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Nintendo wouldn’t be Nintendo if it didn’t offer surprises every now and again. During its direct showcase, the company revealed more information on the sequel to The Super Mario Bros Movie — The Super Mario Galaxy Movie including a brand new trailer.The teaser trailer was just that, a taste of what’s to come. It features Mario resting under a tree in the Mushroom Kingdom while a butterfly zooms up to space as the theme to Super Mario Galaxy begins to play.We had some inkling Nintendo would go in the galaxy direction for its sequel. The first movie, which grossed over a billion dollars, spawned memes, and earned a Golden Globe nomination, hinted at a wider world beyond the Mushroom Kingdom. There’s also the fact that eagle-eyed internet sleuths found domains registered to NBC Universal,...

A busy year for Nintendo continues with its latest Direct livestream. And it’s a big one: Nintendo says to expect around an hour of news and announcements for games coming to the Switch 2.So you can likely expect more on all or most of those heavy-hitters. But given the lengthy runtime, there should be plenty of surprises in store from Nintendo as well. Stay tuned here for the most important developments as they happen.

Sony has announced the Xperia 10 VII, a midrange Android phone that’s launching in the UK, Europe, and Asia, though not the US. It’s more notable than most Sony phones because it marks the first major change to the rear design in over five years: a camera bar, just like recent Pixels, and now even iPhones.The Xperia Android line has kept its cameras vertically stacked in one corner since the first-generation Xperia 5 in 2019, with only rare exceptions like the standalone Xperia Pro-I. But the 10 VII reinvents that design language with a horizontal camera pair mounted in a pill-shaped raised bar that stretches across the phone’s back. The matte plastic body comes in black, white, or turquoise, and looks like no Xperia phone before it. It looks a little more like Google’s Pixel phones, a ...

Revue des revues. L’image de Neil Armstrong dans sa combinaison spatiale plantant le drapeau américain sur la Lune, le 21 juillet 1969, est entrée dans l’histoire. Celle, trois ans plus tard, en 1972, de Harrison H. Schmitt a été oubliée alors qu’il est le dernier homme à avoir foulé le sol lunaire. Du moins jusqu’ici. Depuis maintenant un demi-siècle, l’activité spatiale n’a fait que s’intensifier, avec désormais une dizaine de pays à même de lancer leurs propres satellites, mais elle s’est concentrée sur la surveillance, les télécommunications et les utilisations stratégiques. Quelque 15 000 satellites étaient en orbite en décembre 2024, dont 8 000 américains qui, à 80 %, appartiennent à des acteurs privés et, en premier lieu, à la société SpaceX d’Elon Musk. ...

Le 31 juillet, la collaboration Hyper-Kamiokande regroupant 22 pays, dont la France, a achevé au Japon l’excavation de la caverne qui accueillera un détecteur géant, à 600 mètres sous terre dans une ancienne mine. Rempli d’eau pure et recouvert de détecteurs de lumière, cet instrument observera le comportement de particules légères et fugaces, les neutrinos, et leurs particules miroirs, les antineutrinos, après un long trajet à travers la Terre. Ces mesures permettront peut-être de mieux comprendre pourquoi l’antimatière a disparu au profit de la matière au début de l’histoire de l’Univers. Les premières expériences devraient débuter en 2028. Avec Hyper-Kamiokande, le Japon espère décrocher un troisième Nobel en lien avec cette particule é...

Here’s a hot take: gaming handhelds are better with prongs.How do I know? I hold a lot of handhelds (and gamepads) here at The Verge, but Microsoft and Asus’s upcoming Xbox Ally X might take the cake for the most comfortable to hold. And that handheld has basically the exact same design as the existing ROG Ally X I’ve reviewed not once but twice — except for two big prongs that let you grip the device.Definite GameCube vibes on the Xbox Ally X below. Photo by Sean Hollister / The VergeAlly X on top, Xbox Ally X below. Photo by Sean Hollister / The VergeSame exact layout, but bigger triggers and clickier bumpers. Photo by Sean Hollister / The VergeSeriously, check out my comparison photos: the Xbox Ally X is an Ally X with upside-down antlers. It’s the one distinguishing design change, a...

“The commitments address the Commission’s concerns related to the tying of Microsoft Teams to the company’s popular productivity applications Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, included in its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 suites for business customers,” says the European Commission.Microsoft has committed to do the following:Most of the commitments from Microsoft will be enforced by EU lawmakers for seven years, with the interoperability and data portability ones in force for 10 years. Microsoft originally unbundled Teams from Office in Europe in 2023 in an attempt to address regulator concerns, and then spun off Teams from Office 365 as its own separate app globally last year.“Organizations big and small across Europe and around the world rely heavily on videoconferencing, chat and coll...

Asus’ ProArt P16 laptop is getting RTX 50-series GPUs and a unique new screen in its high-end configuration. Its biggest upgrades include Nvidia’s top-tier RTX 5090 mobile GPU and a bright 16-inch 3840 x 2400 tandem OLED touchscreen, capable of up to 1,600 nits of brightness in HDR and 120Hz refresh with VRR. The new flagship P16 will cost $3,999.99 at Best Buy and direct from Asus when it launches internationally in mid-October and in the US in December.Other key specs and features of the P16 include an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU (same as the 2024 model), 64GB of LPDDR5X RAM, 4TB of SSD storage (via two 2TB NVMe drives), Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 5.4. It’s also got a bunch of ports, including one 40Gbps USB4, one 10Gbps USB-C 3.2 Gen 2, two 10Gbps USB-A 3.2 Gen 2, HDMI 2.1, a 3.5mm audio j...

Starting next week, Apple’s new hypertension notification feature will be coming to Watch Series 9 and later and Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later with the launch of watchOS 26. That’s according to an emailed statement from Apple spokesperson Zaina Khachadourian saying the feature that monitors blood pressure has been cleared by the FDA.Apple’s new hypertension notifications — announced Tuesday alongside the new Apple Watch SE3, Series 11, and Ultra 3 — use data from the watches’ existing optical heart sensor to “analyze how a user’s blood vessels respond to the beats of the heart.” An algorithm will review this data over a 30 day period and notify users if it detects signs of high blood pressure.

Cancer, diabète, hypertension artérielle, insuffisance cardiaque ou rénale : les maladies chroniques représentent la première cause de mortalité en France. Cette situation est aggravée par un fait sidérant : près d’un patient sur deux ne prend pas les médicaments qui lui sont prescrits. Oubli, découragement, effets indésirables, coût, complexité des traitements… Les raisons de ce désinvestissement sont multiples, intimes, et complexes. Elles interdisent tout jugement moral. Mais leurs conséquences, elles, sont sans appel. Elles sont d’abord humaines : aggravation des pathologies, hospitalisations évitables, rechutes, décès prématurés. Dans le cas des maladies cardio-vasculaires, le risque de décès peut augmenter de 80 % chez les patients non obs...