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The game's launch 20 years ago coincided with the rapper's meteoric success with his album The Massacre. Here, the team that made the shooter reflect on how it all happenedThe rapper 50 Cent (real name Curtis Jackson) was inescapable back in 2005. There wasn't a British classroom without a teenager wearing Jackson's G-Unit clothing, while his catchy hits Candy Shop and In Da Club dominated the radio. The backstory of this Queens-born New Yorker - how he survived being shot nine times only to become one of the world's biggest rappers - also made for compelling lore.That year, 50 Cent sold more than a million copies in one week with his sophomore studio album, The Massacre. In a bid to cash in on this superstardom, his label Interscope Records planned a twin strategy: a Hollywood biopic (Get Rich or Die Tryin') and a licensed video game, 50 Cent: Bulletproof - both to be released by November 2005. I think the general public are going to be blown away by my game," 50 Cent told the website IGN. It feels more like an action film." Continue reading...

New research finds generative AI depicts Australian themes riddled with sexist and racist caricaturesBig tech company hype sells generative artificial intelligence (AI) as intelligent, creative, desirable, inevitable and about to radically reshape the future in many ways.Published by Oxford University Press, our new research on how generative AI depicts Australian themes directly challenges this perception. Continue reading...

Struggling to sleep and work in the balmy months? Chill your space - and avoid energy-guzzling aircon - with our pick of the best fans, from tower to desk to bladeless The best portable neck and handheld fans, tested: six expert picksOur world is getting hotter. Summer heatwaves are so frequent, they're stretching the bounds of what we think of as summer. Hot-and-bothered home working and sweaty, sleepless nights are now alarmingly common.Get a good fan and you can dodge the temptation of air conditioning. Air con is incredibly effective, but it uses a lot of electricity ... and burning fossil fuels is how we got into this mess in the first place. Save money and carbon by opting for a great fan instead.Best misting fan:

As subscription costs rise and choice diminishes on legal sites, film and TV fans are turning to VPNs and illicit streamers, with Sweden - home of both Spotify and The Pirate Bay - leading the wayWith a trip to Florence booked, all I want is to rewatch Medici. The 2016 historical drama series tells of the rise of the powerful Florentine banking dynasty, and with it, the story of the Renaissance. Until recently, I could simply have gone to Netflix and found it there, alongside a wide array of award-winning and obscure titles. But when I Google the show in 2025, the Netflix link only takes me to a blank page. I don't see it on HBO Max, Disney+, Apple TV+, or any of the smaller streaming platforms. On Amazon Prime I am required to buy each of the three seasons or 24 episodes separately, whereupon they would be stored in a library subject to overnight deletion. Raised in the land of The Pirate Bay, the Swedish torrent index, I feel, for the first time in a decade, a nostalgia for the high seas of digital piracy. And I am not alone.For my teenage self in the 00s, torrenting was the norm. Need the new Coldplay album on your iPod? The Pirate Bay. The 1968 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet? The Pirate Bay. Whatever you needed was accessible with just a couple of clicks. But as smartphones proliferated, so did Spotify, the music streaming platform that is also headquartered in Sweden. The same Scandinavian country had become a hub of illegal torrenting and simultaneously conjured forth its solution. Continue reading...

Harry Davies on how Microsoft's cloud was used to facilitate mass surveillance of PalestiniansYossi Sariel was in charge of one of the branches of Israel's intelligence agency. When he took over Unit 8200 he arrived with ambitious plans - to use tech to change the way intelligence was gathered and analysed.The Guardian's Harry Davies tells Nosheen Iqbal about an investigation he carried out with Yuval Abraham, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call. It found Sariel had a plan to transfer large amounts of Unit 8200's data, including top-secret information, into Microsoft's cloud platform, which is called Azure. Having this much data storage would allow Sariel to fulfil his plans to carry out mass surveillance on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Continue reading...

CEO of Tech Council of Australia and Atlassian founder's argument hinges on whether AI goes on to create something new and novel'

Figures from digital data company show effect of strict rules brought in last month under Online Safety ActBritish visits to popular pornography sites have slumped following the introduction of strict age checks last month, data shows.Daily visits to Pornhub, the UK's most used porn site, fell from 3.6m on 24 July, the day before age-gating was introduced, to 1.9m on 8 August, a drop of 47%. Continue reading...

