Digital Trends
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Lego 2K Drive Will Vanish From Digital Storefronts On May 19
Visual Concepts/2K 2K is set to delist the Lego arcade racing game it released three years ago. The publisher announced on various store pages that it will remove Lego 2K Drive from sale on May 19. The multiplayer servers will remain online through May 2027, after which…
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Here are 40 of our favorite deals from REI’s massive Anniversary Sale
REI’s annual Anniversary Sale — the retailer’s biggest of the year — has arrived, bringing with it discounts on all kinds of outdoor essentials. If you’ve got a camping trip coming up, now is a good time to stock up on the basics, whether it be a tent, sleeping pad, or stove. If your summer…
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OpenAI says Codex is coming to your phone
Codex is going mobile. The coding tool — which OpenAI launched approximately a year ago — has now been integrated into the ChatGPT app, allowing users to monitor and manage their development workflows remotely. The new function allows users to see their Codex live environments in any devices where it is running. The company announced…
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Fresh Horror From Supermassive, A Battlestar Galactica Roguelite And Other New Indie Games Worth Checking Out
Supermassive Games (Until Dawn, The Quarry) is back with the second season of its Dark Pictures series. The first entry in said season is Directive 8020. As you might expect, this is a survival horror game with a large emphasis on narrative decisions, with your choices ultimately determining which characters survive. This time around, Supermassive…
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The best laptops that I recommend to just about anyone
Need a new laptop? It’s a tough decision. If you’re like most people, a laptop is one of the most expensive tech purchases you’ll make, and it’s something you’ll use and live with nearly every day for years to come. So there’s a lot riding on this pricey expense. I’ve tested all kinds of laptops,…
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Osaurus brings both local and cloud AI models to your Mac
As AI models increasingly become commoditized, startups are racing to build the software layer that sits on top of them. One interesting entrant into this space is Osaurus, an open source, Apple-only LLM server that lets users move between different local AI models, either locally or in the cloud, while keeping their files and tools…
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Microsoft Lets Insiders Choose Their Windows 11 Start Menu Size
Microsoft Microsoft is testing changes for Windows 11 that will make it easier to customize the Start menu easier and to position the taskbar better for your needs. The company is rolling out them out to Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel starting today and over the coming…
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Meridian Ventures launched a $35M fund with a focus on MBA-deferred founders
Meridian Ventures was born out of a shared experience: deferred MBAs. Now, founders Devon Gethers and Karlton Haney have raised a $35 million fund to back pre-seed and seed-stage companies started by people like them. Gethers, 29, told TechCrunch the idea for a firm arose after he met Haney in Harvard’s MBA deferred admission program…
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YouTube’s AI Deepfake Detection Tool Is Now Available To All Creators 18 And Older
YouTube In the coming weeks, YouTube is giving all creators 18 and over access to a tool that can detect whether their likeness has been copied and used in AI videos uploaded to the website. Team YouTube made the announcement on the platform’s community page, explaining that…
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X is fighting Andrew Tate’s attempt to unmask his critics
X is fighting for its users’ right to anonymity against the far-right influencers and accused human traffickers Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are seeking to unmask their online critics. The Tate brothers filed suit against the owners of more than a dozen social media accounts — several of them run pseudonymously — last year, claiming…
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US orders travelers on Air Force One to throw away gifts, pins, and burner phones after China trip
President Trump and a delegation of U.S. officials left Beijing on Friday after two days of high-level talks with the Chinese government, led by President Xi Jinping. Before boarding Air Force One, White House staffers and reporters had to surrender various items collected during the trip, including staff burner phones, credential badges, and lapel pins…
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The Nest App Is Down For Many Users
Will Shanklin / Engadget If you’re having problems with the Nest app today, you’re not alone. Despite assurances from the official Nest status page that “everything is running smoothly,” well, they aren’t. Based on our own experience, Reddit reports and the Downdetector outage map, something is amiss…
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OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts
Your trust in AI is about to be put to the test: OpenAI will soon let you give the chatbot direct access to your bank accounts. The new feature announced in preview today will allow users to “securely connect” ChatGPT with Plaid — the bank-to-app bridging platform used by 12,000 financial institutions, including Schwab, Fidelity,…
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Power prices are up 76% on America’s biggest grid, and a watchdog is pointing fingers
The largest electrical grid in the U.S., the PJM Interconnection, saw prices nearly double over the last year, according to a report published yesterday by Monitoring Analytics, an independent market monitor that serves as a sort of watchdog for the PJM grid. The culprit? Data centers. Wholesale prices for one megawatt-hour of electricity rose to…
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Marathon’s Future Includes Duo Queues, More PvE Modes And Better Onboarding
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 imminent death of the game due to declining player counts. During that time, Bungie has said precious little about its plans for Marathon, other than to reiterate…