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The blocky, low-res photo that once lived only on your Game Boy screen can now come straight out of your phone’s camera. A new camera app called Flashback can recreate the Game Boy Camera’s signature look without requiring the original hardware, The Verge reports. Built around the GB Operator Flashback comes from Epilogue, the company behind the GB Operator, a $50 accessory that lets you run old Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges on modern devices. The app is designed primarily for those who own an actual Game Boy Camera cartridge, letting them connect it to…
A company rolls out an AI customer service assistant. The model behind it is current and capable enough for the job. The assistant goes live. Within a week, support tickets are getting worse, not better. The model isn’t the problem. The company’s own website is. The return policy the assistant needs to quote lives in a PDF. The shipping calculator it needs to reference is a multi-step form. The product specs it should be pulling sit behind a tabbed interface that only loads after a click. To a human visitor, the site works fine. To the AI trying to read…
Following up on the ROG Strix Scar 18 (2025)‘s impressive act, ASUS has built a successor that looks even more ridiculous if you glance at the spec sheet. The ROG Strix Scar 18 (2026) is not a cute little café laptop. The flagship gaming machine is built around a large 18-inch 4K miniLED display and hardware that embarrasses most desktop PCs. But all of this comes at a cost, and you might want to sit down for this one. Why the ROG Strix Scar 18 is overkill The SCAR 18 is powered by up to an Intel Core Ultra 9…
With Spider-Man: Brand New Day set to hit theaters next month, Insomniac Games is celebrating the only way it can: by adding a new suit to Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. Naturally, the suit will be based on Spidey’s latest duds in the new film.On July 28 – three days before the July 31 premiere of Brand New Day – a free update for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will add the “Fresh Start” suit from the film to the PlayStation 5 and PC versions of the game. It’s the first new Spidey suit to be added to the game since June 2024. It’s…
Jon Prosser, the leaker Apple is currently suing for allegedly leaking iOS 26 trade secrets, has published yet another video on his YouTube channel called Front Page Tech, showing what he says could be the final design of the purported iPhone Ultra. Along with slightly different renders from last time, Prosser also points to iOS 27 developer code to back up his claims, particularly regarding the existence of the iPhone Ultra and a new feature that iOS users have been requesting for years. So what does the latest iPhone Ultra leak actually show? The renders show a book-style foldable that…
A wave of new apps marketed on TikTok and YouTube is making it nearly impossible for teachers to tell whether students are actually writing their own homework or offloading it to AI. The New York Times reports that tools known as humanizers and autotypers have closed the gap that used to give AI-written homework away, and that the same companies selling detection software are sometimes the ones helping students get around it. The tools work around the checks teachers rely on Humanizers take AI-generated text and rework it so it no longer sounds robotic or repetitive enough to trigger detection,…
Ever since Google rebranded the Fitbit app as Google Health, the app has been a work in progress. Version 5.02 is here to fix things, with features that shouldn’t have been removed in the first place. The two that most users will notice immediately are Hourly Activity and Naps, both of which had quietly disappeared from the redesigned app (via 9to5Google). So what exactly is back in Google Health 5.02? Hourly Activity presents a chart of your step progress each hour alongside your daily step goal. You can add it back to your Today or Health tab using the customize…
For those waiting for a perfect time to jump back into HBO Max, a fresh discount and a new season premiere of House of the Dragon might be the perfect deal. The platform is currently discounting its annual subscription plans ahead of the House of the Dragon season 3 release. The latest season drops Sunday, June 21, at 9 pm ET/PT on HBO. It will also be available to stream on HBO Max, with eight episodes rolling out weekly. Considering how House of the Dragon is one of HBO’s biggest current shows, this deal isn’t subtle. The company is clearly…
A new study has found that adults who play certain video games report feeling less lonely and more emotionally resilient than people who don’t play games at all. The findings challenge the idea that gaming is just a way to escape from real life and instead tie specific kinds of games to real, measurable shifts in how people cope with stress and isolation. What the study found The researchers surveyed 2,252 adults aged 21 and older about their gaming habits and their emotional state. People who gravitated toward open-world games like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, or…
Talking to Gemini Live no longer means starting from a blank slate every time. Google has quietly extended memory access to Gemini‘s conversational mode, allowing it to recall details from past conversations when answering new questions. What the update brings 9to5Google spotted the change on a Google support page, which describes Gemini Live gaining access to memory of past chats, plus information from select Connected Apps. With this change, Gemini Live can now hold onto specifics shared in earlier sessions, like dietary restrictions or important family dates, so users no longer have to repeat themselves. The feature is rolling out…