Waymo has finally broken through its SFO logjam.
The company announced today that it will start offering robotaxi rides to a select group of passengers traveling to and from the San Francisco International Airport, a major step in Waymo's effort to increase its footprint in the Bay Area. The company
While generative AI is being adopted at various levels of game development, a new survey suggests that developers increasingly think the technology is bad for the industry. According to the most recent survey from the Game Developers Conference, 52 percent of respondents said that gen AI is having a "negative" impact on the games industry, versus just 7 percent who viewed the technology
This week, a new generative AI tool from Google let me create bad knockoffs of 3D Nintendo worlds.
Check out my version of something like Super Mario 64:
I didn't like Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, but it's better than my version of a Metroid Prime experience:
Or how about my take on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, complete with a paraglider (and, briefly, a second Link):
It was
Windows is in a weird spot. In its 40-year history, the operating system has weathered its fair share of missteps, but Windows 11 is testing the patience of its users in new ways. Persistent bugs, performance issues, intrusive prompts, ads, and bloatware have eroded the core Windows experience. Early system requirement decisions have also damaged trust among Microsoft's most loyal users
Gaming on Linux has already come a long way over recent years, with improvements to Valve's Proton and more gamers switching to Linux, but the newly-formed Open Gaming Collective (OGC) is aiming to take it even further.
Universal Blue, developer of the gaming-focused Linux distribution Bazzite, announced on Wednesday that its helping to form the OGC with several other groups, which will
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If you're in the market for a new TV, you'll have plenty of different options these days, ranging from display technologies (OLED vs. QLED vs. micro RGB) to styles (shiny home theater displays vs. matte art TVs) to operating
If you’ve been considering picking up the latest Pokémon game for the Switch 2, there’s good reason to do it today, as Best Buy is knocking $14 off the physical version. Pokémon Legends: Z-A normally costs $69.99, but you can snag it for $55.99 for the rest of the day — a price that other retailers aren’t currently matching. The title, which launched in October 2025, feels like a return
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