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Steam provides an unusual level of insight into what’s popular on the platform and how games are performing. While user reviews and charts of concurrent player counts can be weaponized to push toxic agendas, they also provide useful data points for tracking broader movements around which games are trending and why. Console storefronts on Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5, meanwhile, are effectively black boxes. Outside of lists of the top-selling games at any given moment, we don’t know much about who’s actually playing what. That could be changing. As spotted by PlayStation YouTuber Mystic (via CharlieIntel), Sony has rolled…
Meta is taking another swing at ephemeral photo sharing, and the company is acting like nobody noticed when it tried the same thing three weeks ago. Same app, same concept, slightly different packaging, and a much louder press push behind it this time.What Meta just announcedMeta has officially launched Instants as both a feature inside Instagram and a standalone app on iOS and Android. The idea is unfiltered, in-the-moment photos that vanish once your friends see them, with replies routing straight to your DMs.The standalone Instants app first showed up in select countries about three weeks ago under the name…
Zagorski says this is likely contributing to an uptick in meth use, but that it’s a “relatively minor” factor overall, with economic precarity and housing instability doing far more to drive the crisis.Dr. Nicky Mehtani, an assistant professor in the UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital who specializes in addiction medicine and does clinical work with homeless people, tells WIRED that P2P meth is nothing new. “It’s been the dominant form in the US supply for the better part of a decade,” she says. “I’ve never heard it called ‘super meth’ in any clinical or…
Stephen Colbert’s run as The Late Show host over at CBS is coming to an end next week for “financial reasons” and not at all related to Colbert’s jabs at President Donald Trump. To help celebrate the end, Colbert invited the original Late Show host and creator of the program, David Letterman, onto the show to chat and then toss stuff off the roof of the studio. On the May 14 episode of The Late Show on CBS, Letterman and Colbert teamed up and headed to the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater to toss actual CBS-owned property and items,…
Near the end of last year, Vivo launched its mainline camera flagships — the Vivo X300 and Vivo X300 Pro. At the time, we had the expectation that there would be an Ultra down the line, but we certainly didn’t hope for an international launch. Previous Ultras were China-only.Well, imagine my surprise when Vivo went ahead and said “This is the new X300 Ultra, and it’s an international model”.Now, I was already pretty happy with the Vivo X300 Pro as a camera smartphone and didn’t expect to see much of an improvement, even if I did get to play with…
As gas prices stay stubbornly high across the country, President Donald Trump mused this week about suspending the fuel tax US consumers pay. The idea is also picking up steam in Congress, with Democratic and Republican lawmakers pushing for a gas tax holiday.But experts tell WIRED that it’s unlikely that any rollback—even temporary—of the fee will save consumers much as the unofficial start to summer travel season nears.“It’s unlikely that oil prices, gasoline prices, diesel prices are going to fall back to where they were in February any time in the next couple months,” says Clark Williams-Derry, an analyst at…
The idea for Mixtape, Beethoven and Dinosaur’s latest musical adventure, started with a song. Specifically, “That’s Good” by Devo, the song that opens the game as Stacy Rockford and her friends skateboard into their final night together in Blue Moon Lagoon. Creative director Johnny Galvatron tells Kotaku that he wanted to build a game that could have that song in it, and then the idea of a game about a mixtape of Galvatron’s “greatest hits of all time” began to form. “I’m a big Devo fan,” Galvatron says. “There seems to be this weird, Devo-shaped hole in my heart, and…
Managing finances during or after an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) can be challenging, especially when access to reliable transportation is essential for work, family commitments, or everyday responsibilities. Many people assume that having an IVA automatically prevents them from getting approved for vehicle finance, but that is not always the case. Today, some lenders offer specialised IVA car finance solutions designed for individuals with adverse credit histories or ongoing financial arrangements. What Is an IVA? An Individual Voluntary Arrangement is a formal agreement between an individual and their creditors to repay debts over a fixed period, usually five or six years. IVAs…
Employee benefits are in the spotlight this week, and that’s because of three recent stories about US companies cutting back on non-wage compensations for workers.A Texas tech consulting firm with a forgettable name—TTEC—suddenly became a lot more memorable when it suspended its discretionary 401(k) match program for 16,000 employees through at least the end of 2026. According to Business Insider, which viewed an internal TTEC memo, the company plans to invest in AI certifications, AI tools and training, and automation, among other things.The auditing and consulting giant Deloitte is also reportedly slashing benefits for some workers starting next year. This…
This story is sponsored by ecoATM. PhoneArena’s opinions in this article have not been affected in any way!We have a growing problem in our modern tech world nowadays — how do we get rid of our old gadgets? Just throwing them out is beyond irresponsible, selling on the second-hand market is a headache, and trading in is not always a viable option.What if there’s a super-easy solution? A kind of ATM machine that takes in your old phones, and instantly gives you back cash? Well… there is!Introducing ecoATM: the easy way to sell your used phoneecoATM was founded way back…