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The Digital Version of ‘Twilight Imperium’ Will Save You So Much Clean Up Time

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-29 01:00:21

Twilight Imperium has had a rep for endurance almost since it was first introduced. A dense tabletop experience of spacebound strategy, it’s become the face of marathon-length board gaming as players spend hours after hours dictating their space operatic maneuvers through the medium of many, many, many little tokens and cards being shuffled and passed around the board. So, good news for people who’ve always been interested but daunted by those occasionally tall tales of just what an effort it ev

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Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Now Have a Screen and a Magic Wristband

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-09-29 01:27:06

Meta’s Ray-Bans are back with a new generation, and this time they’re finally giving people the one thing they really want—a screen. At Meta’s annual Connect developer conference, the company officially took the wraps off its Meta Ray-Ban Display, which are, as the name suggests, its first pair of AI-infused smart glasses to come with a full-color in-lens display. The smart glasses, which still bear the same Ray-Ban branding, will cost $799 and are available for preorder today. As you might exp

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Meta Ray-Ban Display Hands-On: The Smart Glasses You Were Waiting For

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-09-29 01:27:55

There’s one thing people want to know when they see my first-gen Ray-Ban smart glasses, and it’s got nothing to do with AI, or cameras, or the surprisingly great open-ear audio they put out. They want to know what’s probably front-of-mind right now as you’re reading this: Do they have a screen in them? The answer? Sadly, no… until now. At Meta Connect 2025, Meta finally unveiled its Ray-Ban Display smart glasses that, as you may have gathered from the name, have a screen in them. It doesn’t sou

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Meta’s New Wraparound Smart Glasses Are the Most Oakley Oakleys You Can Buy

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-09-29 01:55:41

Ray-Ban wasn’t the only collaboration that got some shine at Meta Connect. The company also took the wraps (no pun intended) off a pair of wraparound shades designed by Oakley and, like its recently released HSTN smart glasses, designed more with sporty types in mind. Outside of the differing glasses shape, the $499 Meta Oakley Meta Vanguard (yes, that’s the official name in that order) specs also have a centered camera that’s meant to be better suited for capturing footage during “action” spor

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Meta's Oakley Vanguard Sports Glasses Tried to Turn Me Into Xtreme Sports Guy

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 01:14:00

Jogging on a treadmill in jeans at Meta's Menlo Park campus when it's nearly 80 degrees isn't my idea of a good time. But I was curious what Meta's new wraparound smart shades, and a Garmin sports watch, would do for me. I couldn't see workout stats floating in front of my eyes, not yet at least, but I could ask for my heart rate on demand. AirPods can do that, too. But AirPods can't record my POV exercise highlight video with overlaid stats for showing off later. The new Meta Oakley Vanguard

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I Wore Meta's New Ray-Ban Display Glasses and Neural Band. I Feel Augmented

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 01:21:00

As soon as I saw someone wearing Meta's new AR glasses for the first time, I knew they looked different. Thicker than regular Meta Ray-Bans, they reminded me of something filmmaker Martin Scorsese would wear. They were stylish, with a sort of translucent-ish brown frame. I also noticed its sidekick, the ribbed fabric wristband, but only because I was looking for it. The new Meta's Ray-Ban Display Glasses are very real. They go on sale Sept. 30 for $799. And they're wild to use. When wearing a

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Waymo's Robotaxis Are Heading to Nashville. Everything to Know About the Self-Driving Service

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 01:29:20

Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the autonomous arm of Google's parent Alphabet, expand into more cities. On Wednesday, Waymo shared it's heading to Nashville through a partnership with Lyft. Waymo will start driving autonomously there in the "coming months," it said in a blog post, before opening to the public next year. Riders will hail self-driving vehicles through the Waymo app (formerly Waymo One) and will eventually have the op

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Meta's Quest Headsets Can Scan Your Home Into VR. The Results Are Stunning

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 01:38:26

I stood in Gordon Ramsay's absolutely lovely kitchen and stared at the Smeg toaster on his polished counters. I admired the windows to the garden, the jukebox in the corner and the adjoining open living room. I tried to walk in the living room and hit a VR barrier. That's where the scan ended. Gordon's home was a Quest-made 3D scan, a still-life of his lovely LA abode. I almost felt like I could sit down in a chair and wait for him to walk into the room, brandish a soufflé... and yell at me. M

