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It might be shifting record numbers on consoles, but the PC is the Battlefield series’ home turf – a fact the development team hasn’t forgotten. Battlefield 6 has skipped some 2025 tech trends in the name of performance, but still looks drop dead gorgeous with all the visual treats turned on. EA’s large-scale shooter isn’t as demanding on your hardware as its epic explosions might imply, no matter what resolution you care to play at. That makes it a great test of the current graphics card sweet spot, Nvidia’s RTX 5070, showing whether 12GB of video memory enough to get…

US District Court Judge James Donato has just agreed to push back enforcement of his permanent injunction until October 29th instead. Here’s the text of the order. It’s brief!ORDER. At the joint request of the parties, MDL Dkt. No. 1110, the upcoming October 22, 2025 deadline on which certain provisions of the Injunction, MDL Dkt No. 1017, in this case are scheduled to take effect is vacated and extended to October 29th, 2025. Signed by Judge James Donato on 10/20/2025.It’s also not clear why Google argued for the extension, or why Epic agreed to it, after Epic CEO Tim Sweeney…

Actors, studios, agents, and the actors union SAG-AFTRA have all expressed their concerns about appearing in Sora 2’s AI-generated videos ever since the deepfake machine was released last month. Now a joint statement from actor Bryan Cranston, OpenAI, the union, and others says that after videos of him appeared on Sora — one even showed him taking a selfie with Michael Jackson — the company has “strengthened guardrails” around its opt-in policy for likeness and voice.The joint statement said that OpenAI “expressed regret for these unintentional generations.” It also carried cosigns from talent agencies United Talent Agency, the Association of…

There are but three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Google’s next Pixel phone getting thoroughly leaked before the company can even announce it. (Multiple generations of Pixel have been publicly unboxed, disassembled, and even reviewed before Google can show them off.)But it seems Google doesn’t want leakers to have all the fun — it plans to let 15 lucky fans try new Pixel phones while they’re still in development, reports Bloomberg.While Google hasn’t officially confirmed this yet, Bloomberg says it’s reviewed official rules for a contest called “The Trusted Tester program,” where 15 winners can “help shape a Pixel…

Several dozen patients with vision loss due to a progressive form of blindness called age-related macular degeneration (AMD) regained some of their central vision thanks to an eye implant paired with a set of smart glasses. The study was published Monday in The New England Journal of Medicine, and researchers report that patients could see well enough using the technology to fill out crossword puzzles and read regular books again. Participants included people aged 60 or older with diagnosed AMD in both eyes, and visual impairment of a measured visual acuity of at least 1.2 logMAR or worse in the…

Apple’s latest iOS 26.1 beta has a new option that lets you tint Liquid Glass elements of iOS 26 so that they are more opaque. Since announcing Liquid Glass at WWDC this year, Apple has tweaked exactly how glassy Liquid Glass is — early on, there were some legibility issues — but this new setting gives you the choice of making things more transparent or more frosted.The option is available now in the iOS 26.1 developer beta that Apple launched on Monday. You can access it from Settings > Display & Brightness > Liquid Glass, where you can choose between…

Today’s Decoder episode is a special one: I’m talking to Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz, and we chatted live onstage at the TechFutures conference here in New York City.You’re almost certainly familiar with Zocdoc — it’s a platform that helps people find and book appointments with doctors. It’s a classic of the early app economy, right alongside Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash, and others — it’s a friendly mobile app that efficiently matches supply and demand in a way that ultimately reshapes the market.The big difference is that Zocdoc plugs into the United States healthcare system, which is a huge mess. And that…

“If there’s demand, we’re going to build it” – that’s the message from Microsoft to Xbox fans curious about next-generation gaming consoles and handhelds. Following the release of the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X handheld, which saw Microsoft partner-up with the Taiwanese manufacturer, many are wondering whether a first-party Xbox handheld might be in the pipeline. As well as confirming (yet again) Microsoft is still very much in the console hardware game with a next-gen hardware in development, Xbox president Sarah Bond said the company is open to building a handheld too. She told Variety (via Windows Central): “We are…

The Sega Master System has turned 40. Sort of. Certainly, the Sega Mark III that became the Master System in the US in 1986 just turned 40. Either way, you’re old if you owned one back then. Sorry. On the plus side, today is a great excuse to celebrate Sega’s 8-bit wonder. I remember loving the ads too: “To be this good takes AGES!” And rarely have marketing slogans been so apt, because it took forever for Sega’s 8-bit console to find its feet. On paper, things looked great: the Japan-only SG-1000 Mark III was a would-be Nintendo Famicom smasher.…

As part of our Amazon Prime Big Deal Days coverage earlier this month, I was tasked with spotting notable discounts happening at Walmart. My favorite was the $600 off deal on Lenovo’s Legion 5 gaming laptop, which has a 15.1-inch 2,560 x 1,600 (16:10 aspect ratio) OLED screen with a 165Hz refresh rate, Nvidia’s RTX 5060 GPU, and other solid specs. The sale price was $950, but if you missed out on the sale, it’s still a fantastic value at $1,050 ($500 off).The Legion 5 is a better entry-level gaming laptop than $1,050 can usually get you. Getting an RTX…

Smart ring maker Oura has announced a revamped version of its companion app that also introduces some new health tracking metrics for its health and fitness trackers. Chief among them is a Cumulative Stress reading that’ll let users know “how their bodies accumulate and respond to chronic stress over time” and help them identify trends in their long-term stress patterns to help them recover more effectively. Oura says there’s a key differential between this measurement and aggregated stress stores, and draws from five key contributors to stress build-up and recovery. Oura says the “hidden toll” of unmanaged stress is indicated…

Small power banks are a dime a dozen, but Iniu’s Pocket Rocket P50 stands out for its combination of size, capacity, and features. We saw this model drop in price during Amazon’s recent October Prime Day sale, but a fresh discount has now made the power bank cheaper than ever. Right now, you can pick it up at Amazon in black for just $13.74 (a little over $19 off) after applying the automatic 45 percent off coupon at checkout.The three-port USB charger is roughly the size of an AirPods Pro case, yet it manages to squeeze in a large 10,000mAh…