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Alpha Nomos: A Roguelite Where the Beat Is the Weapon
Most rhythm games treat the music as a metronome you obey. Alpha Nomos treats it as an arsenal.…
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Librarians’ ‘Avoiding AI’ Workshops Are Going Viral
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iPhone 18 Skips September: Apple Splits Its Launch Cycle
iPhone 18 Skips September: Apple Splits Its Launch Cycle For the first time since the iPhone became an…
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Data for Agents: What Agentic AI Actually Needs
Data for Agents: What Agentic AI Actually Needs The agentic-AI conversation has spent the past year obsessing over…
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Order of the Sinking Star Brings Thekla’s Puzzles to PS5
The studio behind Braid and The Witness has confirmed its next game for PS5. Order of the Sinking…
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Samsung Wallet Will Add Native Stablecoin Support
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Newton, Isaac Lab 3.0, and the New Robot Simulation Stack
Robotics has a data problem that language models never had. LLMs train on internet-scale text; a robot has…
AI
Librarians’ ‘Avoiding AI’ Workshops Are Going Viral
Librarians’ ‘Avoiding AI’ Workshops Are Going Viral In a South Philadelphia library classroom decorated for children — alphabet…
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Data for Agents: What Agentic AI Actually Needs
Data for Agents: What Agentic AI Actually Needs The agentic-AI conversation has spent the past year obsessing over…
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Next Week on Xbox: Halo Leads a Packed July 27-31 Slate
The last week of July is shaping up to be the busiest release window Xbox has had all…
Gaming
Alpha Nomos: A Roguelite Where the Beat Is the Weapon
Most rhythm games treat the music as a metronome you obey. Alpha Nomos treats it as an arsenal.…
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Order of the Sinking Star Brings Thekla’s Puzzles to PS5
The studio behind Braid and The Witness has confirmed its next game for PS5. Order of the Sinking…
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MARVEL Tokon for Beginners: The Systems to Learn First
Fighting games have a reputation problem: the genre that looks the most fun to jump into is often…
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Dodo Duckie: How Constraints Became a Superpower
BornMonkie's debut puzzle platformer started as an over-ambitious pitch publishers passed on. The limits that followed — no…
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Phoenix Cyclops Is MARVEL Tokon’s First Year 1 DLC Fighter
Scott Summers is coming to MARVEL Tokon: Fighting Souls — but not the measured field leader most X-Men…
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Wolverine Story Trailer Sets Up Logan vs. The Hand
Seven weeks out from launch, Insomniac Games finally showed what Marvel’s Wolverine is actually about. At the studio’s…
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Castlevania Returns: Inside Belmont’s Curse Hands-On
It has been more than a decade since KONAMI shipped a brand-new Castlevania game, and the company’s chosen…
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Roku Quietly Raises Streaming Player Prices Up to 60%
Roku did not put out a press release for this one. The company simply updated its website this…
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GrapheneOS Ships 2026071500 Stable for Pixel
The privacy-focused Android OS promoted its Android 17 port to Stable in the 2026071500 release for all supported…
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Apple Pay’s Four New iOS 27 Features, Explained
iOS 27 gives Apple Pay a redesigned card-switching checkout, American Express points at checkout, a Tap to Share…
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Ridges (SN62) Lands on Kraken: AI Coding Agents Onchain
Kraken has added another Bittensor subnet token to its exchange. SN62, the native token of the Ridges subnet,…
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Samsung Wallet Will Add Native Stablecoin Support
Samsung wants stablecoins sitting next to your boarding pass. At Galaxy Unpacked in London, the company said Samsung…
Crypto & Web3
Poolin Files Chapter 11: The End of a Bitcoin Mining Giant
Nearly four years after freezing customer withdrawals, Poolin has filed for Chapter 11 in New Jersey. The only…
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Kraken Is Rebuilding Its App Around Your Goals
Kraken published a note on July 10, 2026 saying it is rebuilding its mobile app “from the ground…
Crypto & Web3
EU Sanctions 14 Crypto Platforms in 21st Russia Package
For four years the European Union has treated crypto as a leak to be plugged — a side…
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Crypto Options, Explained: Why Access Is Widening in 2026
Options are the fastest-growing corner of crypto derivatives, and 2026 is the year exchanges started building them for…
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Solana’s Case for Cutting Rent 10x: The Data Behind It
Every account on Solana carries a security deposit. To keep data alive on-chain, you lock up SOL proportional…
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How Crossmint Gets Stablecoin Rails Live on Solana in Days
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Pastebot 3 Launches at $39 After a Decade-Long Wait
Pastebot 3 Launches at $39 After a Decade-Long Wait Tapbots has released Pastebot 3, a full new version…
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How Art Museums Use Visitor Data to Reshape Exhibits
How Art Museums Use Visitor Data to Reshape Exhibits Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum sits on a data set…
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iPhone 18 Skips September: Apple Splits Its Launch Cycle
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Cyberpunk 2077 Hits 70% Off on Steam
Cyberpunk 2077 is listed with a 70% discount on its official Steam store page, per the official product…
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Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition Now Available on Steam
The Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition is now available for purchase on Steam, listed under official app ID…
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Schedule I (Steam App ID 3164500) Listed on Steam Store
The title Schedule I, with Steam app ID 3164500, has a public purchase listing on the official Steam…
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Arma Reforger Official Steam Store Listing Overview
Arma Reforger's official Steam store listing includes purchase options, user review aggregates, and official storefront header art, per…
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Palworld Is Currently Discounted on Steam
Palworld is currently available at a discounted price via its official Steam storefront.
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God of War Ragnarök PC Port Listed on Official Steam Store
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Dead by Daylight 60% Off on Steam: Base Game at $8
The asymmetric multiplayer horror title hits a steep discount on Steam, lowering the barrier for newcomers to Behavior…
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Cyberpunk 2077 Is 70% Off on Steam Through July 5
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