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CEO Peter Stern hinted at the upcoming product in an earnings call, saying it will combine “state-of-the-art software powered by AI,” premium equipment, human instruction, and community features. It will be the first in a new category for Peloton, but probably won’t be a wearable.
Bloomberg has a breakdown of how Starlink Mobile will operate — and what SpaceX still needs to do to get its hybrid 5G network up and running.
EA’s latest American football game is joining the Luna standard tier alongside NBA The Run, Mixtape, and Kingdom Come Deliverance II, Amazon announced today.
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The new version of Google’s video generation model allows you to generate clips at a specific length, from three to 15 seconds. Google says Omni 1.2 Flash can also make edits to a video without re-generating the entire clip, and is better at generating scenes with continuous camera movements and “natural-sounding” dialogue.
In a 20-minute video, Mark Brown of Game Maker’s Toolkit walks through his feelings over a Claude Code-made clone of his own Word Play game. He’s more even-keeled than I would be about Claude replicating something he made over the course of seven months in just twelve minutes.
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The companies filed separate lawsuits arguing that that the law violates the First Amendment and Section 230 by forcing them to present content to kids under 16 in a way that the government finds acceptable, Reuters reports. California DOJ spokesperson Elissa Perez said they’re “committed to defending California’s commonsense laws to protect kids online.”
Update: Added California DOJ statement.
Some of the shots in the new launch gallery look straight out of a movie, with new peeks at Jason, Lucia, and Leonida. GTA VI’s launch is just two weeks away on November 19th, and players can start preloading it next week on November 10th.
Anyone who used the internet in the age of dial-up can probably do a terrible impression of their modem’s screeching handshake sequence. But do you know what all those tones and sounds were actually for? This explainer from the YouTube channel Mixed Signals breaks down all those weird sounds and why they were all important for connecting you to MSN Messenger.
Nvidia is taking PC gamers back to 2006 with a Steam demo full of nostalgia. You can unbox the legendary GeForce 8800 GTX virtually, install it in a Windows Vista PC, and explore a gaming room from 20 years ago. Nvidia is even using modern RTX technology like path tracing, DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, and Dynamic Multi Frame Generation to bring all the fun little Easter eggs in this demo to life.
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Nintendo’s Switch 2 sales decreased by 37.4 percent year-over-year to 6.49 million units in the recent two quarters. That all adds up to just over 26 million total Switch 2 sales since its launch last year. Despite the year-over-year dip, Nintendo sold 24.49 million Switch 2 games during the first half of the year, up 19 percent compared to the same period last year.
The deal, Anthropic’s first with a publication, was struck ahead of the midterms, Adweek reports. Thanks to the deal, if you “opened Claude on Election Night and asked it for an update on the latest polling data, you would have been treated to a novel sight: up-the-minute information, provided by and attributed to the Associated Press,” according to the publication.
When you’re trying to cancel a subscription, apps can show messages that “remind subscribers of your subscription’s value as they decide whether to cancel,” and they can even include a “special offer,” Apple says.
I have a hunch these messages are going to be showing up in a lot of apps very soon.
CEO Evan Spiegel, discussing the Specs on today’s Q3 2026 earnings call: “We’re really looking forward to beginning to ship Specs later this fall.”
That’s not exactly news, as Snap has been talking about a fall target since it revealed the Specs in June. But I want to point out that it’s already November.
If you want to read about what it’s like to actually use the Specs, here’s my impressions.
Emma Walmsley, the former head of biotech company GSK and a member of Microsoft’s board, will take over as HP CEO on January 4th, 2027. Bruce Broussard, who became HP’s interim CEO following Enrique Lores’ departure, will serve as chair of the board.
First, xAI spent $60 billion on Cursor, and now Meta picked up Conductor for an undisclosed amount, as reported previously by Axios, as they all compete with the likes of Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex.
Conductor’s product is built to let software engineers manage multiple agents at once, and says it will wind down its existing setup:
Nintendo, EA, Google (via YouTube Playables), and Riot Games “have begun to implement” the tags as part of the Accessible Games Initiative, following Xbox and Ubisoft, the Entertainment Software Association announced this week. The tags currently cover 24 features, including button remapping and narrated menus.
That figure covers subscribers to Snapchat Plus, Lens Plus, Platinum, and Memories storage subscriptions, the company announced today alongside its Q3 2026 earnings.
”In recent years, where other key players in our industry collapsed, at AMC we repeatedly instead have talked about recovery,” Aron says in AMC’s Q3 2026 earnings report. “Today, we can finally say that AMC has recovered.”
AMC’s total revenues reached more than $1.7 billion during the quarter, while October domestic box office increased 35 percent during the same time last year, with big flicks like Dune: Part Three, Avengers Doomsday, and The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, still set to arrive later this year.
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Nintendo revealed yesterday that it held blind voice auditions for the Ocarina of Time remake and ended up casting an actor for the same role they had in the original. That actor was apparently Kaori Mizuhashi, who played Navi in the original and is listed as Navi’s Japanese voice in a leaked credits sequence for the remake, Eurogamer reports.
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From an open letter posted on the website of the video game trade union STJV, as reported by Vertical Slice:
Microsoft chose to justify the closure on economic reasons. But Microsoft is actually why those economic reasons even exist. Because after freezing hiring for 19 months, which artificially caused delay and additional cost, Microsoft now use those same delay and additional cost as a reason to close down the studio.
The studio, behind the Dishonored series and Marvel’s Blade, has reportedly drawn bids from Ubisoft and other gaming companies.
The company dropped daily caps from $300 to $200 for engineers and is planning additional reductions, Bloomberg reports.