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Meta Goes Even Harder Into Smart Glasses With 3 New Models

wired.com Boone Ashworth 2025-09-29 01:21:07

It takes time to realize you don’t have to hold your hand out in front of you for these gestures to be recognized, but a surprisingly short amount of time to find yourself using them with very little second thought. Of course talking to Meta AI remains a key way of interacting with the glasses, but Meta hopes that adding the visual elements will enhance the chatbot experience. For example, live speech captioning and language translation is still switched on by voice—but with Meta Ray-Ban Displa

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Meta’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses have twice the battery life

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-09-29 01:07:37

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Meta has announced a new generation of its Ray-Ban smart glasses, featuring significantly improved battery life and the ability to record 3K video, which brings them up to par with the Oakley HSTN smart glasses. The new glasses, technically called the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2, are available

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The new Oakley Meta glasses are what athletes actually want

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-09-29 01:14:36

is a senior reporter and author of the Optimizer newsletter.She has more than 13 years of experience reporting on wearables, health tech, and more. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. When the Oakley Meta HSTN arrived earlier this year, it wasn’t what I thought Oakley-branded smart glasses would be. Sure, they had Oakley’s famous PRIZM lenses, but where was the wraparound design? Where were the athlete-focused features like stronger water and sweat resistance? Co

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I sat down with Mark Zuckerberg to try Meta’s impressive new Ray-Ban Display glasses

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-09-29 01:21:42

Mark Zuckerberg mostly uses the new Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses to send text messages. Lots of them. He has been wearing the glasses around the office, firing off WhatsApp pings to his execs throughout the day. “I run the company through text messages,” he tells me recently. “Mark is our number one heaviest user,” Alex Himel, the company’s head of wearables, confirms. Zuckerberg is known for sending lengthy, multi-paragraph missives via text. But when he’s typing on the glasses, Himel can tel

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Meta will let you use a Quest VR headset to turn your real-world space into a virtual world

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-09-29 01:38:36

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Meta is rolling out tech that lets you capture a real-world space with a Quest VR headset so you can create a digital, photorealistic VR replica. The company calls the tech “Hyperscape,” and as part of a gradual rollout beginning today, users will be able to use the beta Hyperscape Capture app with their Quest 3 or Quest 3S to make the virtual copies. Initially, you’ll onl

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Meta is making the metaverse look better

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-09-29 01:39:07

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Meta is making improvements to its Roblox-like social platform Horizon Worlds, with the biggest upgrades being the introduction of a new game engine with better graphics as well as the Meta Horizon Studio to help creators to make custom in-game experiences. Meta Horizon Studio is an e

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Meta is bringing an all-in-one movie and TV streaming hub to Quest headsets

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-29 01:42:31

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Meta is making it easier to stream movies and TV shows on your Quest headset. During its Meta Connect keynote on Wednesday, the company announced that it’s rolling out a Horizon TV hub with access to streaming apps like Prime Video, Peacock, Twitch, and — finall

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Meta’s Ray-Ban Gen 2 and Oakley Vanguard glasses are available to preorder

theverge.com Brandon Russell 2025-09-29 02:00:11

At its Connect keynote on Wednesday, Meta officially introduced the $799.99 Meta Ray-Ban Display, also known as Hypernova. The brand’s new, high-end smart glasses feature an in-lens display you can control with wrist-based gestures via the new Meta Neural Band that’s included. The display pairs with your phone and allows you to see everything from text messages and Instagram Reels to maps and more — all without having to pull out your device. They seem like a more fully-realized version of Googl

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Meta Connect 2025: the 6 biggest announcements

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-29 02:00:49

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Meta just showed off all the latest in wearable technology, virtual reality, augmented reality, and more at its annual Connect keynote. In addition to the long-awaited reveal of Meta’s updated Ray-Ban smart glasses, the company had some other exciting surprises

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Meta unveils its new Oakley Meta Vanguard smart glasses for athletes

