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Donkey Kong Bananza review: Nintendo's latest 3D platformer is an instant classic

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-02 23:15:48

The best Nintendo games do two things. The first is introducing a delightful gaming mechanic — take Ultrahand in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom or Cappy in Super Mario Odyssey for some recent examples. The second is building a world around that mechanic for players to explore. Obviously games are more than one specific tool, and building a compelling game around a good mechanic is no small task. But when it all comes together, look out. You’ve got a game that people will remember for

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Google's tool for virtually trying on clothes is now available in the US

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-02 23:43:43

At I/O 2025 in May, Google previewed a new AI-powered feature the company said would simplify online shopping. The tool allows you to upload a single, full-body photo of yourself to "try on" different pieces of clothing you find online. Following a limited preview, Google has begun rolling out the feature to users in the US. You can start trying on clothing for yourself by tapping the "try on" icon on any product listing on Google or apparel product result you find on Google Images. Powering th

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Lego Returns to ‘Stranger Things’ With These Adorable Chibi Models

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-01-03 18:00:18

San Diego Comic-Con is finally upon us! Of course, the opening of doors for preview night means the promise of our first glimpses of what to expect out of the next four days, from shiny booths to teases of big news—and of course, the many bits of radical merch that will be revealed. So why don’t we get the ball rolling on that last one with your first look at one of Lego’s reveals from the con, right here? To help celebrate the opening of Comic-Con 2025, io9 has your exclusive first look at Leg

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San Diego Comic-Con 2025: All the Coolest Things We Saw On the Floor

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-03 22:20:16

San Diego Comic-Con is upon us, and, as always, it’s instantly overwhelming. The second you get onto the convention center show floor, you’re smacked in the face by not just a wave of humanity but a monsoon of awesome stuff. Almost anything you can imagine in the world of pop culture is represented, either for sale or on display. And after a frantic two hours running up and down the aisle, looking for anything that stands out, we came up with this. What follows are about two dozen of the things

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Conspiracy theorists don’t realize they’re on the fringe

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-06 15:11:44

It's not that believers in conspiracy theories are massively overconfident; there is no data on that, because the studies didn't set out to quantify the degree of overconfidence, per Pennycook. Rather, "They're overconfident, and they massively overestimate how much people agree with them," he said. Ars spoke with Pennycook to learn more. Ars Technica: Why did you decide to investigate overconfidence as a contributing factor to believing conspiracies? Gordon Pennycook: There's a popular sense

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‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Is Trying a ‘Stranger Things’ Collab Game Again

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-01-07 04:00:09

Fans of Eddie Munson are having a moment right now between actor Joseph Quinn launching into a marvelous blaze of glory and now a new Stranger Things collab with Dungeons & Dragons. The timing couldn’t be more perfect for more Hellfire Club adventures, and this release promises enough of them to last you at least until Stranger Things season five premieres in November on Netflix. With Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club, tabletop enthusiasts can uncover Eddie’s lost campaigns and “tak

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James Gunn Thinks ‘Anti-American Sentiment’ Is Hurting ‘Superman’ Overseas

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-01-07 04:45:27

James Gunn has a new Superman movie out—perhaps you’ve heard of it? The DC hero’s latest cinematic adventure, the first under DC Studios’ Gunn-led era, is a box-office hit and already has fans dreaming of sequels and spin-offs. But one notable quirk of those ticket sales is that Superman is doing better domestically than it is internationally, despite its seemingly broad appeal as a Hollywood superhero movie. Earlier this week, Variety reported that while Superman‘s numbers are impressive, earn

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‘Marvel Rivals’ Will Let You Recreate the ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Dive Bomb

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-07 09:15:30

Ask anyone what the Thing’s catchphrase is, and, almost certainly, everyone will simultaneously say, “It’s clobbering time!” That’s just been a fact of the character for years. And, in the new movie Fantastic Four: First Steps, it’s also the case, but with a little twist. A twist that’s coming to the video game Marvel Rivals in a kind of unprecedented synergy of gameplay and movie promotion. As seen in a recent trailer for First Steps, “It’s clobbering time!” is the in-universe catchphrase of t

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Hidden Sensors Reveal Filthy Truth About Handwashing in Hospital Bathrooms

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-01-10 04:15:51

Here’s something that will make you lose just a bit more faith in humanity—or at least reach for some hand wipes. New research shows that even in hospitals, a substantial number of people aren’t bothering to wash their hands. Scientists from the University of Surrey in England led the study, installing sensors near hospital toilet and sink pipes to keep track of people’s handwashing. Nearly half of toilet users skipped the sink after flushing, they found. The researchers say more effective stra

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I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 12:27:24

After launching 37 different products over the last few years, I’ve had one go viral and almost all the others struggle to get any traction at all. Like many indie makers, I used to think the best strategy was to just keep launching, make more bets, and hope one finally catches fire. But here’s what I’ve learned: Virality is rare and nearly impossible to predict Most of my launches that failed didn’t actually fail, they just grew much slower than I expected My current project, Refgrow, took

