Ubisoft is hitting reset again: cancels games, closes studios, and delays releases


Ubisoft plans to overhaul its internal structure over the coming months and years and significantly revise its release lineup. Intensifying its focus on open-world games, live-service titles, and player-facing generative AI, the company has delayed seven games and cancelled six, including the long-in-development remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands...

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Stranger Things and NFL games pushed streaming to record highs on Christmas Day


Nielsen says (via The Hollywood Reporter) that US streaming figures for December 25 beat the previous 2024 record, also set on Christmas Day, by 3.9 billion minutes.

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This robotic hand can crawl away from its arm to grab things


Unlike traditional robotic grippers fixed to stationary arms, this dual-mode manipulator functions both as a conventional end effector and as an independent mobile tool. Once undocked, it can navigate toward objects on its own, using a coordination system that lets each digit crawl and reorient in multiple directions.

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Apple thinks its wearable AirTag-sized AI pin can succeed where others failed


News that Apple is working on an AI gadget was first reported by The Information. The device is described as resembling a flat, circular disk with an aluminum and glass shell – a thicker AirTag, essentially.

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Nvidia has overtaken Apple as TSMC's largest customer, Jensen Huang says


Huang made the remark about TSMC during an interview on the A Bit Personal with Jodi Shelton podcast. When the host referred to TSMC founder Morris Chang's recollection that a young Huang once promised to become one of the foundry's biggest clients, Huang laughed and said, "Morris will be happy...

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OpenAI confirms its first consumer AI device is coming this year, and it may be earbuds


Speaking to Axios at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, OpenAI's chief global affairs officer, Chris Lehane, said the upcoming device is one of the company's top priorities and remains on track for a launch in the second half of the year.

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Kioxia warns NAND flash chip supply will remain tight amid AI surge


Kioxia is working to significantly enhance storage performance for AI workloads in the enterprise market. Unfortunately for individual consumers, that same focus is driving up prices for traditional storage products.

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Snap settles landmark lawsuit over claims its app harmed teen mental health


A California lawsuit accused Snap of designing Snapchat to encourage compulsive use among teenagers, contributing to mental health harms over years of engagement. The case involves a teen identified as K.G.M., whose lawyers argued that Snap engineered features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, and algorithmic recommendations to maximize time on...

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Satya Nadella warns AI must go mainstream to avoid becoming a bubble


While remaining an enthusiastic proponent of AI, Satya Nadella now warns that the technology could eventually face the consequences of a massively speculative bubble. The Microsoft CEO spoke on the first day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, explaining how large language models, chatbots, and other recent AI innovations...

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Netflix to redesign its mobile app as it pushes further into vertical video


Launching later this year, the redesigned Netflix app will allow the streamer to "iterate, test, evolve, and improve" its service, according to co-CEO Greg Peters.

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