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For April Fools’ Day, the developer of Look Outside released an update that added a new option to your interactions with NPCs: kissing. Instead of just fighting or talking to enemies and surviving neighbors in the cursed apartment building, you could give ’em a smooch. Their dialogue and sprites were updated accordingly, too. Cue stammering eldritch horrors with bright red blushing cheeks. April Fools’ Day is (thankfully) over now, but there’s good news for anyone who has been enjoying the lovefest or didn’t get a chance to try it. Developer Francis Coulombe has built in a way for players to…

Sony Interactive Entertainment, owner of the PlayStation brand, has acquired Cinemersive Labs, a UK startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumes. The startup team will join Sony’s Visual Computing Group, a research engineering team focused on graphical technology, including game rendering, video coding and generative AI models.Cinemersive’s most recent product is a virtual reality app called Parallax that works as a viewer for parallax photos — three-dimensional images that you can peer around with natural head movements — captured using traditional smartphones and professional cameras with stereo lenses. The startup developed custom AI tools to…

Everyone’s four favorite anthropomorphic turtles are returning to the world of video games. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City will be released on April 30 for the Meta Quest, Steam VR and Pico. It is made by VR game company Cortopia Studios and will retail for $25. Empire City is a first-person action game that you’ll be able to play solo or co-op with up to four people. And yes, that means all four of the turtles are playable.We’ve seen a lot of the quartet flexing their fighting form in games over the years, but this is their first time appearing…

Image: sergign/Envato Elements Chrome just became the latest battlefield in an ongoing war over memory safety. Google has pushed an urgent security update after uncovering multiple high-severity vulnerabilities — one of which is already being exploited in the wild. In a rare and pointed advisory, the company confirmed: “We are aware that an exploit for CVE-2026-5281 exists in the wild.” That single line shifts this from routine patching to active threat response, where attackers aren’t waiting—they’re already moving. Inside CVE-2026-5281 The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5281, is a use-after-free flaw affecting Chrome’s WebGPU implementation through its Dawn GPU abstraction layer. This…

Add speech-to-text options to your note-taking, chat, meeting or many other types of apps, so your users can skip manual typing in your .NET MAUI app.For several years, a common problem for mobile device users has been typing text quickly. Although innovative features such as swipe typing and word autocompletion have been implemented, undoubtedly one of the most comfortable methods remains voice dictation.In .NET MAUI, you can take advantage of the Progress Telerik UI for .NET MAUI SpeechToTextButton control, which allows converting speech to text. Let’s see how to use it in your own .NET MAUI apps!Getting to Know the…

Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana Amazon has stars in its eyes. The tech giant is reportedly negotiating to buy satellite telecom group Globalstar in its quest to build a low Earth orbit satellite business to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink internet service. However, one issue could complicate matters: Apple’s 20% stake in Globalstar, which it purchased in 2024 as part of a $1.5 billion investment to enhance the company’s constellation and ground infrastructure, according to the Financial Times. This requires talks between Amazon and Apple. Amazon declined to comment, and Apple has not responded to requests for comment, FT reported.…

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is suing Illinois, Arizona and Connecticut for attempting to outlaw or regulate prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. The CFTC believes it has sole jurisdiction to regulate these platforms, and that states attempting to classify them as illegal gambling are overstepping their authority.CFTC defines prediction markets as “designated contract markets” where futures contracts are traded, essentially letting people bet on the outcome of events (for example, who will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2028). And because futures contracts are financial instruments distinct from traditional bets, they arguably fall under the supervision of…

In a surprise release, OpenAI has made ChatGPT’s Voice mode available through Apple CarPlay. If you’re running the latest version of both iOS and the ChatGPT app, and own a CarPlay-compatible vehicle, you can check out the experience. To get started, download all the necessary software, connect your iPhone to CarPlay and select “New voice chat” from ChatGPT. When the in-app text indicates ChatGPT is “listening,” you can start a conversation.There are some notable limitations to using ChatGPT Voice with CarPlay. For one, OpenAI’s chatbot can’t control car functions. If you want to adjust the cabin temperature or skip tracks,…

AI-driven identity solutions are often presented as the grown-up answer to modern access control: smarter verification, less friction, better security, happier users. In principle, yes. In practice, they also drag a fairly hefty suitcase of compliance, privacy and ethical questions in behind them. The first issue is compliance. Identity is not a side topic in enterprise environments. It sits right in the middle of security, governance, risk and accountability. Once AI is involved in deciding who gets access, who is challenged, who is flagged as suspicious, or who is denied entry altogether, that stops being just a technical control…

Coachella officially kicks off next Friday, April 10. But for anyone who doesn’t want to fly out to the desert or fork over upwards of $650 for a ticket, YouTube is going to livestream the concert for free so you can enjoy it on your own terms. Here’s a quick overview of all the programming that will be available in just over a week.With YouTube planning on providing feeds of seven different stages, there will be no shortage of content. This includes the Quasar stage in both horizontal and vertical formats, so no matter what device you’re using, there should…