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The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Soufi 2026-01-11 21:10:51

It’s as if the smell of burnt plastic from a dollar store has permeated the world. Things are worse: chipboard furniture, T-shirts unrecognizable after a second wash, packaged foods with more preservatives than ingredients. Airplane seats turned into backrests. Automatic restroom lights that turn off at a whim. But also newspaper articles shamelessly written with ChatGPT and its algorithmic prose. Nothing is made to be loved. Only to be bought. In a study titled The Concept and Measurement of P

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Threat actors downgrade FIDO2 MFA auth in PoisonSeed phishing attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-11 15:41:49

A PoisonSeed phishing campaign is bypassing FIDO2 security key protections by abusing the cross-device sign-in feature in WebAuthn to trick users into approving login authentication requests from fake company portals. The PoisonSeed threat actors are known to employ large-volume phishing attacks for financial fraud. In the past, distributing emails containing crypto seed phrases used to drain cryptocurrency wallets. In the recent phishing attack observed by Expel, the PoisonSeed threat actors

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The final season of Stranger Things now has an action-packed trailer

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-19 04:13:55

It's time to break out that 1980s playlist. The last season of the Netflix hit Stranger Things finally has a trailer . It's been nearly a decade since the show premiered and it looks like it's going out with a bang. This trailer is absolutely packed with action, showing many fan favorite characters in mortal peril of one kind or another. Season four ended with one heck of a cliffhanger so, of course, things pick up from there. The footage depicts all kinds of supernatural chaos impacting the sm

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No One Is Safe in the First Teaser for ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-01-19 09:00:22

The beginning of the end for Stranger Things draws near as Netflix unleashes the first teaser for its hit franchise’s return. Hawkins’ heroes are back in action as Vecna’s Curse expands outside of the Upside Down. Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), and Will (Noah Schapp) will need to outrun the looming threat to save those they love, but will one superpowered girl be enough? Take a look at the edge-of-your-seat thrills in the t

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Get the macOS Finder to Do Just About Anything by Typing Natural Language Commands

wired.com Justin Pot 2026-01-20 05:30:00

I'm genuinely not sure if large language models—often referred to as “AI” in shorthand—are the future of computing. But I also don't think chatbots are how people will use this technology in the years to come. Substage, an indie Mac application by developer Joseph Humfrey, is a simple app that points to a potential alternative—one that's useful right now. This application floats under every Finder window, meaning you see it only when you're browsing files in macOS. You can type English-languag

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Not again: Sony’s WH-1000XM6 hinge shows signs of cracking

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-24 14:10:09

TL;DR A WH-1000XM6 user has reported a broken hinge, even after using the headphones “carefully.” While there has only been this one report so far, Sony supposedly redesigned the XM6 hinge to prevent this. The problem echoes an issue that plagued the previous XM5 model. The flagship Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones are barely two months old, but a new report is raising concerns about their durability. Specifically, it’s an issue from the predecessor device we had hoped was in the past. A Reddit po

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Sony’s Best-in-Class ANC Headphones May Have a Major Design Flaw

gizmodo.com James Pero 2026-01-24 23:30:58

Sony’s WH-1000XM6 headphones might sound great, but that’s only if they don’t break before you put them on your head. While it’s too early to say whether Sony’s latest world-class headphones have a widespread issue, the first reports of broken hinges are starting to roll in, and they feel ominously reminiscent of similar problems with the WH-1000XM5. See Sony WH-1000XM6 at Best Buy In a Reddit thread that’s actually pulled from a Red Note post (sorry for the convolution; that’s just the way li

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The 40 best Prime Day deals you can get for under $25

theverge.com Brandon Russell 2026-01-28 06:07:19

The end of Amazon Prime Day is quickly approaching, meaning there isn’t much time left to save on some of the best deals we’ve seen all year. The good news? You have until 12AM ET on July 12th to pick up whatever it is you’re looking for. You can still save on several Verge favorites, too, including noise-canceling headphones, gaming laptops, and a wealth of smart home devices. And if you’re working with a tight budget, there are plenty of deals to be had for $25 or less.

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Former Intel CEO launches a benchmark to measure AI alignment

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-01-28 18:35:49

In Brief After former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger capped off a 40+ year career at the semiconductor giant in December, many wondered where would Gelsinger go next. On Thursday, the former Intel CEO revealed one piece of his next chapter: trying to ensure AI models support a flourishing humanity. In partnership with a “faith tech” company he first invested in roughly 10 years ago called Gloo, Gelsinger launched a new benchmark — Flourishing AI, or FAI — to test how well AI models align with certain

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Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-31 16:04:14

Today in Tedium: It’s easy to forget now, but desktop publishing was an immensely innovative thing when it emerged within the computing industry in the early ’80s. While at its heart a mishmash of hardware and software cleverly combined for a single goal, it was an empire builder, one that helped create new businesses and improve the status and positioning of existing ones. And with the decline of print as a medium, it can feel kind of old hat, but lots of stuff still gets typeset every single d

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Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-31 22:04:14

