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This is the last chance to own these Sega classics before they're gone from Android and iOS

In a nutshell: Sega has ported several classic console titles to Android and iOS over the years through its Sega Forever program, but the service was formally shut down in 2023. Sega is preparing to sound the final death knell and remove the last remaining games from the web although if you act quick, you should be able to preserve them for your personal collection. The games in question include Crazy Taxi Classic, Golden Axe Classics (Golden Axe I, II, and III), Shining Force Classics (Shining

OpenAI lands $200 million Pentagon contract to develop AI for national security

What just happened? The Department of Defense has awarded a one-year, $200 million contract to OpenAI to develop advanced artificial intelligence tools aimed at addressing critical national security challenges "in both warfighting and enterprise domains." The deal was announced Monday in the DoD's daily list of newly awarded contracts. The Department of Defense said OpenAI will receive $2 million immediately for research and development purposes. The company will also use the funds to test and

Disturbing Test Shows What Happens When Tesla Robotaxi Sees a Child Mannequin Pop Out From Behind a School Bus

After promising self-driving robotaxis for more than a decade, it's probably no surprise that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has blown way past his promised rollout date of June 12. Now scheduled to formally roll out on the streets in Austin, Texas on either June 22 or 28 — not even Musk seems to know at this point — the tech billionaire's self-driving charade is running seriously behind. As consumer interest in Tesla continues to plummet, one generational hater is showing just how far Musk's last ditch e

Threads adds dedicated fediverse feed and profile search

After a year of slow, sometimes confusing steps toward fediverse support, Threads is now making it easier for users to actually see and discover content from other platforms. Here’s how it works, and how to enable it. Starting today, if you’ve enabled fediverse sharing in Threads, you’ll get access to a new reverse-chronological feed showing posts from federated accounts you follow on Mastodon, WordPress, Flipboard, or other ActivityPub-based services. What’s more, Threads is also rolling out

Scania confirms insurance claim data breach in extortion attempt

Automotive giant Scania confirmed it suffered a cybersecurity incident where threat actors used compromised credentials to breach its Financial Services systems and steal insurance claim documents. Scania told BleepingComputer that the attackers emailed several Scania employees, threatening to leak the data online unless their demands were met. Scania is a major Swedish manufacturer of heavy trucks, buses, and industrial and marine engines and is a member of the Volkswagen Group. The company,

Everything to Remember About ‘Foundation’ Season 2 Ahead of Season 3

Foundation season three will pick up 152 years after the end of season two, which means a new set of supporting characters is on the way. However, given Foundation’s fondness for clones (be they organic or digital) and robots—as well as people who endure extended cryosleep—all the main faces will also be back. That time jump will advance the action to a time of great unrest, as predicted in season two by Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) using a combination of mathematics, the “prime radiant” quantum

Amazon Has No Margin Left on this Wireless Blink Camera, Now 60% Off Just Like Black Friday

Smart technology has made it easier than ever to keep an eye on your property whether you’re at home or away. One of the top names in this field is Blink, a company that belongs to… Amazon itself. The brand is known for its user-friendly wireless cameras and what’s truly impressive is how Amazon sometimes slashes prices so dramatically that it leaves little or no margin for itself. This happens during big sales events like Prime Day or Black Friday, but right now, you can also take advantage of

Latest Covid Variant Now Driving Over a Third of U.S. Cases

The newest concerning variant of covid-19 is rapidly advancing across the U.S. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that NB.1.8.1 has started to supplant other circulating strains of the coronavirus. According to the CDC’s latest Nowcast, covering the last two weeks through June 7, NB.1.8.1 is likely causing 37% of all covid-19 cases in the U.S., just barely behind the current dominant variant, LP.8.1 (38%). It’s an estimate, but the CDC’s numbers indicate a large surg

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Overwatch 2 Season 17 Adds Map Voting and Rounds Out Stadium's Roster

The next season of Overwatch 2 is pretty packed with content compared to other odd-numbered seasons, and developer Blizzard is going all-out with its investments into Stadium mode and player choice for the game. Season 17 is chock full of charming retro vibes, featuring a mythic skin for D.va, the resident gamer hero, an 8-bit Reinhardt skin and new heroes for Stadium, the most important mode in Overwatch. A new map is also arriving for one of the game's most underutilized core game modes, alt

OpenAI Signed a $200M Deal With the Defense Department: Why You Should Pay Attention

The US Department of Defense has awarded ChatGPT maker OpenAI a $200 million contract to develop "prototype frontier AI capabilities," the government and company announced on Monday. The deal is through the Defense Department's chief digital and artificial intelligence office and is expected to be completed in one year. OpenAI said in its statement that its AI could help the department perform tasks ranging from "transform[ing] its administrative operations ... to streamlining how they look at

