Star Wars animated series ‘Maul: Shadow Lord’ season 2 confirmed

Ahead of its premiere, Dave Filoni has revealed that the Star Wars animated series Maul: Shadow Lord will return for a second season. The Lucasfilm co-president revealed that season 2 is already in the works, telling Esquire that “at the end of the day, people like that character.”  Filoni didn’t reveal any other details about […]

Artemis 2 Crew Become First Humans to Travel Beyond Earth Orbit Since the 1970s

The Orion spacecraft has successfully completed the translunar injection burn and departed low-Earth orbit.

Look Outside’s April 1 update that let you kiss enemies is now a permanent ‘smooch mode’

For April Fools’ Day, the developer of Look Outside released an update that added a new option to your interactions with NPCs: kissing. Instead of just fighting or talking to enemies and surviving neighbors in the cursed apartment building, you could give ’em a smooch. Their dialogue and sprites were updated accordingly, too. Cue stammering […]

AO3 is finally out of beta after 17 years

Archive of Our Own (AO3) is officially exiting beta. The Organization for Transformative Works – the nonprofit behind the fanfiction site – announced the update on Thursday, which comes 17 years after AO3’s launch in 2009. “Since 2009, AO3 has grown and changed a lot,” the announcement says. “We’ve introduced many features over the years […]

Sony’s gaming division just bought an AI startup that turns photos into 3D volumes

Sony Interactive Entertainment, owner of the PlayStation brand, has acquired Cinemersive Labs, a UK startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumes. The startup team will join Sony’s Visual Computing Group, a research engineering team focused on graphical technology, including game rendering, video coding and generative AI models. Cinemersive’s most recent […]

Labubus Might Be Labu-Bust After Pop Mart Posts Record Share Loss

The creators of the hit blind box toy have lost over $30 billion in value in recent months.

PSA: Anyone with a link can view your Granola notes by default

If you use the AI-powered note-taking app Granola, you might want to double-check your privacy settings. Though Granola says your notes are “private by default,” it makes them viewable to anyone with a link, and also uses them for internal AI training unless you opt out. Granola describes itself as an “AI notepad for people […]

Reddit is moving on from r/all

Reddit is deprecating r/all, one of its feeds that shows popular posts on the platform, as part of “ongoing efforts to simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization.” Reddit has offered both r/popular and r/all as ways to see trending posts, with r/all being a “less filtered feed” where “sexually explicit posts are filtered out […]

Cursor’s New Tool Lets Users Delegate to a Team of Coding Agents

That’s one way to move into a management role.

Nvidia Needs to Remind Itself What PC Gamers Actually Want

Even more frame generation, aka ‘fake frames,’ will be less impactful than a patch to boost load times.