Image: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge When the Playdate first launched, one of the hooks was that the little yellow handheld came with a “season” of 24 games from notable developers like Keita Takahashi and Zach Gage. And now Panic has confirmed that a second season is coming at some point in 2025. As for what will be included, we don’t have a lot to go on right now. Panic says that “details on price, the exact number of games, and the developers behind the games of season 2 will come in 2025.” But during a livestream today, the company said it would probably feature “about a dozen games” and will also include a “really cool surprise.” Last year Panic launched a Playdate store called Catalog where developers could release games outside of the season structure, and during... Continue reading…

Photo by Amelia Holoway Krales / The Verge After warning customers to stop using it, Humane is now formally recalling around 10,500 units of its charging case for the beleaguered AI Pin. The affected cases were sold from last November through May of this year. According to the CPSC recall page, the lithium polymer battery in the Charge Case Accessory can potentially overheat and present a fire hazard. Humane admitted similar findings in a June email to customers. That worst-case scenario, thankfully, hasn’t happened yet; the recall notes “one report of a charge case overheating and melting during charging,” but there haven’t been any injuries or damage to property. The AI Pin, its magnetic Battery Booster, and Humane’s charging pad are “not affected,” the company said in its... Continue reading…

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Former President Donald Trump has made immigration a centerpiece of his campaign: he’s promised mass deportations, a crackdown on asylum at the border, and a ban on mortgages for undocumented immigrants. But while Trump rails against illegal immigration, his allies and advisors are also preparing to sharply reduce legal immigration, the Wall Street Journal reports. Groups including the America First Policy Institute, a think tank that has been advising Trump’s campaign, have drafted executive orders, regulations, and memos that would narrow the paths for legal migration to the US, according to a dozen former Trump administration officials that spoke with the Journal. Some of the proposals — like a ban on travelers from certain... Continue reading…

When Apple introduced its first Apple Silicon Macs in 2020, I was sure the company would soon have a cohesive lineup, and it would leave behind the previous years of terrible Intel computers. With the M2 Mac Studio and Mac Pro introduced in mid-2022, Apple finally moved its entire Mac lineup over to Apple Silicon. Now, a year and a half later, the company started a new revolution of its Macs with the M4 chip. Besides an important spec bump that could make M1 owners upgrade, Apple really wants its customers to ditch their Intel Macs for this new lineup. Despite the new processor, the most important change is the double amount of RAM across the entire lineup. If you go to Apple's website right now, you'll see that even the previous M2 and M3 versions of the MacBook Air are available starting with 16GB of RAM while still maintaining the same price. That strategy seems to be related to upcoming Apple Intelligence features on Mac requiring more RAM to work. Still, it also ends that controversial argument Apple gave a few months ago that 8GB of RAM was enough on a Mac, and it was like having 16GB of RAM on Windows. By upgrading the base models, the company makes their computers future-proof and a better choice for customers overall. Image source: Apple Inc. While I still recommend upgrading every Mac with at least 512GB of storage, Apple's new RAM strategy shows a commitment to the people who usually go for the entry-level model. For example, the new M4 Mac mini is a solid upgrade for anyone wanting to start a Mac ecosystem. It begins at $599, and students can get it even cheaper. Although there's a higher jump going with an M4 Pro option, you also get a better chip, 24GB of RAM, and double the storage. The same is worth it for the M4 MacBook Pro. Despite the lack of Thunderbolt 5, the base-model Mac gets all the perks from the higher-end models, including a better display, a new color, and more RAM. In addition, users get the best battery life in a Mac: 24 hours. That's an exciting period for Mac users, and I can't wait for the announcement of the M4 MacBook Air early next year and the powerful M4 chip for the upcoming Mac Studio and Mac Pro devices. Don't Miss: M4 MacBook Pro got a big battery life boost, so the M4 Air has to be next The post New M4 Macs makes this Apple’s best computer lineup ever appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $199 iPad, Shark air purifiers with 5-year HEPA filters, $60 Ring Battery Doorbell, more Today’s deals: Rare Nintendo Switch sale, $729 black Apple Watch Ultra 2, 32% off LG G4 OLED TV, more Today’s deals: $150 off eufy Robot Vacuum Omni C20, $30 Fire TV Stick 4K Max, $99 Beats headphones, more Amazon gift card deals, offers & coupons 2024: Get $365+ free

In late August of this year, researchers had stoked the flames of hell, claiming that a piece of cloth found 2,000-years-ago, was indeed, the Shroud of Turin. Now this hotly contested claim has been refuted by a new analysis that used virtual simulation software. The researcher in question has shown that the Shroud was likely created by pressing a cloth over a flat or shallowly contoured surface, such as a bas-relief or carved figure, rather than a full human form, effectively removing Jesus of Nazareth from the equation. The Shroud of Turin: Jesus' Bloodstained Burial Cloth or a Fascinating Forgery? Blood on the Shroud: An Interview with the Blood Investigator of the Shroud of Turin Research Project Jesus not Christ: Science to the Rescue! Cicero Moraes’s recent forensic research has been published by Elsevier, adding another layer to the long-standing debate over the Turin Shroud. Moraes, a specialist in forensic facial reconstruction, argues that if the shroud had indeed been wrapped around a human body, the resulting image would appear heavily distorted due to the natural contours of a three-dimensional form. Read moreSection: ArtifactsOther ArtifactsNewsMysterious PhenomenaRead Later 

Ford Motor will halt production of its F-150 Lightning electric vehicle pickup trucks for six weeks from Nov. 18 to Jan. 6, the Dearborn automaker said Thursday.

The Washington Post this week "aggressively ramped up" its paid advertising on social media platforms to boost stories criticizing former President Donald Trump, according to a report.

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