My daughter and her friends are part of the smartphone generation. The more time I spent with them, the more I learned about the darker side of their mobiles'This started as a project with my daughter and her friends, who are all part of the smartphone generation. They were 14 years old at the time and I wanted to learn more about the relationship they had with their mobile phones. In 2022, a study by Ofcom showed that nine out of 10 children owned one by the time they reached the age of 11, and that 91% of them used video platforms, messaging apps and social media by the age of 12. I spoke to my daughter and her friends about how they use their phones and the negative reputation that surrounds teenagers and their screens. They told me the positives as well as the negatives, such as how social media can raise confidence as well as knock it down.I asked if I could photograph them. There was very little direction from me and - rather than photographing them in a controlled portraiture style, as I would usually have done - I simply observed them doing their thing. The energy was high: they moved so fast, dancing to short music reels, filming each other, laughing, scrolling, chatting, taking selfies, and back to making TikTok dances again. It was so hectic, I struggled to keep up. This image, called TikTok, came out of that session. I found this composition and asked Lucy to quickly look up at me. I had about two seconds before the moment was broken and they moved on to the next thing. As a portrait photographer, you get a feeling about certain shots, and I knew this was the one. Continue reading...

In a world overwhelmed by noise and with more players looking for solace, it's time the triple-A developers pay attentionI am 85 hours into Death Stranding 2, an apocalyptic nightmare about Earth becoming infected with death monsters, and I've realised that I'm playing it as a cosy game. For hours at a time, I trundle along the photorealistic landscapes in my pick-up truck, delivering parcels to isolated communities and building new roads. The only reason I complete the main story missions is to open new areas of the map so that I can meet new people and build more roads. I find it blissfully enjoyable.Of course, I am far from alone in playing video games this way. Cosy games" have become a thriving cottage industry over the past five years, led by crossover successes such as Minecraft, Stardew Valley and Untitled Goose Game, but also housing hundreds of smaller titles that appeal to highly engaged communities. On Steam this month you'll discover Catto's Post Office, a delightful game about a feline postal worker, Fruitbus, a cute food truck management sim, MakeRoom, an interior design challenge, and Tiny Bookshop, which is about running ... a tiny bookshop. Most of these games are united by the same elements: small teams, often young, often working remotely; short play spans; low-stakes challenges; and highly stylised visuals, as an aesthetic choice and an economic necessity. Continue reading...

Playing as ill-used teenager Hinako, players must contend with that era's sexual politics as well as more unearthly terrorsAs the humidity rises in 35-degree Tokyo, so too do the dead. Ever since the Edo period, Japanese summertime has been associated with the arrival of supernatural forces - a season defined by malevolent spirits. As the country's temperatures soar, it's believed that the barriers separating the world of the living and the dead begin to wane, allowing once contained ghosts to slither into our realm.It's under this sweaty backdrop that I find myself wandering Silent Hill f's fog-laden Japan. Set in the fictional town of Ebisugaoka during the 1960s, players are put into the dust-coated shoes of a misunderstood teenage girl named Hinako. Summer or no, Hinako's tale begins in suitably bleak fashion. Fleeing her drunk and abusive father, Hinako miserably roams the intricately rendered streets of her rural home town. Failing to live up to the lofty standards set by her impossibly beautiful older sister, Hinako finds herself teased by classmates - lost, and struggling to understand her place in society. Continue reading...

Labor divided on how to respond to the emerging technology as media and arts groups fear rampant theft' of intellectual property

Bluetooth noise cancellers have good sound, physical buttons and buck trend of boring black cans with distinctive transparent aestheticLondon-based Nothing's latest gadget is a set of over-ear headphones that throws out the dull design norms of noise-cancelling cans for an attention-attracting look that is a cross between a 1980s Walkman and Doctor Who's Cybermen.The large, semi-transparent cans are certainly a statement piece on your head, with an outer design covered in details, dot-matrix print and physical buttons, but sadly stopping short of the flashing LEDs of the company's phones. Continue reading...

