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Beyond These Stars is a city-building game where players construct and manage a settlement on the back of a sentient creature called Kewa as it travels through space. Players must terraform land, build production chains, research technologies, and maintain an ecosystem balance while encountering other species and uncovering lore about their ancestors.
At its October 15 event, Tesla showcased the redesigned Roadster with a stunt involving cold-gas thrusters and a suction ramp, and Elon Musk said production would begin in 2028. The company is charging $250,000 to reserve the top 'Thrust' trim, which includes the thruster system. This marks the latest in a series of announcements for a car first unveiled in 2017 with an original 2020 release target.
TV4 has indefinitely postponed the Nov. 22 return of The Challenge: Sweden after edited episodes were wiped out, forcing producers to recut the season from raw footage. Program director Mia Lindqvist blamed a failed backup system at production company Mastiff, while disputing an Aftonbladet report that an AI agent independently deleted the files, though she did not rule out AI involvement in the incident.
Micro Center has changed the listing status of Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 to 'Not Carried,' a classification indicating the retailer does not plan to restock the card, rather than a temporary out-of-stock label. Custom RTX 5090 models from partners like Asus, MSI, and Gigabyte remain listed on the site but are sold out at all physical stores, with the sole exception of a $11,000 Asus ROG 20th Anniversary bundle. The change follows recent rumors that Nvidia has halted production of the card.
Licube, a startup licensing lithium separation technology from Hirosaki University in Japan, is presenting at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield. The company aims to purify lithium-6, a rare isotope that fusion reactors need to breed tritium fuel on site, since it makes up only about 7.5% of naturally occurring lithium. CEO Yohei Kiguchi told TechCrunch he expects the lithium-6 market to reach $50 billion by 2040 if fusion power becomes commercially viable.
Startup Niobia has built AI software that monitors chip and battery production lines using GPU-equipped sensors mounted on manufacturing equipment, detecting tiny defects like pinhole scratches. Engineers can then query a chatbot built on the gathered data to identify the root cause of failures, aiming to cut diagnosis time from days to minutes. Co-founders Gaurav Jha and Harveen Kaur, both chemistry PhDs with industry experience, are presenting the company as a Battlefield finalist at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
Bloomberg reports Epic Games has pushed back the release of an untitled Disney-licensed shooter, originally slated for March 2027, to retool production around AI tools. A game director reportedly told staff there would be 'no more handwritten code' and that art would be generated through 'full AI workflows.' Epic founder Tim Sweeney confirmed a broader company pivot toward AI-accelerated development on X, and communications director Jake Jones said developers remain the 'visionaries' guiding the work.
A music enthusiast has finally uncovered the identity of the elusive band Salvage, whose two tracks from 2011 remained untraceable for over a decade. Despite limited clues, multiple searches, and the challenge of common band and track names, persistent efforts led to discovery. The band was associated with the record label Despatches, and their music has now been linked to a specific artist or project, ending a long-standing mystery.
Citing an unnamed insider, Jiemian News reports that Foxconn's final assembly yield rate for Apple's new foldable iPhone Duo stood just above 60% as of September 17, with full production maturity possibly six months to a year away. Samsung Display is said to be struggling separately with low yields on foldable OLED panels and hinges, reportedly due to late design changes, while Apple's 2026 production target is pegged at six to eight million units against sales guidance of over five million.
Deloitte's 2026 State of AI in the Enterprise found worker access to AI tools rose 5% in 2025, and the share of companies running at least 40% of AI projects in production is expected to double within six months. The report frames this shift as AI moving from isolated pilots to always-on production workloads spanning customer service, IT, research and business-process agents.
An effort to build a version of the Monopoly board game entirely in the United States ran into production problems, including trays that cracked during manufacturing and higher-than-expected costs. Sourcing dice domestically also proved difficult, complicating the push to keep the whole supply chain onshore.
A Nature commentary contends that ongoing debates over whether AI systems can be credited as authors on scholarly papers miss a more fundamental change underway in how research knowledge itself is generated. The piece suggests focus should shift from authorship credit rules toward examining how AI tools are altering the processes of scholarly inquiry.