Epic Games database leak hints at a trove of unannounced games - Technology news - NewsLocker (2024)

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An unofficial site tracking titles in the Epic Games library may have just leaked a ton of upcoming games, as reported earlier by Wccftech. The site, called EpicDB, was taken offline shortly after it posted information scraped from the Epic Games Store catalog on Monday, but that didn’t stop people from scanning the list and posting their findings.
You can see the list of games from publishers like Bethesda, Sega, Sony, Square Enix, and others in a s

8BitDo’s $29.99 Ultimate 2C controller adds two more shoulder buttons

The new 8BitDo Ultimate 2C Wireless Controller includes Bluetooth, USB-C, and 2.4GHz connectivity. | Image: 8BitDo 8BitDo announced its latest budget-minded wireless controller today, the Ultimate 2C. For $29.99, it includes features like an extra pair of shoulder buttons to satisfy most PC and Android gamers, Hall effect sticks and triggers to keep problems like the Switch’s notorious “Joy-Con drift” at bay, and three different ways to connect it to a gaming machine with USB-C

VW will invest up to $5 billion in Rivian as part of new EV joint venture

Volkswagen is investing $1 billion in Rivian as part of a new joint venture that will give the German auto giant access to the buzzy California EV company’s software and EV platform. An additional $4 billion could be invested in Rivian, for a total sum of $5 billion.The new venture was announced in a post from Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, who noted the investment will help the company bring its next generation R2 electric vehicle to market starting in 2026. The R2 is expected to be a more affo

VW will invest $5 billion in Rivian as part of new joint venture

Volkswagen is investing $5 billion in Rivian as part of a new joint venture that will give the German auto giant access to the buzzy California EV company’s software and EV platform.
The new venture was announced in a post from Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, who noted the investment will help the company bring its next generation R2 electric vehicle to market starting in 2026.This is exciting! Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume and I are thrilled to announce the formation of a joint venture betwe

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VW will invest $5 billion in Rivian as part of new EV joint venture

Volkswagen is investing $5 billion in Rivian as part of a new joint venture that will give the German auto giant access to the buzzy California EV company’s software and EV platform.
The new venture was announced in a post from Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, who noted the investment will help the company bring its next generation R2 electric vehicle to market starting in 2026. The R2 is expected to be a more affordable $45,000 model than its current luxury-priced EVs, the R1T and R1S.This is exc

This Matter-enabled smart ceiling light costs under $100

The Lifx ceiling light features full-color, tunable white light and an array of effects to light up your home. | Image: Lifx Smart light fixtures are quickly becoming a thing, making it a little easier to add colorful, fun, and useful lighting effects to more areas of your home than you traditionally can with smart light bulbs. While these types of fixtures have been quite pricey, smart lighting company Lifx just announced its new Super Color Ceiling Light starting at just $89.97.
The full-color

Dr Disrespect’s Twitch ban, explained

Photo by Michael Tullberg / Getty Images Years after Twitch’s ban, the streamer confirms it was due to messages he sent to a minor on the platform.Continue reading…

This tiny tablet is a smart upgrade for AR glasses

An Android phone minus the phone plus two giant cameras. | Image: Adi Robertson / The Verge Xreal is one of the few companies trying to sell mass-market augmented reality headsets without an existing big tech empire. But its latest product isn’t a pair of glasses; it’s a phone-sized Android tablet designed to keep you using them. At last week’s Augmented World Expo (AWE) the company announced the Beam Pro, a combination battery, app repository, and 3D video recorder. It’s

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The 29 Best Shows on Apple TV+ Right Now (July 2024)

Constellation, Presumed Innocent, and a Steve Martin documentary are among the best shows on Apple TV+ this month.

