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Nintendo is bringing back the Virtual Boy as a Switch and Switch 2 accessory

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-28 20:00:37

Nintendo had a truly wild surprise up its sleeve for Switch Online + Expansion Pack during its Direct event on Friday. The company is bringing back the Virtual Boy as a physical device into which you can slot your Switch or Switch 2. A plastic replica of the mid-90s tabletop system will soon be available for Switch Online members to buy. The company will sell a cardboard version of the accessory too. No need to rub your eyes in disbelief (but if history is any indication, you might have to for r

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The Worst-Selling Nintendo Console Ever Is Returning as a Switch 2 Accessory

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-09-28 20:51:25

Nintendo is bringing back the most underrated hardware in its storied history as an accessory for the Switch 2. The recreated Virtual Boy still has the classic kickstand and faceplate. However, instead of sporting its own screen, you’ll need to slot in your Switch 2 to create the classic black and red “3D” visuals. At first glance, the new Virtual Boy appears like a pitch-perfect remodel of Game Boy creator Gunpei Yokoi’s odd kickstand-based console. The main difference is that there’s no scree

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Racintosh Plus – Rackmount Mac Plus

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 08:39:00

Saturday, September 6, 2025 at 7:03AM 4 months of work just to make a stupid pun. 1986 Macintosh Plus at home in my music studio. I own a Macintosh Plus from 1986, I found it in the mid 2000's on my college campus on a free-to-a-good-home shelf (Mad Marc's shelf in the chemistry building) in great shape and with its mouse, keyboard, and an HD-20 external hard disk drive. That silly computer has been on the journey with me ever since, leaving college with me and occupying a spot in all of my

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A new Astro Bot-themed PS5 controller is now available for preorder

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

is a commerce writer covering deals and buying guides. Previously, he was a freelance writer for Popular Mechanics, Men’s Health, and Esquire. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If you missed out on the limited edition Astro Bot DualSense wireless controller for PlayStation 5 last year, we have good news: Sony is launching a new “Joyful” version of the gamepad for $84.99 on October 30th, and preorders have just begun at the PlayStation store

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We are entering a golden age of robotics startups — and not just because of AI

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-29 00:00:00

When Seth Winterroth left his job at GE Ventures to help launch Eclipse Ventures in 2015, robotics was on his mind. Or more specifically, the number of early-stage robotics startups that were struggling to launch due to lack of interest. “These are teams that had just finished their postdocs at Waterloo, or CMU, or MIT, and were starting robotics companies, and the refrain that I continually heard from the startups was, ‘hey, we’re having a really hard time raising institutional venture capital

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Prongs rock

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-09-29 02:00:00

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Here’s a hot take: gaming handhelds are better with prongs. How do I know? I hold a lot of handhelds (and gamepads) here at The Verge, but Microsoft and Asus’s upcoming Xbox Ally X might take the cake for the most comfortable to hold. And that handheld

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AI 'friend' chatbots probed over child protection

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-29 12:36:53

AI 'friend' chatbots probed over child protection The seven companies - Alphabet, OpenAI, Character.ai, Snap, XAI, Meta and its subsidiary Instagram - have been approached for comment. The impacts of AI chatbots to children is a hot topic, with concerns that younger people are particularly vulnerable due to the AI being able to mimic human conversations and emotions, often presenting themselves as friends or companions. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is requesting information on how the c

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FTC to AI Companies: Tell Us How You Protect Teens and Kids Who Use AI Companions

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 11:08:36

The Federal Trade Commission is launching an investigation into AI chatbots from seven companies, including Alphabet, Meta and OpenAI, over their use as companions. The inquiry involves finding how the companies test, monitor and measure the potential harm to children and teens. A Common Sense Media survey of 1,060 teens in April and May found that over 70% used AI companions and that more than 50% used them consistently -- a few times or more per month. Experts have been warning for some time

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Google Maps wasn't loading in some regions due to an outage

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-29 13:51:02

Google Maps suffered an outage that left the mobile version of the service unable to fully load its map or provide directions. Over 4,000 reports were filed on Downdetector since the outage started, and Google's Status Dashboard noted that the company was investigating an issue with the Maps SDK and Navigation SDK at 3:34PM ET. By 6:27PM ET, Google said the issue has been resolved and that it will publish an "analysis of this incident" once it has completed its internal investigation. At the pe

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Brazil's Supreme Court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

news.ycombinator.com Tom Phillips 2025-09-30 08:28:44

A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy. Justice Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha ruled on Thursday that Bolsonaro – a former paratrooper who was elected president in 2018 – was guilty of seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing the 2022 election, meaning three of the five judges involved in the t

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FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbot companions from Meta, OpenAI, and others

