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Video Games Weekly: It’s weird that esports is segregated by gender

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Tech Reader. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (Or, I dunno, Thursday), broken into two parts. The first is a...

FromSoft’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is becoming an anime

Adaptations of video games continue to be big business. During Opening Night Live at Gamescom 2025, we learned that the punishing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice by FromSoftware will...

AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer’s Best Games. Copycats Are Proving Hard to Kill

Getting clones taken down can be an exhausting process for developers. Small studios have less time, energy and resources to dedicate to this process, and they’re at the...

Age Verification Is Sweeping Gaming. Is It Ready for the Age of AI Fakes?

Ash, a UK-based 20-year-old who requested his last name not be used, tells WIRED he was able to pass verification using God of War’s photo mode with main...

This AI Warps Live Video in Real Time

Dean Leitersdorf introduces himself over Zoom, then types a prompt that makes me feel like I’ve just taken psychedelic mushrooms: “wild west, cosmic, Roman Empire, golden, underwater.” He...

Roblox’s New Age Verification Feature Uses AI to Scan Teens’ Video Selfies

In the briefing, Kaufman called Roblox “one of the safest places online for people to come together and spend time with their friends and their family.”Kirra Pendergast, founder...

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Sends shares Q1 2026 business update and product progress

Sends reported Q1 2026 updates sharing news on digital cards, app redesign, ClearBank integration, and fintech industry recognition. Sends, a fintech platform operated by Smartflow...

We swipe our phones all day, and scientists just ranked which ones are the most tiring

We all know staring at your phone for hours isn’t great for mental health. But what about your fingers? Previously, researchers couldn’t measure...

Two suspects have been arrested for allegedly shooting at Sam Altman’s house

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's house may have been the target of a second attack after San Francisco Police Department arrested two suspects for...

You Can Soon Buy a $4,370 Humanoid Robot on AliExpress

Listing consumer electronics on the internet's large ecommerce marketplaces is a key step in “democratizing” the products, allowing them to be purchased by...