I was looking for liberation from the apps, but quitting them only made my life harder and turned me into a man obsessedI unlocked my iPhone screen at the precise moment that my weekly screen time notification appeared - accidentally dismissing it before I could take a screenshot - and promptly erupted into a rage. I had spent an excruciating week resolutely not looking at my phone, part of a month-long effort to whittle my daily screen time down from more than four hours a day to less than an hour, with the hope of improving my mental wellbeing (and possibly carving out a career as an inspirational speaker). But my efforts felt futile without being able to post evidence online about how offline I had become. I frantically Googled how to retrieve notifications (you cannot) and - briefly - considered re-creating my screen time report in Photoshop.Over the past decade or two, my efforts at self-improvement have taken various forms: the year where I read 105 books; the period during which I gave up all forms of sugar including, misguidedly, fruit; and a dalliance with shamanism that, I'm sorry to say, included interpretive dance. Some might suggest I would be better off learning to cook, or drive, or type with more than one finger, but they can't reach me because I no longer look at my phone. Continue reading...

Terraform Labs co-founder, pleading guilty to two charges, was accused of misleading investors in 2021 about TerraUSDDo Kwon, the South Korean entrepreneur behind two cryptocurrencies that lost an estimated $40bn in 2022 and caused the market to implode, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two US charges of conspiracy to defraud and wire fraud.Kwon, 33, who co-founded Singapore-based Terraform Labs and developed the TerraUSD and Luna currencies, entered the plea at a federal court hearing in New York. He had pleaded not guilty in January to a nine-count indictment charging him with securities fraud, wire fraud, commodities fraud and money-laundering conspiracy. Continue reading...

Billionaire accuses Apple of unequivocal antitrust violation' over app rankings, prompting testy responseElon Musk has threatened legal action against Apple on behalf of his artificial intelligence startup xAI, accusing the iPhone maker of favoring OpenAI and breaching antitrust regulations in managing the rankings in its App Store. The posts elicited snide responses from Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, and began a spat between the two former business partners on X.Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. xAI will take immediate legal action," Musk said in a post on X. Continue reading...

US medical journal article about 60-year-old with bromism warns against using AI app for health informationA US medical journal has warned against using ChatGPT for health information after a man developed a rare condition following an interaction with the chatbot about removing table salt from his diet.An article in the Annals of Internal Medicine reported a case in which a 60-year-old man developed bromism, also known as bromide toxicity, after consulting ChatGPT. Continue reading...

Two chipmakers make revenue-sharing pledges, OpenAI reveals GPT-5 and AOL bids dial-up adieuHello, and welcome to TechScape. My Spotify playlists are undergoing a British invasion this week. Here's what I'm listening to: PinkPantheress, Lola Young and Evita in London. Continue reading...

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Failbetter's beguiling take on country life has its comforting routines but slowly reveals a richer and stranger life than you expectWith dulcet Welsh tones, an actor bearing an uncanny aural resemblance to Michael Sheen introduces players to the world of Mandrake. The village of Chandley is small" and complicated", he says warmly. Everyone's got their own story." The action cuts between cosy, wooden cottages and a moss-covered forest filled with folkloric creatures. We see the protagonist, a horticulturist wizard steeped in the green and growing arts", returning home and tending to an abundance of vegetables. Some you'll find in your local supermarket; others are of a decidedly more magical variety.As a rural life simulation, Mandrake is odder and more beguiling than most. It possesses the same undeniable allure as classics such as Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley, inviting players to slip into the seasonal flow of crop cultivation, countryside exploration and conversations with suspiciously cheerful townsfolk. But there's more going on here: lush, painterly visuals to start. And should you tire of tilling the soil, you might wander off the beaten path of this mythical, Brythonic-inspired land, perhaps eavesdropping on the dead or even befriending a river. Continue reading...

President says he could make deal for Nvidia to sell downgraded version of Blackwell chip in China but expert warns that could help Beijing compete in AIDonald Trump has flagged allowing Nvidia to sell chips in China that are more advanced than currently allowed, in another deal" that would loosen export restrictions despite deep-seated fears in Washington that Beijing could harness US tech to harm national security.At a briefing on Monday, Trump was questioned over recent revelations that he had struck an unprecedented deal with Nvidia and AMD to grant them export licenses to sell previously banned chips to China, in return for the companies giving the US government 15% of the sales revenue. The US president defended the deal, which analysts have likened to a shakedown" payment, or unconstitutional export taxes, before adding that he was expecting further negotiations over another, more advanced Nvidia chip. Continue reading...

The hisses, pings and screeches that introduced millions of Americans to the online world will be retired in SeptemberThe hisses, pings and screeches that introduced millions of Americans to the nascent online world are to be formally retired when AOL's dial-up internet shuts down in late September.AOL, or America Online, said recently it was discontinuing the old school connection option after an evaluation of its products and services and that it would no longer support dial-up software starting 30 September. Continue reading...

