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Apple rolled out iOS 26.4 recently, and while your iPhone got several upgrades, CarPlay quietly had one of its best days in years. The latest iPhone updates bring two meaningful features that can change the way you use CarPlay on your car’s infotainment screen. Would you use ChatGPT while driving? Apple’s iOS 26.4 unlocks support for a brand-new category of apps in CarPlay: voice-based conversational apps. AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Claude will now be able to extend their iPhone apps to CarPlay for hands-free voice conversations, as soon as developers update their apps to support it. The…
Last year, Hades II and Dispatch were among the most critically acclaimed games. Hades II landed at number 2 on Game Informer’s list of the best games of 2025, while Dispatch was one of the final titles cut from that top 10 list. However, they also have another thing in common: Neither came to Xbox last year. That is changing very soon, as both Supergiant Games and AdHoc Studio announced their critical and fan-favorite games are coming to Microsoft’s gaming platform in the next few months.In Hades II, you take control of Melinoë as you journey through the underworld to…
You know that moment when AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude suddenly lose the plot mid-conversation and start hallucinating like they’re absolutely sure they’re right? Yeah…it’s equal parts funny and painfully annoying. My usual reaction is switching between apps, hoping one of them gets it right. But the real problem is that I have to start over every single time. It feels like I’m stuck in a loop explaining my life story to different AIs, one after the other. Now with Gemini, I can now jump in from other AI apps without that whole reset conversation. Finally, the Google…
Vaunted is one of the world premieres from today’s Xbox Partner Preview and comes from upstart studio Lost Lake Games. This team consists of former developers behind strategy hits like StarCraft and Guild Wars, and is channeling that expertise into its debut strategy title.The game takes place in a galaxy ruled by chaos, following the collapse of a galactic empire a millennium ago. Mercenaries and treasure hunters dominate the cosmos and regularly clash over the pursuit of priceless imperial relics. This includes the dysfunctional team treasure hunters Dyse, Gendril, and Kyvaath, who players will control in their quest to find…
With the public release of iOS 26.4, Apple has also pushed out tvOS 26.4, a quiet yet meaningful upgrade for Apple TV users. The update brings smarter content discovery, cleaner audio, and most importantly, it gets rid of iTunes. What’s actually new in tvOS 26.4? The headline addition in tvOS 26.4 is Genius Browse, a new section in the Apple TV app that recommends shows and movies across personalised categories. Recommendations are updated regularly based on your viewing preferences. In other words, the recommendation systems keep getting smarter the more you binge. With that, audio gets a serious upgrade as…
The most exciting parts of any gaming showcase are the new game reveals, and today’s Xbox Partner Preview gave us exactly that with Moosa: Dirty Fate. Set in Feudal Korea, the game showcases intense third-person combat set against a bleak backdrop. Check out the reveal trailer below. When a crop-killing famine spreads across Korea, its people are driven to cannibalism, while bandits raid and burn villages in the chaos. You play as the hero tasked with freeing the land, and given that the trailer’s narrator refers to you as “your majesty,” it sounds like you’re also a ruler of some kind.The…
Have you ever asked a chatbot something and felt like it completely missed your point? You say something with a bit of nuance, and the AI misses the subtlety entirely. That is exactly the problem researchers are trying to solve. Even though the emotional connection with AI can feel deeper than human conversation for many users, most AI systems today still treat a sentence as a single block of sentiment. If you mix praise and criticism, the nuance often gets lost. The research, by Zhifeng Yuan and Jin Yuan, introduces a model that can break down a sentence and understand…
The latest edition of the Xbox Partner Preview brought a number of reveals and updates for third-party titles coming to the Xbox ecosystem. If you didn’t catch the broadcast, we’ve rounded up a summary for every game featured, listed in alphabetical order. Alien Deathstorm (World Premiere)Release Date: TBAThe next game by Atomfall and Sniper Elite developer Rebellion is an atmospheric first-person adventure centered on combating aliens attacking a storm-battered off-world colony. Alien Deathstorm is coming to Xbox Series X/S and PC and will be available on Game Pass. Artificial Detective (World Premiere)Release Date: 2027The Showcase concluded with the reveal of this stylish,…
Driving is full of contradictions. It has changed, but not in an obvious way, even though there are smart cars and digital dashboards ready with a plethora of features to assist drivers. But at the end of the day, roads are an unpredictable space. During one of my recent work trips, I noticed numerous subtle moments of risk, such as a sudden traffic brake, a car unexpectedly drifting into my lane, or cutting across with no signals. There haven’t been any major accidents, so far, but it is now clear that being careful on the road does not guarantee safety…
The final game shown during the Xbox Partner Preview was another new announcement. Artificial Detective puts you in the shoes of a wise-cracking robot detective in the post-apocalypse. Humanity has vanished, and it’s up to you to figure out what happened and, eventually, save humanity. However, things become complicated when you discover a single human child that has been left behind. Together with this child, you must work to solve the case of the missing species, figure out why the child has been left behind, and ultimately save the human race from extinction. The game plays out as a third-person action…