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As Sony said it shipped a total of 65M PS5s to date, Sony president Hiroki Totoki said the focus will be on single-player games now.Read More

Strands is a brand new daily puzzle from the New York Times. A trickier take on the classic word search, you’ll need a keen eye to solve this puzzle. Like Wordle, Connections, and the Mini Crossword, Strands can be a bit difficult to solve some days. There’s no shame in needing a little help from time to time. If you’re stuck and need to know the answers to today’s Strands puzzle, check out the solved puzzle below. How to play Strands You start every Strands puzzle with the goal of finding the “theme words” hidden in the grid of letters. … Read more

This GFN Thursday, the GeForce NOW Priority membership is getting enhancements and a fresh name to go along with it. The new Performance membership offers more GeForce-powered premium gaming — at no change in the monthly membership cost. Gamers having a hard time deciding between the Performance and Ultimate memberships can take them both for a spin with a Day Pass, now 25% off for a limited time. Day Passes give access to 24 continuous hours of powerful cloud gaming. In addition, seven new games are available this week, joining the over 2,000 games in the GeForce NOW library. Time … Read more

Microsoft has announced the integration of AI-powered themes into Outlook, a step forward in personalizing the email experience for users with a Copilot Pro subscription. The new feature is available across major platforms, including Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and web clients.  AI Themes: Customization Reimagined Outlook’s newly launched Themes by Copilot allow users to enhance their inbox aesthetics with customized imagery. These themes can adapt dynamically based on user preferences, featuring curated scenes from over 100 global locations or visuals inspired by local weather. Users have the flexibility to choose how frequently their theme refreshes, with options ranging from a … Read more

Agatha initially agrees to manipulate Billy into doing just that, then has a last-minute change of heart. She kisses Rio/Death and thereby embraces her fate, sacrificing herself so Billy can live. From the start she had a soft spot for the teen, accompanied by references to her long-dead son. The backstory is quite moving and key to Agatha’s unexpected change of heart. Her son’s fate was revealed in the finale. Death came for him when Agatha was in labor but agreed to grant her “time.” How much time? Six or seven years, during which mother and son bonded and wandered … Read more

There comes a time in every long-running franchise’s life where a question begins to fester in fans and non-fans’ minds: should this still be going? Look at Sonic, the MCU, DCEU, and countless others for examples. At a certain point, usually followed by a number of high-profile duds, the discussion keeps growing and growing until… well, until you’re Halo, I guess. Bungie’s Halo 2 released for the original Xbox November 9, 2004. A decade later, on November 11, 2014, 343 Industries put out Halo: The Master Chief Collection, a remaster of the then-four mainline entries that contained a remake of the second game as its … Read more

Large format additive manufacturing, or LFAM, has evolved rapidly in recent years, with technologies from companies including Caracol and MX3D enabling users to take giant steps forwards, thanks in part to custom software and robotic arms equipped with printheads. DEVELOP3D spoke with executives from both companies about current use cases and smart approaches to adoption Caracol: LFAM with polymers Q (D3D): What would you say are the overall benefits of your company’s LFAM technology? A (Caracol): Caracol’s Heron AM platform is a 6+ axis platform that works with pellet thermoplastic composites, from high temperature resins to recycled and bio-based options. … Read more

The movement toward open source AI made progress today when the Open Source Initiative released the first (OSAID). While the OSAID provides one step forward, the lack of requirements around openness for training data leaves a gap that eventually will need to be filled. The OSAID was unveiled this week after two years of development at the OSI, the standards body that has worked for nearly three decades to define what open source means and to create licenses to help distribute open source software. The process was “well-developed, thorough, inclusive and fair,” said Carlo Piana, the OSI board chair. “The … Read more

Siemens announced plans to acquire Altair Engineering, a provider of industrial simulation and analysis, data science, and high-performance computing (HPC) software, for about $10 billion. Altair’s software will become part of Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio and provide a boost to physics-based digital twins. Onto Innovation bought Lumina Instruments, a San Jose, California-based maker of laser optical scanning systems. Onto says the technology will be used to identify defects smaller than 100nm. Onto also acquired the lithography business of Kulicke & Soffa, which includes 24 patents and 8 pending patents, aimed at extending panel-level substrate inspection. The U.S. Department of Commerce announced … Read more

Sam Hill / Digital Trends Connections is the latest puzzle game from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate to each other. The puzzle resets every night at midnight and each new puzzle has a varying degree of difficulty. Just like Wordle, you can keep track of your winning streak and compare your scores with friends. Some days are trickier than others. If you’re having a little trouble solving today’s Connections puzzle, check out our tips and hints below. And … Read more