You can buy a Chinese made programmable humanoid-robot for under $6,000 USD, but it might be the same one that tried to fight civilians

Humanoid robots are doing all sorts of things recently, like playing sport, and being sold for under $6,000 USD. Interesting Engineering spotted the R1, a new human-shaped robot developed by Unitree Robots in Hangzhou, with the surprisingly low price tag of 39,999 yuan. Sometimes the words “you get what you pay for” hit a little more…

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Fall Guys Rolls Out Frame Rate Update On Switch 2

Smooth moves. Games are already benefitting in all sorts of ways from the Switch 2’s upgrades, and with this in mind, Mediatonic’s free-to-play title Fall Guys has now been updated for the new hybrid platform. In this update, the battle-royale style game has apparently received an “improvement” on Switch 2 in the form of “uncapped”…

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Mavrix is a promising sim about riding pushbikes down dangerously steep hills, but it shows the limits of open world design

Mavrix by Matt Jones is an early access mountain biking game with a 100-square-kilometre open world. It shares a lot in common with Descenders and Riders Republic. The former, because it’s about riding pushbikes at blistering high speeds down ludicrously dangerous hills, and the latter because all this is conducted in a big open world….

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Bungie continues to fire into its feet with both barrels: A new armor set in Destiny 2 has just been disabled because it makes the player who wears it completely invisible

It’s been years since I played Destiny 2, and the game has changed dramatically since then. But some things never change, which brings us to the new Blackletter armor ornament set for Warlocks, which you currently cannot use. The Blackletter set, which was released today, doesn’t strike me as all that: It basically dresses players…

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YouTube will no longer demonetize videos with ‘strong profanity’ in the first 7 seconds, but you’ll still need to ‘choose your f**ks carefully’

Back in 2022, YouTube introduced new rules for creators on its platform that demonetized videos containing “strong profanity” profanity in the first seven seconds. The results were not great: Unclear policies and uneven enforcement left more than a few YouTubers up in arms over the potential threat to their livelihoods. Several months later, YouTube eased…

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For better or worse, a new single-button way to play World of Warcraft is changing the game: ‘We’ve received overwhelmingly positive feedback’

Rotation assist, a new single-button way to play World of Warcraft, is literally game-changing. Introduced in the most recent patch 11.1.7, the feature has two flavors: Assisted Highlight, which highlights the toolbar button corresponding to what ability a player “should” use next for optimal gameplay. Single-Button Assistant, which for a small global cooldown penalty will…

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You can tour the entirety of Silent Hill 2 in Roblox now, but the creator recommends playing the real thing first: ‘This is not the best way to experience Silent Hill 2’

My sincerest apologies to all the Silent Hill 2 fans out there, but the closest I’ve ever gotten to playing it was today via Roblox. Creator Shapic2 has ported every inch of the classic horror game’s levels into Roblox and you can explore them with other block people for as long as you’d like. There…

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