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Developer Finn Voorhees tested the Castaway: Spatial HDMI Monitor beta by playing Super Mario Bros. Wonder within visionOS using a USB capture card hooked up to an iPad. However, the developers of Halide/Orion have said the APIs necessary to connect their app to Vision Pro aren’t available yet.

Version 17.3 of the Shazam iOS app can now identify what track is playing while wearing wired or Bluetooth headphones — regardless if the song is being played aloud nearby, or directly on the device via apps like TikTok and YouTube. In-app song identification was already available, but only if the user wasn’t wearing headphones.

It’s been a terrible month so far for anyone in tech, gaming, or media, with Slack’s owner now joining the carnage to reportedly cut one percent of its workforce. It’s not as bad as the 10 percent (about 8,000 workers) Salesforce laid off last year, and the company still has 1,000 open positions it’s trying to fill, according to the WSJ, as it rebalances the ranks.

MacRumors has details (and app icons) on the next generation of CarPlay extracted from the first iOS 17.4 beta, nearly two years after Apple announced it, and arriving in the first cars later this year.

Supply chain analysis from Omdia’s Hiroshi Hayase suggests Nintendo’s next console, widely expected to launch later this year, will have a bigger screen than both the original Switch (6.2-inches) and the OLED model (7-inches), Bloomberg reports. That lines up with VGC’s previous reporting about the LCD display. Developers reportedly saw demos of the new Switch last year, and Activision was briefed on it as early as 2022.

The Ingenuity helicopter mission achieved powered flight on another world, brought Zigbee and Linux to Mars, and survived close calls, lasting 33 times longer than originally planned.