Incredible neural implant translates neural activity into speech almost instantly by focussing on sound production instead of word choice

Brain Computer Interfaces have to be one of my favourite pieces of futuristic tech around today. These are wonderfully named pieces of kit that allow a brain to interface with a computer directly. BCIs work wonders in the medical community giving patients with even very limited mobility like locked-in syndrome the tools to communicate with…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 1

Let’s kick off a new month in the best possible way—with a guaranteed win. You can skip straight to today’s Wordle answer if you like, and savour the feeling of seeing a single perfect row turn up. Or if you’d rather see how you get on, our everyday tips and our fresh hint for the…

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Space Marine 2 will celebrate its first anniversary with a ‘large-scale update’ in September, and another year of free and paid content is on the way

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3 is now officially in development, but that doesn’t mean Saber Interactive is finished with Space Marine 2. Quite the opposite, in fact: The studio announced today that another year of free and paid content for the game is on the way, as is a new “large scale update” set to…

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‘They told me to destroy’ my backups, Fallout creator Tim Cain says: ‘People high up at companies take authority but no responsibility’ for game preservation

You may remember the clay heads used in dialog from the original Fallout CRPGs. They’ve not aged gracefully, what with their stiff animations and pudding-like faces, but you can’t tell the full story of how RPG visuals evolved in the late ’90s without them. They (and all the sprites in the original Fallout) represent a…

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A Short Hike dev ‘sort of’ cancels Paper Mario-inspired game, but decides to let everyone play a demo of it anyway: ‘I figured maybe sharing the demo is better than nothing’

It’s rare to get a peek at unfinished games, especially ones that aren’t going to be released any time soon. The indie developer behind A Short Hike decided it might be interesting to give people an idea of what that looks like through a demo of a Paper Mario-inspired game they consider to be on…

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