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May 15, 2025

Honkai: Star Rail 3.4 Leaks About Jingliu's Buffs Have Me Concerned For F2P Players

A new leak about Jingliu’s buffs in Honkai: Star Rail 3.4 has emerged, and while the buffs themselves are positive for the character’s performance in combat, I can’t help but be concerned for some of the F2P (free-to-play) players who own her and are looking forward to using her once her kit is revitalized. Developer HoYoverse has confirmed that older characters from the game will receive updates to their kits to bring them up-to-date with the current meta. » Read More

May 14, 2025

Review: Sonnet MacCuff mini – a well-designed M4 Mac mini mount [Video]

is a great way to securely mount your Mac mini under your desk, on a wall, or behind a monitor, allowing you to reclaim precious desktop real estate. I recently tested the MacCuff mini with my 2024 M4 Mac mini, and I was impressed with its build quality, thoughtful design, and ease of use. Watch my hands-on review of the MacCuff mini, and be sure to subscribe to 9to5Mac on YouTube for more videos.

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May 14, 2025

Tattoo getting in the way of your smartwatch readings? Try this simple fix

Credit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority

Wearables tend to have difficulty with tattooed wrists.
Some tattooed wearable owners have found that the problem can be fixed with clear medical tape or epoxy stickers.
However, using this workaround can block certain features.

Tattoos and wearable gadgets aren’t exactly a winning combination. The ink on your skin can make wrist detection difficult for these devices. While many manufacturers are well aware of this issue, there are plenty of consumers who will pick up a smartwatch unaware that such a problem exists. If this includes you, there is a workaround that could get your device working like it should.

Most wrist-based wearables tend to use photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors for detecting biometric data. Although it’s a good, low-cost, and non-invasive way to obtain biometric data, this technology has some flaws. Simply put, these optical sensors work by flashing light on your skin and seeing how much light is reflected back. Things like skin pigment, veins, arteries, and bones all absorb this light. As you may know, lighter colors reflect more light than darker colors. That’s why PPG sensors tend to struggle with dark skin and ink.

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May 14, 2025

After Oblivion Remastered, Morrowind Was Just 100 Players Off Its All Time Peak

Oblivion Remastered lit a fire under The Elder Scrolls community, igniting age-old debates (if you count 2006 as ‘age-old’), while also ushering newcomers down some of the series’ more bizarre rabbit holes. What’s more, it enticed new and veteran fans alike to revisit the classics. Just look at Morrowind, which came a Netch’s breadth away from beating a 12-year-old record thanks to Virtuos’ revamped take on Cyrodiil.

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May 14, 2025

Capcom Has Made Record Profits Again, For The 8th Year In A Row

Eight times’ a charm.

In recent times, it feels like we’ve been singing Capcom’s praises fairly often – and in an industry that seems intent on consistently delivering bad news, we’re going to carry on doing just that. This week, as part of its most recent financial results, the Japanese game maker has announced record profits for the eighth year in a row. Bravo!

Coming by way of VGC, Capcom has “achieved record-high net sales and profit at all levels for the eighth consecutive year” – that being fiscal year 2024, running through this March. Those results were driven by just north of 50 million games sales across the year; over five million more than in fiscal year 2023.

Read the full article on purexbox.com

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May 14, 2025

Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge at Verizon

Verizon is indeed carrying the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge. Verizon is offering the S25 Edge in both storage variants and all three colors: Titanium Jetblack, Titanium Silver and Titanium Icyblue.

Currently, during the pre-order phase, Verizon is offering some pretty sweet deals for the Galaxy S25 Edge, including up to $1,100 off with your trade-in. Though a new line is required for his promo. This does work with any of Verizon’s myPlan.

Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is the company’s thinnest phone ever

The Galaxy S25 Edge was first announced at Unpacked in January, where Samsung gave us a little teaser. But it didn’t launch until May 2025. This is Samsung’s thinnest phone ever, even beating out the 5.9mm thin Galaxy A8 from 2015.

Measuring in at just 5.8mm, it’s almost three millimeters thinner than the Galaxy S25 Ultra. So, how was Samsung able to do this? Well, obviously, lots of changes needed to be made. The biggest changes were the battery and camera. So, despite having the same 200-megapixel camera as the Galaxy S25 Ultra, Samsung did strip out the telephoto cameras, allowing for less space to be needed for the camera. It also opted for a smaller 3,900mAh capacity battery.

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May 14, 2025

Study shows vision-language models can’t handle queries with negation words

Imagine a radiologist examining a chest X-ray from a new patient. She notices the patient has swelling in the tissue but does not have an enlarged heart. Looking to speed up diagnosis, she might use a vision-language machine-learning model to search for reports from similar patients.

But if the model mistakenly identifies reports with both conditions, the most likely diagnosis could be quite different: If a patient has tissue swelling and an enlarged heart, the condition is very likely to be cardiac related, but with no enlarged heart there could be several underlying causes.

In a new study, MIT researchers have found that vision-language models are extremely likely to make such a mistake in real-world situations because they don’t understand negation — words like “no” and “doesn’t” that specify what is false or absent.

“Those negation words can have a very significant impact, and if we are just using these models blindly,

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May 14, 2025

20th anniversary iPhone to be totally bezel-free, have hi-tech battery – report

Bloomberg last month suggested that Apple is working on a 20th anniversary iPhone, which might represent the culmination of the company’s long-held ambition to create “a single slab of glass.”

Few details have been reported as yet, but a new supply-chain report claims that it will be totally bezel-free, using display tech being developed by Samsung and LG …

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May 14, 2025

Tekken’s Katsuhiro Harada Has Been Trying To Get A Waffle House Stage Collaboration Off The Ground

Tekken 8 Director Katsuhiro Harada has revealed that he wants to get an official Waffle House stage introduced in the series, but the hopeful collaboration hasn’t really got off the ground as the US chain has been ignoring his calls.

Fans were asking Harada-san last year that Tekken should receive a stage set in a Waffle House, something which took him by surprise and asked why it’s been requested so much. Tekken fans explained that the US restaurant chain has been the backdrop of many viral videos, where fights have broke out at Waffle Houses and sometimes involved staff.

Now, the Tekken series producer has offered an update on a potential collaboration with Waffle House, stating that his attempts to contact the chain haven’t been exactly fruitful.

To be honest,

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May 14, 2025

Android 16 QPR1 beta expected to paint the first strokes of Material 3 Expressive

Old vs new Quick Settings panel design in Android

Credit: Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority

Android 16 QPR1 beta is expected to debut the new Material 3 Expressive design language.
The upcoming build is expected to include several new design changes, including the new Quick Settings panel, Clock customization, wallpaper effects, and more.

Google officially unveiled Android’s new design direction — Material 3 Expressive — during The Android Show yesterday. However, the company disappointed by confirming that the redesign won’t arrive with the stable Android 16 release next month.

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