With a growing e-waste problem, you're right to pursue a repair, writes policy professional Kat George. Your consumer rights extend beyond a product's warranty too

Wikimedia Foundation says it will be forced reduce access to site if it is classified as a category 1 providerThe operator of Wikipedia has been given permission by a high court judge to challenge the Online Safety Act if it is categorised as a high-risk platform, which would impose the most stringent duties.The Wikimedia Foundation has said it might be forced to reduce how many people can access the site in order to comply with the regulations if it is classified as a category 1 provider by Ofcom later this summer. Continue reading...

Unprecedented deal, an apparent reversal of security restrictions, is in return for licences to sell to ChinaThe chipmakers Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the US government 15% of their revenue from advanced chips sold to China in return for export licences to the key market.The unprecedented move, an apparent reversal of US national security restrictions on the chip sales, signalled an easing in the US-China trade war. Continue reading...

Nearly one in 10 of the fastest growing channels globally consist of mass-produced, surreal AI-generated videosBabies trapped in space, zombie football stars and cat soap operas: welcome to YouTube in the era of AI video.Nearly one in 10 of the fastest growing YouTube channels globally are showing AI-generated content only, as breakthroughs in the technology spur a flood of artificial content.Super Cat League (3.9 million subscribers) 767k (2 million subscribers - this account has since been closed)LSB POWER GAMING (1.7 million subscribers)Amite Now Here (1.4 million subscribers)Starway (2.8 million subscribers)AmyyRoblox (2.4 million subscribers)Again Raz Vai (1.8 million subscribers)Cuentos Facinantes (4.8 million subscribers)MIRANHAINSANO (4.9 million subscribers) Continue reading...

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Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notesArtificial intelligence tools used by more than half of England's councils are downplaying women's physical and mental health issues and risk creating gender bias in care decisions, research has found.The study found that when using Google's AI tool Gemma" to generate and summarise the same case notes, language such as disabled", unable" and complex" appeared significantly more often in descriptions of men than women. Continue reading...

The famous science communicator is planning to release a chatbot designed to answer questions about the climate crisis. Can it work?

Palantir, Geo Group and CoreCivic, cogs in president's enormous detention and deportation machinery, report unprecedented growth'The tech, surveillance and private prison providers arming Donald Trump's massive expansion and weaponization of immigration enforcement are running a victory lap after reporting their latest financial results.Palantir, the tech firm, and Geo Group and CoreCivic, the private prison and surveillance companies, said this week that they brought in more money than Wall Street expected them to, thanks to the administration's crackdown on immigrants. Continue reading...

TikTok workers in Berlin are striking over mass layoffs amid company's global push to replace moderators with AITikTok workers in Germany are holding strikes over mass layoffs of the company's trust and safety team. The social media behemoth said it is planning to dismantle its entire Berlin moderation team, which removes harmful content from the platform, and outsource the work to artificial intelligence and contract workers. This means the dismissal of 150 employees.The trade union that represents the TikTok workers, ver.di, has been pushing to negotiate with TikTok over the past few weeks. Kalle Kunkel, a ver.di spokesperson for the Berlin-Brandenburg region, said the union sent a list of demands to TikTok regarding severance for the affected employees and an extension of the layoff notice period to one year. So far, he said, TikTok has refused to come to the table. Continue reading...

Nostalgic social media videos detailing Blair-Brown rivalry elicit cult following among young political fansThis summer, TikTok has been revisiting very public, deeply personal and sometimes toxic feuds from the 1990s.And it is not just the Gallagher brothers - another psychodrama has taken hold: the rivalry between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Continue reading...

Whistleblowing complaint warns Alan Turing Institute is in danger of collapse due to government threats over fundsStaff at the UK's leading artificial intelligence institute have raised concerns about the organisation's governance and internal culture in a whistleblowing complaint to the charity watchdog.The Alan Turing Institute (ATI), a registered charity with substantial state funding, is under government pressure to overhaul its strategic focus and leadership after an intervention last month from the technology secretary, Peter Kyle. Continue reading...

