The dev aims to deliver an "authentic, new" entry in the series, and said it is committed to building on the foundation laid by Rocksteady. That studio was responsible for several titles in the Arkham franchise including Batman: Arkham Knight in 2015 and Batman: Arkham VR the following year.Read Entire Article

As reported by fraud risk company ThreatFabric, the modus operandi of this malware is deceptively simple - it tricks unsuspecting users into downloading it by disguising itself as an update for Google Chrome. The fake update page looks pretty legit at first glance, using similar visuals and branding as the...Read Entire Article

Boston Dynamics introduced its four-legged, canine-like robot in 2016. Over the years, we have seen Spot work alongside - and in place of - humans in several risky scenarios. In 2019, for example, the Massachusetts State Police leased a unit for a trial run in the bomb squad. The following...Read Entire Article

Nine Google employees were arrested last month after occupying the company's offices in New York and California for an eight-hour sit-in. They were protesting against the $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli government for Google and Amazon's cloud services.Read Entire Article

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the updated Notes app will feature enhanced support for displaying mathematical equations and recording voice memos directly within the app. Gurman also suggests that Apple will introduce a dedicated Calculator app for iPad.Read Entire Article

The tech giant reported blowout Q1 2024 results on Tuesday, with an operating profit of 6.61 trillion Korean won ($4.76 billion) - up an eye-popping 932.8% compared to the same period last year. That crushed analyst expectations of 5.94 trillion won and was bang on their pre-release guidance from earlier this month.Read Entire Article

Reverend Lawrence Kozak, 51, was charged with theft and other related crimes for allegedly using a church credit card to spend $41,879.83 on mobile games between September 2019 and July 2022, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Kotaku).Read Entire Article

Modders working with Nvidia's RTX Remix toolset can now utilize DLSS 3.5 ray reconstruction when adding path tracing to older games. The company used the announcement to show its effects on some in-development projects.Read Entire Article

The omnibox has evolved well beyond its humble beginnings as a place to type website addresses. It can now handle all sorts of queries and tasks by leveraging Google's vast search prowess. However, the suggestions and results it surfaces have been driven by a relatively rigid "set of hand-built and...Read Entire Article

The Rabbit R1 uses what its maker calls a large action model (LAM) to learn how to perform and complete app-based tasks on behalf of its user. A personal assistant, basically, but a lot more advanced. The device's CES appearance proved so popular that 10,000 units were sold in pre-orders.Read Entire Article

Google says the push to keep the Play Store a clean place came from its SAFE principles - Safeguard users, Advocate for developer protection, Foster responsible innovation, and Evolve platform defenses. Putting those principles into practice in 2023 involved a lot of security updates, policy changes, and advanced screening with...Read Entire Article

Cheyenne is driven by 8,064 Intel Xeon E5-2697v4 processors. Each Broadwell-class chip is built on a 14nm process and features 18 cores / 36 threads with a base frequency of 2.3 GHz that can Turbo Boost up to 3.6 GHz. In total, that works out to a staggering 145,152 processing cores.Read Entire Article

Rebecca Tinucci, Tesla's senior director of EV charging, will be leaving the automaker. Being shown the door alongside Tinucci will be all 500 members of the team that reported to her, writes The Information.Read Entire Article

Data-mined code that recently emerged on the Anandtech forums indicates that AMD was working on an RDNA 4 GPU at one point, doubling most of the RX 7900 XTX's system specs. Team Red hasn't confirmed anything regarding its upcoming graphics cards, but rumors suggest the company canceled the new flagship...Read Entire Article

The Financial Times analyzed hundreds of job listings, LinkedIn profiles, and many studies over the last several years and found that Apple has recruited at least 36 AI experts from Google, starting with John Giannandrea in 2018, who now heads up Apple's AI division as senior vice president of Machine...Read Entire Article

Researchers at the University of Washington have announced the development of a new type of PCB with significantly higher recycling potential than traditional printed circuits. Utilizing cutting-edge sustainable polymers, these new PCBs have the potential to address a substantial portion of the world's e-waste issues if widely adopted.Read Entire Article

Beats' latest additionally support spatial audio with dynamic head tracking, and lossless audio playback via USB-C or 3.5mm audio cable thanks to the built-in digital analog converter (DAC). In wireless mode, you can expect up to 50 hours of playback from a single charge. A quick 10-minute recharge can supply...Read Entire Article

The fumble is dumping the source into a Git repository rather than providing a pristine archive, which, as software curator Michal Necasek of the OS/2 Museum points out, was the proper approach. He makes an excellent point: "Historic source code should be released simply as an archive of files, ZIP...Read Entire Article

The Arc Browser, previously exclusive to macOS and iOS, is now out of beta on Windows and available for download. As of writing, it only supports Windows 11.Read Entire Article

Philipp Schindler, Google SVP and chief business officer, said during the company's most recent earnings call that early testing in Q1 exhibited "strong traction." The executive added that pause ads are "commanding premium pricing from advertisers" and "driving strong brand lift results," likely suggesting a wider rollout could be just...Read Entire Article

In an update on its Windows 11 Release Health page, Microsoft announced that the latest Edge browser update (version 124.0.2478.67) removes the "Microsoft chat provider for Copilot in Windows" package from affected servers. Consequently, users will no longer see the Copilot app in their Installed Apps list following this update....Read Entire Article

According to a Reddit post by Kevin Moore, a Google Product Manager for Flutter and Dart (via The Reg), "The layoffs were decided AT LEAST a couple of layers above our team and affected a LOT of teams. (I think I can say that.)"Read Entire Article

How did Adam Majmudar fabricate a fully functional graphics processor in such a short time? According to his detailed thread on X, it was no walk in the park – "way harder than expected," he stated.Read Entire Article

Project Hazel began life as a CES concept in 2021. Razer said at the time that it was working with a team of medical experts and scientists to ensure the mask met Covid-19 protection standards.Read Entire Article

The Federal Communications Commission announced the penalties this week after investigations found the four carriers had been feeding customer location data to shady data brokers and aggregators. Those firms then resold that sensitive info to pretty much any third party willing to pay up, no questions asked about how it...Read Entire Article

The lady in question, named only as Patricia, was born in 1922, something that appears to confuse American Airlines' system. Apparently unable to recognize this year, it continuously defaults her date of birth to 2022.Read Entire Article

The European Commission has confirmed that it will subject iPadOS to the same new rules that recently compelled Apple to allow unofficial app download methods on iOS. Unsurprisingly, Epic Games welcomed the decision and pledged to reintroduce Fortnite for Apple's tablet later this year.Read Entire Article

For years, we have highlighted Intel's loosely defined CPU power specs and the problems they pose for customers. The issue now is that some 13th and 14th-gen processors have started crashing.Read Entire Article

An update to the UK's Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act (PSTI) states that every device with online connectivity must either ship with a randomized password or generate a password upon initialization.Read Entire Article

The NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) recently received two incident reports involving Ford's Mustang Mach-E. Both accidents were fatal nighttime collisions with stationary vehicles. Each resulted in one death. Although the ODI did not mention if the fatalities were passengers or drivers, it did determine that both had BlueCruise...Read Entire Article