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According to Not a Tesla App, the 2024.26 update in testing has features like parental controls that limit speed and acceleration or notify about late-night drives, an AQI symbol for poor local air quality, and scheduled charging.

It also adds built-in apps for Amazon Music and YouTube Music streaming in the US if you have Premium Connectivity or an active Wi-Fi connection.

Though Kurzweil still can’t explain precisely how he’s going to “merge” with a machine, he’s out here telling The New York Times he expects it to happen before he dies.

For the realists out there, I recommend Seneca.

I knew this was coming, I just didn’t expect it so soon. FromSoftware has released a patch for Shadow of the Erdtree. Among the casualties...I mean “bug fixes” is a nerf to super busted but super satisfying perfume bottle build that basically turned anyone who used it into a walking nuke. How dare you FromSoftware, over a long holiday weekend no less?!

A year after Nintendo Japan announced it would stop repairing the Wii U when its supply of parts ran out, the company confirmed this week its Japanese support teams are no longer able to fix the 12-year-old console, as spotted by Nintendo Life.

After Nintendo shuttered the console’s online play in April, this week’s announcement feels like the Wii U’s final death blow.

Nintendo’s July collection of classic games coming to NES Online includes Golf, programmed by the company’s former CEO, Satoru Iwata, who passed in 2015.

Shortly after the Switch’s debut a copy of Golf was discovered as an Easter Egg on the console, which some assumed to be a tribute to the late CEO, but finding and playing the game is now much easier.

From a Bloomberg interview with Hironobu Sakaguchi:

“On a rare occasion — I want to stress ‘rare occasion’ — sometimes one of the Mistwalker team members will hop on Final Fantasy XIV, and I’ll see a message saying, ‘Hey, the meeting’s started,.”

Weeks after negotiations between Skydance and Paramount’s parent company, National Amusements, ended without a deal, the New York Times reports not only have they restarted, but “the two sides have reached a preliminary deal to create a new Hollywood giant.”

This follows a report from CNBC that Warner Bros. Discovery or Comcast could also be interested and Bloomberg saying Paramount might sell BET for $1.6 billion.

Updated: Added new reporting of a preliminary deal.

Last week, Paramount Global abruptly pulled the MTV News archive that remained available following its shutdown last year. Now Variety reports that the Internet Archive has amassed more than 460,000 snapshots of the site, which you can browse through using the Wayback Machine.

It’s been three decades since CLAMP blessed with world with their Magic Knight Rayearth magical girl manga, and in celebration of the franchise’s 30th anniversary, TMS Entertainment has announced that it’s working on a new anime adaptation that will once again see Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu Hououji become the guardians of the planet Cephiro.

Evercade first debuted this adorable handheld last year, and now it’s expanding the line with two new versions: one packed with 50 Atari classics, the other 15 Japanese arcade games like Double Dragon and River City Ransom. Both are also compatible with Evercade cartridges, and they’re expected to start shipping in October. Pre-orders open on July 31st.

A look at the era of the non-disclosure agreement, subject of pop songs and nearly as common as water in Silicon Valley. Paradoxically, though, being as loud as possible makes it harder for the likes of Jeff Bezos to come after you.

Amazon has a new 3D “Gaming Zone” online showroom, which feels like it was designed to fit a marketing executive’s idea of “gamer aesthetic.” Also, the showroom is a chore to navigate. And you can’t even play the arcade cabinets!

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Criterion Channel’s new film series spans four decades, featuring ‘70s conspiracy thrillers, (Night Moves and Blow Out), both Bad Lieutenant movies (Keitel and Cage), ‘90s favorites L.A. Confidential and Out of Sight, as well as the deeply underrated Coen brothers’ The Man Who Wasn’t There. There are plenty of others, too — perfect viewing if your summer is feeling a little too sunny.

Kite Man — a man whose power is having a kite — isn’t really the kind of DC character you’d expect to see starring in their own animated series. But you can kind of see the appeal to Kite Man: Hell Yeah! (out July 18th) when you hear Stephanie Hsu as an explosive ice skiter and Keith David as a drunken Darkseid.

Epic Games has submitted the Epic Games Store and Fortnite to Apple for notarization. The company aims to launch them both in the EU on iOS in “the next couple months.”

In January, Epic said it planned to bring both to iOS “this year.”

Oh, and about those rumors you may have heard about a feature film or television series based on ELDEN RING… I have nothing to say.  Not a word, nope, not a thing, I know nothing, you never heard a peep from me, mum mum mum.  What rumor?

Director Brian Taylor’s Hellboy: The Crooked Man could wind up being a surprise delight, but the movie’s first trailer does...not exactly inspire all that much confidence.

Donald Glover has been Earnest, and Lando, a very suave John Smith, but Bando Stone & The New World — his latest directing gig — will transform him into an aging singer desperately trying to survive an apocalyptic world that makes little sense. There’s no word yet on when the film debuts.