Since the release of Marathon on March 5, a lot has been written and said about Bungie’s latest shooter. Much of the discourse has been negative, predicting the game’s imminent death due to declining player numbers. Meanwhile, Bungie has said very little about its plans for Marathonother than reiterating his commitment to the game in the long term. That changed this week when the studio published a lengthy blog from game director Joe Ziegler. The post details Bungie’s overall strategy for Marathonstarting with an acknowledgment of the areas where the game fails. “The marathon is a real challenge to learn,”…
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After months of very limited testing, WhatsApp is finally offering the first stage of its Liquid Glass redesign to more users. Here are the details. Liquid Glass begins rolling out more widely on WhatsApp Last October, WhatsApp rolled out a small-scale test of the Liquid Glass look applied to the app’s bottom navigation bar and certain elements of its Chats tab interface. Since then, Meta has experimented with its adaptation of the Liquid Glass redesign in other UI elements, such as the voicemail player, chat interface, message reactions, and context menus. Today, the company appears to be rolling out the…
Games completed quickly The Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) 2026 schedule is online. This year’s lineup includes a familiar mix of technically impressive speedruns and wacky new things. This summer’s party will take place in Minneapolis from July 5-11. Donations will go to Doctors Without Borders, for whom last year’s event raised more than $2.4 million. (If you’re new to this, imagine the old Jerry Lewis telethons, only with fun, ultra-skilled players instead of Liberace and Neil Sedaka.) The most recent titles in the 2026 calendar include Kirby Air Riders,…
If you own a Mac and a cat, you’ve probably encountered a situation where your cat is sitting on your computer’s keyboard. Whether it’s because Macs are hot or because they want to distract you from the screen that’s absorbing all your attention, laptops tend to attract cats. A new Mac app called Cats Lock adds cat protection that stops your cat from causing damage to anything you’re working on when it enters your keyboard, and it can even be set to chase the cat away. You can click to activate Cats Lock in the menu bar or use a…
Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, has been added as a custodian of documents in xAI’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI. Here’s what that means. A little context Last year, Elon Musk accused Apple and OpenAI of working together to prevent competing LLMs from succeeding in the App Store, sparking a lawsuit that now also involves the super app market. In the lawsuit, xAI (now part of SpaceX) claims that Apple’s deal with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into Siri influenced App Store rankings. Apple has repeatedly denied these accusations, particularly disputing xAI’s characterization that the company’s…
Apple TV is about to launch its best summer programming ever, but the streamer is already on a roll with recent premieres. Here are three recent new series from Apple TV’s hot streak and the upcoming shows that look set to continue. Apple TV’s all-new shows this year have been widely praised For most of this year, Apple TV has focused on high-profile returning shows. These included new seasons of Shrinking, Hijack, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and, most recently, Your Friends & Neighbors. But over the past month, the streamer has focused on brand new series and seen great success.…
Photoschmidt/Shutterstock Whenever you buy new electronics, they always ship in shiny new boxes. However, once the device is set up, the next big question is whether you should keep the box or throw it away. Generally speaking, there are two types of people. On one hand, some people hoard boxes religiously, and then there are people who throw them away almost instantly. Depending on the device, both approaches have drawbacks. Manufacturers spend time designing these boxes, finding the perfect shape and size, and for a reason. This protects the device…
Cunaplus_m.faba/Getty Images Until your router reaches its end of life (EOL), the manufacturer will offer regular firmware updates. If you don’t update it, the network may start to misbehave over time. Problems you’ll notice include slower internet speeds, devices disconnecting randomly (or not connecting at all), reduced compatibility with devices using newer Wi-Fi standards, or the router starting to overheat. But probably the worst part about not updating your router is that it becomes an easy target for hackers who know how to exploit vulnerabilities in old firmware. For example,…
Apple has a full lineup of new products coming this fall. Here are all the new Apple products expected to arrive later this year. iPhone 18 family, including the first Ultra model Apple’s flagship iPhone 18 lineup will go ultra-premium this fall, ditching the base iPhone 18 model that was rumored to arrive in early 2027. The launch date for the iPhone Air 2, however, remains unclear. New AirPods Ultra and Apple Watch models Apple is rumored to launch a new AirPods Ultra model this year that introduces infrared cameras for AI features. New Apple Watch and Apple Watch Ultra…
As important as it was for Meta to squeeze a screen into its smart glasses with the Ray-Ban Meta Display, the excitement generated by the hardware was betrayed by the software side of things. The thing is, there just weren’t a ton of apps to use in the company’s $800 smart glasses at launch, although things might finally be coming. Meta has opened up the Ray-Ban display, meaning developers can now create web apps using the display and neural strip, and launch them on the smart glasses via a URL. To be clear, this is aimed at developers at the…