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Jay Peters

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    More Marvel Cosmic Invasion characters.

    She-Hulk and Rocket Raccoon will be playable characters in the Marvel-themed beat-’em-up. I recently talked to Dotemu’s CEO to learn a bit about the game and the rest of Dotemu’s 2025 lineup, which looks great.

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    Jay Peters
    Here’s a brief teaser of Fortnite’s live Star Wars event.

    It kicks off at 2PM ET tomorrow.

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    Jay Peters
    Microsoft Edge’s picture-in-picture mode is getting better controls.

    “You can now easily pause, play, skip forward or backward, and seek via the progress bar right from the picture-in-picture window,” according to a blog post. I don’t use Edge, but these seem like good upgrades.

    A screenshot of the picture-in-picture changes in Microsoft Edge.
    Image: Microsoft
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    Jay Peters
    More Amazon layoffs.

    The company is laying off fewer than 100 staffers in its books division, Reuters reports. The company cut about 100 jobs on its devices and services team last month.

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    Jay Peters
    Black Myth Wukong is coming to Xbox on August 20th.

    That’s exactly a year after its initial release in 2024 on PS5 and PC. I haven’t played the game myself, but my colleague Ash Parrish did last year.

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    Jay Peters
    AI Mode can now make interactive data visualizations.

    Google’s new feature in Labs will create the visualizations to “help bring financial data to life for questions on stocks and mutual funds,” according to a blog post. You can ask Google a follow-up question, too, and “AI Mode understands what to research for you.”

    Here’s a video of the feature, from Google’s post:

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    Speedy.

    Have a look: we tested load times on three Nintendo Switch games on the Switch 2, and they’re noticeably faster. So is the eShop.