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In addition to a 1,154-piece, $110 triceratops fossil set, today Lego debuted a detailed replica of the Jeep Wrangler introduced in the original Jurassic Park. The 1,924-piece set is available for preorder for $200 and includes the Jeep with a removable roof, a Dennis Nedry minifig holding a Barbasol can, and the broken sign to the island’s East Dock.

Microsoft is in the middle of fixing Windows 11 and it wants to hear more from the people that regularly test its OS updates. Microsoft is bringing back Windows Insider meetups, starting with an event in New York City on April 21st. Members of the Windows Insider team will also be visiting Hyderabad, Taipei, San Francisco, and London in the coming weeks.

Microsoft is working on UI improvements to the Xbox dashboard that will also include a new look and feel for Xbox achievements. Xbox Insiders can now test the new achievements, which have updated icons and animations when you unlock a classic or rare achievement. The notifications will also match your custom color. You’ll also be able to hide achievements from your Xbox profile later this month.

If you want one of the best AMD desktop processors for gaming, development, and creation then it’s going to set you back $899. That’s the price of AMD’s new Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, which is releasing on April 22nd. It has 16 cores, 208MB of total cache, and both chiplets have AMD’s 3D V-Cache. AMD is promising 5–10 percent performance gains over the 9950X3D in DaVinci Resolve and Blender.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.