I was not expecting to cry while playing Summit, a $6 mountain climbing platformer for Playdate that’s impossible not to compare to Celeste. Scream in frustration? Yes. Storm away from the game only to come crawling back minutes later? Definitely. Get all up in my feels, though? Not so much. Yet an hour and 34 minutes — and 432 deaths — later, here we are. This is now the second Playdate game that
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- Jordan Chiles has to return her bronze medal after the Court of Arbitration for Sport stepped in.
- Chiles had been elevated to third in the floor exercise following her coach's appeal over her score.
- But the court voided the on-floor appeal. The IOC has confirmed the ruling.
US gymnast Jordan Chiles
If you’ve ever wondered what happens to all those self-driving taxis when the world is asleep, one YouTube channel has you covered. Since the beginning of the month, software engineer Sophia Tung has been livestreaming a San Francisco parking lot that Waymo is renting to give its robotaxis somewhere
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- Disney unveiled plans to expand its theme parks, including Walt Disney World, at its D23 fan event.
- Villains Land is coming to Magic Kingdom alongside two attractions based on the movie "Cars."
- Disney Experiences, which includes theme parks, is a profitable division. But it underperformed
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- Sen. JD Vance on Sunday proposed a $5,000 child tax credit.
- The vice-presidential candidate wants to position the GOP as the party with pro-family policies.
- But Vance missed an early August Senate vote on a child tax credit expansion.
Sen. JD Vance could use an image boost.
Since becoming former President Donald Trump's pick
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- Nvidia is partnering with California to train residents on AI technology.
- The initiative, backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, aims to support job creation and innovation.
- The effort includes a state worker training program.
Chipmaker Nvidia is
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- Sherpas will soon use drones to remove trash from Mount Everest's slopes.
- Everest's peak has become a massive garbage dump with 50 metric tons of waste annually.
- Chinese drone manufacturer DJI developed the "heavy lifter" high-altitude drones.
Mount Everest looks more like a landfill every year as

AMD has begun releasing updates to patch some — but not all — chips affected by the recently discovered “Sinkclose” security flaw. The vulnerability spotted by researchers at IOActive was revealed in a report from Wired last week, and is said to affect most AMD processors going back to 2006. While AMD’s security team has been working to get some of these systems patched, Tom’s Hardware reports

Although Apple’s tablet lineup has undergone several shakeups over the last several years, we long considered the ninth-gen iPad to be the best budget iPad you could get. That changed when Apple dropped the price of the 10th-gen iPad to a more sensible $349 and discontinued its entry-level model. But the 2021
