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Sean Hollister

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    Today I’m toying with Beni, the jumping camera robodog.

    ICYMI, here’s my story, and I have new impressions indoors: Beni is… not great at tracking people inside my dim house, but obstacle avoidance works. When I held the joystick forward (after setting speed low), Beni automatically navigated my hallway. At walls, it automatically U-turned and kept going instead of getting stuck.

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    Sean Hollister
    Want to win the gadgets in my garage?

    Our second Today I’m Toying With giveaway is live — I’m hoping to give away gadgets every week now! You have to enter to win (before July 15th), but you still don’t have to use Instagram or TikTok if you don’t want to. Find email entry instructions in the official rules.

    Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge
    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Valve just open-sourced its e-ink screen for the Steam Machine.

    As spotted by Brad Lynch, you can now find the complete instructions, files, and BOM to make the screen we saw at Valve HQ, which it’s now calling the “Inkterface.” (It was previously the “Mango Frunk,” likely a reference to MangoHud.) It uses a battery for power. If you’re not feeling DIY, Jsaux is working on one.

    The e-paper display that Valve internally built for this Steam Machine displays system stats like CPU and GPU temperature and fan speed.
    The e-paper display that Valve internally built for the Steam Machine.
    Photo by Everything Time Studio / The Verge
    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Akira is coming back to theaters in IMAX 4K.

    Technically, the 4K remaster already got a one-day IMAX screening in September 2020 and you can buy it on disc, but it’s finally coming back to US and Canadian theaters on September 4th, 2026. Few animated films have ever been so influential; countless works have paid homage to the Akira slide alone.

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    Sean Hollister
    Microsoft’s answer to the end of PlayStation discs: a bizarre GitHub stunt.

    You know what weeping gamers really want? A burned CD with their GitHub repo on it. Fun novelty if you can get it, though. “This is a limited run, so signing up doesn’t guarantee one,” writes Microsoft-owned GitHub.

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    Sean Hollister
    AMD patch leaves little doubt: it’s got a new low-power core.

    Moore’s Law is Dead claimed Sony’s handheld PS6 would add Zen 6 LP (Low Power) cores, and Phoronix has found new evidence in a Linux kernel patch: “a Low Power core type, in addition to the existing Performance and Efficiency types.” They’re “designed for minimal power consumption during background or idle workloads,” not necessarily gaming on battery.