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After spending many years as the public face of Overwatch, Jeff Kaplan stayed well out of the limelight after leaving Blizzard in 2021. Five years later, the former Blizzard vice president and Overwatch lead director is back with his own studio and a new game, which you might be able to play pretty soon.The Legend of California is billed as an open-world, action-survival shooter. It looks like a mix of Red Dead Redemption and Rust (Rust Dead Redemption, if you will). It’s set during the gold rush era, but Kaplan says he and his team at Kintsugiyama were not aiming…
British forces based in Iraq shot down two drones overnight, Defence Secretary John Healey has confirmed.
Image: leungchopan/Envato Elon Musk’s AI company just got permission to build its own power plant in Mississippi… and the neighbors aren’t happy about it. State regulators voted Tuesday to approve a permit for xAI subsidiary MZX Tech LLC to construct a facility with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven, just across the state line from Memphis, according to CNBC. The plant will power the company’s growing network of AI data centers in the region, including its massive Colossus supercomputer operations. The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality “voted to approve the permit after careful consideration of all public comments and community concerns,” spokesperson…
With Claude enjoying a moment of newfound popularity among regular people, Anthropic is previewing an update designed to make its chatbot better at explaining some concepts. Starting today, Claude can generate charts and diagrams as part of its responses, either when asked directly or when it decides visuals might be helpful to the user.For example, try asking Claude what’s the best way to fold a paper plane. Where previously it was limited to text, now it can show you step by step how to fold a Nakamura lock plane. Anthropic is quick to point out what it’s introducing today isn’t…
Best for: All-round abilityChina’s oldest domestic car maker has arrived in the UK under its tech-focused Deepal sub-brand. And its first offering is genuinely impressive.In some respects it is unlike other cars on this list, in that its battery tech is merely okay, but its chassis and the way it gets down the road is genuinely impressive.The Deepal S07 is a mid-sized electric crossover pitched directly against heavyweights like the Tesla Model Y and Skoda Enyaq. It was designed in Turin and developed in Birmingham, and that European flavour is evident in both its broad-hipped styling and its well-polished on-road manners.Power…
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Microsoft has unveiled Copilot Health, an AI-powered tool it claims can help make sense of your medical records, health history and fitness data from wearables, should you grant it access to that information. The company said it will be in a “separate, secure space” in the Copilot app and that the idea is to help provide you with more context and insights so you can ask your doctor the right questions when you see them.Copilot Health is designed to help you better understand your medical information as a whole, Microsoft says. It is not “intended to diagnose, treat or prevent…
Honda has canceled the 0 Series SUV and Saloon just months before production was scheduled to begin, as it restructures its EV strategy in the face of an “extremely challenging earnings situation”. The Japanese firm announced on Thursday that the two EVs had been scrapped, just a few months before they were planned to enter production in the US. The US-market Acura RSX has also been cancelled. The SUV and Saloon were the first of seven planned 0 Series models that Honda previously said would arrive before the end of the decade. But the company said uncertainty and increased competitiveness in…
Uber has a new invite-only luxury ride experience called Uber Elite. Aimed at “executives, frequent travelers, and riders looking for a more elevated experience,” it sounds like an upgraded version of Uber Black for the, well, uber-rich.A ride booked through Uber Elite will be operated by a professional chauffeur driving a new-model luxury vehicle less than three years old. An Elite-only “Meet and Greet” feature allows riders to pre-arrange to be picked up in the airport terminal they arrive at from a flight, with their chauffeur dutifully awaiting them at baggage claim. says all Elite rides include chargers, bottled water,…
Ferrari has revealed the Amalfi Spider as the latest iteration of its front-engined V8 drop-top. Evolved from the Roma Spider, the new-look Aston Martin Vantage Roadster rival packs an upgraded twin-turbocharged 3.9-litre V8, which is good for 631bhp and 561lb ft of torque. It matches the Amalfi coupé’s 0-62mph time of 3.3sec despite the inevitable added weight of a folding roof mechanism, which here makes the Amalfi Spider 86kg heavier than its sibling, at 1556kg dry. The Amalfi Spider has been designed so that its silhouette and aerodynamic credentials were as close as possible to that of the hard-top car’s with the roof…