as its inspiration, talk of a threequel is already in the air. But even if Hollywood has its hopes up, Burton and star Jenna Ortega aren’t making any promises. In fact, in a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter, the Wednesday duo sounded downright skeptical about Beetlejuice 3. “Really? Nobody told me. Maybe I’ve

The First Photograph Ever Taken (1826)

In his­to­ries of ear­ly pho­tog­ra­phy, Louis Daguerre faith­ful­ly appears as one of the fathers of the medi­um. His patent­ed process, the daguerreo­type, in wide use for near­ly twen­ty years in the ear­ly 19th cen­tu­ry, pro­duced so many of the images we asso­ciate with the peri­od, includ­ing famous pho­tographs of Abra­ham Lin­coln, Edgar Allan Poe, Emi­ly Dick­in­son, and John Brown. But had things gone dif­fer­ent­ly, we might know bet­ter the hard­er-to-pro­nounce name of his one­time

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Shark Week 2025: How to Stream the All the Splashy Programming

Looking for sharks? You've paddled to the right place. Discovery Channel's Shark Week programming event is underway, bringing loads of shark-centric content for those who want to celebrate the iconic top predator. It's the kind of annual tradition that shines on the right screen. According to a press release, Shark Week 2025 will include 20 hours of new specials debuting Sunday, July 20, through Saturday, July 26. The first program up is Dancing with Sharks, which involves "an unprecedented und

Tonal's AI-created workouts will adapt to your daily progress

Tonal, the wall‑mounted smart gym , has introduced a new feature that the company says uses "cutting‑edge AI" to improve your workouts. The feature is called Daily Lift, and it analyzes your recent lifts and recovery, then builds a personalized workout plan that adapts to you daily. Every day, a user can pull up a customized strength-training session that is based on their most recent data with just a tap. Tonal says these workouts are built using the same training methodology that Tonal's coac

Boost HTML5 Game Performance with WebAssembly

Who this article is for: Game developers looking to improve the performance of their HTML5 games Technical leads and engineers interested in integrating WebAssembly into their projects Students or professionals learning about web technologies and game development HTML5 game development has transformed web gaming, but it’s the integration of WebAssembly that’s truly revolutionizing performance capabilities. When players experience stuttering frame rates or input lag in browser games, they don’

Show HN: Self-updating MCP server for official pip, uv, poetry and conda docs

Python Dependency Manager Companion MCP Server README updated on 2025-07-23 by @KemingHe Official docs from pip , poetry , uv , and conda + automated weekly updates = zero maintenance overhead for developers using VSCode/Cursor with AI assistants. [Demo] 🚀 Quick Start for Agentic IDEs 1. Pull latest Docker image: docker pull keminghe/py-dep-man-companion:latest 2. Add to your IDE's mcp.json : { "mcp" : { "servers" : { "python-deps" : { "command" : " docker " , "args" : [ " run " , " -i "

9to5Mac Daily: July 23, 2025 – AppleCare One, iOS 26 beta 4 changes

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Project Lyra – Exploring Interstellar Objects

Project Lyra develops concepts for reaching interstellar objects such as 1I / 'Oumuamua and 2I / Borisov with a spacecraft, based on near-term technologies. But what is an interstellar object? Laser sail spacecraft arriving at 'Oumuamua, the interstellar asteroid (Credit: Maciej Rebisz) What is 1I/'Oumuamua and what is an Interstellar Object? On October 19th 2017, the University of Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on Haleakala discovered a fast-moving object near the Earth, initially named A/2

A Top NASA Official Is Among Thousands of Staff Leaving the Agency

You can add another name to the thousands of employees leaving NASA as the Trump administration primes the space agency for a 25 percent budget cut. On Monday, NASA announced that Makenzie Lystrup will leave her post as director of the Goddard Space Flight Center on Friday, August 1. Lystrup has held the top job at Goddard since April 2023, overseeing a staff of more than 8,000 civil servants and contractor employees and a budget last year of about $4.7 billion. These figures make Goddard the

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 23, #1495

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle is a pretty easy one. But the first letter might not come up in your early guesses. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wordle hints Befo