Mouse: P.I. For Hire Review: A Competent Shooter Oozing With Cartoon CharmLike any foolishly hopeful gamer, I sat in the darkness of my home, booting up a game I prayed would shine bright enough to live up to its promise. A black-and-white shooter set in a city full of mice? A classic cartoon animation style? A gumshoe noir plot? The idiosyncrasies stacked like Jenga blocks, and one faulty...

Alexa Plus Now Adapts to Your Moods in Real Time: We Try It OutAlexa Plus is getting a new personality -- actually, three of them. Amazon announced Wednesday that it is adding three styles to its generative AI assistant, with the idea that you'll want the app to respond with the same kind of mood that you're in.The three new personality styles are brief, chill and sweet. Brief garners...

Zoox plans to put its robotaxis on the Uber app in Vegas this year Amazon-owned Zoox plans to make its robotaxis available to hail on the Uber app in Las Vegas later this year, the two companies announced Wednesday. Before that happens, though, Zoox still needs approval from the federal government to commercially deploy its robotaxis, which don’t have a steering wheel or pedals. That requires...

As Pakistan acted as an intermediatry between the US and Iran, an agreement was far from certain, despite small signs of hope from PakistanHow Pakistan helped secure a fragile ceasefire between the US and IranGetty ImagesIn the hours before the two-week ceasefire between Iran and the US was announced, there were some small signs of hope from Pakistan.Speaking anonymously, a Pakistan source told...

What Cuban Americans think about Trump's comments about 'taking' Cuba What Cuban Americans think about Trump's comments about 'taking' Cuba Audio will be available later today. NPR's Michel Martin asks Eduardo Gamarra of the Latino Public Opinion Forum at Florida International University how Cuban Americans view President Trump's...