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Saros is easier than Returnal, but not by a lot, and most certainly not at first. The spiritual successor to Housemarque’s first tough-as-nails roguelike shooter has modifiers that you will eventually unlock that let you alter aspects of the difficulty, but they can’t be used willy-nilly. You have to balance buffs and debuffs so the game deems its challenge level adequate. So what trials and protections should you use? While it will depend on your playstyle, here’s a few switches I recommend flipping if you’re having trouble fighting your way through Carcosa. Protections Damage Enhancement and Armor Enhancement In terms…
On the morning of May 5, 1961, the Mercury-Redstone 3 launch vehicle lifted into the sky from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. Over the next 15 minutes, Shepard ascended to an altitude of 116 miles (187 kilometers) in his Freedom 7 spacecraft, becoming the first American to fly into space before splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean. This short flight marked the United States’ entry into human spaceflight and was a defining first step that would carry the nation to the Moon just eight years later. Sixty-five years later, as NASA accelerates the pace for the…
Not Your Great Grandfather’s Victrola Audiophiles gotta audiophile, with $10,000/foot cables, magic rocks and a variety of other very specific ways to spend their money. The rest of us want interesting products that are more or less worth the money it takes to buy them. There are some niche products, like the BB-777 which are very tempting but might be a bit expensive but comes with a sense of nostalgia that makes the price worth it. Then there are the oddities which are affordable, functional and just down right strange. The Victrola Journey Glow Suitcase Record Player is just under…
Chesnot/Getty Images We learned earlier this month that Google and Anthropic had inked a deal that would grant the creator of the Claude AI models access to cloud servers and chips. Today, The Information reported that Anthropic has agreed to pay a staggering $200 billion to Google over the next five years. Contracts like this, or Anthropic’s other recent multi-billion dollar arrangement with Amazon, now account for a ludicrous amount of money promised to some of the world’s largest tech companies. The Information claims that deals with Anthropic and OpenAI are…
In August 2017, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever gathered at Elon Musk’s self-described “haunted mansion,” a 47-acre, $23 million estate in Hillsborough, south of San Francisco, to discuss the future of OpenAI. Actor Amber Heard, Musk’s then-girlfriend, had served the group whiskey and then dashed off with a friend, Brockman, OpenAI’s cofounder and president, testified in federal court during the trial for Musk v. Altman on Tuesday.Ahead of the meeting, Musk gifted Brockman and Sutskever, OpenAI’s cofounder and former chief scientist, new Tesla Model 3 cars. “It felt like he was buttering us up,” Brockman said on the stand. “He…
Saros is the spiritual successor to Returnal, a game so challenging that many players bounced off of it without seeing it through to the end, prompting developer Housemarque to make a conscious decision to give players the option to make its next game easier. Mechanically, the games are very similar, but Saros’ persistent progression systems and shorter runs do give players a decidedly less grueling challenge. WhileHousemarque anticipates that this might upset people who considered beating Returnal a badge of honor, the team wants more people to experience its brand of bullet-hell psychological horror. “When it clicks, it’s something unlike…
Thirty-eight science educators representing seven school districts across Virginia’s Tidewater region joined forces with community organizations, such as the Elizabeth River Project, to deepen their instructional practice through a dynamic collaboration between NASA eClips and the GLOBE (Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment) Program. Together, these groups are cultivating a regional STEM ecosystem that connects classrooms, community science, and NASA resources in meaningful and lasting ways. As part of NASA’s Science Activation Program, NASA eClips engages educators and learners with standards-aligned resources grounded in authentic NASA science. Complementing this work, the GLOBE Program empowers participants to contribute to…
Sam Rutherford for Engadget The Steam Controller has been a hot topic for the PC gaming world for the past few weeks, and a new tidbit could keep the conversation going: Valve released the CAD files for the gamepad’s shell. They’re free to download under a Creative Commons license, meaning people can now design and construct their own accessories for the Steam Controller and its puck. The files are only for the device’s exterior; you won’t be able to 3D print yourself the innards to build your entire controller from…
Silicon Valley investors such as Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel have bet hundreds of millions of dollars on deploying AI data centers powered by waves in the middle of the world’s oceans—a move that coincides with tech companies facing mounting challenges in building AI data center projects on land. The latest investment round of $140 million is intended to help the company Panthalassa complete a pilot manufacturing facility near Portland, Oregon, and speed up deployments of wave-riding “nodes” designed to generate electrical power, according to a May 4 press release. Instead of sending renewable energy to a land-based data center, the…
The last talk I attended at GDC 2026 before flying home that night was a Microsoft presentation on Gaming Copilot. It laid out ways that the company was trying to use AI and LLM models to improve playing on Xbox. I wrote at the time that the goal of the presentation was to “make gaming AI on Xbox sound less scary to an audience skeptical of its potential.” But when I shared a clip online of what it sounds like when you ask Copilot for help in a game like Sea of Thieves, many gamers, including Xbox fans, were immediately…