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Artificial intelligence has already helped write code, discover drugs, and generate videos. Now, it’s trying to make a better burger. Researchers at Stanford University have unveiled BurgerAI, a new AI system that designs burger recipes by balancing taste, nutrition, sustainability, and cost. The surprising part? In blind taste tests, diners liked some of the AI-created burgers just as much as, and in some cases more than, a popular fast-food burger. BurgerAI is designed to invent recipes, not copy them According to Stanford, BurgerAI was trained using more than 2,200 burger recipes to understand how different ingredients interact. Rather than predicting…
When Valve finally revealed the Steam Machine’s $1,049 starting price, the reaction was almost unanimous: the hardware looks fantastic, but the price hurts. Now, the company has confirmed what many gamers suspected all along: it never wanted the Steam Machine to cost this much in the first place. Valve says the Steam Machine wasn’t meant to cost this much Speaking to Digital Foundry, Valve engineers Pierre-Loup Griffais and Yazan Aldehayyat said the company would still love to lower the Steam Machine’s price, but today’s component market simply won’t allow it. “There’s no point for us to keep hardware at a…
Prime Day 2026 officially ends today, and while some deals are already sold out, I’ve sifted through the entire website to find the best ones that are still live. Below are the picks I’d confidently put my own money on. They include everything from mid-range Android smartphones to flagship foldables, bone-conduction earbuds to Bose, and smartwatches across every price bracket. Act fast, before the clock runs out. Best Amazon Prime Day deals on smartphones Google Pixel 10a (15% off) If you’re an Android buyer looking for a no-nonsense smartphone with a clean Android experience, long-term software support, and one of…
Last November, FX announced that a limited Far Cry anthology series was in production. We already know the series is helmed by executive producers Noah Hawley (creator of FX’s Fargo and Alien: Earth) and Rob Mac (creator of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), the latter of whom will also star in the show, but it’s been announced that Lizzy Caplan is joining the cast.Caplan most recently starred in Netflix’s Zero Day and the FX limited series Fleishman Is In Trouble, earning an Emmy nomination for the latter. The actress’s extensive credits also include Now You See Me 2 and Now…
Apple is expected to launch a refreshed MacBook Pro later this year, but according to Bloomberg, it won’t come equipped with a next-gen processor. Instead, Apple is going to equip the highly anticipated device with Pro and Max variants of the current-gen M5 silicon. It was widely speculated that when the redesigned MacBook with an OLED display and touch-screen capability debuts, it will also mark the arrival of the M6 series processors. Well, it appears that Apple has changed its silicon strategy pretty significantly. Apple’s M6 lineup could be surprisingly limited The outlet recently reported that Apple will only offer…
Alona Shevtsova, CEO of Sends, will moderate a panel at The Blockchain show on 29th June, bringing together experts from entertainment, location-based gaming, and content localisation to examine what it takes to build sustainable gaming ecosystems across emerging markets. The panel, titled “Global Gaming Expansion: Lessons from Untapped Markets,” will structure its discussion across four themes: the growth dynamics reshaping emerging gaming markets; the role of localisation in creating experiences that genuinely connect with new audiences; the infrastructure and communities needed to build gaming ecosystems beyond the game itself; and the lessons and opportunities that will define successful expansion in…
Haunted Chocolatier is the highly, highly anticipated follow-up to Stardew Valley, one of the biggest indie games of all time. But while this chocolate-making spiritual successor was announced way back in 2021, we’ve seen very little of the project, save for a handful of blog posts on creator ConcernedApe’s website. The last update came in late January, and now, just under six months later, developer Eric Barone is checking back in with a new post to reassure fans he’s still working on the game and explain why he’s shown so little.First, Barone thanks everyone for their patience, and gives some…
Academic papers aren’t what you’d consider a fun read. For the average person, the dense, long, and field-specific language-filled papers can be quite intimidating to get into. These are usually packaged as PDFs that look like they were designed to test your willpower. A group of University of Washington researchers thinks there may be a better way to get that work in front of regular people. They are turning the papers into short-form videos. The tool is called PaperTok, and it uses AI to help researchers convert academic papers into short, social-friendly videos. Think TikTok, except the idea is to…
Your PC and laptop runs hotter every year, especially now that AI tools and heavy software push it harder than ever. Heat is a real bottleneck for performance, which is why people have gone to wild lengths to solve it, like strapping an actual ice machine to an RTX GPU. A new study points to a far less extreme fix for this problem, and it involves bacteria (via TechXplore). Researchers have developed a new way to grow thermal interface materials, the substances that sit between a chip and its cooling system to help heat escape faster. The process involves feeding…
A flagship laptop deal has to survive the full spec check: chip, RAM, storage, display, seller, and final price. These two listings pass that test in different ways, which is why they’re the first pair I’d compare before chasing louder Prime Day discounts. Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 Pros Beautiful colorful AMOLED panel Slim lightweight convertible design Free bundled responsive stylus Strong AI graphics processing Generous versatile port layout Cons Weak disappointing onboard speakers Stiff mushy keyboard keys Aggressive reflections outside doors Uncomfortable tablet mode ergonomics amsung’s case starts with the screen. The Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 has a 16-inch…