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Disney announced that Super Bowl LXI will be available on Disney Plus, simulcast with the ESPN and ABC broadcast featuring Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Lisa Salters, and Laura Rutledge. The game will also stream in over 55 international markets including Latin America, South Africa, and Australia. Ahead of the Super Bowl, Disney Plus subscribers will get two Monday Night Football games, starting with Cowboys vs. Eagles on October 26th.
Google has unveiled Playground, an experimental gaming platform that lets users create, play, and share custom games through a conversational, prompt-driven interface rather than traditional coding. Users can start from a blank canvas, remix starter prompts, or use guided support, then adjust physics, rules, characters, and environments by typing instructions.
Designers, artists, writers and producers who work on Hasbro game brands including Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering and Duel Masters have formed a union affiliated with the Communications Workers of America. The workers cited concerns over pay discrepancies and what they describe as forced use of AI tools in their creative process as motivating factors.
A modder known as CircuitLord has built a free virtual-reality mod for Respawn's 2016 shooter Titanfall 2, letting players wall-run, pilot Titans, and handle weapons with full head and hand tracking. The mod was made in about a month and is being praised by a Verge editor as among the best VR experiences he has tried, including comfort during fast movement.
Neurologists report that shifts in eating behavior—not just memory loss—can be early indicators of cognitive decline. They identify eight specific eating-related changes doctors should watch for, even in people whose memory still seems normal. The warning comes amid data showing over six million Americans currently live with dementia, a figure projected to double by 2050.
Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk report that patients on their GLP-1 drugs show slower biological aging according to molecular 'aging clocks' measuring DNA changes and protein levels. Separately, MIT Technology Review named Energy Dome among its 10 Climate Tech Companies to Watch for 2026, citing its system that stores renewable energy using compressed carbon dioxide rather than underground caverns.
A new open-source benchmark called the Telegraph Test shows that instructing large language models to answer in 'cablese' — the clipped, article-free style once used by telegraph operators — reduces billed output tokens by 40-49% on several models' own API meters, while preserving or even slightly improving factual recall. The effect held across four model families tested with roughly 1,300 questions over 50 passages, with one exception: gpt-5-mini's reasoning overhead made cablese prompting roughly double its cost instead of cutting it.
A Cornell University student who filed a lawsuit accusing seven fraternity members of gang rape has had her anonymity targeted by online vigilantes trying to unmask her. Her attorney, Thomas Guiffra, says three unrelated women have been wrongly identified as the plaintiff and subjected to harassment, while the real accuser is also receiving threats on social media.
Google has released an AI experiment called Playground that lets users create games by describing ideas, art styles and mechanics in natural language, without writing code. Games are browser-based, support leaderboards and multiplayer for some genres, and can be shared or published to a public gallery. The tool connects to a Play Games account and is currently available only to users aged 18 and over in the US.
XREAL has revealed pricing for its first Android XR glasses, the Aura, which start at $1,279 for a 12GB/256GB model and $1,499 for 16GB/512GB. The glasses come in medium and large sizes, feature dual built-in displays with a 70-degree field of view, a trackpad, hand-tracking, and are powered via a tethered puck with a Snapdragon Reality Elite chip. Pre-orders are currently limited to those who paid a reservation deposit, with wider availability opening in the coming weeks and shipping beginning mid-November.
Xreal's xbx A01 Plus display glasses, which launched this summer at $299, are now selling for $254 on Amazon and through Xreal during its October Prime Day sale. The glasses connect via USB-C to mirror displays from laptops and gaming handhelds, and ship with swappable outer shells, though they lack the three-degrees-of-freedom screen-locking feature found on Xreal's pricier $399 1S model.
OpenAI is introducing a College Planner feature within ChatGPT for Teens that organizes application deadlines, requirements, financial-aid steps, and tasks for schools on a student's list. The tool, launching soon, will initially target US students in grades 10-12 applying to four-year colleges. OpenAI is also adding study features including multi-photo capture for creating PDFs on iOS and automatic flashcard generation from notes.