‘Pokémon Pokopia’ is even better than ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ On Friday night, my boyfriend and I sat on the couch for a refreshing evening of doing nothing together. We tuned into a baseball game, he picked up my guitar, and I eagerly booted up “Pokémon Pokopia,” the thirty-year-old franchise’s new cozy, life simulator game, which is unlike anything we’ve seen from Pokémon before. I...

Emergency call released of boy who swam for hours to save familyPolice have released audio of a call between emergency services and a 13-year-old Australian boy who swam for hours to get help for his family after they were swept out to sea earlier in February.In the call, Austin Appelbee says his siblings - brother Beau, 12, and sister Grace eight - and their mother were still in the water."I...

Zoox starts mapping Dallas and Phoenix for its robotaxis Zoox is now mapping the streets of Dallas, Texas, and Phoenix, Arizona, as a precursor to testing its autonomous vehicles in the two Sun Belt cities. The company said on Monday that it had sent a small number of its Toyota Highlander SUVs to each city, where workers will drive them to help Zoox’s autonomous software get the lay of the...

Sandberg, Clegg join Nscale board as this ‘Stargate Norway’ startup hits $14.6B valuation Amid growing demand for data centers that can deliver AI compute at scale, Nvidia-backed British AI infrastructure company Nscale is now valued at $14.6 billion. This makes it one of Europe’s latest decacorns alongside Helsing and Mistral AI. Nscale has bet on vertical integration, from energy and data...

New Relic launches new AI agent platform and OpenTelemetry tools Companies are increasingly launching software to build and monitor AI agents in an effort to get enterprises to adopt AI. New Relic is no different. As the data observability company launches an AI agent platform of its own, it knows it isn’t the only game in town. New Relic on Tuesday unveiled a no-code agentic platform that...