Ozzy Osbourne appeared as an AI-generated image at a recent Rod Stewart concert, prompting questions about how the ghoulish phenomenon will affect grievingRod Stewart had a few surprise guests at a recent concert in Charlotte, North Carolina. His old friend Ozzy Osbourne, the lead singer of Black Sabbath who died last month, was apparently beamed in from some kind of rock heaven, where he was reunited with other departed stars including Michael Jackson, Tina Turner and Bob Marley.The AI-generated images divided Stewart's fans. Some denounced them as disrespectful and distasteful; others found the tribute beautiful. Continue reading...

Government rebates and grants have finally put the country back on the map for the quick-moving field of professional game development

Snapchat logged about 20,000 cases last year of adults grooming children online, more than other social media platforms combinedTech companies including Snapchat and Facebook reported more than 9,600 cases of adults grooming children online in the UK in just six months last year - the equivalent of about 400 a week.Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA), have grown increasingly alarmed about the growing threat from sextortion and other crimes targeting teenagers. Continue reading...

As US and Chinese tech giants chase artificial general intelligence, experts warn the hype may be outrunning the scienceA significant step forward but not a leap over the finish line. That was how Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, described the latest upgrade to ChatGPT this week.The race Altman was referring to was artificial general intelligence (AGI), a theoretical state of AI where, by OpenAI's definition, a highly autonomous system is able to do a human's job. Continue reading...

Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version's enhanced capabilities come at a steep costIn mid-2023, if a user asked OpenAI's ChatGPT for a recipe for artichoke pasta or instructions on how to make a ritual offering to the ancient Canaanite deity Moloch, its response might have taken - very roughly - 2 watt-hours, or about as much electricity as an incandescent bulb consumes in 2 minutes.OpenAI released a model on Thursday that will underpin the popular chatbot - GPT-5. Ask that version of the AI for an artichoke recipe, and the same amount of pasta-related text could take several times - even 20 times - that amount of energy, experts say. Continue reading...

Concerns that tech company's Israel-based staff may have concealed key details of work follow Guardian investigationMicrosoft is investigating how Israel's military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, is using its Azure cloud storage platform, amid concerns the company's staff in Israel may have concealed key details about its work on sensitive military projects.Senior executives are scrambling to assess what data Unit 8200 holds in Azure after a Guardian investigation revealed how the spy agency has used the cloud platform to store a vast collection of intercepted Palestinian mobile phone calls. Continue reading...

People in Gaza use Bluesky to crowdfund for milk and diapers - repeated deletion of their profiles has spawned a guerrilla verification squadHanin Al-Batsh estimates she has signed up for more than 80 Bluesky accounts in the last six months.Like hundreds of other Palestinians struggling to buy or even find food in Gaza, Al-Batsh uses Bluesky to promote her crowdfunding campaigns, hoping to raise enough money for flour and milk for her children in a given week. Continue reading...

Country is one of only a handful - alongside China and North Korea - where service fails to function as it shouldFor tourists visiting South Korea, one of the world's most technologically advanced nations, navigating the country's urban heartlands can prove surprisingly frustrating for one simple reason: Google Maps just doesn't work effectively.That could change soon, as South Korean authorities discuss whether to finally grant Google's request to export the country's detailed mapping data to overseas servers. But a decision on the matter was postponed for a second time this year on Friday to allow for further review of security concerns. Continue reading...

The two-hour debate propelled Jubilee Media into the mainstream and has been viewed 10m times, but some worry about the embrace of rage-fuelled contentMehdi Hasan knew he had gone viral. The broadcaster and author saw the views ticking up on YouTube; his phone was pinging incessantly. But the realisation that things had become, well, really quite surreal came when an older gentleman approached him at an event in Washington and, in Urdu, said: I watched you with the 20 crazies."The man was referring to the British-American commentator's appearance on Surrounded, a gladiatorial one-v-many debate web series, hosted on YouTube by Jubilee Media. During the debate - billed as 1 Progressive vs 20 Far-Right Conservatives" - Hasan was asked about his ethnic background", by a man who the Guardian unmasked as the organiser of two violent far-right protests. Another debater laughed maniacally to applause while agreeing he was a fascist. He was later sacked and condemned - and then raised $30,000 (22,300) from supporters on a Christian crowdfunding site. The video has now been viewed more than 10m times. Continue reading...

