Rainbow Six Tactics game director says players can't repeatedly play their favorite Operators because of the game's fatigue and injury system — 'It's a way to push players to use their tools and shuffle their roster'
But in , Ubisoft's turn-based tactics spin-off, the fatigue and injury systems will force players to try other characters across a variety of missions. "It's a way to push players to use their tools and shuffle their…
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A EV truck with a TV built into a front trunk for tailgating? Ford wants to patent the idea
As Electrek reports, Ford has filed a patent with several diagrams showing a fold-out, tailgate-style area in the front of an unnamed vehicle that's believed to be the Fathom. The design takes advantage of EVs' lack of a…
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F-Droid app store thumbs its nose at Google's dev crackdown
The F-Droid team describes version 2.0 as a complete redesign on both the visual side and beyond. “For more than a decade, F-Droid has helped people discover and install free and open source Android apps,” the team said…
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Google just gave Android users the widget customization trick they've been asking for
It's been over a decade since ChromeOS launched, but we still haven't seen it blossom into something worth using every day. Sure, folks who love it will use it as their daily, but it's not quite mainstream. Googlebooks…
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Nexterity wants to automate the hard, dangerous part of pipefitting
A former engineer and planner at ExxonMobil, Elliott has spent years thinking about how to improve the infrastructure that moves oil, gas, and petrochemicals. Bolts are what she landed on. Specifically, the bolts that…
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Bungie shares more detail about Marathon's Symbiosis update and 2027 plans
Bungie is having a busy week. After the game studio shared its broad strategy for keeping players happy with its two main franchises, the team has gone into a little more detail about the next phase for its latest…
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Anthropic signs $11.6bn Akamai cloud deal and gets warrant for 5% of Akamai
The deal can grow by a further $9bn, which would take the total to about $20bn. As part of the deal, Akamai issued Anthropic a warrant for 7.7 million shares on an as-converted basis, about 5% of its common stock. The…
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The AI commerce era: 7 e-commerce leaders on what’s still broken
But true AI transformation requires moving beyond “gap-filling” AI tools. It requires building an infrastructure layer that lets AI agents create and manage their own workflows. We asked 7 e-commerce industry veterans…
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81% of CIOs lack full oversight of AI agents built outside IT, Dataiku says
81% of the 685 CIOs polled said they lack complete oversight of AI agents created outside formal channels. The Harris Poll ran the survey online for Dataiku from 9 to 29 July. It covered CIOs in the US, the UK, France…
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Could this be the most powerful mini PC ever? FEVM mini PC pairs Ryzen 9 9950X3D with 24GB RTX5090 GPU and should beat Apple's M5 Ultra Mac Studio in gaming
The pairing sits inside FEVM's FA80G chassis, a compact system built around AMD 's AM5 desktop platform rather than mobile silicon components. The flagship processor contains 16 cores, reaches 5.7GHz and carries 144MB of…
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