2026-08-20

Meta Opens Pocket, Its Vibe-Coding Game App, to US Users

Meta is bringing Pocket, its experimental app for generating and sharing small interactive games from text prompts, to users across the United States. The app, which Meta first listed on June 29, 2026 with availability limited to Brazil, began its U.S. rollout on August 20, 2026. Meta's own Help Center page for Pocket defines the app's unit of content: "A gizmo is an interactive, pl [...]

2026-08-20

Robot.com Signs Seven-Year Sodexo Deal, Its Largest Single Enterprise Deployment

Robot.com has signed a seven-year commercial agreement with Sodexo to expand autonomous delivery across Sodexo-operated college campuses in North America, a contract the company describes as its largest single enterprise deployment. Announced August 20, 2026, the deal extends a partnership that began in 2021 and broadens it for the first time beyond delivery into robot-carried advertising. The agr [...]

2026-08-20

What to make of OpenAI’s pause on its march toward superintelligence

A new model called Astra may have crossed a dangerous cybersecurity line, so OpenAI hit the brakes on training runs.  [...]

2026-08-20

A data centre rack running on living neurons is now operating in Singapore

NUS Medicine, data centre operator DayOne and Melbourne’s Cortical Labs have unveiled a biological data centre prototype in Singapore, built from a 20-unit rack of neuron-powered CL1 computers. The efficiency claim central to the project comes with no published figures. A rack of computers running on living human neurons has been switched on in Singapore. […]<br /> This story continues a [...]

2026-08-20

A trailer for the Golden Axe animated series is full of self-referencing jokes

The adaptation of Sega's classic games hits Paramount+ on September 16. [...]

2026-08-20

Have you been paying attention to Hulu's new thriller The Shards? Prove it with this tricky trivia quiz

Hulu's The Shards is now streaming, and now you can test your memory of it with this trivia quiz. [...]

2026-08-20

Taylor Sheridan confirms elusive Yellowstone spinoff 6666 isn't actually real — but for hardcore fans, the news can only be a good thing

While Paramount+ greenlit a Four Sixes Yellowstone spinoff in 2021, Taylor Sheridan has finally confirmed that 6666 isn't real — and I for one am relieved. [...]

2026-08-20

Nintendo has confirmed the Nintendo Switch 2's new UK price — it's only going up by £24

Nintendo has officially confirmed the new UK price for the Nintendo Switch 2, which increases next month. [...]

2026-08-20

Bessent says Treasury might push bond buybacks well past $4 billion per issue

The Treasury secretary signaled the department is prepared to expand its debt repurchase program just one day after doubling it [...]