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Steam’s free Ananta RPG game packs 100 hours of play

NetEase and Naked Rain’s urban fantasy RPG Ananta brings 100+ hours of free open-world questing to Steam, backed by a seven-year live support roadmap.

How diffractive solar sails could smash killer asteroids with 100 km/s kinetic impact.

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A Beihang University study and NASA-backed sail research show how diffractive solar sails might hurl a 100 km/s impactor into a killer asteroid.

As AI transforms engineering and geek culture work, three human skills—writing, speaking and embracing boredom—are quietly becoming crucial career superpowers.

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For more than a century, The Laughing Cow has been instantly recognizable: a bright-red cow, a wide grin, and the unmistakable round cheese-box earrings. That is why shoppers may do a double take when they see new packaging featuring a noticeably serious-looking cow.

Apple Maps now links major US landmarks to Apple Podcasts’ Hidden Histories guides, turning city walks into location-based audio tours for history nerds.

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Adidas’ huge Pokémon 30th anniversary collab is already selling out, as scalpers swarm limited sneakers and leather jackets targeting nostalgic fans.

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Stern Pinball has unleashed official Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant’s Eye accessories, giving cabinet modders new ways to level up their fantasy machine.

IonQ says it has cleared an important obstacle on the road to useful quantum computers: it demonstrated a system that can identify and interpret quantum-computing errors in real time using a single ordinary computer processor, without materially slowing the quantum calculation. If independently reproduced and extended to real hardware at larger scale, the work could…

Oppo’s Find X10 Pro Max debuts in China with a world-first trio of 200MP rear cameras, DeepPix HDR tech, Hasselblad tuning, and a huge 8000mAh battery.

XPeng’s IRON humanoid strides off an automated production line under its own power, marking a bold step in the robot race with Tesla and beyond.

A severed Verizon fiber cable in New Jersey knocked out a backup FAA radar feed, grounding major Northeast hubs and exposing fragile air traffic tech.

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Apple’s Mac mini M6 delivers big AI-ready gains, but a jump to $899 for the base model and unchanged specs dims its status as a budget-friendly desktop.