Today in Tedium: It’s easy to forget now, but desktop publishing was an immensely innovative thing when it emerged within the computing industry in the early ’80s. While at its heart a mishmash of hardware and software cleverly combined for a single goal, it was an empire builder, one that helped create new businesses and improve the status and positioning of existing ones. And with the decline of print as a medium, it can feel kind of old hat, but lots of stuff still gets typeset every single d

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Attimet (YC F24) – Quant Trading Research Lab – Is Hiring Founding Researcher

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-05 04:00:53

You’ll be given the autonomy to do some of the best work for your life. We’re building a research lab that puts its ideas to the test in one of the most complex, information-rich environments in the world: the financial markets. Much of trading still depends on hand-crafted signals and intuition. We’re approaching it differently - from first principles. We design systems that learn, adapt, and improve with data. Our infrastructure is built to accelerate research: fast iteration loops, real-tim

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Now you can just tell SmartThings how to automate your home

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2026-02-07 18:00:00

Ahead of Galaxy Unpacked this week, Samsung is announcing several new features coming to its smart home platform, SmartThings, including the ability to create routines using natural language. That means you’ll be able to simply tell SmartThings what you want your smart home to do, and it’ll take care of all the complicated details for you. Samsung also announced updates to its Apple Watch app, a new dark mode for the SmartThings app on iOS, and more features coming to SmartThings Find, its locat

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YouTube Premium offers many more perks that I didn’t know I was paying for

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-07 23:30:02

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority I’ve been subscribed to YouTube Premium for many years now, and yet I didn’t know what I was exactly paying for. In my mind, I always associated Premium with an ad-free experience; being able to get rid of all those pesky long and interrupting ads before or while watching a video is alone worth the price. Adding the family benefits for my husband, and the fact that this works everywhere, including on our TVs, makes it more of a no-brainer. Even though I don’t

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We're Not Innovating, We're Just Forgetting Slower

news.ycombinator.com About Brian Tristam Williams 2026-02-09 05:13:25

We’ve mistaken complexity for progress — and forgotten how things really work. A 41-year-old home computer still boots instantly, while today’s “smart” tech buckles under its own abstractions. My Texas Instruments TI-99/4A Home Computer still boots. Forty-one years after I first plugged it into our family’s wood-grain TV, it fires up in less than two seconds, ready to accept commands in TI BASIC. No updates required. No cloud connectivity. No subscription fees. No ads. Just pure, determinis

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Microsoft layoffs hit 830 workers in home state of Washington

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2026-02-10 23:42:39

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Axel Springer building in Berlin on Oct. 17, 2023. He received the annual Axel Springer Award. Among the thousands of Microsoft employees who lost their jobs in the cutbacks announced this week were 830 staffers in the company's home state of Washington. Nearly a dozen game design workers in the state were part of the layoffs, along with three audio designers, two mechanical engineers, one optical engineer and one lab technician, according to a documen

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‘Stranger Things’ Hellfire Club Catch-Up: Season One

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-02-11 03:13:36

Welcome to io9’s summer cram session for Stranger Things, the Duffer Brothers’ Netflix phenomenon, which will return this November to Netflix for its final season. To honor the Hawkins gang’s late, great, guitar-shredding Dungeon Master Eddie (Joseph Quinn), this rewatch shall be coined the Hellfire Club Catch-Up. With part one of season 5 a few months out, it seems fitting to get started now. Read on for io9’s guide to everything you need to remember from the show’s 2016 debut. Season one of S

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‘Death Stranding 2: On the Beach’ Composer Had Free Rein to Make a Headbanging Soundtrack

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2026-02-11 03:45:04

Hideo Kojima‘s long-anticipated sequel Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is out now on PlayStation 5. While the game itself poses the question of whether the world should be connected, gamers on social media are coming to life with every neat gameplay secret and discovery they unearth in every nook and cranny of the game. Speaking of connections, io9 spoke with On the Beach composer Ludvig Forssell, whose credits include Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain as well as Mamoru Hosoda‘s 2022 animate

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Caching is an abstraction, not an optimization

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-08 10:42:46

June 30, 2025 Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization I've always been told that caching is a tool to make software faster. That, given some careful considerations to consistency, caching makes it so that when you want to read a given piece of data, you don't have to go all the way back to some backend database or API server or SSD and can instead just read from some faster location like memory for the same data. Caching is thus a tool to improve performance. My feelings now are that t

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Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-09 04:42:46

June 30, 2025 Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization I've always been told that caching is a tool to make software faster. That, given some careful considerations to consistency, caching makes it so that when you want to read a given piece of data, you don't have to go all the way back to some backend database or API server or SSD and can instead just read from some faster location like memory for the same data. Caching is thus a tool to improve performance. My feelings now are that t

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Donkey Kong Bananza review: Nintendo's latest 3D platformer is an instant classic

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The final season of Stranger Things now has an action-packed trailer

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Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It (2022)

Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It

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‘Stranger Things’ Hellfire Club Catch-Up: Season One

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Caching is an abstraction, not an optimization

Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization

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