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Killscreen has taken inspiration from the Nintendo GameCube for its latest customized DualSense. Following the 30th anniversary versions of the PlayStation 5 featuring an old-school gray colorway, Killscreen has announced a customized version of the PlayStation 5’s DualSense controller called the CubeSense, which comes with a purple shell and custom joysticks inspired by the Nintendo GameCube. Killscreen’s customized controllers are all based on a standard DualSense Wireless Controller, so while the CubeSense pairs a matte purple shell on the front with a transparent one on the back, its red, green, and light gray face buttons don’t match the unusual […]

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The 8 Elite comes with a new Oryon CPU. Image: Qualcomm Just a few years after changing its mobile chipset naming conventions , Qualcomm has gone and done it again. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is the company’s newest high-end smartphone SoC, and like the laptop chips it borrows its “Elite” name from, it comes with a new Oryon CPU. The company says that this shift enables faster performance and — lest we forget about AI — offers on-device support for multimodal intelligence. The Oryon CPU inside the 8 Elite hasn’t been borrowed directly from the laptop chips; Qualcomm is […]

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Viva Tung/CNET Apple released the iOS 18.1 release candidate on Oct. 21, about three weeks after the tech giant released a few iPhone fixes with iOS 18.0.1 . Apple brought a lot of new features to your iPhone when it released iOS 18 in September — like RCS messaging and home screen customization — and the RC introduces a few new features and refinements to the iPhones of developers and public beta testers. That includes some Apple Intelligence features for developers and beta testers who aren’t in the EU or China and have an iPhone 15 Pro and Pro […]

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The Roomba Combo 2 Essential can clean and mop floors for up to two hours on a single charge. The new Roomba Combo 2 Essential and Roomba Vac 2 Essential include a dock for self-emptying their dirt bins — a feature missing from the budget-friendly Essential robovacs that iRobot introduced six months ago. The 2-in-1 Combo 2 features both vacuuming and mopping capabilities for $424.99 and is slightly more expensive than the Vac 2, which only sucks up dust and dirt for $399.99. The Combo 2 is now the most expensive option in iRobot’s Essential line and slightly pricier […]

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The Anbernic RG P01 is the company’s first wireless controller includes a six-axis gyroscope for playing Switch games that support motion controls. Anbernic is expanding its extensive lineup of handheld consoles to include wireless controllers with the reveal of its new RG P01 , which features Hall effect triggers and joysticks “with minimal drift,” according to the company. The Anbernic RG P01 features an Xbox-style Y, B, A, and X button layout that can be switched to a Nintendo-style layout through software, but it’s not yet known if reconfiguring the controller is done through a desktop or mobile app. […]

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Nissan Nissan is the latest carmaker to join Tesla’s network of charging stations. The company announced that Nissan Ariya drivers can use the MyNissan app to find charging stations with plans to make the North American Charging Standard (NACS) adapter available to Ariya drivers. The move to Tesla’s grid of Superchargers will expand Nissan’s charging network to 90,000 stations across the US. Nissan’s energy network also includes the Shell Recharge, ChargePoint and EVgo networks with plans to expand other networks as well. Nissan will begin offering EVs with NACS ports in the US and Canada sometime next year. Nissan […]

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Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff; Bill Ross/Getty For a while now, companies like OpenAI and Google have been touting advanced “reasoning” capabilities as the next big step in their latest artificial intelligence models. Now, though, a new study from six Apple engineers shows that the mathematical “reasoning” displayed by advanced large language models can be extremely brittle and unreliable in the face of seemingly trivial changes to common benchmark problems. The fragility highlighted in these new results helps support previous research suggesting that LLMs’ use of probabilistic pattern matching is missing the formal understanding of underlying concepts needed for truly reliable […]

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An enthusiastic Gelsinger introduced the partnership at today’s conference, hosted by Lenovo. Nothing brings rivals together like a common enemy, and in this case it’s the rise of ARM pulling Intel and AMD closer together than ever. The two chip makers — not exactly the friendliest frenemies — are the headlining members of a new x86 Advisory Group to try and defend the platform’s interests against ARM, which finally appears poised to challenge x86’s dominance. The alliance includes a long list of other founding members including Microsoft, Google, and Meta, as well as Lenovo, the company that hosted the […]

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Photograph: Teerapong Kunkaeo/ Getty Images THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license . The sight of solar panels installed on rooftops and large energy farms has become commonplace in many regions around the world. Even in the gray and rainy UK, solar power is becoming a major player in electricity generation. This surge in solar is fueled by two key developments. First, scientists, engineers, and those in industry are learning how to make solar panels by the billions. Every fabrication step is meticulously optimized to produce them very cheaply. The second and most significant […]

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Courtesy of Sony Hot on the heels of its PS5 Pro announcement , Sony has once more upped the pre-holidays ante with its reveal of the PlayStation 30th Anniversary Collection , on sale November 21. But for some of us, the thought of enhanced ray-tracing and boosted performance aren’t its most exciting proposition. Readers of a certain vintage go misty-eyed at the thought of their old PS1s —arguably the first console that consciously looked beyond the kids’ market and fully embraced adult players—not to mention the roster of stone-cold classic titles and a clubbing-culture-influenced ad campaign that propelled it […]

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