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Instagram has spent the last few weeks trying to clean up harassment videos recorded using Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The platform deactivated two pickup-artist accounts, each with over a million followers, after they were found to be posting videos of women recorded without their consent. However, a recent Business Insider investigation found that the crackdown hasn’t been going well, with dozens of similar videos still circulating on the platform. That failure to catch problematic videos isn’t limited to public harassment anymore. A report from Futurism reveals that teenage boys are using Meta’s smart glasses to record classmates and teachers at…

The Duskbloods, the Switch 2-exclusive by Dark Souls and Elden Ring developer FromSoftware, has been one of the most fascinating and mysterious upcoming games since its reveal last year. That fog of mystery finally lifted after we traveled to FromSoftware’s Tokyo headquarters to play several hours of the PvPvE competitive multiplayer game. You can read my extensive hands-on impressions in this preview, and watch The Duskbloods in action in this episode of New Gameplay Today!Join Marcus Stewart and Wesley LeBlanc as they show off new gameplay footage and discuss and reveal new details about The Duskbloods ahead of its closed…

I like minimalist phones more in theory than I probably would in practice. I want fewer reasons to stare at a screen, but I also know I’m used to my phone doing ordinary things quickly and without putting up a fight. That’s why the Minimal Phone 2 interests me. It swaps the original model’s E-paper display for a smoother 90Hz AMOLED panel, alongside faster hardware, 5G, and better cameras. If I were buying one, I’d probably want most of those upgrades too. The problem is that once you add them all together, the Minimal Phone starts looking suspiciously like the…

Even FromSoftware’s most faithful fans expressed reservations about The Duskbloods’ description as a PvPvE Soulslike experience when it was revealed last April. So much so that even the studio regrets leading with this descriptor, as it believes it gives a somewhat inaccurate representation of the game. Battling other players is core to the experience, but it still heavily emphasizes exploring on your own, confronting dangerous monstrosities, and uncovering secrets to get ahead of rivals. It’s a fascinating approach to competitive multiplayer, and after playing several hours of the Switch 2 exclusive at FromSoftware’s Tokyo headquarters, it’s one even a single-player-minded…

Sennheiser just announced the Momentum True Wireless 5, and it’s basically borrowing the best bits of its full-size Momentum 5 Wireless headphones and squeezing them into a smaller, comfier earbud. The earbuds start shipping September 3rd for $299.95. What’s new on the sound side? The earbuds use Sennheiser’s 7mm TrueResponse dynamic transducer, manufactured and tested at the company’s facility in Tullamore, Ireland. They run on Bluetooth 6.0 with aptX Adaptive support, delivering hi-res audio up to 24-bit and 96kHz, including aptX Lossless for bit-perfect playback. Noise cancellation gets updated too. A redesigned ear tip works with a four-microphone array for…

LG Display says its new FLiPP OLED technology can make displays last 2.4 times longer than panels made with conventional fine metal masks under the same conditions. It also claims a 1.6x increase in brightness while cutting power use by 13%. LG Display plans to bring FLiPP to IT products such as monitors and tablets first, which gives the technology a fairly direct path from the lab to products people might actually buy. That puts OLED monitors near the front of the line for testing whether those numbers hold up once FLiPP moves into mass production. How FLiPP changes OLED…

Google introduced a new Digital Wellbeing feature earlier this year to put a little friction between you and mindless scrolling. Called Pause Point, the feature adds a 10-second delay before opening an app you’ve flagged as distracting, giving you a brief moment to reconsider whether you really want to open it. Pause Point was expected to roll out to all eligible devices with Android 17, but a new report reveals that the feature is currently limited to Google’s latest flagships. A Pixel 11 exclusive, for now According to a Google support page first spotted by Android Authority, Pause Point is…

OpenAI wants to get better at spotting people abusing its frontier AI models without asking privacy-conscious customers to give up Zero Data Retention. In an August 19 announcement, OpenAI introduced Private Safety Processing, a system designed to detect suspicious behavior across multiple interactions while preserving ZDR for eligible API customers. OpenAI says its existing ZDR safeguards evaluate requests individually, making patterns spread across several interactions harder to detect. Private Safety Processing is supposed to fill that gap without giving OpenAI employees access to the underlying prompts or responses. For now, the system is being tested with early customers. Axios reports…

5G’s millimeter-wave technology can deliver incredibly fast wireless speeds, but it has an annoying weakness: those signals don’t like getting around things. Walls, furniture, people, and even moving a few feet can cause mmWave connections to weaken dramatically. Now, researchers at the University of California San Diego are proposing a surprisingly boring solution: cheap reflective tiles that simply bounce the signal where it needs to go. The problem with really fast 5G mmWave sits at the higher-frequency end of wireless communications and offers much more bandwidth than conventional cellular frequencies. That’s what makes it attractive for extremely high-speed connections, but…

I’ve been using a Mac for a long time, and over the years, I’ve gotten pretty good at figuring out what’s going wrong when something feels off. Most of the time, I start in the Settings app. I poke around, change a few things, and usually find whatever is causing the problem. Storage is a good example. I recently noticed my Mac slowing down, opened the Storage section, and immediately got a clear breakdown of what was taking up space. One cleanup later, I had freed up some much-needed storage, and everything felt normal again. I’ve done something similar when…