Road to VR

Niantic’s WebAR Creation Platform ‘8th Wall’ Goes Open Source as Hosted Services Go Offline

Niantic Spatial has now made its WebAR creation platform ‘8th Wall’ free and open source, which also comes alongside a ...

React Native vs Flutter: An overview and 6 decision factors

The frameworks use fundamentally different programming languages and UI rendering methods and vary in other characteristics.
KOIN 6

Bull Run Filtration Project price tag surges by another $450M

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A project aiming to filter Portland’s drinking water is now estimated to cost an additional $450 million, city officials have announced. On Thursday, the Portland Water Bureau ...
GameSpot

Krafton Clarifies How Big New Game Project Windless Uses AI

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Project Windless, a new open-world action RPG inspired by a Korean novel series, was announced for PS5 at the recent State of Play event. The game's ...
InfoWorld

First look: Run LLMs locally with LM Studio

This desktop app for hosting and running LLMs locally is rough in a few spots, but still useful right out of the box. Dedicated desktop applications for agentic AI make it easier for relatively ...
Bleeping Computer

Hackers exploit critical React Native Metro bug to breach dev systems

Hackers are targeting developers by exploiting the critical vulnerability CVE-2025-11953 in the Metro server for React Native to deliver malicious payloads for Windows and Linux. On Windows, an ...
Engadget

Google's Project Genie lets you create your own 3D interactive worlds

Project Genie allows people outside of Google to try the company's Genie 3 world model. (Google) This past summer, Google DeepMind debuted Genie 3. It’s what’s known as a world world, an AI system ...
IGN

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Google has begun selling access to Project Genie, an interactive world creation tool that lets you generate playable environments from a prompt — including those featuring Nintendo characters. The ...
Ars Technica

Google Project Genie lets you create interactive worlds from a photo or prompt

Last year, Google showed off Genie 3, an updated version of its AI world model with impressive long-term memory that allowed it to create interactive worlds from a simple text prompt. At the time, ...
xxlmag

TiaCorine on Being Native American, Tyler, The Creator & More

Editor’s Note: This story appears in the Fall 2025 issue of XXL Magazine, on newsstands now and available for sale on the XXL website. 1. If I wasn’t an artist, I would get to the bag by being a ...
Tom's Guide

I used the Echo Dot Max and Echo Studio to create an Alexa Home Theater — here's how it sounds

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