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We’ve seen Axiom Space and Prada’s collaboration on the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit. Now the company has revealed the Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment ( LCVG ) that astronauts will wear underneath it when Artemis IV returns humans to the Moon in 2028.

Microsoft recently announced major pricing changes for GitHub Copilot — changes that were drastic enough that a Reddit user said their company has started calling it the Tokenpocalypse . On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast , Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed what those changes might mean for the larger AI ecosystem.

Amazing Digital Dentures (a failed project) So my idea was simple and a bit complicated at the same time, Have you guys watched The Amazing Digital Circus? it's an animated show which features an AI pair of dentures named caine who lives in a virtual circus with some digital clones of real human beings and he creates and sends them on an adventures…

The Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics , which has been published today, addresses the increasing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in mathematical research. It was developed following a 2025 workshop at the Lorentz Center in Leiden and in consultation with an international group of researchers.

Mythograph Atelier #1 - Abstract Art That Means Something to You When I received the email about the Build Small Hackathon, I immediately liked the idea and wanted to participate. In the registration form, there was an optional question asking what my project would be.

The 2026 edition of Summer Game Fest just wrapped up, and it was surprisingly hectic. The nearly week-long event came at a challenging time for the games industry , and for the most part the big keynotes were used as a chance to show some strength through major announcements, while largely ignoring pesky details like hardware price hikes and the mess of…

As part of its Xbox Games Showcase on Sunday, Microsoft revealed new details about Halo: Campaign Evolved , the upcoming remake of Halo: Combat Evolved ’s campaign mode. The remake will debut on Xbox Series S / X, PC, and PS5 on July 28th.

Just a few days after pushing Fable out of 2026, Microsoft showed off more footage of Fable , the first new entry in the storied RPG franchise since 2010’s Fable III , at its Xbox Games Showcase on Sunday. The company also announced a specific release date: February 23rd, 2027 .

Minecraft Dungeons 2 , a sequel to Microsoft’s dungeon crawler spinoff Minecraft Dungeons , will be released on September 29th . The company originally revealed the game in a brief trailer in March , promising a fall 2026 release window.

Microsoft has created a special edition Xbox Series X to celebrate 25 years of the console. The Xbox 25th-anniversary console takes design cues from the original Xbox console, with both the console and controller featuring a translucent green design.

This year’s Summer Game Fest turned out to be a good one for fans of Japanese RPGs. First, the conclusion of the Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy was announced at SGF Live , and now we have the long-awaited return of the Persona series.

Notion’s integration with Anthropic apparently had a hiccup this weekend. Early Sunday morning, the company posted , “Anthropic’s Opus 4.7 and 4.8 models are experiencing degraded performance, which is causing a higher rate of failures for users selecting these models in Notion AI.” As a result, Notion said it was disabling use of “all Anthropic models” in…

The Xbox Games Showcase airs on June 7th at 1PM ET (you can watch it on both YouTube and Twitch ), and will be followed by a second presentation focused entirely on Gears of War: E-Day . The event comes at an interesting time for Xbox.

Have you ever wondered what the most indispensable app is for your favorite musician or how the world’s tech CEOs stay focused? Well, that’s the sort of thing we aim to uncover in our Verge Weekend Questionnaire.

Apparently, the “ return of Xbox ” means a retreat from other platforms. At its Xbox Games Showcase today, Microsoft revealed that Gears of War: E-Day — which was previously announced for the Xbox, PS5, and PC — will no longer be coming to PlayStation.

OpenAI plans to roll out a revamped version of ChatGPT in the coming weeks — one that will serve as a “super app” with coding tools and AI agents, according to Financial Times . The company’s goal is reportedly to become more competitive with Anthropic, particularly among business customers, and to get closer to profitability before an IPO.

If you have an outdoor space that needs some extra lighting, either for fun or security reasons (or a mix of the two), the Govee outdoor lamp post light is a good pick that’s 23 percent off its regular price right now. Typically retailing for $260, the Govee outdoor lamp post light is available for $199.99 from Amazon or directly from Govee — the lowest…

The Virtual OS Museum isn’t a physical place, it’s a collection of over 1,700 distinct installations of over 600 operating systems for over 250 platforms that you can download and run via emulation right on your computer. It’s largely the work of one man, Andrew Warkentin , a developer and OS historian who has been slowly building his collection of OS…

I’ll give the usual caveat: The horror novel Japanese Gothic is best experienced going in with as little information as possible. Content warnings for graphic gore, scenes of domestic violence, self-harm, and mental illness.

The 2026 XPS 14 is the best premium laptop we’ve seen from Dell in a while, with incredible build quality in a thin machine and good performance thanks to Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” chips. A bonus: Dell killed its lame “Premium Plus” naming scheme .

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