'There is a very dark scene in the mission where Finn Colton looksmaxxes' — Hitman World of Assassination senior level designer says Jacksepticeye 'gave us carte blanche to make him as evil as we wanted'

The developer said Seán William McLoughlin, aka Jacksepticeye, "seemed genuinely excited" about starring in ',' since it's a franchise he grew up with, and permitted the team to go as wild as possible with his character.…

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The End of Everything by M. John Harrison wins the 2026 Booker prize – a wonder of weird fiction for our incomprehensible times

An ineffectual war is being waged by humans against the indifferent and sardonically named aliens, the iGhetti (a riff on tech company Apple’s naming conventions). These amorphous entities have leaked into our reality…

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy: a timeline

Now, the 63-year-old industry kingpin has admitted that he cheated on his wife of 40 years in an affair that could have ramifications beyond Huang’s personal life and potentially impact national security. United States…

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Meta and IMAX sign deal to put an IMAX theatre in Meta’s VR Glasses

The app will put viewers in a virtual theatre to watch IMAX Enhanced films and shows. Some titles will play in IMAX’s exclusive Expanded Aspect Ratios. IMAX says the aim is to bring audiences closer to the filmmaker’s…

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Adobe and Google have teamed up to connect Drive, Gmail and Acrobat

The two entities are developing integrations across software products that actually sound pretty useful. First up, Adobe Acrobat is receiving deeper connectivity with Google Drive and Gmail. This will create a "direct…

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A closer look at Verano, AMD's first step toward a Zen-based superchip to rival Nvidia's Vera Rubin

Rather than general-purpose workloads, Verano is designed specifically to power AMD's next generation of GPU servers. In an interview with The Register during a press event in Las Vegas last week, Madhu Rangarajan…

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Media ultimately exposed Russell Brand – but his fame and celebrity added to victims’ trauma

Following a four-week trial, where six women testified in detail, the former comedian was jailed for ten years and six months for one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. He was cleared of two further counts…

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Sundrop turns your endless baby photos into recaps, time-lapses and more — without AI

A new app, Sundrop , aims to make those pictures more useful by turning them into weekly recaps, highlights, time-lapses of the child growing up, and other cute scenes, like putting the child’s photo on a magazine cover…

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Don't throw away your old phone box — you might need it in an emergency

There's a specific type of anxiety that comes with deciding what to do with a box. Do you immediately throw it away? Do you stash it in a closet with about 20 other boxes that store little more than your own guilt? If…

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You’ve been told to prep three days of food, but moving past day four will need stronger supply chains

Sales of bottled water and tinned foods have soared, as households ready themselves for a powerful storm, a long power cut or a cyber-attack. And preparing for three days of self-resilience seems like a sensible measure.…

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