7 iOS 27 Features That Make Old iPhones Exciting Again (No Apple Smarts Required)
The highlight of Apple’s iOS 27 is Siri AI. The new Siri is a marked improvement over the old and often fallible Siri Classic. But to use Siri AI, your iPhone must support Apple Intelligence. And that requires an iPhone 15 Pro or higher. Does this…
Miami Heat will play Vice City from Grand Theft Auto VI for a single game, with new field and new uniforms
The NBA demonstrated on Friday the scale of the marketing budget for Grand Theft Auto VI. The Miami Heat announced they would undergo a transformation called “A Night in Vice City” during their game against the Milwaukee Bucks on November 18,…
Vibe-coded Mashup mods took over X this week
I’ve spent the last three days going through some of the craziest mod videos I’ve ever seen. Modders take decompiled games with Claude and mix them with other games. As the week went on, more and more clips of these mods were posted to…
Christopher Ward brings back a modern classic, with serious improvements
The dial retains the same basic design with a single minute hand, a jumping hour window at 12 o’clock and a minute track surrounding a guilloche center, but everything has been raised. The needle changes from a flat black foil design to a faceted…
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds’ “Final Year One Content Release” Coming This Month
As much as I love Avatar, I have little interest in racing as voiceless versions against Sonic characters. I have the pass, so I’m sure I’ll try them someday, but that doesn’t motivate me to go back. I bought the DLC pack on sale, so I…
Drug use, nudity and sexual fetishes in GTA 6
He then discusses drug use in GTA 6, with a specific focus on cocaine. Drug use is “frequent and heavy”, and you can put drugs in an inventory slot so you can use them with other characters. “In particular, cocaine can be carried by the…
Nvidia kills its beloved Base Shield TV
If there’s one device that represents the Nvidia of times gone by, it’s the Nvidia Shield TV set-top box, a TV streamer that the company has promised to actively keep updated for eternity. If we’re looking for a new symbol to describe…
Upcoming ‘HomePad’: Will Apple hold a special event in October?
While Apple reportedly plans to unveil new products on October 13, here’s when the company could announce an event, based on the timing of its previous October announcements. Will Apple hold an event in October? While Apple’s September event…
Control Resonant made the right choice by leaving the oldest house behind
There seems to be a certain feeling on the part of the players of Resonant control than taking the action beyond the confines of the brutalist interior rooms of the first game, Control (2019), is far from ideal. But understanding the relationship that…
Competition-winning microscope video is full of AI confabulation, scientists say
Japanese optical company Nikon said it was “carefully reviewing” information submitted by National University of Singapore optical engineer Ning Xu after commentators accused him of using AI in his winning entry in the 16th annual Small World…