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Jay Peters

Jay Peters

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    For those who retry after.

    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s latest patch adds an option to retry battles right after you’re defeated. The game’s checkpoints were already pretty forgiving, but this new pop-up will make jumping back into a battle to practice your parries a little bit faster.

    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Google is rolling out AI Mode for Search in the UK.

    You’ll start to see it as a tab in Search or in Google’s iOS and Android apps. Google initially launched the AI-powered search experience in May in the US.

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    Jay Peters
    Waymo’s autonomous ride-hailing service will be available in Dallas in 2026.

    In Dallas, Waymo’s fleet will be managed through “a new strategic, multi-year partnership with Avis Budget Group,” Waymo says.

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    Jay Peters
    The Playdate is getting folders.

    System update 3.0, which Panic says is coming later this year, will let you make folders for your games, adds a Game Library app, and brings support for “storing hundreds of games on your Playdate.” Seems like a great update, especially if you have a lot of titles from the Catalog or need to organize after finishing the second season of games.

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    Jay Peters
    The Particle news app now has an AI-generated daily crossword puzzle.

    The crosswords are “human-edited” and themed on “stories from current news,” according to a popup in the Particle app.

    There’s a leaderboard, too, and it includes completion times from LLMs like Claude 4 Opus and Gemini 2.5 Pro. They trounced me today.

    An image of July 28th, 2025’s completed Particle crossword puzzle.
    I’m sorry for showing today’s completed puzzle! I can’t replay ones that I missed to show a blank board.
    Image: Particle