Epic Games database leak hints at a trove of unannounced games - Technology news - NewsLocker (2024)

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An unofficial site tracking titles in the Epic Games library may have just leaked a ton of upcoming games, as reported earlier by Wccftech. The site, called EpicDB, was taken offline shortly after it posted information scraped from the Epic Games Store catalog on Monday, but that didn’t stop people from scanning the list and posting their findings.
You can see the list of games from publishers like Bethesda, Sega, Sony, Square Enix, and others in a s

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OpenAI’s first acquisition is an enterprise data startup

Image: The Verge OpenAI has acquired Rockset, an enterprise analytics startup, to “power our retrieval infrastructure across products,” according to a Friday blog post.This acquisition is OpenAI’s first where the company will integrate both a company’s technology and its team, a spokesperson tells Bloomberg. The two companies didn’t share the terms of the acquisition. Rockset has raised $105 million in funding to date.
“Rockset’s infrastructure empowers

TikTok is looking more and more like Yelp

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok is part algorithmic television, part Nextdoor group, and increasingly, part travel agent — a role the platform seems to be leaning into.
Users have been able to tag their geolocation for a while, but now, the company appears to have revamped the landing pages for certain locations like Boston, New York, and Texas. Now, instead of just showing videos that tag that location, TikTok has created categories like “food & drink,” &ld

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The next next thing in AI and AR

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge Meta is apparently deprioritizing VR and its Oculus business to focus on reproducing the surprising success of its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. And it makes sense — VR is out, AI is in, and Meta’s smart glasses are the absolute standout gadget thus far for AI. But in the same week that Alex Heath reported this shake-up in Command Line, The Information reported that Apple is focusing on a cheaper Vision headset in favor of a successor to the Vision Pro. S

Spotify’s $10.99 ‘Basic’ plan drops the audiobooks

Image: Nick Barclay / The Verge Spotify just announced that it would be increasing prices in the US, but on Friday, it announced a new Basic plan that brings back a $10.99 per month tier. This new offering gives you the same ad-free music listening perks you’d get on the $11.99 Premium Individual tier, but you won’t get the 15 monthly hours of audiobook listening that’s also included with Premium.Last year, Spotify bumped up the cost of Premium from $9.99 per month — the

The DOJ has convicted five men for running a Netflix clone full of pirated TV shows

Image: TC Sottek / The Verge After years of pursuing a group of piracy advocates for illegally hosting and streaming thousands of stolen TV shows, the Department of Justice doled out a series of convictions.
On Thursday, the Department of Justice announced that Kristopher Dallmann, Douglas Courson, Felipe Garcia, Jared Jaurequi, and Peter Huber — five men who were responsible for running Netflix knockoff Jetflicks — have been convicted on multiple counts of copyright infringement and

Elon Musk has another secret child with exec at his brain implant company

Illustration: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Image: Getty Images Elon Musk, who has long touted claims about the world’s supposed depopulation crisis, had another child with an executive at his brain implant company Neuralink, according to a report from Bloomberg. Neuralink director Shivon Zilis reportedly had the child with Musk earlier this year.
Musk already has twins with Zilis, which Business Insider discovered in 2022 after digging up a court document. He has three children with the mus

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7 Best Mechanical Keyboards (2024): Tested and Reviewed

We've typed thousands of words to help you find the ideal clacky—or thocky—mechanical keyboard for your refined taste.

Tidal is revamping its lossless and immersive audio formats

Tidal is dropping support for MQA. | Image: The Verge Big news for audiophiles: Tidal is shaking up its audio formats. Starting July 24th, Tidal will drop support for Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) and 360 Reality Audio formats. Going forward, the streaming service says FLAC will be the default for stereo, while Dolby Atmos will be the format of choice for immersive sound.
Tidal allows users to stream in three tiers of audio quality: low, high, and max. Low uses AAC files, which go up to 320

You can save hundreds on Samsung’s last-gen The Frame TV

Samsung’s The Frame TV is a stylish 4K TV with some impressive specs, including a 120Hz refresh rate. | Image: Samsung If you plan on relaxing this summer by sitting back with a cold drink and streaming the Olympics and your favorite shows, it’s worth investing in a TV that isn’t an eyesore. Samsung’s The Frame TV is one of the most stylish TVs on the market, and through June 29th, you can buy the last-gen model from Woot in the 43-inch and 50-inch sizing for $687.99 ($30

The first iPhone game streaming service brings hundreds of licensed retro games

Antstream Arcade makes retro gaming on the iPhone easier with access to a library of licensed games. | Image: Antstream Apple opened the door for game streaming services in its App Store following the implementation of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) last year, but the first such service that will arrive on iOS and iPadOS next week will cater to hardcore retro gamers, as pointed out by Cult of Mac.
Antstream, which is already available on several platforms like Xbox, Windows

What Game of Thrones did to the media

Image: Alex Parkin and Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images For a crucial decade in print media’s transition to the internet, HBO’s fantasy series Game of Thrones was a boon in traffic… for everyone. But what happened when every publication started chasing the same thing?Continue reading…

Polyend Tracker+ Review: Powerful but Niche

This groovebox isn’t for everyone, but master the interface and it’ll delight.

