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Slapping an RTX 5070 onto your laptop is a big deal. It’s other parts of the Laptop 16 that falter.
Normally, you’re kind of stuck with the button mapping video game developers choose, based on your controller of choice. But Android Authority has found evidence in the latest Android Canary release that Google is adding native remapping. That’s huge for improving accessibility and support for cloud gaming, where titles aren’t usually built with Android in mind.
According to Sam Udotong, one of the founders of Fireflies.ai, when the company first started in 2017:
We told our customers there’s an “AI that’ll join a meeting.” In reality it was just me and my co-founder calling in to the meeting sitting there silently and taking notes by hand.
While Udotong claims it was clear to these early beta customers that “there was a human in the loop,” it still raises serious privacy concerns and sounds alarmingly close to flat-out fraud.
I mean, it was probably inevitable, right? The Hollywood Reporter reports that Sony has snapped up the film rights for the weird little toys, though no director or writer are attached just yet.
[The Hollywood Reporter]
Apple seems to finally know what its largest and most impressive tablet really is. Time to build it.
This week the company launched three new versions of its Juice Pack cases. They’re all $99.99 but the iPhone 17 Pro version has a 3,000mAh battery while the 17 Pro Max one is 3,600mAh providing 50 percent more power. The iPhone Air case has a 2,400mAh battery providing up to 60 percent more power.
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Nintendo shared an overview video today for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, which comes out on December 4th on Switch and Switch 2. A lot of it looks like classic Metroid Prime, but the chatty companions worry me (and I’m not the only one).
Traveling with the Meta Ray-Ban Display was a better experience than using it in my day-to-day life.
The new movie stays true to Stephen King’s original novel to tell a story that doesn’t feel all that farfetched in 2025.
“This is both a peripheral controller for a PC as well as the Steam Machine or whatever else you want to plug it into,” said hardware engineer Steve Cardinali. “Most of the time, your audio will be coming from that, not directly your controller.” Because of that, “we just didn’t feel like it was necessary.”
I still wish it was there; I use the DualSense’s headphone jack for quiet audio at night all the time. Otherwise, I really like the controller.
Tesla might be about to give in and adopt Apple’s CarPlay system in its cars. It’s a welcome change, but somehow I suspect this commenter isn’t the only one holding out on a Model Y purchase for slightly different reasons.
Brian Ford:
Unfortunately, the addition of CarPlay won’t erase the other dealbreaker for me.
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That’s what Christopher Nolan shot for The Odyssey. By comparison, Oppenheimer’s three-hour IMAX reels were 11 miles long — or about 60,000 feet. Since The Odyssey was shot entirely on IMAX film, two million feet of film at 24 frames-per-second works out to around 100 hours of footage. This might be a long edit.
So says an EU court in Luxembourg, which ruled there’s no such thing as non-alcoholic gin.
The bloc is on a roll lately when it comes to cracking down on normal names for new food and drink, after lawmakers last month voted in favor of banning the term “veggie burger.”
[The Guardian]
Aeotec’s $119.99 Smart Home Hub 2 features faster hardware, USB expandability, and support for Bluetooth Low Energy, Zigbee, and Thread. It works as a Matter Controller and prioritizes on-hub communications to keep your smart home up when the cloud is down. It doesn’t support Z-Wave.
After being fined $3.5 billion by the EU for ad tech abuse, the search giant is, begrudgingly, proposing changes:
For example, we are giving publishers the option to set different minimum prices for different bidders when using Google Ad Manager [... and] increasing the interoperability of our tools to give publishers and advertisers more choice and flexibility.
The show, Outside Tonight, will be hosted by Recess Therapy host Julian Shapiro-Barnum. “Set in public parks and on street corners, Outside Tonight with Julian Shapiro-Barnum revitalizes a classic format with weekly, live shows packed with star studded interviews, audience driven games, live music, and nonstop comedy,” YouTube says.
Things sound rough over at Rabbit, the maker of the R1 AI gadget, based on this story from Tom’s Guide. A Rabbit rep tells the publication that the company expects additional funding to “close in the coming weeks,” but it couldn’t disclose the investor.
Apple noted requirement as part of its updated App Review Guidelines changelog:
5.1.2(i): Clarifies that you must clearly disclose where personal data will be shared with third parties, including with third-party AI, and obtain explicit permission before doing so.
You can see the full guidelines on Apple’s website.
I brought our Quest 3 to Valve’s offices just in case we’d be seeing the Steam Frame, formerly known as Deckard — and it paid off! I didn’t have time to directly compare optics, but I’d say comfort is superior. It’s noticeably smaller, with controllers that are bigger.
