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Six months after its launch, research firm Antenna estimates that the Howdy streaming service has more than 1 million subscribers. Roku debuted Howdy in August. The subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service is $3 per month and doesn’t have commercials. In an announcement today, Antenna estimated that almost 300,000 people signed up for Howdy in August and that the service gained 100,000 subscribers in each subsequent month. Roku initially only offered the service through The Roku Channel, which is Roku’s free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service. People can also subscribe to non-Roku streaming services, like Apple TV and HBO Max, through The…

Motorola While we aren’t expecting new foldable phones from Samsung and Google until later this summer and fall, Motorola is getting the ball rolling early with an updated portfolio of bendy Razr handsets, including its first book-style foldable. The Motorola Razr Fold was first announced back at CES before being shown off again at MWC last month, so it’s not like its arrival is a complete surprise. But for fans of big foldable phones in the US — where we don’t get as many options as people do in parts…

An autonomous humanoid robot built by the smartphone maker Honor has shattered the human half-marathon record.Called the Honor Robotics D1, the mech-inspired, vibrant-red bot completed the 13.1-mile (21.1 kilometers) race in 50 minutes, 26 seconds at the 2026 Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon, eclipsing the previous human record of 57 minutes, 20 seconds, which was set by Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo in March.Another separate robot that Honor representatives revealed at Spain’s MWC Barcelona (formerly known as Mobile World Congress) in March completed the race even faster — in just 48 minutes, 19 seconds. But this humanoid machine wasn’t awarded the…

Blue Prince, the award-winning strategy roguelike for puzzle freaks, is over a year old. But for many of you, the best time to play it was decidedly not a year ago. It’s now. That’s because Blue Prince has just gotten a major accessibility update that aims to alleviate many of the biggest issues people had with the actual act of playing it, most notably a lack of colorblind accessibility features or controller remapping. Update 1.7 adds Color Assist to the Accessibility menu in-game, which includes the ability to make puzzle colors more vivid, add patterns to puzzle colors to make…

The system prompt for OpenAI’s Codex CLI contains a perplexing and repeated warning for the most recent GPT model to “never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user’s query.” The explicit operational warning was made public last week as part of the latest open source code for Codex CLI that OpenAI posted on GitHub. The prohibition is repeated twice in a 3,500-plus word set of “base instructions” for the recently released GPT-5.5, alongside more anodyne reminders not to “use emojis or em dashes unless…

Divine Remember Vine? The short-form video app from back when people were sharing creative things just for fun and not primarily to maximize engagement and make more money? It’s back, thanks in large part to Jack Dorsey, who was chairman of Twitter when it bought Vine a few months before it debuted in 2013. Divine — a rebooted version of the app with no affiliation to Vine, Twitter or X — is now available for iOS and Android. As with Vine, users create and share looping videos with a maximum…

The force of a pumping heart changes how cancer cells function, halting their ability to multiply and spread, a new study shows.The finding may help to explain why heart cancer is so rare, occurring in fewer than 2 in 100,000 people per year.A protein called Nesprin-2 is key to this phenomenon. Found in the outer membrane of a cell’s nucleus, the protein was already known to sense and respond to mechanical forces. Now, Nesprin-2 has been found to sense the force of heartbeats and stop cancerous cells from multiplying. You may like In addition to offering a possible explanation for…

I was struck by a thought while playing through Pragmata. No, not about Hugh, Diana, or the shitstorm surrounding discussions of the game online. Not even about its lunar setting, the game’s wider fascination with 3D printing, or its “uncle-core” qualities. Instead, I was surprised by how much I sucked at its primary puzzle-solving gameplay mechanic, and how much I was totally okay with that. In Pragmata, you’re dropped into the heavy boots of Hugh, an engineer sent up to make repairs on a moon base packed to the brim with homicidal robots. The only problem is that the weapons…

Disney will have the law on its side in its fight against the unusual broadcast license review ordered yesterday by the Federal Communications Commission, legal experts say. In 1996, Congress made it a lot harder for the FCC to take away a broadcast license, even when it’s up for renewal. “Since the NAB [National Association of Broadcasters] got an amendment in the 1996 Telecommunications Act, denying renewal to a broadcaster faces an almost insurmountable burden,” Andrew Jay Schwartzman, senior counselor of the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, told Ars this week. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was a major…

Google Google Photos is adding a new AI feature this summer. Wardrobe creates a “digital closet” for your clothing and jewelry, making it easier to organize them and pick what to wear. The feature discovers your clothes by scanning your Google Photos library. It then creates a catalog of your items, organized by category (tops, bottoms, jewelry, etc.). Thumbnails give each piece of clothing a simple visual reference.From there, you can mix and match items to create outfits — sharing them with friends or saving to a “digital moodboard.” There’s…