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-09-30 07:06:15

The FTC announced on Thursday that it is launching an inquiry into seven tech companies that make AI chatbot companion products for minors: Alphabet, CharacterAI, Instagram, Meta, OpenAI, Snap, and xAI. The federal regulator seeks to learn how these companies are evaluating the safety and monetization of chatbot companions, how they try to limit negative impacts on children and teens, and if parents are made aware of potential risks. This technology has proven controversial for its poor outcom

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The FTC is investigating companies that make AI companion chatbots

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-30 12:14:13

The Federal Trade Commission is making a formal inquiry into companies that provide AI chatbots that can act as companions. The investigation isn't tied to any kind of regulatory action as of yet, but does aim to reveal how companies "measure, test, and monitor potentially negative impacts of this technology on children and teens." Seven companies are being asked to participate in the FTC's investigation: Google's parent company Alphabet, Character Technologies (the creator of Character.AI), Me

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An engineering history of the Manhattan Project

news.ycombinator.com Brian Potter 2025-09-30 07:04:49

The Manhattan Project, the US program to build an atomic bomb during WWII, is one of the most famous and widely known major government projects: a survey in 1999 ranked the dropping of the atomic bomb as the top news story of the 20th century. Virtually everyone knows that the project built the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And most of us probably know that the bomb was built by some of the world’s best physicists, working under Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos in New Mexico

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The best e-reader to buy right now

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-09-30 11:33:26

Any ebook reader will let you cram a Beauty and the Beast-sized library’s worth of books in your pocket, but so will your phone. An ebook reader offers a more book-like reading experience, with fewer distractions and less eye strain, and many include extra features, like adjustable frontlighting. Some really are pocketable. Others are waterproof or offer physical page-turning buttons, while a few even let you take notes. I’ve been using ebook readers for nearly a decade, and I’ve gone hands-on

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The obstacles to scaling up humanoids

news.ycombinator.com Evan Ackerman 2025-09-30 15:38:58

Over the next several years, humanoid robots will change the nature of work. Or at least, that’s what humanoid robotics companies have been consistently promising, enabling them to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at valuations that run into the billions. Delivering on these promises will require a lot of robots. Agility Robotics expects to ship “hundreds” of its Digit robots in 2025 and has a factory in Oregon capable of building over 10,000 robots per year. Tesla is planning to produce 5

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AI Regulation Moratorium Idea Isn't Dead as Ted Cruz Pushes Sandbox Act

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-30 14:28:00

US Sen. Ted Cruz has introduced a bill, the Sandbox Act, aimed at giving companies developing AI technologies a way to bypass regulations by requesting a government waiver. According to the bill, the act would "establish a Federal regulatory sandbox program for artificial intelligence, and for other purposes." In introducing the bill, Cruz said it would allow AI tech to be unhindered by "outdated or inflexible federal rules." In addition to establishing a program for this, the bill, if passed,

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Beyond package management: How Nix refactored my digital life

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 15:36:25

(You can find my Nix config over on Github) I'm a disorganised person. My workflow is to bounce around a codebase for days/weeks at a time and when I come up for air I'll usually have left a slew of configs, tools, scripts, repos scattered around my computer like the socks near the bed, or the pile of paperwork on my desk. After a while I reach a point where it all becomes unmanageable. I'll wade on (unproductively) until I can't go any further, then reset my laptop and spend a week reconfiguri

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Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype

news.ycombinator.com Evan Ackerman 2025-09-30 20:38:58

Over the next several years, humanoid robots will change the nature of work. Or at least, that’s what humanoid robotics companies have been consistently promising, enabling them to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at valuations that run into the billions. Delivering on these promises will require a lot of robots. Agility Robotics expects to ship “hundreds” of its Digit robots in 2025 and has a factory in Oregon capable of building over 10,000 robots per year. Tesla is planning to produce 5

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Xbox Cloud is getting a much-needed upgrade

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-30 20:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Over the past week, I’ve been using Nvidia’s new RTX 5080 GeForce Now tier. Nvidia’s cloud gaming service has been the best on the market for years now, and this upgrade makes it even better. I’ve been playing Cyberpunk 2077, Overwatch 2, and Silksong, and it’s genuinely comparable to my own PC. The upgrade is also a staggering reminder of just how far behind Xbox Cloud Gaming

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FTC orders AI companies to hand over info about chatbots’ impact on kids

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-09-30 20:58:07

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is ordering seven AI chatbot companies to provide information about how they assess the effects of their virtual companions on kids and teens. OpenAI, Meta, its subsidiary Instagram, Snap, xAI, Google parent company Alphabet, and the maker of Cha

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Opendoor taps new CEO and names Keith Rabois chairman, boosting stock 36%

