Spoilers follow for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4, Episode 3, “Human Best Friend.”
Ortegas and Scotty (Melissa Navia and Martin Quinn, respectively) get the spotlight this week, as their long-simmering (well, two-episode long) dislike for one another comes to a head in an attempt at a comedy episode that’s not necessarily funny, but is at least kind of fun at times thanks to game performances from some of the cast.
Google announced on Thursday that Google Maps’ “Ask Maps” feature is gaining a slew of new agentic capabilities, including the ability to order food, book hotels, and find event tickets. The tech giant is also bringing Personal Intelligence to Ask Maps, allowing the AI tool to personalize its responses by drawing on information from a user’s Gmail and Google Calendar.
Google is bringing a host of new features to its Ask Maps chatbot.
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This past March, Google introduced a chatbot inside of Maps as part of its overhaul of the software's navigation suite. The company pitched the feature, Ask Maps, as a way to give users a way to obtain information no traditional map can provide. Today, Google is expanding what Ask Maps can do, starting with the addition of new agentic capabilities.
The seller of today's Nice Price or No Dice 635i claims that all it needs is someone to "get it and drive it!" With over 236,000 miles on the clock, it's already well-versed in the driving part. Let's see if we think its price makes piling on more miles all the more compelling.
Roblox have switched up their algorithm to focus on "measured long-term retention"
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Wall Street moneyfolk are not having a good time. They're openly weeping into their expensive suit sleeves and not even a thousand pictures of lines going up can reassure them. They're sad about Roblox. The everythingverse of user-made games generally aimed at kids has let them down by changing its algorithm to push less kids towards "games that emphasise short-term monetisation". Cue $9 billion being lopped off Roblox Corp's market cap valuation, because how could the game's makers allow such a travesty to happen?
Songbirds, birds belonging to the Passeriformes order, are best known for their ability to produce complex musical sounds. Yet some songbird species also have another remarkable skill: They can easily remove the tough layer covering seeds (i.e., the husk) before swallowing their nutritious interiors.
The Steam Controller has a pretty niche feature called Grip Sense, which is a pair of capacitive touch sensors inside the handles that can sense when you are touching them. Though you may not use it, Valve thinks you should, "because it's, like, cool," and even recommends a couple of sweet shortcuts to use with it.
Newcastle have appointed Matthias Jaissle as their new head coach following Eddie Howe's exit.
The German has signed a four-year deal with Newcastle, who paid £9.5m (€11m) compensation to Saudi side Al Ahli, whom Jaissle led to consecutive Asian Champions League crowns over the last two years.