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-09-29 01:15:06

At Meta Connect 2025 on Wednesday, the company unveiled its new Oakley Meta Vanguard smart glasses that are geared toward runners, cyclists, and other athletes. The glasses retail for $499 and are launching on October 21. Meta Connect is the social networking giant’s biggest conference of the year, where it unveils smart glasses and VR headsets. The glasses feature a large unified front lens, instead of having two cameras positioned at the top corners of the frames, which is in previous Meta s

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Meta unveils new smart glasses with a display and wristband controller

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-29 01:25:39

Meta on Wednesday unveiled a new pair of Ray-Ban branded smart glasses with a built-in display for apps, alerts, and directions on the right lens. The smart glasses are controlled by a wristband that picks up on subtle hand gestures, called Meta Neural Band, the same one it unveiled at last year’s Connect as part of its Orion demo. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the new product, called Meta Ray-Ban Display, onstage at the company’s annual developer conference, Meta Connect 2025. Unlike Orion, Zu

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Meta launches Hyperscape, technology to turn real-world spaces into VR

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-29 01:43:31

Although today’s Meta Connect developer conference was largely about new smart glasses, the social networking company did announce a handful of metaverse updates during Wednesday’s keynote. Of these, one of the largest was the introduction of Hyperscape, first demoed at last year’s event, which allows developers and creators to build more photorealistic spaces in virtual reality. The company announced that Hyperscape Capture is now rolling out in Early Access, meaning Quest device owners will b

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Netskope prices IPO at $19, valuing company at $7.3 billion

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-09-29 05:26:27

Cybersecurity company Netskope is eying a $7.3 billion valuation after pricing shares at $19 for its upcoming IPO, at the top end of its expected range. Netskope will start trading on Thursday on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "NTSK." The share sale raised $908.2 million. Earlier this week, Netskope lifted its expected pricing range to between $17 and $19 a share, up from an original range of $15 to $17. The company revealed plans to go public last month. Netskope's offering comes amid a

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Madman Sets Up Entire Server on Disposable Vape, Hosts Its Own Website

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-29 04:07:58

"Vibe" coding? Try vape coding. Either the most sober — or the most nicotine-addled — individual of all time has done the improbable: hosting an entire website on a single disposable e-cigarette. According to programmer Bogdan Ionescu, it's a stunt that's meant to demonstrate just how ridiculously tricked out even one-and-done vapes have become, he shared on his blog last week. Ionescu said he had been collecting disposable vapes for years, but it was only last year that he realized that some

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iPhone 17 battery life test shows strong results across the lineup

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-09-29 02:15:10

We’ve got our first battery life shootout results for the new iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air lineup, courtesy of The Tech Chap. At least in this test comprising continuous streaming YouTube video playback on Wi-Fi and cellular, all the new iPhone models perform well, and are a lot closer together in terms of longevity than you might expect. The benchmark comparison is the iPhone 16 Pro Max, which achieved 7 hours and 29 minutes. The iPhone 17 Pro Max now takes the crown, lasting 7 hour

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Photographer Tyler Stalman reviews the iPhone 17, iPhone Air, and iPhone 17 Pro cameras

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-29 05:39:36

In a new video shot entirely on the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, photographer Tyler Stalman takes an in-depth look at the cameras on the new iPhone 17 lineup, with a special focus on the Pro models. Here’s what he found. For the past few years, Stalman has been publishing a comprehensive look at the cameras of new iPhones. This year, he focused on the Pro line, particularly how they compare to previous Pro generations. He also took the time to talk about new pro software features, as w

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‘The Muppet Show’ Is Getting a 50th Anniversary Disney+ Special

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-09-29 05:25:08

After a pair of pilots made in 1974 and 1975, The Muppet Show officially hit the airwaves in 1976—which means 2026 marks an important milestone for Kermit the Frog and his pals. To celebrate the big 50th anniversary, Disney+ will air a one-off special in the much-loved variety show format, with pop star Sabrina Carpenter as a featured guest. In addition, the Hollywood Reporter writes that there’s the potential for the special to turn into a “backdoor pilot” for a future Muppet Show revival. Th

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iPhone Air vs. Galaxy S25 Edge: Thin Phones Compared

