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fromwww.businessinsider.com
1 day agoI found boxes of my dad's McDonald's memorabilia from the '70s and '80s. I decided to sell them all.
A father's extensive collection of McDonald's memorabilia reflects his career and passion for collecting, revealing hidden treasures during a family downsizing.
fromGamesBeat
3 days ago10 years in gaming: Sportfive shares lessons from its first decade in interactive media
Sportfive's gaming department, which started with just three dedicated employees in 2016, has now expanded to a robust team of 80, highlighting the agency's commitment to the gaming sector.
Marketing
#roblox
Software development
fromTNW | Artificial-Intelligence
4 days agoRoblox AI assistant gets agentic tools to plan, build, and self-test games
Roblox is enhancing its AI assistant with capabilities for planning, procedural generation, and self-correction, transforming it into a junior development partner.
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Silicon Valley food
fromsfist.com
1 month agoViral Video of Dancing Robot Going Nuts In Restaurant Was From Cupertino
A malfunctioning humanoid robot at a Cupertino hot pot restaurant danced uncontrollably, requiring three staff members to physically restrain it while attempting to shut it down via app.
#robotics
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
4 days agoPhysical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught | TechCrunch
Physical Intelligence's π0.7 model enables robots to perform unfamiliar tasks through compositional generalization, marking a significant advancement in robotic AI capabilities.
Board games
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
3 weeks agoLEGO Minesweeper Captures the Windows 95 Game That Ruined Office Productivity - Yanko Design
LEGO builder carlos_silva94 created a functional replica of Minesweeper, capturing the nostalgia of Windows 95 with detailed design elements.
fromEsquire
1 month agoWhy Can't These Grown Men Stop Playing with Toy Cars?
Inside, the garage is warm and bright. Fluorescent lights hum overhead. Sunlight slips through a single window and lands on the curve of a long gray-and-orange racetrack. The thirty-three feet of plastic run nearly the length of the space, perched on folding tables and reinforced with wooden rails and black mesh safety netting.
Cars
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 week agoThe LEGO Metal Slug Diorama With Adjustable Cannons, POWs, and Mid-Air Grenades Is Here - Yanko Design
The game's hand-animated sprites moved with a fluidity that polygon games couldn't touch, and the humor, panicking soldiers, grateful POWs tossing rocket launchers, a tank that waddled like a toy, made the whole thing feel alive in a way that pure technical showmanship never quite manages.
Video games
Women in technology
fromFuturism
1 month agoThis Video of a Humanoid Robot Playing Perfect Tennis Is Extremely Impressive
Chinese company Galbot developed software enabling a Unitree G1 humanoid robot to play tennis with sustained rallies, millisecond reactions, and precise ball striking against human opponents.
fromThe Verge
1 month agoThe cute and cursed story of Furby
The hottest toy of 1998 was sort of adorable, and sort of annoying. It couldn't do much - couldn't do anything, really - but it could look at you, it could say some nonsense phrases, and it seemed uncannily aware of the world around it. That's all Furby needed to pretty much take over the world.
Humor
fromBuzzFeed
2 months agoJust 40 Toys That'll Have Your Kids Completely Entranced (And, Hopefully, Out Of Your Hair)
As a parent myself, I know what I'm mostly looking for when buying another toy is that it'll ACTUALLY keep my kids engaged long enough to bring a sliver of peace to my home (a tough task, to say the least!). From Magna-Tiles and the new Toniebox 2 to colorful sensory tubes and a LeapFrog Touch and Learn eReader, my kids have tried out enough of these items to lead you in the right shopping direction!
Parenting
Video games
fromKotaku
1 month agoI Miss When Multiplayer Games Weren't Changing All The Time - Kotaku
A patch increasing gunshot volume in Marathon created a more aggressive multiplayer environment, prompting nostalgia for older games that remained static after release rather than undergoing constant balance changes.
fromwww.theverge.com
1 month agoWhat if your real computer was a super-sized Lego computer brick?
The M2x2 is largely a 3D-printed case for a Mac Mini, one you can freely print at home yourself, but it's not just a shell. He's outfitted it with a 7-inch IPS touchscreen display, and a full array of additional ports and SD card reader thanks to an integrated USB-C hub.
Gadgets
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