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There is something special about the Japanese convenience store, or konbini. Alongside the sushi, noodles, sights, and sounds of a trip to Japan, the konbini is an amazing part of any visit to the country. They are venues for trying new snacks and drinks, testing your “Arigatou gozaimasu” that you practiced over and over again on the plane, and witnessing a quality of convenience that’s rare back home; they’re special little pitstops you will make countless times there. Inkonbini: One Store Many Stories attempts to tap into this, putting you in the shoes of a konbini worker to play a…

WhatsApp (from Meta) may still be best known as a phone-first messaging app, but its browser version has become a lot more useful than it used to be. If you spend most of your day at a desk, typing out replies on a full keyboard is simply easier than pecking away on your phone screen. This is where WhatsApp Web comes in. The service lets you access your chats from a laptop or desktop browser, giving you a larger view of your conversations and a much more comfortable place to type, send files, and keep up with group chats. It…

The Season 3 DLC character roster for Tekken 8 was first revealed in February, and we learned that Kunimitsu, Bob, and Roger Jr. are joining the roster this year. The first gameplay showcase for Kunimitsu premiered today, showing off the ninja in action while announcing an early June release date.Kunimitsu is a Tekken OG, debuting in the original game and appearing in Tekken 2 before disappearing from mainline entries, and was instead relegated to the non-canon Tekken Tag Tournament series. However, her daughter took the mantle starting with Tekken 7 (unofficially referred to as Kunimitsu II) and she will return…

A new leak has shed light on what Google has planned for its upcoming Pixel 11 lineup, and if accurate, the changes run deeper than a typical year-over-year refresh. What’s the latest on Google’s upcoming flagships Mystic Leaks, who shared a few details about the Tensor G6 last week, is back with a broader breakdown (via 9to5Google) of the upcoming flagship series. The biggest headline is that the Tensor G6 chipset would move to a MediaTek M90 modem, ending Google’s reliance on Samsung’s Exynos modems. The chip is also expected to pack ARM C1 cores in a 1+4+2 configuration, along…

Delays have already pushed Grand Theft Auto VI further down the calendar, and the latest accounts from inside Rockstar Games suggest the schedule pressure hasn’t eased. Instead, employees describe a situation where the burden of meeting leadership’s revised timelines is falling directly on development teams, with long hours and unpaid overtime becoming routine in recent weeks. Is crunch culture still deeply embedded at Rockstar Games despite past backlash? A recent Glassdoor review from a QA analyst in Bengaluru, first highlighted by GTA 6 Countdown on X, says the workload has become unrealistic. The employee claims overtime is expected but not…

There’s no shortage of messaging apps out there. The past decade has given us more options than we know what to do with, largely because smartphones demanded something better than plain old SMS. Both the App Store and the Play Store are packed with apps that promise to revolutionize the way we communicate. Most of them didn’t make it. The truth is, a messaging app is only as good as the number of people using it, and most apps never cross that threshold. WhatsApp seem to be one of the few chat apps that have crossed it. What began in…

A Chinese creator has built a walk-in PC that turns desktop cooling into a human-scale spectacle. The fish-tank-style tower has enough room for a person, a compact desk, and a gaming setup, making the creator look like one of the tiny figures builders sometimes place inside flashy cases. The build comes from TechTuber Soda Baka, who shared the project on Bilibili. It scales up familiar PC modding cues, including wall-sized fan housings, a huge graphics card prop, chunky cooler parts, and plenty of RGB lighting. The size gets attention first, but the sealed enclosure soon becomes a heat trap. The…

I have been watching MKBHD for years. Long enough that Marques’ voice is part of the experience. So when a recent upload started playing on my TV and he was suddenly speaking Japanese, it took me a moment to process what was actually happening. This was not something I had turned on. YouTube had somehow decided, apparently due to the Japanese text on his T-shirt (but probably because I watch a lot of anime with English subtitles), that I should be hearing a dubbed version in a language I did not understand. It did not matter that the video was…

AI slop has already flooded video feeds, gaming debates, software code, and search results. Now the same low-effort machine-made content is moving into podcasts. Music usually dominates the AI slop debate, but the podcast problem may be harder to spot and harder to clean up. AI tools can now create, upload, and even monetize entire shows far faster than traditional podcast studios. ` Is podcasting becoming the next slop factory? A Bloomberg report points to how quickly this is spreading. According to the Podcast Index, 10,871 new podcast feeds were created over roughly nine days, and about 4,243 of them,…

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