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A retired PlayStation boss makes the case for PS5 games on PC. Atari expands its retro game emulation capabilities. And the “efficiency” purge at Meta continues. It’s your Morning Checkpoint for April 24, 2026, where we can safely report that the next Halo game is not a pottery spin-off. I can’t tell you what might come out of this bouncing, talking Ditto’s mouth, but I can tell you it will be roughly $33 to find out. In the meantime, Final Fantasy XVI Fan Fest is underway this weekend in Anaheim, California. It’s packed, and former Kotaku writer Harper Jay MacIntyre…
On a hot Saturday in San Antonio over 10 years ago, an 8-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital after days of fever, headache, vomiting and sensitivity to light. The child’s mother, who lived near the Texas-Mexico border, had taken him to a series of clinics in Mexico, but his condition had worsened. The child was now unconscious and unresponsive to sound, light or other stimuli.Doctors put the child on a ventilator and began a breakneck effort to find out what was wrong. What they discovered, swimming in the boy’s cerebrospinal fluid, was an organism that left little room for…
Two companies that launched last year with plans to create gene-edited babies have already shut down, citing money issues and internal conflict.One of them, Manhattan Genomics of New York, closed abruptly shortly after announcing a team of scientific advisers in October that included a prominent fertility doctor, a data scientist who worked for de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences, and a scientist who pioneered a “three-parent” IVF technique. The other, California-based Bootstrap Bio, said it ceased operations in late 2025, as first reported by Mother Jones.Manhattan Genomics and Bootstrap Bio had ambitions to edit DNA in human embryos with the goal of…
John Ternus was unavoidable when Apple debuted the Macbook Neo. He kicked off an intimate media event for the Neo, introducing it as a transformative machine for Apple thanks to its low $599 cost ($499 for education customers) and premium build quality. He was interviewed on Good Morning America, the sort of prominent media feature CEO Tim Cook typically handles. And when I asked Apple workers about the Neo at its launch event, they almost always brought up Ternus’ vision of the laptop.For all intents and purposes, Tetanus was Apple’s frontman for the MacBook Neo.Ternus is slated for his coronation…
Huawei has unveiled a new smart home accessory in China called the Huawei Smart Lock M2. The lock officially went on sale today at 799 yuan (~$117), but a government subsidy brings the price down to 679.15 yuan, or around $100. And it’s a bargain for that price. Huawei Smart Lock M2 Specifications The Huawei Smart Lock M2 relies on AI-based features, particularly for its fingerprint unlocking system. The company says the lock uses an adaptive AI fingerprint sensor that improves with each use, gradually refining recognition accuracy over time. It unlocks in about 0.5 seconds, and Huawei claims a…
Valve is providing more data on Steam Deck performance to developers who have created and shipped games that are marked as Verified on the handheld PC. While this might help devs tune games to run better on the platform, I’m still not sure the Verified system is working as intended. On April 23, Valve published a new Steamworks Development blog announcing that two new Steam Deck data features were now available for devs. The first is a tool that provides the average framerate over the last 30 days for a dev’s game on Steam Deck. At the moment, this new…
Listen to this audio excerpt from Peter Rossoni, Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System flight manager: Your browser does not support the audio element. As a child, Peter Rossoni watched the Apollo missions launch with his family. In April 2026, he became a part of NASA’s Artemis II mission, helping enable communications as astronauts journeyed around the Moon. Rossoni’s path to NASA began as he followed his parents’ footsteps into science. That foundation eventually led him to laser communications and NASA’s Artemis II test flight. Today, Rossoni is the flight manager for the Orion Artemis II Optical Communication System at…
Sometime in the next year or two, Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, will step onto a stage and tell the world that his company has a revolutionary product. This product, he’ll say, will put the full and awesome power of AI into everyone’s hands. It probably won’t represent a breakthrough in AI research, and it might not let people automate work or perform tasks any better than a lot of technically minded people are doing today. It may or may not involve a new device, though if it doesn’t, one should be in development. But if it all works out,…
With storage prices climbing faster than game install sizes, gamers are getting creative and a little rebellious. The latest “hack”? Turning unused Xbox expansion cards into external SSDs for PCs. Originally designed for the Xbox Series X|S, these cards are basically NVMe storage in disguise, wrapped in a CFexpress Type B form factor. One curious Reddit user, “u/Dramatic-Shape5574,” decided to test the limits and plugged the card into a CFexpress reader, and Windows recognized it like a regular drive. Suddenly, that “console-only” storage wasn’t so exclusive anymore. Ai-generated image for representation only Performance is surprisingly decent. You’re looking at speeds…
Set photos from the upcoming A24 Elden Ring film adaptation have been leaking like crazy this week. First, we got a look at a Church of Marika from someone who just happened to be moseying through a field where the set people had plopped it down. Now, more clips of filming are sneaking out that show delightful sights like the Loathesome Dung Eater being publicly executed and pelted with food scraps, what seems to be Queen Marika herself walking through a town, and most shocking of all for a FromSoftware universe: a town that’s crowded with actual, regular, normal, living…