Google is in the middle of holding a product launch event, and it just announced the Google Home Mini. Isabelle Olson, who is lead designer for Home hardware, took the stage in San Francisco to introduce the latest version ofGoogle Home, Google’s smart speaker that was first launched last year. (You might remember Olson for her work as a lead designer on the original Google Glass). Anyway, Olson said Home products should look good in your house, and that “form and size really matters”....

Quick Links Major Dieselis a powered-upO.R.C. Stinkbugand one of the main bosses inGrounded 2near the end of the early access. After destroying the O.R.C. forces at the pines and lake locations, the stranger will challenge you to come and fight them at theCommand Center. While Major Diesel can be skipped, doing so will make your return trips dangerous, and defeating theStinkbugwill allow you a safer passage back and forth. This guide will provide a brief overview of how to defeat Major Diesel, which can be applied to other bugs of his typing in your gameplay....

Bullitt and MediaTek have confirmed a partnership that’s going to result in the launch of a device offering satellite messaging in early 2023. Following the launch of the iPhone 14 with itssatellite SOS feature, there’s been growing attention to the possibilities that satellites offer, able to provide a degree of connectivity when out of cellular range. Bullitt - behind a range of rugged devices under brands like CAT and Motorola - says that this is the first device to use MediaTek’s 3GPP NTN (non-terrestrial network) chipset....

Ray-Ban has teamed up with Meta to launch the pair’s second generation of smart glasses. These new frames replace the originalRay-Ban Stories, and while the first outing was pretty neat, the Stories were lacking in a few areas, particularly in terms of sound and image quality. The new range is simply known as the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses collection, and these frames are looking to improve on just about every aspect of their predecessors....

Two Russian cosmonauts recently completed a successful spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS). It was conducted by Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev and lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes. Friday’s extravehicular activity — the eighth at the station this year — came almost three weeks after the pair were forced to cut short another walk when Artemyev’s spacesuit suffered a drop in battery voltage. Fortunately, no such issues emerged during the latest outing and, according to aNASA report, Artemyev and Matveev were able to complete everything they set out to do during their time outside the space station....

Square Enix release the latest screenshots forKingdom Hearts III, this time featuring Arendelle, The Mysterious Tower Worlds and the members of Organization XIII. New Screenshots of Kingdom Hearts III Featuring Arendelle, The Mysterious Tower and Organization XIII While Kingdom Hearts III will be launching next year, Square Enix are here to remind you of more reasons why this latest entry has the most talent than you can shake a keyblade at....

Nvidia Reveals RTX 4070 As A $599 1440p Workhorse When it comes to graphics cards, it’s no secret thatNvidia dominatesthe market, and we’ve seen this trend repeated most recently with the performance of the GeForce RTX 40-series. On July 21, 2025, Nvidia announced and released the GeForce RTX 4070, the brother of the RTX 4070 Ti that was released earlier this year. The RTX 4070 brings a number of improvements over the previous year’s RTX 3070, all of which Nvidia claims will boost performance in both traditional rasterization and ray tracing workloads....

From the very beginning, Animal Crossing has been game that’s meant to be played in real time. The pacing is supposed to be relaxed, with players being content to work towards their goals one day at a time. Even so, the temptation to time travel has always been present and it was easy to give-into in past Animal Crossing games. Sure there was no explicit need to hurry, but there was also no real good reason to wait either....

The Mystery Dungeon style of titles started with a Dragon Quest spin-off that would eventually go on to become a broad and wide-reaching series for many different franchises. Chunsoft were the brains behind the original concept and although they’re known primarily for working on Mystery Dungeon with Dragon Quest and Pokemon, they would end up creating their own original venture into the genre with Shiren the Wanderer in 1995. This would go on to spawn multiple sequels that would see moderate success along the way all up to the recent port of the fifth entry into the series we have today....

File this one under the Unlikely category. According to an otherwise pretty credible Japanese blog, citing“reliable Chinese sources”, Apple is working on a brand new mobile device featuring a five-inch Retina display. Specifically, it should have a screen resolution of either 1,600-by-960 pixels or 1,280-by-960 pixels. The gizmo is said to be released some time in 2013. This sounds a lot like a blown-up iPod touch of sorts, which in its current incarnation incorporates a 3....

The Google Pixel 7 Pro is widely regarded as one of the best choices if you want simplicity and consistency from smartphone photography. Generally speaking, whatever the situation, you’ll get good results from the Pixel, making it a favoured choice among smartphone fans for camera comparisons. Google has long leveraged computational photography - artificial intelligence and machine learning - to boost the camera’s skills beyond the core hardware. This is exemplified by Google’s ability to apply some of these computational skills to all your pictures in Google Photos, not just those taken by the latest smartphone....

TheMarvel Cinematic Universehas built up quite the ensemble cast over the last 13 years and they have certainly made the most of it, having characters appearing when least expected and creating some exceptionally crafted combinations like Thor and Hulk inRagnarokand the surprise appearance of the Wakandan Dora Milaje inThe Falcon and The Winter Soldier. With the arrival of the trailer forShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Ringsit was clear that there will be much more to come when fans were quick to spotDoctor Strange’s Wong and evenThe Incredible Hulk’s Abomination, who hasn’t been seen since the disjointed Edward Norton movie of 2008, featuring in the movie....

It appears that OpenFeint, one of the first multiplayer gaming platforms for iOS, will be shutting down next month. The service was acquired by Japanese internet media company Gree in 2011 for $104 million. And last week, Gree announced that it would be shutting it down. Even worse, the firm has only given developers a month’s notice to migrate away from OpenFeint. As of December 14th, the service will go offline, and any game or application still using it will either need to be updated, or will suffer from severely crippled online components…...