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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Google Finance’s AI makeover is going global.

After launching across the US and India, Google is bringing its revamped Finance app to more than 100 countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, and Mexico. Users in these countries can now interact with the app in their local language, as well as access a built-in Gemini chatbot, new charting tools, and an upgraded news feed.

Image: Google
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Unity will continue to support Meta’s VR headsets following an extension of their partnership.

Unity already powers the “majority” of the top-selling VR games on Meta’s platform, according to a statement from Unity’s COO.

The Miniature Wife was an exercise in visual trickery

VFX supervisor Ashley Bernes had to think big to make the show’s heroine feel small.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
For $4 you can make 8BitDo’s N64 controller look more like Nintendo’s.

You can now get the retro colored buttons featured on the classic grey version of the 8BitDo 64 controller for the other models. The company’s 8BitDo 64 Classic Button Set upgrade kit is available for preorder now for $3.99 and ships on May 15th. Installation doesn’t look too difficult.

A person holds the 8BitDo 64 controller with colorful retro buttons installed.
Screenshot: YouTube
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Valve may be developing a ‘SteamGPT’ for its own internal use.

Steam code screenshots posted by @gabefollower on X appear to show ‘SteamGPT’ and ‘SteamGPTSummary’ working on support-related tasks. Both seem to be internal tools used for things like task management or pulling account details, such as a player’s trust score and account age.

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
A slight Switch 2 delay.

IO Interactive’s take on James Bond is launching on May 27th, but not everywhere: today the developer announced that the Switch 2 version will be out “later this summer.”

007 First Light

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The vibes are off at OpenAI

OpenAI is juggling public controversies, strategy shifts, and increasing competition.

Hayden Field
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
WhatsApp is finally starting to roll out usernames.

The latest beta update for WhatsApp on Android and iOS includes the “phased rollout” of usernames, which have been in the works for years and allow users to keep their phone number private.

WhatsApp is currently testing usernames with a very limited number of users. To check if you are part of this initial rollout, you need to open your profile settings. Here, users who have access will notice a dedicated option for usernames. If the option is available, users can tap on it to begin creating their username.

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
No Pokéman’s Sky.

The space-faring sim turns 10 this year, and it’s getting one of its strangest updates yet. Called Xeno Arena, the new addition lets players collect, train, and battle alien creatures, Pokémon-style. It even has multiplayer. Maybe it’s time I bring back my travel diary.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
You can rewatch the Artemis II launch in glorious 3D, thanks to the Nintendo 3DS.

While thousands of smartphones and cameras were trained on the sky on April 1st capturing the historic launch of Artemis II, Redditor Cambot72 recorded it on a Nintendo 3DS XL. The 0.3-megapixel footage has some retro Apollo vibes, and you can download the original version to watch in 3D if you’ve still got a 3DS.