Mocked Trump Mobile yanks coverage map that ignored Trump renaming Gulf of Mexico

The Trump Organization's rollout of Trump Mobile on Monday—a new wireless service using Trump's image to sell smartphones—was notably messy. Not only did the website reportedly glitch while processing preorders (more on that below), but soon after its launch, at least one glaring mistake on the website had to be quickly changed. Critics on social media were quick to point out that the Trump Mobile coverage map used the Gulf of Mexico instead of using Trump's controversial new name for the body

Prepare to bid farewell to The Sandman with S2 trailer

The second and final season of The Sandman comes to Netflix next month. Netflix's The Sandman, an exquisite and largely faithful adaptation of Neil Gaiman's beloved graphic novel series, proved to be a hit for the streaming giant, racking up nearly 400 million viewing hours between its release on August 5 and September 18, 2022. Yet there was initially some question about whether even those numbers were strong enough to justify a second season of the critically acclaimed series, which cost a bu

Tumblr’s content filtering systems have been falsely flagging posts as ‘mature,’ users blame AI

Tumblr is the latest tech company to grapple with automated flagging and takedowns that have gone haywire and raised the ire of users. In recent days, Tumblr users have complained their content is being flagged as “mature,” even when that’s not the case. The problem has reduced the visibility of users’ posts because many people on the platform have configured their settings to hide mature content by default. According to numerous posts from impacted Tumblr users, posts have been falsely flagge

Meta is reportedly building AI smart glasses with Prada, too

In Brief Meta is working on a pair of AI smart glasses with the Italian high fashion brand, Prada, according to a report from CNBC on Tuesday. It’s unclear at this time when Meta’s Prada smart glasses will be publicly announced. The reported Prada collaboration signifies that Meta aims to bring its AI smart glasses technology to more fashion companies outside of its relationship with eyewear giant EssilorLuxottica. Until now, Meta has collaborated closely with EssilorLuxottica and its numerous

OpenAI lands $200 million US defense contract

What just happened? The Department of Defense has awarded a one-year, $200 million contract to OpenAI to develop advanced artificial intelligence tools aimed at addressing critical national security challenges "in both warfighting and enterprise domains." The deal was announced Monday in the DoD's daily list of newly awarded contracts. The Department of Defense said OpenAI will receive $2 million immediately for research and development purposes. The company will also use the funds to test and

Meta to release smart glasses with Oakley and Prada, extending Luxottica partnership

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tries on Orion AR glasses at the Meta Connect annual event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., September 25, 2024. REUTERS/Manuel Orbegozo Meta and EssilorLuxottica plan to release versions of their AI-powered smart glasses under the Oakley and Prada brands, CNBC has learned. The addition of Prada and Oakley underscore the breakout success Meta had with its second-generation Ray-Ban glasses released in partnership with Luxottica in 2023. The

Fintech Ramp's valuation hits $16 billion in deal led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund

Ramp, which offers a financial operations platforms to corporate clients, has raised its valuation to $16 billion in a new fundraising led by long-time investor Founders Fund, Peter Thiel's venture firm. The $200 million round is the fifth that Founders' has led for Ramp and raised its valuation by $3 billion. It last raised money at a $13 billion valuation in March. Founded in 2019, Ramp offers services that cover corporate cards, procurement, bookkeeping, travel booking, and vendor managemen

The hamburger-menu icon today: Is it recognizable?

Summary: Hamburger menus are a more familiar pattern today than 10 years ago, but the same old best practices for hidden navigation still apply. Few icons in digital design have sparked as much debate over the last decade as the hamburger. The hamburger menu — which earned its nickname because of its abstract, stacked, hamburger-like appearance — was originally embraced as a clever way to save space on small screens by hiding the main navigation behind a single button. While this approach declu

Threads is adding Fediverse content to social feeds

The Threads team at Meta has spent the past year working on supporting the broader fediverse and social web, and is launching its biggest integrations yet: a new dedicated feed for fediverse posts, and a way to search for fediverse users inside of Threads. Starting today, if you’ve turned on fediverse sharing in Threads, there will be a new section at the top of your Following feed that takes you to a list of posts from folks you follow on Mastodon, Flipboard, or wherever else you’ve connected

Time Series Forecasting with Graph Transformers

Time series forecasting is a cornerstone in modern business analytics, whether it is concerned with anticipating market trends, user behavior, optimizing resource allocation, or planning for future growth. As such, a wide range of different approaches have been introduced and investigated for forecasting, lately data-driven approaches using machine learning and generative models. This blog post will dive into forecasting on graph structured entities, e.g., as obtained from a relational database

Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket

As announced in 2021, Honda has been pursuing research and development in the field of space technologies while viewing it as a place to take on challenges to realize the “dreams” and “potential” of people worldwide while leveraging its core technologies. Honda has the aim to enable people to transcend the constraints of time, place or ability and make people’s daily lives more enjoyable. Examples of Honda initiatives toward creating new value in the ultimate environment of outer space include r

Microsoft Office Pro 2021 Is 77% Off, and an Extra Discount With Our Code Makes It Nearly Free

We’re all about cutting a corner or two in most cases, but one place you really can’t afford to skimp is on the productivity software you use to create the emails, spreadsheets, and other essential items you use every day. Budget-friendly alternatives to Microsoft’s suite of apps do exist, but they can be unreliable, to say the least. Now, however, Microsoft Office Pro 2021 itself is budget-friendly — 77% off, just $45 for a lifetime license when you hit up this StackSocial deal and use the code

Lego Is Making an Official Godzilla Set

Lego’s Ideas program has been churning out delightful kits based on fan-submitted (and community-supported) designs for years now, to the point that the brick-maker has quite the hefty list of sets that have hit the necessary 10,000 community backers to eligible for review. Case in point? Today Lego announced the results of its review for the batch of sets to hit that threshold back at the end of last year: and the winners are a doozy. Today Lego confirmed that its latest batch of reviews concl

Grab these retro classics on Android / iOS for free before Sega takes them down

In a nutshell: Sega has ported several classic console titles to Android and iOS over the years through its Sega Forever program, but the service was formally shut down in 2023. Sega is preparing to sound the final death knell and remove the last remaining games from the web although if you act quick, you should be able to preserve them for your personal collection. The games in question include Crazy Taxi Classic, Golden Axe Classics (Golden Axe I, II, and III), Shining Force Classics (Shining

Bruno Mars headlines Fortnite Festival Season 9

Epic Games today announced that the headlining music act, or Icon, for Season 9 of Fortnite Festival is Bruno Mars, as a virtual stop on the artist’s world tour. The new season kicks off tomorrow, with Bruno-based aesthetics taking over the Music Pass and the main stage. As part of this season, Fortnite has the World Tour Bundle, which features several Mars-based outfits and cosmetics, as well as a new emote and jam track. The Music Pass for the season also includes other outfits from Mars’ mus

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The Pixel 10 could feature Google’s fastest fingerprint scanner yet

TL;DR According to a new report, the Pixel 10 series may feature a faster ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. The upgrade builds on the tech introduced in last year’s Pixel 9 phones. Other rumored features include the Tensor G5 chip, better image stabilization, and the debut of Magic Cue. Amongst other upgrades, the Pixel 9 series was the first range of Google Pixel phones to feature an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. If a new rumor proves accurate, the Pixel 10 series will build on that foundation

A fix is on the way for Android 16’s broken navigation buttons and gestures

Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR Some Android 16 users have been dealing with an issue that causes navigation buttons and gestures to become temporarily unresponsive. Google has reportedly fixed this bug internally. The fix is expected to roll out in the next update. The stable build of Android 16 has been available for Pixel devices for a week now. While it has been smooth sailing for the most part, some users have run into bugs. One such bug negatively impacts navigation buttons and ge

Threads adds new dedicated feed for fediverse content

Meta’s Threads is deepening its integration with the fediverse , a collection of decentralized social media platforms that includes Mastodon . Starting today, users who have enabled sharing to the fediverse in Threads will be able to see posts from federated accounts that they follow. These posts will now appear in a dedicated feed. From this feed, users can now search for federated users from within Threads. These posts will populate in reverse chronological order, ensuring the newest posts fr

Windows 10 EOL

Blog Windows 10 EOL June 17th, 2025 (permalink) So Microsoft decided to produce tons of e-waste for no obvious reason. There's a lot of capable hardware out there, and it would be of software company's interest to support as much hardware as possible. Instead, they made some arbitrary reason to deprecate "old" hardware. At the same time they also turned all of windows VR headsets into garbage. We'll have to wait for the open source implementations to catch up for any hope of them being usable

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Facebook announces that all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels

Facebook announced on Tuesday that all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels, regardless of their length or orientation. Up until now, users have been able to share both video posts and reels. The company is also renaming the “Video” tab on its platform to the “Reels” tab. The update won’t change what videos are recommended to you, Facebook says. In the coming months, users won’t have to choose between uploading a video or reel, as it will automatically be shared as a reel. In add