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-09-30 21:22:00

Keith Rabois of Khosla Ventures attends Day 3 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 at San Francisco Design Center on September 11, 2013 in San Francisco, California. Opendoor , the online real estate platform that's seen a surge of retail investor interest in recent months, said Wednesday that it's tapped former Shopify executive Kaz Nejatian as CEO and named co-founder Keith Rabois as chairman. The stock was up 36% Thursday in premarket trading, and is now up more than fifteenfold since hitting its

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Alphabet, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Snap face FTC probe over AI chatbot safety for kids

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-10-01 00:58:34

In this photo illustration a virtual friend is seen on the screen of an iPhone on April 30, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia. The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday announced it is issuing orders to seven companies including OpenAI, Alphabet , Meta , xAI and Snap to understand how their artificial intelligence chatbots potentially negatively affect children and teenagers. The federal agency said AI chatbots may be used to simulate human-like communication and intrapersonal relationships with use

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Box CEO Aaron Levie on AI’s ‘era of context’

techcrunch.com Russell Brandom 2025-10-01 04:36:31

On Thursday, Box launched its developer conference Boxworks by announcing a new set of AI features, building agentic AI models into the backbone of the company’s products. It’s more product announcements than usual for the conference, reflecting the increasingly fast pace of AI development at the company: Box launched its AI studio last year, followed by a new set of data-extraction agents in February, and others for search and deep research in May. Now, the company is rolling out a new system

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An Engineering History of the Manhattan Project

news.ycombinator.com Brian Potter 2025-10-01 08:04:49

The Manhattan Project, the US program to build an atomic bomb during WWII, is one of the most famous and widely known major government projects: a survey in 1999 ranked the dropping of the atomic bomb as the top news story of the 20th century. Virtually everyone knows that the project built the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And most of us probably know that the bomb was built by some of the world’s best physicists, working under Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos in New Mexico

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Meet R1, a Chinese tech giant’s rival to Tesla’s Optimus robot

theverge.com Robert Hart 2025-10-01 12:10:25

Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Chinese tech behemoth Ant Group, which owns payment platform Alipay, has been showing off its first humanoid robot at tech conferences this month. It joins a growing wave of companies carving out space along a fresh frontier in automation by co

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NotebookLM: These AI Tools Can Help You Study and Learn

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-01 20:00:02

When I was in high school, there were some subjects you couldn't have paid me to study for, like math or government. I can't help but think about how different things might have been if I'd had something like NotebookLM available to help me care about and study for those subjects I actively avoided. It probably would have made me a much better student. NotebookLM is a solid AI research assistant, and it really shines as a tool for students. What sets it apart from other AI tools is that it does

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Best Reusable Water Bottles of 2025, Tested & Reviewed

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-10-01 21:30:00

Compare Top 7 Reusable Water Bottles Product WIRED TIRED Material(s) Dishwasher-Safe Price Hydro Flask Standard Mouth Water Bottle (24 ounces) Available in 15+ colors; No flavor transfer or metallic aftertaste; Keeps cold drinks cold for 24 hours, and hot drinks hot for up to 12 hours Experience fully dependent on cap choice Stainless steel Yes $40 Owala FreeSip Twist (24 ounces) Available in a variety of colors; Triple-layer insulated; FreeSip spout with a built-in straw that lets you sip or s

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A California bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots is close to becoming law

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-01 15:10:51

The California State Assembly took a big step toward regulating AI on Wednesday night, passing SB 243 — a bill that regulate AI companion chatbots in order to protect minors and vulnerable users. The legislation passed with bipartisan support and now heads to the state Senate for a final vote Friday. If Governor Gavin Newsom signs the bill into law, it would take effect January 1, 2026, making California the first state to require AI chatbot operators to implement safety protocols for AI compan

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Opendoor taps new CEO and names Keith Rabois chairman, boosting stock 30%

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-02 00:02:53

Keith Rabois of Khosla Ventures attends Day 3 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 at San Francisco Design Center on September 11, 2013 in San Francisco, California. Opendoor , the online real estate platform that's seen a surge of retail investor interest in recent months, said Wednesday that it's tapped former Shopify executive Kaz Nejatian as CEO and named co-founder Keith Rabois as chairman. The stock popped 30% in extended trading, and is now up more than fifteenfold since hitting its record low

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HBO Max is going to get a lot more expensive, CEO promises

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-02 04:16:57

David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, plans to make HBO more expensive, and passwords a lot harder to share, according to The Hollywood Reporter . Zaslav shared his general outlook on the state of television at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference, with the main theme being that HBO Max's content is good and Zaslav thinks he should be charging a lot more for it. "The fact that this is quality — and that’s true across our company, motion picture, TV production and st

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Nintendo is bringing back the Virtual Boy as a Switch and Switch 2 accessory

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