FromSoftware President Hidetaka Miyazaki says Elden Ring 2 is not in development. Elden Ring is a tour de force that sent the popularity of Souls-like games absolutely through the roof, and its recent DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, only added to the hype. Fans have hoped for a sequel for a long time now, but that doesn’t look like it’s going to happen. Miyazaki, the creator of Elden Ring, gave an interview to the Japanese website Game Watch. When the interviewers asked about the future of the franchise, Miyazaki said the studio “is not considering Elden Ring 2,” but didn’t…
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Porsche didn’t take this lying down. Previewed in 2015 by the Mission E concept car, and finally arriving in 2019, the Taycan is the Model S recipe prepared the Porsche way. It’s a fast, four-door electric car, but with emphasis on all-around performance, rather than just quick bursts of straight-line acceleration, and a premium cabin that’s more than just a big screen. For the 2025 model year, Porsche gave the Taycan a significant refresh, with updates that aim to add greater efficiency and charging performance to this EV’s résumé. So it was as good a time as any to revisit…
The PlayStation Portal wasn’t what most people wanted in a new PlayStation handheld. However, it did what it was intended to do very well as an accessory and most people who purchased one ended up enjoying the convenience of streaming your console games to the portable screen. Still, most fans still dreamed of a fully dedicated handheld. While we don’t quite have that yet, this new PlayStation Portal feature brings us closer than ever. Here’s how you can use the PlayStation Portal to stream PS5 games without a console.The PlayStation Portal can now stream certain PS5 games directly through the…
Looking for some super cheap headphone deals and just missed out on the big sales? Don’t worry because Best Buy is still hosting some awesome discounts right now. That includes being able to buy the JBL Vibe Buds for just $30. Normally priced at $50, you’re saving $20 and getting inexpensive earbuds for even less than before. Perfect for walks, commutes, or exercising, these also make a good gift idea if you want to keep costs down. Why you should buy the JBL Vibe Buds JBL isn’t really a name you see among the best headphones, but it is one…
Space startup SpinLaunch is fundraising again, though a source tells The Tech Spot that it was exploring raising a significantly more ambitious sum earlier this year. The company has closed an $11.5 million round out of a planned $25 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. SpinLaunch confirmed funding to The Tech Spot but did not comment on the amount raised. It last raised a $71 million Series B in 2022. But a person familiar with the company’s plans told The Tech Spot that the startup had talked to investors around nine months ago, hoping…
Product teams often have tons of screen recordings and screenshots that end up unused. Video production using those screen recordings has been time-consuming and expensive. That’s why two former Microsoft employees started to build Lica, which is an AI tool that easily creates tutorials and product videos out of screenshots and screen recordings. The startup was founded in 2023 by Priyaa Kalyanaraman, who has worked as a product manager at Microsoft, Snap, and Waymo, and Purvanshi Mehta, who worked at Microsoft as a data scientist and project manager. Kalyanaraman—who worked on PowerPoint and Microsoft Designer, including on adding AI features to…
Celeb greetings app Cameo pivots to creators. The company became a pandemic hit, as people stuck at home marked various celebrations, like birthdays and graduations, with celebrity shout-outs. It became a tech unicorn valued at $1 billion, but as life returned to normal, Cameo was hit with multiple rounds of layoffs, saw its valuation tank as it took on additional funding, and found itself unable to pay an FTC fine over undisclosed celebrity endorsements. Cameo’s struggles to attract A-list celebrities were only part of the problem; its business model relied on video messages, and it couldn’t make other potential revenue-generating…
Clarifai, once known as the young computer vision startup working with the Pentagon on its controversial Project Maven, has distanced itself from its early years of espousing questionable ideas on AI ethics, its interest in building autonomous weapons — years before Silicon Valley warmed up to defense tech — and its potential cyberbreach from Russia. For the past few years, the company has focused on building AI tools for enterprise and government customers. Now the company is unveiling the latest chapter in that trajectory: the ability for users to orchestrate, or coordinate, compute and resources across all their compute sources…
Volkswagen employees in Germany today went on the biggest strike against the company since 2018. In an unprecedented strike, Volkswagen workers in Germany today went ahead with the biggest strike the company has seen since 2018. The IG Metall union, which represents about 120,000 VW workers, approved the strike on November 22, describing it as ” The toughest collective bargaining battle Volkswagen has ever seen. The strike comes in response to VW’s plans to cut production costs in Europe, at a time when the company faces significant challenges in the Chinese market due to domestic competition, while at the same…
When Valve released the Steam Deck, PC manufacturers realized there could be a new market for small, handheld computers that are capable of running games. Lenovo released the Legion Go and Asus released the ROG Ally. Windows Central managed to get hold of the first official renders of Lenovo’s upcoming gaming handheld, the Legion Go S. And it looks like Asus may have found the right form-factor as Lenovo’s new device looks similar to the Asus ROG Ally (and its successor the ROG Ally X — which TechCrunch reviewed earlier). Lenovo appears to be going back to basics with the…