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 04:19:15

If there's one thing customers want to see from the established phone titans, it's something new. Years of incremental improvements in processors, cameras and displays can occasionally be exciting, but unless you're upgrading from a several-years-old model, the differences tend to be relatively minor. So when Samsung released the super thin Galaxy S25 Edge earlier this year, it got our attention. And, naturally, it sparked speculation that Apple would also release a new slim phone, which arrive

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Microsoft Offers Free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates: Here's What to Do

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 04:20:00

Microsoft is sunsetting Windows 10 support on Oct. 14, and stopping all updates to the OS. If you aren't able to update to Windows 11, you still have options. For $30 you can grab a year of extended-security updates. There is also a free option available, provided you're willing to enable cloud backup and connect it to your OneDrive account. The ability to get free updates on Windows 10 is a pretty big deal because it is still the most widely used Windows OS, accounting for just over 53% of ins

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Wait, What? NASA Found Signs of Ancient Alien Life on Mars

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 04:33:00

NASA released a significant update from the Perseverance Mars rover on Sept. 10, focusing on a particularly juicy tidbit for those watching from home: A small rock sample called Sapphire Canyon showed signs of potential biosignatures, or ancient alien life that may have once grown on Mars. That's possible because of the unique location where Perseverance located the sample in July 2024. It came from a rock named Cheyava Falls. This particular rock is in Jezero Crater, home to an ancient dry riv

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RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine delusions—not science—steer CDC now, ex-director testifies

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-29 03:48:41

Health secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to roll back access to lifesaving vaccines for children, and has refused to even speak with staff scientists and subject-matter experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about evidence-based recommendations. That's according to former CDC officials who testified before the Senate on Wednesday. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) called ex-CDC director Susan Monarez to review

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The DOGE Subcommittee Hearing on Weather Modification Was a Nest of Conspiracy Theorizing

wired.com Molly Taft 2025-09-29 03:10:24

“What this whole debate comes down to is who controls the skies,” Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia told the audience at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Tuesday. “Do we believe in God and that he has dominion over his perfect creation of planet Earth? Do we believe that he has given us everything we need to survive as a civilization since the beginning of time? Or do you believe in man’s claim of authority over the weather, based on scientists that have only been

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The Digital Version of ‘Twilight Imperium’ Will Save You So Much Clean Up Time

Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Now Have a Screen and a Magic Wristband

Meta Ray-Ban Display Hands-On: The Smart Glasses You Were Waiting For

Meta’s New Wraparound Smart Glasses Are the Most Oakley Oakleys You Can Buy

Meta's Oakley Vanguard Sports Glasses Tried to Turn Me Into Xtreme Sports Guy

I Wore Meta's New Ray-Ban Display Glasses and Neural Band. I Feel Augmented

Waymo's Robotaxis Are Heading to Nashville. Everything to Know About the Self-Driving Service

Meta's Quest Headsets Can Scan Your Home Into VR. The Results Are Stunning

Meta Goes Even Harder Into Smart Glasses With 3 New Models

Meta’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses have twice the battery life

The new Oakley Meta glasses are what athletes actually want

I sat down with Mark Zuckerberg to try Meta’s impressive new Ray-Ban Display glasses

Meta will let you use a Quest VR headset to turn your real-world space into a virtual world

Meta is making the metaverse look better

Meta is bringing an all-in-one movie and TV streaming hub to Quest headsets

Meta’s Ray-Ban Gen 2 and Oakley Vanguard glasses are available to preorder

Meta Connect 2025: the 6 biggest announcements

Meta unveils its new Oakley Meta Vanguard smart glasses for athletes

Meta unveils new smart glasses with a display and wristband controller

Meta launches Hyperscape, technology to turn real-world spaces into VR

Netskope prices IPO at $19, valuing company at $7.3 billion

Madman Sets Up Entire Server on Disposable Vape, Hosts Its Own Website

iPhone 17 battery life test shows strong results across the lineup

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‘The Muppet Show’ Is Getting a 50th Anniversary Disney+ Special

iPhone Air vs. Galaxy S25 Edge: Thin Phones Compared

Microsoft Offers Free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates: Here's What to Do

Wait, What? NASA Found Signs of Ancient Alien Life on Mars

RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine delusions—not science—steer CDC now, ex-director testifies

The DOGE Subcommittee Hearing on Weather Modification Was a Nest of Conspiracy Theorizing

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