Twitch announced this week that it has partnered with StreamElements to integrate the latter’s sponsorship platform directly into its streaming dashboard. This new move makes sponsorships easier to find and maintain for Twitch’s legion of creators, and those offered via StreamElements offer a guaranteed base pay and performance incentives.... Read more

Years come and go, but virtual reality is still a place where some of the most interesting and immersive games exist, if you’re curious enough to wear a headset. Thanks largely to the Meta Quest, which remains the most popular VR headset product line in existence, there are lots... Read more

In comparison to the cultural domination of “Barbenheimer,” which was followed by a Best Picture win for Oppenheimer, the competition for the top prize at the 2025 Oscars is much more uncertain. Online controversies, lack of strong buzz around any one film, and a growing international voter base all... Read more

As part of today’s vast and far-reaching closures of Warner Bros. Games originally reported by Bloomberg, numerous studios have had to end their ongoing projects and close up shop. By shutting down Monolith Productions, the developers behind games like Shadow of Mordor and older classics like No One Lives... Read more

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. For today’s NYT Mini Crossword, you’ll need to know a little bit about fashion, Broadway, country music and... Read more

Monica Retamosa was in the middle of changing the batteries of a tape recorder when she heard a bellbird for the first time. Standing on a forest floor, she looked up into the trees, scanning for the source of its metallic and powerful sound, searching for the bird for... Read more

Framework launched new versions of its 12-inch and 13-inch laptops as well as a new desktop computer today — all with repairable and upgradeable options. Here’s a rundown on what the company announced. Nirav Patel, founder of Framework, noted that the last live event the company held was in... Read more

Game maker Activision Blizzard confirmed that some of the visuals inside some of its most popular titles are generated by AI. The disclosure, which is listed on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s game page on Steam, follows the online gaming platform’s recent introduction of new AI transparency policies.... Read more

New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of thousands of times the mass of the sun: a potential supermassive black hole. The most widely accepted theory of... Read more

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