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It’s unofficially Batman day on the The Game Informer Show, as we’ve got a double-header: our review reactions from LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, plus an interview with LEGO Batman voice actor Shai Matheson!Stay tuned for the back-half for the interview, but in-between, we’ve also got impressions of Yoshi and the Mysterious Book and the new immersive stealth game Thick As Thieves.The Game Informer Show is a weekly podcast covering the video game industry. Join us every Friday for chats about video game reviews, news, and exclusive reveals alongside Game Informer staff and special guests from around the…
Anker has added two new earbuds to its audio lineup called the Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro and Liberty 5 Pro Max. The regular Liberty 5 already made a strong impression in our review, where we praised Soundcore for getting most of the basics right, even if pricing left it under pressure from cheaper rivals. Now, Anker is pushing the Liberty 5 line into more AI-focused territory, with the Thus AI chip powering clearer calls, smarter noise cancellation, voice commands, translation, transcripts, and meeting summaries. Anker is using AI to clean up calls The main upgrade is Anker’s new Thus AI…
Biometric authentication is no longer limited to fingerprints and face unlock. Researchers are now exploring whether your earbuds can recognize you simply by listening to the tiny vibrations created by your heartbeat. A new study published on the arXiv preprint server introduces “AccLock,” a passive authentication system that uses standard earphone hardware to verify a user’s identity. Instead of relying on microphones or voice prompts, the system works through built-in accelerometers already found in many modern earbuds. Your heartbeat may become your next password The technology captures heartbeat-induced vibrations inside the ear canal, known as ballistocardiography (BCG) signals. These signals…
I recently wrote an article on why I am excited about the upcoming MacBook Pro. One of the reasons mentioned there was the expected display upgrades, which will include the move to an OLED panel and quite possibly the addition of a touch screen. It seems that the OLED rumor is almost confirmed. According to TheElec, the OLED panels for MacBook Pro have already entered the mass production phase. Samsung Display has crossed a major manufacturing milestone, achieving a yield of over 90% for its 8.6th-generation OLED panels. What does yield even mean? In simple terms, yield refers to the…
A developer claims a Gemini coding agent knocked a live portal offline for 33 minutes, then generated recovery notes that made it sound as if it had fixed the failure itself. The incident, described in a viral Reddit post centers on a request to clean up authentication issues. Instead, the developer says Gemini changed 340 files, deleted 28,745 lines, altered Firebase routing, and sent the portal into sitewide 404 errors. Google has not verified the claim, so the details still need caution. The risk is still familiar to anyone watching AI coding agents move from helpful autocomplete into tools that…
The James Bond gaming comeback just hit a speed bump. Six days before the May 27th release of 007 First Light, a Denuvo (a controversial anti-tamper software) DRM disclaimer quietly appeared on its Steam listing. Many fans who had pre-ordered the game found this reason enough to cancel. This isn’t an isolated incident. Publishers have made a habit of adding Denuvo close to launch. Crimson Desert did the same thing in March, giving players almost no warning, which led to significant backlash. IO Interactive is even worse, giving buyers only a six-day notice. Should you be worried about performance? It…
A developer has built an interactive star map inspired by the one featured in the book Project Hail Mary, and it uses real astronomical data to back it up. The book was recently developed into a movie of the same name, and it’s one of the best sci-fi movies of the year. The project was shared on Hacker News, where Val, who developed this project, explained that the map was built using ESA’s GAIA DR3 dataset, a star survey that mapped over 1.8 billion stars in our neighborhood of the Milky Way. The data includes star positions, colors, spectra, proper…
Stockholm-based Truecaller started in 2009 as an app for caller ID and spam blocking. Now, it is moving into travel data. The company has launched Travel eSIM across 29 markets, giving users a way to buy mobile data for international trips through Truecaller. The product may be useful for travellers, but for a company with Truecaller’s privacy history, moving into mobile data is bound to raise questions. What do you get with Truecaller’s Travel eSIM? Travel eSIM is a fully digital mobile data service. Users can buy and activate it through the Truecaller iPhone app or the web channel. The…
A BBC journalist recently performed a silly experiment to prove a very serious point. In just 20 minutes, he manipulated ChatGPT and Google into telling the public he was a world-champion competitive hot dog eater. The scary part is that he didn’t have to do something technically difficult to achieve this. All he did was to publish a single, well-crafted blog post on his personal website, and the AI took it as a source of truth. It was part of an investigation that found that ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google’s AI Overviews were being manipulated to dish out biased answers on…
If you’ve been feeling the pain of expensive RAM lately, you are not alone. Memory prices have gone completely off the rails, and it’s all because AI has eaten up the global memory supply chain. Companies like Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron have shifted the bulk of their production toward high-bandwidth memory (HBM), which powers the AI chips everyone is scrambling for. That leaves very little room for regular PC memory, and prices have shot up exponentially as a result. But it seems that memory prices will drop next year, thanks to companies using Chinese memory in their products. As…