A barmy merging of genres where you can play with balls made from decapitated heads - here's a release that could promote an indie developer to the premier leagueSometimes it's the weirdest combinations that go best together: bacon and ice-cream, pilchards and custard, erm ... Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary. But surely no one has thought of putting Silent Hill and Fifa 98 together before now.Billed as the world's first online survival horror football game," Fear FA 98 (pronounced Fear-fa, like Fifa) has you pulling out knives, rusty scissors and syringes, summoning demons and using decapitated heads as the ball, in moves that make the likes of Diego handball" Maradona and Luis bitey" Suarez look like angelic stalwarts of the Fifa fair play guide. Continue reading...

Paranoia is exploited to control us. Movies are groomed to flatter us. And trauma has been twisted to make us blame ourselves. How can we make sense of our lives? The two film-makers try to navigate the chaosAri Aster's new movie, Eddington, pits Joaquin Phoenix against Pedro Pascal as men with conflicting takes on how to get their small town through the crisis of Covid. It's also a film about the contemporary political crisis in the US and the influence of technology on our lives.Adam Curtis's latest documentary series, Shifty, covers similar themes but through the lens of British life in the Thatcher years of the late 1970s to early 1990s. This era, he argues, put in place a substantial shift in power away from the individual and the nation state, changes that are still playing out today. Continue reading...

Leeds MP Mark Sewards has launched a digital assistant, but the results of my chat show MPs' aides have nowt to worry aboutAs anyone with even a trace of a regional dialect who has had to pay a parking fine can attest, voice recognition services struggle with accents. Now, people in Mark Sewards' constituency in Leeds are likely to find the same problem with his AI variant.A chatbot billed as the first AI version of an MP responds in Sewards' voice with advice, support or by offering to pass on a message to his team - but only if it understands you. Continue reading...

Though GPT-5 model has better coding and writing abilities it is not yet able to continuously learn'OpenAI has claimed to have taken a significant step" towards artificial general intelligence (AGI) with the launch of its latest upgrade to ChatGPT, but has admitted there are still many things" missing in its quest to create a system able to do humans' jobs.The startup said its GPT-5 model, the underlying technology that will power its breakthrough AI chatbot, represents a big upgrade on its predecessors in areas such as coding and creative writing - and is also a lot less sycophantic. Continue reading...

Impossible to monitor, a gateway to dangerous content, or a great educational tool? As the social media ban looms, parents tell us how YouTube affects their world

With distinct, discrete areas that you can visit at any time, this is not a traditional open world adventure, and it resists gamification with the mantra there's no goal but to stroll'Here is poetry in the form of a game description. Bernband is a sci-fi exploration game for people who like to wander...". Players will be able to simply walk around a colourful and unusual world, wandering in the glow cast by streetlights and ducking beneath zigzagging overhead flags. They'll tour hallways where strange green life grows politely in planters, and they'll even get the chance to snooze on rattling otherworldly subway trains while hand grips - tentacle grips? - jiggle as they hang overhead. There's no goal but to stroll," the game's Steam page promises. Where will your feet take you?"There's something intoxicating about a game that just lets you wander. But it doesn't mean the game itself is easy to make, of course. Wandering [as] the main goal is quite difficult for many reasons," says Tom van den Boogaart, the developer of Bernband, who is using the project to reimagine a much smaller version he made in 2014. To let players explore on their own, I think you first of all need to give them some context, such as where they are and what kind of world they are exploring." Continue reading...

Super bright OLED screen, top tracking accuracy, voice control and calls on your wrist are held back by high priceGarmin's latest mid-range running and multisport watch has smartened up with a very bright OLED screen, voice assistant and upgraded sensors.The Forerunner 570 continues the revamp of the company's running watches, which have all gained more accurate GPS chips and improved heart rate monitors. The new model replaces the popular 265 and sits under the 970. It offers a similar look and feel to the top watch but with a few key features removed for a lower price. Continue reading...

Tech giant's plan to up domestic investment over next four years comes as it seeks to avoid Trump's threatened tariffsDonald Trump on Wednesday celebrated a commitment by Apple to increase its investments in US manufacturing by an additional $100bn over the next four years.Apple's plan to up its domestic investment comes as it seeks to avoid Trump's threatened tariffs, which would increase the tech giant's costs as it relies on a complex international supply chain to produce its iPhones. Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, warned during an earnings call in May that the tariffs could cost the company up to $900m that fiscal quarter alone. Continue reading...

If the transaction goes ahead the value of the ChatGPT developer would rise by about two-thirds to $500bn