The long-running tabletop mech game BattleTech has spawned numerous video games, including MechWarrior, MechAssault, and 2018’s BattleTech, but if you’ve ever wanted to get into the board game that started it all, now is the perfect time. The game recently celebrated its 40th birthday with a new 40th Anniversary Edition of the core box, and various new expansions have launched in the months since, including new mech minis, source books, and more. The latest new releases include the BattleTech: Mercenaries expansion and a bunch of standalone mech and vehicle minis to add to your tabletop sessions. $75 The BattleTech: Mercenaries…
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Vodafone has just passed a major landmark for satellite video callsIt’s demoed a “space video call” using a standard smartphoneThe service will roll out later this year, though there’s no pricing yetVodafone has announced that it’s hit a new milestone in the race to end frustrating cellular ‘dead zones’ – with what it’s calling the “world’s first space video call” using a standard mobile phone from “an area of no coverage.”Those qualifiers are important because Starlink and T-Mobile demoed a video call made through X (formerly Twitter) using unmodified phones last year. So Vodafone’s claim is specific to making video…
Xiaomi 15 Ultra is expected to launch in China next month and the global release could take place during MWC Barcelona. Ahead of the official debut, RAM, storage details, and the colour options of the phone have leaked online. The Xiaomi 15 Ultra is tipped to be available in three shades with 16GB RAM. The Xiaomi 15 Ultra will arrive as a third model in the Xiaomi 15 lineup. It is expected to run on Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset and could feature a 200-megapixel periscope telephoto sensor.A 91Mobiles report, quoting tipster Sudhanshu Ambhore (@Sudhanshu1414) has shared the possible RAM, storage, and…
Microsoft has announced that DeepSeek R1 is coming to Copilot+ machinesIt’ll run on-device, so will be less powerful than other versions of the modelDeepSeek R1 will have three Copilot+ versions that will roll out over timeDeepSeek has seriously shaken up the AI world with an LLM that is seemingly cheaper to train, more power-efficient, and yet equally intelligent compared to its rivals. While Meta, Google, Open AI and others scramble to decipher how DeepSeek’s R1 model got so impressive out of nowhere – with OpenAI even claiming it copied ChatGPT to get there – Microsoft is taking the ‘if you…
Investigators are scrambling to figure out why a military helicopter and a passenger airplane collided and plunged into the Potomac River in Washington DC late Wednesday, the first major US air crash in 16 years.From the little that’s known, human error likely played a role, raising questions about a chronic shortage of air traffic controllers and pilots. Authorities may also be looking at coordination between military and civilian aviation.An Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter carrying three soldiers apparently plowed into the tail of a Bombardier CRJ-700 jet out of Wichita as it was less than a mile from landing at…
Samsung’s One UI 7 operating system, which was launched at the Galaxy Unpacked 2025 event, is tipped to be adding Google Maps integration into the Now Bar. The South Korean tech giant introduced Now Bar and Now Brief at the event as new artificial intelligence (AI) features within the Galaxy AI suite. Now Bar shows a wide range of information and insights to users on the lock screen. As per the tipster, the tool will now also show Google Maps’ live navigation.Google MapsIn a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), tipster Tarun Vats claimed that the live navigation feature in…
Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for September 5th, 2024. Thursday already, eh? Where does the time go? We’re going in hard on the reviews again today. I have two for you, covering Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate. Our pal Mikhail chimes in today too, with his looks at Nour: Play With Your Food, Fate/stay night REMASTERED, and TOKYO CHRONOS & ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos TWIN PACK. We then move into the finest new releases of the day, then sweep up with the lists of new and expiring…
Samsung unveiled a stable version of One UI 7 based on Android 15 alongside the Galaxy S25 series during its Galaxy Unpacked event earlier this month. The new software will soon make its way to older models like the Galaxy S24 series and Galaxy S24 FE. Ahead of the public rollout, users can check out the stable One UI 7.0 on Galaxy S24 FE virtually via the Remote Test Lab (RTL). Samsung’s RTL facility is meant for developers to test their applications virtually and remotely on Galaxy devices. Users with a Samsung Account can sign up to use this feature.Samsung…
WhatsApp is scheduled to discontinue support for some older iPhone models later in the coming months, and the Meta-owned messaging platform has now blocked beta testers from installing the latest release on these handsets. When the official deadline arrives in May, users will need to make sure their iPhone is running a recent version of iOS in order to continue receiving WhatsApp updates. Raising the minimum iOS version requirement allows WhatsApp to add support for features that use the latest iOS capabilities and technologies.WhatsApp Beta Requires iOS 15.1 or Later With Latest UpdateUsers who have enrolled their iPhone to receive…
Microsoft released a preview build of Windows 11 last week and it appears to include a new method to share files from File Explorer to your phone or email. The new feature dubbed “Drag Tray” works like file sharing in smartphones and lets users share files by dragging them to the top of the screen. This feature doesn’t appear in the update release notes but it was spotted by multiple users in the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4805.Windows 11 New File Sharing FeaturesX user Phantomofearth (@phantomofearth) claimed that Microsoft is experimenting with a new file-sharing UI in Windows 11. The…