Dr Disrespect finally shares why he was banned from Twitch

Photo by Matt Thomas / San Diego Padres / Getty Images Guy Beahm, better known by his streamer persona Dr Disrespect, said he was banned from Twitch four years ago due to private messages he sent to a minor that “sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate.”
Beahm shared details of the ban in a lengthy post to X, marking the first time he’s directly addressed the reason for his removal.
“Everyone has been wanting to know why I was banned from Twitch,

Epomaker’s TH80 Pro, one of our top mechanical keyboard picks, is at its best price

Image: Jon Porter / The Verge With RGB lighting and customizability, most mechanical keyboards are way more fun to type on than your regular old keyboard. Those perks typically come at a cost, though — but not as much today because Epomaker’s TH80 Pro is on sale at Amazon for $62.99 ($27 off). That’s a new all-time low price on the TH80 Pro and is available on keyboards with Gateron switches in select colors — including black, red, and yellow — as well as with Budge

Google is killing infinite scroll on search results

Illustration: The Verge The latest feature headed to the Google graveyard is continuous scrolling on search results, according to a report from Search Engine Land. The user experience, which mirrored the endless scrolling behavior of social media feeds, was originally introduced for search results on mobile devices in October of 2021 and then brought over to desktop search results in late 2022.
A Google spokesperson reportedly told Search Engine Land that continuous scroll is being removed today

This prototype turns your car’s windshield into a giant AR display

A huge panel becomes an AR projector powered by data from eye tracking sensors in this prototype. | Image: Adi Robertson / The Verge Car infotainment systems are getting ever bigger, but a startup’s new prototype takes things further than even something like Ford’s pillar-to-pillar touchscreen — by turning your windshield into a full-color 3D heads-up display.
Distance Technologies, established by the co-founders of enterprise headset maker Varjo, showed off its design last wee

China’s lunar probe returns to Earth with first-ever samples from the far side of the Moon

The return capsule of the Chang’e 6 probe lands at the designated landing area on June 25th, 2024, in Inner Mongolia. | Photo by VCG / VCG via Getty Images The first soil samples ever taken from the far side of the Moon arrived on Earth today. China’s Chang’e 6 spacecraft landed with the precious cargo in Inner Mongolia today at 2:07PM Beijing time, according to state media.The feat is expected to help scientists better understand the unfamiliar terrain of the Moon’s far

Google announces surprise Pixel hardware event in August

Photo: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you’re waiting to see the Pixel 9, Pixel Watch 3, or other new Google hardware, then August 13th could be a big day for you because look what just hit our inboxes:You’re invited to an in-person Made by Google event where we’ll showcase the best of Google AI, Android software and the Pixel portfolio of devices.Image: Google
The keynote will take place at 10AM PT / 1PM ET, and you can be sure we’ll be there to see what’s new. It&rsqu

Elgato’s jumbo-sized Stream Deck XL is $50 off

Image: Elgato The Elgato Stream Deck XL is once again selling for $199.99 ($50 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H Photo. The jumbo-sized macro pad has 32 customizable LCD keys for controlling various functions on a Windows PC or Mac. It’s a staple among enthusiast and high-level Twitch streamers, but its customizability makes it incredibly handy for all sorts of desktop and laptop users.
Want a button for quickly muting yourself on a Zoom call or to promptly summon Spotify? No problem.

Mattel is making games like UNO more accessible for colorblind players

Blokus, Tumblin’ Monkeys, and UNO are just three of the games Mattel is making colorblind accessible. | Image: Mattel In an effort to make its games accessible to a wider audience and “create more inclusive play experiences,” Mattel has announced that 80 percent of its gaming portfolio — including iconic titles like UNO — will be made accessible for those with a color vision deficiency by the end of the year, with a push to 90 percent by the end of 2025.
For UNO and

Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse

Illustration: The Verge Threads will now let people like and see replies to their Threads posts that appear on other federated social media platforms, the company announced on Monday.
Previously, if you made a post on Threads that was syndicated to another platform — like Mastodon, for example — you wouldn’t be able to see responses to that post while still inside Threads. That meant you’d have to bounce back and forth between the platforms to stay up-to-date on replies.

