Despite the Wii being a global hit, some of its cooler features never made it out of Japan. One of them was the Demae Channel, which let you order food from the comfort of your Wii. It was a joint collaboration between Nintendo and the Japanese food delivery service, Demae-can, and the close partnership is likely the reason we never got an equivalent app in the West.

In what world does Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake get canceled amid corporate restructuring and yet BG&E2 does not? "Beyond Good & Evil 2 remains a priority for us in the context of our strategy centered around Open World Adventures," an unnamed Ubisoft spokesperson told Kotaku and Insider Gaming.The original Beyond Good & Evil is a fantastic game I can enjoy even now, over 20 years on from its 2003 release.The sequel has been in development hell nearly as long at over 17 years, the longest of any major game; it's survived the retirement of its first creative director, the death of its second creative director, and that one …Read the full story at The Verge.

Linux has been around for a long time now, to the point where there's still code within the kernel relating to technologies that people don't really use anymore. However, there's always the chance that someone is using said tech (and knowing how people love their retro hardware, there usually is at least someone), so the code is maintained and kept around.

Ever since I tried Raycast a few months ago, I've sworn by its usefulness in my day-to-day. It started on macOS, but it has since expanded to Windows in an official capacity, and to a lesser extent, to Linux thanks to the Vicinae project. macOS is still where I use it the most (because that's where I spend the most time), but it's incredibly helpful on all my machines.

Ring has launched a new Ring Verify tool that the company says can "verify that Ring videos you receive haven't been edited or changed." But since Ring won't verify videos that have been altered in any way, it probably won't be able to verify those videos you see on TikTok that look like they're from security camera footage but are actually made with AI. @verge Baby, that's a fake baby. Here are some ways AI content accounts are going out of their way to make AI videos seem legit. #ai #aislop #slopbusters #aivideos #sora ♬ original sound - The Verge All videos downloaded from Ring's cloud now include a "digital security seal," Rin …Read the full story at The Verge.

We know it's not the best time to build or even upgrade a PC. But if you've been thinking about it anyway, and wanted a powerful CPU that's now down to a great price, this AMD AM5 chip might be just what you're looking for.

The few times I've seen someone fall for, or almost fall for, a scam, it's usually because their mind has gone into autopilot while trying to achieve something else. It's usually because the scammer has made them believe that something bad is happening, so the victim tries to log into their accounts ASAP to fix the non-existent problem, giving away their account information to a phishing website in the process.

A lot has changed since AI chatbots became a thing, starting with ChatGPT's launch in late 2022. But for the majority of people, learning has still largely remained the same. While you'll definitely come across people using AI to cheat a little here and there, that's unfortunately often the extent of it. For many, learning something new involves going a more traditional route, like picking up a textbook, taking a linear course, and spending hours grinding through information at a pace that just isn’t necessary anymore.

There is no shortage of file transfer apps available for quickly passing files between your devices, and faster transfer methods from your NAS, but in my house, there's one method that beats them all. That's the humble USB drive, which works on almost every device I own, is never slowed down by Wi-Fi or networking glitches, and has been the most dependable method for me for years.

Ever since April 2020 when NVIDIA showed off the second generation of their Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) Super Resolution upscaler, the gaming world just hasn't been the same. Some would argue that it marked the day developers began to forget how to optimize games, letting upscalers do their work, but it's just as easy to see the upside — glorious and undeniable as it has been.

Just over a year after it briefly disappeared from app stores, TikTok in the US is now part of a new entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC. With approval from both the US and China closing on the schedule laid out in December, ByteDance's ownership of the new joint venture is now only 19.9 percent to satisfy the terms of the divest-or-ban law signed in 2024 by President Biden. The other 80.1 percent is owned by investment firm Silver Lake, Oracle, and Abu Dhabi investment firm MGX - the three "managing investors" that now hold 15 percent stakes - and several other smaller investors, like Michael Dell's family investment firm.A press releas …Read the full story at The Verge.

Can we please appreciate how poor these designs are? None actually feature a cat ON a donut, and one doesn’t even have a finished face. | Image: Microsoft / The Verge (via Canva) Microsoft is giving its Paint and Notepad apps on Windows new AI capabilities for editing text and making digital illustrations. The updates are currently rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Windows 11 Canary and Dev channels, and include features that feel oddly niche or advanced for such simplified apps, such as AI text improvements in Notepad and the ability to instantly generate coloring book pages in Paint.The latter feature is aptly called "Coloring book," and lets you make blank coloring templates in version 11.2512.191.0 of Paint based on a text prompt. Users can access this feature by selecting the Coloring book option from the …Read the full story at The Verge.