Technology

Basketball season is fast approaching, and so is a new opportunity to virtually get in on the action: NBA 2K24 New Gen. 2K shared preliminary information about the game in July but has just announced new details about September 8th’s NBA 2K24, including adding a LeBron Era. This new mode follows LeBron James’ 2010 journey … Read more

Valve may not have touched the Half-Life franchise in over a decade apart from releasing its VR-only game Alyx, but that isn’t stopping enthusiasts from giving the game a visual overhaul. NVIDIA has unveiled a community-led Half-Life 2 RTX: An RTX Remix Project that, as the name implies, will remaster the classic shooter for PCs … Read more

Last year, NVIDIA unveiled DLSS 3 with frame interpolation, which used its AI-driven rendering accelerator to add extra frames to games. Now at Gamescom it’s introducing DLSS 3.5, which adds Ray Reconstruction, a new feature that will use the company’s neural network to improve the quality of ray traced images. It’ll be available for all … Read more

Though it’s not quite ready to usher in the Doolittle future we’ve all been waiting for, modern AI translation methods are proving more than sufficient in accurately transforming humanity’s roughly 6,500 spoken and written communication systems between one another. The problem is that each of these models tends to only do one or two tasks … Read more

Now’s a good moment to get a smartwatch that can easily handle your end-of-summer hikes. Amazon is selling the Apple Watch Ultra with a green Alpine Loop at a new all-time low price of $700, or $100 off, after a checkout voucher. That’s the same price as a 45mm Series 8 in steel, making it … Read more

Meta will soon offer Stories and Reels in chronological order, among other changes, to comply with the European’s Digital Services Act (DSA), the company announced. The changes were expected after the European Commission announced that it had reached an agreement in April to create new rules that would require platforms like Facebook to offer alternative … Read more

Microsoft is significantly restructuring its Activision Blizzard merger proposal by selling cloud gaming rights for Activision Blizzard games to rival Ubisoft, it wrote in a blog post late yesterday. That would address a key concern of UK regulators, which blocked the deal in part become of Microsoft’s potential dominance in cloud gaming — but nothing … Read more

Those who follow publications like Engadget on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, will know that the articles they share on the platform appear with a text snippet, an image and a sometimes-truncated version of their headline. That may not be the case in the near future. According to Fortune, the company is … Read more