Cheyenne MacDonald
Cheyenne is Engadget’s weekend editor and covers a little bit of everything. She’s particularly interested in emerging technology and niche gadgets, climate change, space, privacy, and internet culture. She’ll talk your ear off about Tamagotchis if you get her started. Cheyenne has reported on consumer technology and science since 2015, and was among the founding editors of Input (RIP). Offline, she’s kept busy by her menagerie of pets both real and virtual, but can otherwise be found watching indie horror movies, playing relentlessly difficult video games, or honing her skills as a wildlife rehabilitator.
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Perennial Order is a stunning 2D Soulslike filled with plant monsters that’ll kill you in one hit
Gardenfiend Games' Perennial Order is a 2D boss rush game that pulls inspiration from Dark Souls, Princess Mononoke and the art style of Magic: The Gathering. It's available now for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
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Genmoji and image-generation tools for iPhone reportedly delayed until iOS 18.2
Genmoji and the upcoming image-generation tool, Image Playground, will ship with iOS 18.2, which is slated for December, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
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There’s a Stranger Things Polly Pocket set, and its design is really clever
Mattel Creations’ latest Polly Pocket collab is a Stranger Things playset that houses the fictional town of Hawkins and the Upside Down in a compact shaped like a walkie-talkie.
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Over 1.4 million Ram 1500 trucks recalled to fix a bug in the anti-lock brake system
Stellantis, the parent company of Chrysler, has issued a recall for Ram 1500 trucks from 2019 and 2021-2024 due to a software problem in the anti-lock brake system.
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Electrolight is a short and sweet Playdate adventure game about branching out
Electrolight is a charming short adventure game in which you play as a gleam of light trying to find your way out of a computer to experience the world.
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A creepy, sonar-like sound coming through Starliner’s speaker posed a brief mystery on the ISS
On Saturday, astronaut Butch Wilmore alerted NASA’s Mission Control about an unexplained “strange noise” coming from a speaker in the spacecraft. An audio clip of the conversation was shared on a NASASpaceflight forum by meteorologist Rob Dale.
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Apple reportedly plans to drop USB-A ports with the M4 Mac mini and is working on a low-end Magic Keyboard
Apple’s M4 Mac mini will boast a ton of ports, but not a single one of them will be USB-A, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Apple is also reportedly working on a cheaper, pared down version of its Magic Keyboard
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No, a video game spin-off of The Batman is not in the works, James Gunn says
Responding to a question on Threads about whether Warner Bros. has a game in the works based on the Robert Pattinson-led film, DC Studios’ co-head James Gunn said, 'Sadly there is no truth to this whatsoever.'
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Dragon's Dogma director Hideaki Itsuno says he’s leaving Capcom to start a new project
Hideaki Itsuno, who directed the Dragon’s Dogma series and other major games for Capcom, announced on Saturday that he’s leaving the company.
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What to read this weekend: Rural horror infused with Chinese mythology, and the lush alien world of Convert
This week's reading recommendations include 'Sacrificial Animals' by Kailee Pedersen, 'Trash Talk' by Iris Gottlieb and the comic 'Convert' by John Arcudi and Savannah Finley.
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The best Playdate games for 2024
Here are some of the best games available on the Playdate Catalog. That includes puzzles, platformers, shoot ‘em ups, dungeon crawlers and high score chasers too strange to categorize.
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Blue Origin targets mid-October for New Glenn’s inaugural flight and launch of NASA’s Escapade Mars mission
Blue Origin’s New Glenn heavy-lift rocket and its Mars-bound NASA payload now have a tentative launch date. The company said on Friday that the inaugural flight will take place no earlier than October 13.
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Netflix drops a gory new trailer for Terminator Zero, an anime from the studio behind Ghost in the Shell
The new Terminator anime heading to Netflix looks absolutely brutal in a trailer that dropped this weekend. The eight-episode first season premieres on August 29.
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SpaceX will soon send the Polaris Dawn crew off to attempt the first commercial spacewalk
Polaris Dawn, a private space mission that aims to complete the first-ever civilian spacewalk, is expected to launch this week. SpaceX said it’s targeting Tuesday August 27 at 3:38AM ET for liftoff.
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After CEO Pavel Durov's arrest in France, Telegram says it's 'absurd' to blame a platform if users abuse it
Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram, was arrested at an airport near Paris on Saturday, reportedly as part of a preliminary investigation into the app’s lax approach to moderation and failure to curb possible criminal activities.
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Threads is testing disappearing posts that expire after 24 hours
Threads is testing the option for users to put a 24-hour expiration timer on their posts, after which the post and all replies would disappear, Stories-style. A spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that the feature is being tested.
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Starliner astronauts will come home in February on a SpaceX Crew Dragon
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will come home in February 2025 on a SpaceX Crew Dragon, and the Boeing Starliner they flew to the International Space Station on in June will return uncrewed.
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Valve finally confirms its next game, Deadlock, with a bare-bones Steam page
The company has finally confirmed the game’s existence with an official Steam page, which notes that Deadlock 'is in early development' and in the hands of playtesters.
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Summit is an incredible precision platformer for Playdate that’ll hit you right in the feels
Summit is a $6 mountain climbing platformer for Playdate that's strongly reminiscent of Celeste.
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Outdated AMD chips reportedly won’t get a patch for the ‘Sinkclose’ security flaw
Tom’s Hardware reports that the Ryzen 1000, 2000 and 3000 series along with the Threadripper 1000 and 2000 won’t get the security patch, as AMD said its older products are "outside the software support window."