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Apple and McDonald’s partner up with ‘F1’ miniature racing cars in Latin America

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-30 04:04:16

Apple is pulling out all the stops for the global release of F1 The Movie. In select Latin American countries, that includes a playful partnership with McDonald’s, where fans can grab a Formula 1-themed combo and take home exclusive miniature cars. Starting this Wednesday, June 25, McDonald’s is launching a limited-time “McMenu F1 The Movie” combo at locations across select countries, including Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. The new tie-in celebrates the upcoming movie featuring Brad Pitt (Mon

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Nintendo's mouse-controlled basketball game comes out on August 14

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-01 00:32:01

Nintendo just revealed that Drag x Drive will be available on August 14 , exclusively for the recently-released Switch 2 console . The company made this announcement on its Today! news app . For the uninitiated, Drag x Drive is a 3 v 3 wheelchair basketball game. The main hook is that it's controlled via the mouse-like functionality of those new Joy-Con controllers. This will be the first major test of this feature and will let us know if it'll be a barely-used gimmick or a real opportunity for

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A Mysterious Website I Stumbled Upon

news.ycombinator.com Jon Bois 2025-09-02 00:33:24

It's clear that the sport of football needs to change. And the $64,000 question, my friends, is simple: "how?" Something is terribly wrong. The writing's on the wall: youth participation in the sport is down, thanks in large part to their parents' concern for their health. In recent years, the NFL has something is terribly wrong. In response to numerous clinical studies regarding something is terribly wrong, the league has taken action — and something is terribly wrong. Oh no. Something is terr

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Riot is shutting down studio behind its Minecraft-like game

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-01 23:25:46

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Riot Games is closing the studio behind Hytale, its Minecraft-like game that has been in development for nearly a decade. Hypixel Studios, which Riot acquired in 2020 for an undisclosed sum, is shutting down “over the next few months,” according to Hypixel CEO Aaron “Noxy” Donaghey. “After years of pushing forward, adapting, and exploring every possible path, it became clear w

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Riot Games shuts down Hypixel Studios and ends development of Hytale

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-02 20:04:35

It was set to be a cool riff on Minecraft with more combat and RPG mechanics. Here's a bit of sad news for gamers. Hypixel Studios is shutting down and ending development of Hytale. The game looked pretty nifty, combining action-RPG mechanics with Minecraft. Riot Games purchased the developer back in 2020, though it has been working on Hytale a lot longer than that . Development is ending immediately and the company will be shutting down "over the next few months." Hypixel CEO Aaron "Noxy" Don

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Before becoming the iconic star of Super Mario Bros., what was Mario originally named?

techspot.com Unknown 2025-09-03 00:03:00

Choose wisely! The correct answer, the explanation, and an intriguing story await. Correct Answer: Jumpman Mario was created by Shigeru Miyamoto in the early 1980s while he was developing Donkey Kong, Nintendo's breakout arcade hit. Interestingly, Donkey Kong was originally conceived as a game based on the Popeye comic strip, with Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Bluto filling the roles. When Nintendo couldn't secure the rights in time, Miyamoto pivoted and created new characters, giving birth to what w

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We Asked ChatGPT to Be Mean

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-09-03 11:28:20

Two and a half years after it was unleashed upon the world, ChatGPT is both the poster child for AI’s utopian promise and a walking, talking cautionary tale. It can plan your vacation, find a recipe, and even act as a low-budget therapist. It’s also subjected to a daily firehose of humanity’s worst impulses: insults, gotchas, and commands to do harm. Ever wondered what it really thinks when you do that? I recently asked ChatGPT to spill the tea on the worst things users say to it. But to get t

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Startup hiring isn’t just about the pitch, it’s about the package — Pulley, 645 Ventures, and Epigram Legal break it down at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-09-05 16:30:00

Startups live and die by their early hires. And in a world where top talent has options — and stock options — you’ve got to offer more than a ping-pong table and a pitch deck to bring in the right people. At TechCrunch Disrupt’s 20th anniversary, happening on October 27-29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West, we’re digging into the real talk around compensation and equity with a powerhouse panel who’ve seen it all when it comes to scaling. Don’t miss the insights from this panel — and the full Dis

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Amazon’s Best-Selling 50,000mAh Portable Power Bank Is Almost Free, Now 79% Off With Limited Stock

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-09-05 20:10:12

If you’ve ever spent time frantically searching for an outlet in a crowded airport, panicked over your phone battery at a music festival, or just wished you could charge everything without lugging around a mess of cables, you’re not alone. It’s frustrating (and can be kind of scary) when you don’t have any charge left on your phone. What if you have an emergency? What if the group chat keeps texting you and you can’t respond? We kid, but hey, sometimes it truly is a dire situation. But a power b

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UGREEN USB-C Charger Block Matches Its Black Friday Price, No Need to Wait for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-09-05 20:40:35

You’ve probably been there before. Your phone is dying, and you need to charge it. You’ve got your cable, because you’ve got a billion of them. But where is a charging block to plug it into? You have to have one. Only they don’t come with our smartphones anymore. So sure, you might have tons of cables, but they’re totally useless without a way to actually get the electricity to your phone. There’s a good solution, and it doesn’t require you to have to spend an entire paycheck getting something t

