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Nissan has outlined technical details of its new ZR15DDTe engine for third-generation e-POWER vehicles, built around a proprietary combustion concept called STARC paired with a large turbocharger. The design uses cold spray technology to shape intake ports and a specially contoured piston crown to control airflow toward the spark plug, aiming to stabilize combustion even at high exhaust gas recirculation rates.
A writer searched Google for the phrase 'hes never coming over dario,' referencing a 2014 NBA fan meme about player Dario Saric. Instead of returning links, Google's AI Overview interpreted the query as a personal message about heartbreak and responded with sympathetic, therapist-like language.
A US jury ruled Friday that Apple must pay Taction Technology $5.7 billion for infringing two patents covering haptic feedback vibration technology used in Apple's Taptic Engine. Taction sued Apple in 2021, arguing the Taptic Engine—used in the Apple Watch since 2014 and iPhones since 2015—infringed its patented vibration module design. Apple says it disagrees with the verdict and plans to appeal, maintaining its technology is fundamentally different from Taction's.
A federal jury in San Diego ruled that Apple's Taptic Engine, used in iPhones and Apple Watches, infringed two patents held by haptics company Taction. The jury awarded Taction over $5.7 billion in damages, finding infringement on two claims in one patent and one in another, though it did not find the infringement willful. Apple says it plans to appeal.
A federal jury ruled that Apple must pay Taction, a San Diego haptics company, more than $5.7 billion for unintentionally infringing two patents related to the Taptic Engine used in iPhones and Apple Watches. Taction originally sued in 2021, saw the case dismissed in 2023, and had it revived by the Federal Circuit appeals court before the verdict was issued Friday. Apple has said it disagrees with both the verdict and damages and plans to appeal.
Francesco Romano, a PhD researcher at the University of Stuttgart, has designed a plasma engine that ingests thin atmospheric gases at very low Earth orbit altitudes and converts them into thrust, detailed in a paper posted to arXiv. The concept, known as atmosphere-breathing electric propulsion, aims to let satellites stay in orbit without carrying conventional propellant such as xenon. So far the design has only been tested in laboratory conditions and simulations, not on an actual spacecraft.
Apple has issued watchOS 27.0.1 to address a bug causing some Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 devices to restart unexpectedly. Affected users reported diagnostic logs showing a panic-full file tied to a timeout in the watch's Neural Engine. The update can be installed via the Watch app on a paired iPhone or directly on the watch.
The Castle Game Engine documentation outlines how developers should handle file and stream input/output, recommending the TCastleTextReader class for reading text and the Download function for retrieving data from URLs, local files, HTTP/HTTPS, Android assets, and game data directories via castle-data:/ URLs. It also covers container options in Object Pascal, noting three generics libraries available in FPC—Generics.Collections, FGL, and GVector—and recommending Generics.Collections for its efficiency, feature set, and compatibility with Delphi.
Microsoft has published a patent application titled "Contextually Aware Management of Interactive Software Application Access," describing a system that uses signals from a game engine to insert ads at natural pause points like boss fights, loading screens, or cutscene transitions. The system would display a video or static ad and reset a timer before searching for the next opportunity to interrupt gameplay. Microsoft has not confirmed whether or when this system will be implemented in actual games.
Sonos has released the Ace Ultra, an update to its original Ace headphones that keeps a similar design but overhauls internal technology. The headphones run on Sonos' new Headphone Engine 2 software, enabling 'headphone linking' that lets users send audio from Sonos speakers or turntables directly to the headphones, alongside expanded noise cancellation and EQ customization.
A solo developer built a game backend called GDT (Game Development Toolkit) that has run every title they've shipped since 2016, including Marooners, Verdun, Tannenberg, Isonzo, Crash Drive 2 and 3, plus a seventh game built by another studio. The PHP version, roughly 20,000 lines running on Google App Engine with Firestore, supported Steam, Epic, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, mobile and web without a player-noticed outage in ten years, and has now been replaced by a C# version on Cloud Run.
CD Projekt co-CEO Michał Nowakowski said the decision to build The Witcher 4 on Unreal Engine 5 dates back to late 2021, after the studio saw Epic's Matrix Awakens tech demo, rather than being a reaction to Cyberpunk 2077's rocky launch. He clarified that Cyberpunk's problems weren't caused by its engine, and that CD Projekt has since formed a deep partnership with Epic to customize Unreal Engine's core technology for its open-world games.