Sony Bravia 7 mini LED TV Review: A Lovely Screen From Center Stage

Sony’s Bravia 7 mini LED TV offers fantastic performance, with one serious stumble.

Amazon’s new AI-powered Alexa might cost up to $10 per month

Amazon launched its new Alexa-enabled Echo Hub in February. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Last year, David Limp, Amazon’s former senior vice president of devices and services, hinted at charging for a more capable version of Alexa — and now we have an idea of how much it might cost. A report from Reuters suggests that Amazon’s AI-supercharged version of Alexa could cost anywhere from $5 to $10 per month on top of your Prime membership.
Sources tell Reuters that

My Memories Are Just Meta's Training Data Now

Meta’s plans to use personal content posted by Facebook and Instagram users to train algorithms suggest our digital histories are being repackaged to teach AI about—and how to mimic—humanity.

Dnsys X1 Exoskeleton Review: A Great Idea In Need of Finesse

The Dnsys X1’s sci-fi design and slick marketing don’t make up for this thigh-gripping walking aid not standing up for its target audience.

Best Apple Watch (2024): Which Model Should You Buy?

Should you splurge for the Ultra Watch 2? Or stick with the SE? Let us help you figure out which version to get (and which to avoid).

Green Chef's Meal Kit Makes Dinner Delicious—and Organic

Green Chef is a great meal kit for home cooks—just make sure to read the instructions.

Somehow, Concerts Are the Biggest Memes of the Summer

From Chappell Roan to Kendrick Lamar, online life is spilling onto the lighted stage, and vice versa. Maybe we all just want something real.

Science Is Full of Errors. Bounty Hunters Are Here to Find Them

A new project is paying researchers to find errors in other scientists’ work. The only problem? Even error hunters make mistakes.

Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google

Not too long ago, services like GOOG-411, 118 118 and AQA used actual humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge. Today’s search engines could learn something.

Microsoftmakes Copilot less useful on new Copilot Plus PCs

Image: Microsoft Microsoft launched its range of Copilot Plus PCs earlier this week, and they all come equipped with the new dedicated Copilot key on the keyboard. It’s the first big change to Windows keyboards in 30 years, but all the key does now is launch a Progressive Web App (PWA) version of Copilot.
The web app doesn’t even integrate into Windows anymore like the previous Copilot experience did since last year, so you can’t use Copilot to control Windows 11 settings or ha

Starlink Mini brings space internet to backpackers

Starlink’s new Mini dish next to an Earth puppy. | Image: Michael Nicolls via X SpaceX’s Starlink internet-from-space service is already available for boats, planes, vanlifers, Amazonian villages, and rural homes in over 75 countries — now it’s coming to backpackers.
The new compact DC-powered Starlink Mini is about the size of a thick laptop and integrates the Wi-Fi router right inside the dish. And despite using less power than other Starlink terminals, it can still del

New medical LLM, PathChat 2, can talk to pathologists about tumors, offer diagnoses

PathChat serves as a consultant, of sorts, for human pathologists to help identify, assess and diagnose tumors and other serious conditions.Read More

Haize Labs is using algorithms to jailbreak leading AI models

CEO Leonard Tang tells VentureBeat the Haize Suite is a collection of algorithms specifically designed to probe large language models.Read More

TikTok makes its First Amendment case

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images TikTok says that the government didn’t adequately consider viable alternative options before charging ahead with a law that could ban the platform in the US. TikTok, whose parent company ByteDance is based in China, claims that it provided the US government with an extensive and detailed plan to mitigate national security risks and that this plan was largely ignored when Congress passed a law with a huge impact on speech.

Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 leak shows off AirPods-like design

Image: @TEQHNIKACROSS on X Samsung’s next Galaxy Buds have been rumored to resemble AirPods, and new leaked renders make the comparison clearer than ever. The renders, purportedly found on Korean retailer Coupang, show that Samsung might be moving on from its bulb-shaped buds in favor of wireless headphones with AirPods-like stems, AirPods-like vents, and even an AirPods-like case.
I’ve made an image slider so you can compare one of the renders with a photo of Apple’s second-ge

SoundHound buys Allset to bring AI voice ordering to more drive-throughs

AI voice company SoundHound acquires Allset to expand its reach to more restaurants and build a voice-powered ordering platform.Read More