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Cloudflare CEO says people aren't checking AI chatbots' source links

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-06 00:00:16

Companies that develop generative AI always make it a point to say that they include links to websites in the answers that their chatbots generate for users. But Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has revealed to Axios that search traffic referrals keep plummeting. Publishers are facing an existential threat, he said, because people aren't clicking through those chatbot links and are relying more and more on AI summaries without digging deeper. Prince told Axios that 10 years ago, Google sent a publ

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Sunsonic 986-II – A Thai Famicom clone with keyboard and mini CRT built-in

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 07:21:40

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Nintendo just revealed Pauline as a surprise character in Donkey Kong Bananza

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-06 06:51:32

Nintendo just dropped a ton of details about the next major Switch 2 first-party game. Donkey Kong Bananza was the star of a Nintendo Direct livestream this morning and it was filled to the brim with nifty tidbits to get fans excited about the 3D platformer. The biggest news is the addition of Pauline as DK's sidekick. She goes all the way back to the original Donkey Kong arcade game. Nintendo really pulled a fast one here, as the first trailer showed the sidekick as an anthropomorphic rock of

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Raising a Series C+? Cathy Gao’s bringing the real playbook to TechCrunch All Stage

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-09-08 00:30:00

Growth-stage fundraising is picking up speed again, but it’s not the same game it used to be. At TechCrunch All Stage 2025 on July 15 in Boston, we’re bringing in someone who knows how the rules have changed and how to win in today’s market: Cathy Gao, partner at Sapphire Ventures. Gao has backed breakout startups like Culture Amp, Gem, Sword Health, and EliseAI. She’s sat on both sides of the table as an investor and operator. At Gusto, she helped scale post–Series B. Now, she’s helping founde

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Craig Federighi explains why iPad shouldn’t run macOS, more in new interview

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-09 20:52:00

iPadOS 26 is in many ways the major update that iPad power users have been asking for. And in a new interview at MacStories, software chief Craig Federighi explains why the iPad shouldn’t run macOS, how iPadOS 26 came to fruition, and more. New interview covers iPadOS 26, macOS on iPad, and more Federico Viticci, who has long pushed the iPad to its limits, sat down with Craig Federighi at WWDC for an interview about all things iPadOS 26. The full interview has been published here as part of a

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Amazon Offers HP Touchscreen Laptop (64GB RAM, 2TB SSD) for 56% Off as It Unveils 2025 Prime Day Plans

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-09-12 08:40:04

A great laptop can take a frustrating work situation and make it much more palatable. The only catch is that laptops can often be super expensive, and you don’t want to spend an entire paycheck on one. Here’s some good news: you don’t have to! You might want to naturally gravitate toward the flashier options Run to Amazon right now to get the HP Flagship Touchscreen Laptop for $660, down from its usual price of $1,500. That’s $840 off and a discount of 56%. For this price, you get a 15.6-inch t

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Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-12 16:16:18

Social networks are bolstering their terms of service against scrapers and bots that crawl the website to train AI models. Days after Elon Musk-owned X updated its terms to explicitly prohibit AI model training, decentralized social network Mastodon today updated its own rules to bar any kind of model training, as well. “We explicitly prohibit the scraping of user data for unauthorized purposes, e.g. archival or large language model (LLM) training. We want to make it clear that training LLMs on

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The magic of through running

news.ycombinator.com Benedict Springbett 2025-09-13 06:57:46

This is the lead story of the new issue of Works in Progress, Issue 19. Read the full issue, including stories on how to redraw cities and the secret history of inflation targeting, on our website. In the nineteenth century, the societies of Europe and North America were profoundly transformed by the vast railway networks they built. When these railway networks entered cities, however, they faced a crucial problem: they had to stop. Rather than carrying on through the city, it was common for th

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Noted ‘Matrix’ Non-Cast Member Will Smith Admits He Also Turned Down ‘Inception’

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-09-14 08:30:07

Will Smith’s many arenas of success have included sci-fi hits like Independence Day and the Men in Black films. But one of the most famous bits of Smith trivia is that he turned down the role of Neo in The Matrix. He admits it (and admits he regrets it), and he even made a music video just this year in the style of the Wachowskis’ classic, giving fans a glimpse at what might have been. And now he’s copping to another big sci-fi movie he passed on starring in: Christopher Nolan’s Inception. Smit

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This eufy Robot Vacuum and Mop Combo Is Almost 50% Off, Backed by 82K Amazon Reviews

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-09-14 16:10:54

There’s something oddly satisfying about watching a robot glide across your floors handling all the cleaning. You don’t want to have to vacuum your floor. You probably don’t even want to mop it. And if that’s the case, all you have to do is unleash a robot to handle it all. In the past, robot vacuums have been less than affordable. But these days you can get one for an excellent price that can do more than just vacuum. It can mop, too! See at Amazon Run to Amazon now to get the Eufy Omni C20 R

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There's a Nintendo Direct for Donkey Kong Bananza on June 18

