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Trebuchet announces a new game, new name, and discounts on Prison Boss Prohibition-related games.

The award-winning VR sandbox FPS Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades is gettin a sequel, and as well as SteamVR, it’s coming to Quest 3 standalone.

The Expedition 74 crew spent the majority of their time maintaining science hardware and life support systems on Wednesday. The orbital residents aboard the International Space Station also pursued cardiovascular research, conducted a vision test, and performed other experiments throughout the day. NASA’s Spot the Station website finally got an upgrade! You can find International […]

Health monitoring, spacesuit checks, and preparations for an upcoming cargo mission kept the Expedition 74 crew busy on Tuesday. The International Space Station residents rounded out the day with a variety of maintenance on science hardware and life support equipment.

Every few centuries, changes in how information moves reshape how societies govern themselves. The printing press spread vernacular literacy, helping give rise to the Reformation and, eventually, representative government. The telegraph made it possible to administer vast nations like the US, accelerating the growth of the modern bureaucratic state. Broadcast media created shared national audiences,…

Javed Khan knows the codec business from the inside. Before joining Neat as CEO in March, he ran Cisco Collaboration as SVP and General Manager, overseeing a multi-billion-dollar portfolio that included its room device line. Neat’s co-founder and CTO, Ivar Johnsrud, was one of the engineers behind the Tandberg C90, later the Cisco C90, still […]

You are in a meeting. Your phone rings. Copilot answers it, works out what the caller wants, decides whether it is urgent enough to interrupt you, and either puts them through or books them in for later. That is what Microsoft has just switched on. Included in the company’s April 2026 Teams update, published on […]

The move comes in response to proposed state regulatory measures designed to protect minors from accessing harmful content within the company’s apps.

Topic summaries are determined by artificial intelligence, with the app’s team providing oversight to avoid violating community guidelines.

May the Force be with you! Today is an exciting day for the XR community because it’s the day when the first Steam Hardware piece is being launched. It’s good to have such excitement because it’s not a positive period overall for immersive technology, with negative news coming every week. And this week, unfortunately, has […]

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But it probably won’t be very much.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Two of the most powerful people in AI—Sam Altman and Elon Musk—began their face-off in court in Oakland, California, last week. Musk is suing OpenAI, alleging that the millions he spent to…

The AI market is full of big promises of grand transformation. Health care is a prime target for those promises, beset as it is by financial pressures, labor shortages, and the growing burden of caring for an aging population. AI developers are targeting functions that vary widely, from curing cancer and performing surgery to streamlining…

Workhuman has unveiled a new AI-powered solution aimed at reshaping how organizations identify and develop future leaders. The offering, Future Leaders, is designed to help enterprises move beyond traditional succession planning by using data to surface high-potential employees years before they are formally considered for senior roles. “Now companies can know who their next generation […]

There is a particular kind of exhaustion spreading through corporate offices that has nothing to do with overwork and everything to do with the tools meant to prevent it. Employees end the day having attended six meetings, answered hundreds of messages, and cleared a cascade of notifications – and yet the project that was supposed […]

It’s the latest move in a race to add artificial intelligence to consumer-facing home technology, with xAI and Amazon also competing for future category dominance.

The platform will allow creators to replace copyrighted songs with royalty-free instrumental clips, while also using conversation context to filter video comments.