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Valve made a triumphant return to the hardware market with the Steam Deck and its OLED-toting counterpart, and now it’s having another crack at virtual reality with the Steam Frame. The Steam Frame is the long-rumored headset from Valve that had previously been codenamed “Deckard.” The company also announced a new Steam controller and PC called the Steam Machine.Valve says the Steam Frame is a wireless, “streaming-first” headset. It supports both VR and flatscreen games. The company made a plug-and-play 6GHz wireless adapter that you slot into your PC (or Steam Machine). It has a dual-radio setup to help minimize…
Hollywood star and left-wing political activist George Clooney had harsh words for artificial intelligence and the billion dollar backers of the tech taking over Hollywood. “The thing that really rattled Hollywood in general was the Sora 2 stuff. That shook everybody because suddenly the quality was much better and it’s scary,” the Ocean’s 11 star said this week about OpenAI’s recently released artificial intelligence-powered video maker. “There’s been some really actually awful ones where they’ve done and said things that I’ve never done and said and put me out there and it’s dangerous,” Clooney told Variety. “It’s dangerous for your family.…
Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan is more confident that crypto markets will boom in 2026, particularly as there hasn’t been a late-2025 rally yet. Speaking to Cointelegraph at The Bridge conference in New York City on Wednesday, Hougan said a crypto market rally at the end of 2025 would have fit the four-year cycle thesis, meaning 2026 would mark the start of a bear market, similar to 2022 and 2018.When asked to revise his prediction about whether the crypto market will boom in 2026, Hougan said: “I’m actually more confident in that quote. The biggest risk was [if] we…
Institutional capital is circling back to Solana (SOL) as Spot Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) open the gates to a new wave of inflows. Solana’s resurgence has caught the attention of the broader crypto community, recording consistent daily inflows and experiencing momentum it has not seen in months. The question now remains whether this steady buildup of institutional accumulation could eventually propel SOL’s price toward the $300 mark. Solana Records 11 Days Of Consecutive ETF Inflows The Solana price is currently hovering above $156, roughly half of its ATH of just over $294 set in January 2025. Over the past few…
Market data and asset movements shows that the Dogecoin price is enduring its toughest quarter in years, with the memecoin struggling to defend the $0.17 support zone as persistent outflows and bearish sentiment pressure the market. Related Reading Dogecoin (DOGE) fell over 3% this week, testing the lower boundary of its ascending channel near $0.17, a critical level that has historically triggered rebound rallies. DOGE’s price trends to the downside on the daily chart. Source: DOGEUSD on Tradingview A Dogecoin Price Technical Breakdown According to CoinDesk data, the Dogecoin price decline accelerated after heavy selling during European trading hours, breaking…
Waymo is bringing its driverless cars to freeways in three major US cities and the surrounding environs. These areas include San Francisco, Phoenix and Los Angeles.The platform didn’t say how many of these vehicles have been greenlit to take to the freeway, other than noting that “a growing number of public riders” will be given access. At the very least, families will be able to play a new road trip game in which they point out cars with weird spinning LiDAR units on the roof.The Google-owned ridesharing company says that these freeway rides can be used for daily commutes, traveling…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Approval of the way President Donald Trump is managing the government has dropped sharply since early in his second term, according to a new AP-NORC poll, with much of the rising discontent coming from fellow Republicans.The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research was conducted after Democrats’ recent victories in off-year elections but before Congress took major steps to try to end the longest shutdown in U.S. history. It shows that only 33% of U.S. adults approve of the way the Republican president is managing the government, down from 43% in an AP-NORC poll…
Airbnb is testing a service in which guests can order groceries through Instacart, as reported by Bloomberg. This may not sound like a big deal at first, because guests can already use any grocery app during their stay to stock the house up with snacks. However, this service can be accessed by customers before their stay.This means that folks can prepare for, say, a barbecue or similar event ahead of time. I can see this being pretty dang useful around certain holidays. This duty falls to the hosts, who will have to actually put the groceries away.Airbnb will give hosts…
The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics competition schedule was unveiled on Wednesday by organisers, including a showcase spot for the women’s 100 meters and a Super Saturday session. LA28 revealed a detailed schedule earlier than usual. It starts with the opening ceremony on July 14 and ends with the closing ceremony on July 30. The biggest-ever Games will feature 11,200 athletes in 51 sports across 49 venues. Every team sport will feature an equal or greater number of women’s teams compared to men’s teams for the first time with 50.5 per cent of total athletes being women. On day one, July…
A new Yahoo/YouGov survey reveals that the majority of Americans have a pessimistic outlook on the future of artificial intelligence, with 53 percent believing that AI is likely to “destroy humanity” someday. Yahoo News reports that the rapid advancements in AI technology have been making headlines recently, from the launch of OpenAI’s AI-powered web browser ChatGPT Atlas to Nvidia becoming the first publicly traded company to surpass $5 trillion in market value. However, a recent Yahoo/YouGov poll suggests that the general public’s perception of AI and its potential impact on their lives is far more pessimistic than that of Silicon…