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-14 20:35:03

The Switch 2 is officially out in the wild, but the launch lineup is a bit thin. Mario Kart World is great, of course, but I'm missing a legitimate 3D platformer. That's where Donkey Kong Bananza comes in. Nintendo has announced a Direct livestream for its next first-party game, scheduled for June 18 at 9AM ET. It'll stream live via Nintendo's official YouTube account. We've put an embed below, so feel free to keep this page bookmarked for Wednesday morning. We'll be watching and will pull out

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The JBL Xtreme 3 Portable Speaker Hits New Low Price of the Year, Even Beats Black Friday

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2025-09-15 00:40:52

Is it BBQ season or party season? We reckon that likely comes down to how old you are, but we also reckon it can be both at the same time. There’s space for all manner of outdoor gatherings here, so why not make the most of them? If you’re looking for a way to make them feel a little more special though, then we recommend getting this JBL Xtreme 3 portable Bluetooth speaker. See at Amazon While this impressive speaker would normally set you back $330, thanks to a limited-time deal on Amazon, i

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Nintendo announces a Donkey Kong Bananza Direct

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-15 04:01:47

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. Nintendo will offer an early look at Donkey Kong Bananza during a livestream on Wednesday, June 18th at 9AM ET / 6AM PT. The company announced the upcoming Direct event through its Nintendo Today app and on X, saying the livestream will feature 15 minutes of information about the Switch 2 game. Donkey Kong Bananza was announced on April 2nd and lau

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How to Out-Troll the Trolls, as Told by the Internet’s Foremost Posters

wired.com Evy Kwong 2025-09-15 16:00:00

Between the Reply Guys playing devil’s advocate and the shitposters spamming disinformation for fun, today’s trolls play in a completely different league from the keyboard warriors of yesteryear. And they don’t just troll randomly for lolz. They latch on to their targets, hoping to get a rise by spreading their brand of hate—whether racist, sexist, homophobic, or all of the above—relentlessly and more organized than ever before. Fortunately, a new generation of online avengers has emerged to pu

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Scientists Discover Bizarre Signals Coming From Ice in Antarctica

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-15 12:15:42

Some strange radio signals are broadcasting out of Antarctic ice, and the researchers who found them don't know why. Using a cosmic particle detector, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania detected peculiar signals that, according to a press release, "defy the current understanding of particle physics." The particle detector that found those strange signals — which is, charmingly, suspended from a bunch of balloons — belongs to a range of instruments known as the Antarctic Impulsive Tr

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McDonald's in Trouble as Ozempic Takes Hold

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-15 06:15:36

Image by Getty / Futurism Rx/Medicines Broken ice cream machines aren't the only thing bedeviling stalwart fast food chain McDonald's. Financial services firm Redburn Atlantic put the company's stock in the bear category, coinciding with a slumpy week in which it lost about three percent of its value — because analysts are betting that GLP-1 agonist weight loss drugs like Ozempic are going to disrupt the fast food business model, CBS News reports. The eyebrow-raising conclusion comes as the a

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Boston Dynamics robots dance to ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ for ‘America’s Got Talent’ audition

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-09-16 16:36:44

A dance crew of four-legged robots from Boston Dynamics appeared on “America’s Got Talent” to perform a synchronized routine to Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now.” Their performance was impressive enough to earn four “yes” votes from the judges — but one of the five robots experienced some stage fright, perhaps, and shut down in the middle of the routine. But the show must go on, so nevertheless, the four other robots persisted. “Can I be honest with you?” judge Simon Cowell asked at the conclusion o

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At Least One ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Star Won’t Be Back for the Spinoff

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-09-18 16:15:34

With The Handmaid’s Tale wrapping up after six seasons, fans are now looking forward to sequel series The Testaments. It will have a new cast aside from Ann Dowd’s returning Aunt Lydia, but the creative forces behind both shows teased earlier this week that some other familiar faces could return. One that will not, however: Samira Wiley’s Moira. This comes from the actress herself, who admitted in a new interview that she’s quite ready to move on. “I wish I could tease and say ‘maybe,’ but that

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Anker MagGo Foldable 3-in-1 Charger Is Now at All-Time Low on Amazon, Limited Stock Going Fast

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-09-19 04:40:14

Charging your phone and all the other tech items you use on a daily basis can be one of the clunkiest parts of your day. You’re typically having to juggle cables, trying to find the right port in the dark, or dealing with a charger that mysteriously stops working mid-charge. And it’s super annoying. No one wants to put themselves through all that just to juice their phone back up to a full charge. And no one should have to. Not when multitasking chargers like this one are on offer. See at Amazo

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Trade war truce between US and China is back on

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-19 18:18:48

Donald Trump has said the US and China’s deal to restore their trade war truce is “done” after two days of marathon negotiations in London. In a post on his Truth Social network on Wednesday the US president hailed a breakthrough reached in bilateral talks in London late the night before. The deal revived a trade truce agreed in Geneva last month that subsequently faltered because of differences over Chinese rare earth exports and US export controls. “OUR DEAL WITH CHINA IS DONE, SUBJECT TO F

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