The Verge store is back with lots of brand-new gear

Photo: Fourthwall We’ve been working on some better, cooler ways for you to rep The Verge —and look good doing it.Continue reading…

The Verge and Nomad have made an Apple Watch band

Image: Nomad Your outfit has been missing a little blurple, and The Verge is here to fix that.Continue reading…

The Moto Tag is an AirTag for Android

A new way to keep tabs on your luggage. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Motorola’s tracking tag is officially here, and if you’ve wanted an AirTag for your Android phone, this new Moto Tag might be it. This item tracker costs $29 and works with Google’s newly upgraded Find My Device network to help you locate a lost item. In addition to Bluetooth, it also offers ultra wideband, which means that if your phone is equipped with a UWB chip — like the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ult

Motorola’s 2024 Razr phones are ready to make a splash

More screen equals more fun. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Foldable season is back, and Motorola is leading the way with refreshed versions of its Razr Plus and Razr flip phones. They’re arriving next month in some poolside-worthy colors, with upgraded screens — a big upgrade in the case of the 2024 Razr — and IPX8 ratings for full resistance against water immersion. And you know what else is pretty hot? The prices haven’t gone up.
The Motorola Razr Plus 2024 still s

Motorola Razr and Razr+ (2024): Specs, Features, Price, Release Date

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the original Razr, Motorola has two new folding flip phones—and Paris Hilton is back to hype 'em up.

Surface Laptop review: Microsoft’s best MacBook Air competitor yet

Microsoft and Qualcomm finally deliver the hardware Windows on Arm needed.Continue reading…

The MTV News archive has been taken offline

Image: The Verge The archives of the MTV News website, which had remained accessible online after the unit was shut down last year by parent company Paramount Global, have now been completely taken offline. As Variety reported yesterday, both mtvnews.com and mtv.com/news now redirect visitors to the MTV website’s front page.
In May of last year, Showtime / MTV Entertainment Studios president and Paramount Media Networks groups CEO Chris McCarthy announced layoffs for 25 percent of its empl

We’ve Spent Hours Reading and These Are Our Favorite E-Readers

These WIRED-tested slates let you take the world’s library anywhere.

Waymo ditches the waitlist and opens up its robotaxis to everyone in San Francisco

Photo by Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images The wait(list) is over.Waymo is opening up its robotaxi service to anyone who wants to ride in San Francisco. Previously, customers interested in taking a ride in one of the company’s driverless cars needed to sign up for a waitlist, which could take weeks or months to open up.Waymo began its commercial test service in the city in August 2021 with a rollout to “trusted testers” — preapproved riders, some of whom were asked t

Meta’s new accelerator for European AI startups could be a blessing or a curse

Amid tense relations between big tech and the EU, Meta has announced its second AI startup accelerator in Europe. The accelerator targets startups that want to integrate open-source foundation models (such as Llama and Mistral 7B) into their products. To deliver the programme, Meta has once again teamed up with Hugging Face, a US-based open-source platform that hosts machine learning models and tools, and Scaleway, a European cloud provider for AI infrastructure. The initiative will initially s

Lab-as-a-service for biotech startups opens in Basel, Switzerland

It is notoriously difficult for startups in life sciences and biotechnology to get investments for lab facilities and equipment to be able spin out from universities. To that effect, Superlab Suisse operates facilities where biotech startups, scaleups, and their staff can access state-of-the-art equipment according to a “lab as a service” business model. The company today announced the opening of its second space in biotech hub Basel, Switzerland. The 4,770 square metre

Unisteller starts a Kickstarter campaign for its Envision smart binoculars

Unistellar has been turning the world of telescopes upside down with crowdfunding, and now it’s about to start a new Kickstarter campaign for its smart binoculars. Dubbed Envision, the smart binoculars are similar to the company’s user-friendly smart telescopes, which use AI to help people see objects despite light pollution from city l…Read More