Capcom revealed during its March 5 Spotlight showcase that Pragmata, its repeatedly delayed dystopian sci-fi adventure game, will release on April 17 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC via Steam. The game had been set for April 24 since its appearance at The Game Awards in December.
The game’s new trailer shows previously unseen locations and gameplay moments, and new elements within the Shelter, the in-game lunar base. Pragmata was first revealed in 2020 with a 2022 release window. Capcom then delayed it to 2023, then went radio silent on the project before resurfacing with a new 2026 date last year.
A free Sketchbook demo is available now on the PlayStation Store, Xbox Store, Nintendo eShop and Steam. Pre-orders for the game are available now.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/capcoms-long-delayed-pragmata-is-now-arriving-a-week-earlier-160257053.html?src=rss
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Hayden AI, a San Francisco startup that makes spatial analytics tools for cities worldwide, has sued its co-founder and former CEO, alleging that he stole a large quantity of proprietary information in the days leading up to his ouster from the company in September 2024. In a lawsuit filed late last month in San Francisco Superior Court but only made public this week, Hayden AI claims that former CEO Chris Carson undertook what it called “numerous fraudulent actions,” which include “forged board signatures, unauthorized stock sales, and improper allocation of personal expenses.” […] Hayden AI, which is worth $464 million according to an estimated valuation on PitchBook, has asked the court to impose preliminary injunctive relief, requiring Carson to either return or destroy the data he allegedly stole. Specifically, the lawsuit alleges that Carson secretly sold over $1.2 million in company stock, forged board signatures, and copied 41GB of proprietary company emails before being fired in September 2024. The complaint also claims Carson fabricated key parts of his resume, including a PhD and military service. It’s a “carefully constructed fraud,” says Hayden AI.
“That is a lie,” the complaint states. “Carson does not hold a PhD from Waseda or any other university. In 2007, he was not obtaining a PhD but was operating ‘Splat Action Sports,’ a paintball equipment business in a Florida strip mall.”
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Paul Components has launched a new seatpost named the Tall & Elegant with a not-inconsiderable $286 price tag.
For that price, you might expect carbon, but the new seatpost is made from 2024 and 6061 aluminium alloy. The brand says it delivers ‘no cut corners’ craftsmanship.
The new seatpost is a zero-setback update to the brand’s original Tall & Handsome 26mm-setback seatpost. It’s been launched in response to consumer requests and is machined in-house in Chica, California.
Paul Components’ other offerings include $108 bar ends and $308 square-taper cranks.
Paul says its design spaces the saddle clamp bolts away from the post itself, so they can be adjusted easily with a multi-tool or a torque wrench. It claims the two-bolt design is self-aligning and should avoid any slippage.
It uses a pair of brass rail-top retainers that Paul says are compatible with oval rails, shouldn’t corrode or bind, and offer smooth saddle-tilt adjustment through around 15 degrees.
The new seatpost is available in three diameters: 27.2mm, 30.9mm and 31.6mm, with weights between 327g and 402g dependent on diameter – a little more than the brand’s setback seatpost.
There’s a choice of silver, polished, purple or black finishes – maybe the black would pass for carbon.
Despite the Tall and Elegant name, there’s no mention of how tall the seatpost is. The setback Tall & Handsome is 360mm in length though, so we’d guess it’s the same.
Polish embedded systems company Grinn has introduced the ReneSOM-V2H, described as the world’s smallest SoM based on the Renesas RZ/V2H processor. Measuring 37 × 42.6 mm, the module targets edge AI and vision-based systems such as smart cameras, robotics platforms, and industrial inspection devices. The ReneSOM-V2H integrates the RZ/V2H processor with a heterogeneous architecture featuring […]
If the only thing you had to go off was Apple’s string of product announcements this week, you’d have little reason to believe that there is a historic AI-driven memory and storage supply crunch going on. Some products saw RAM and storage increases at the same prices as the products they replaced; others had their prices increased a bit but came with more storage than before as compensation. And there’s the MacBook Neo, which at $599 was priced toward the low end of what Apple-watchers expected.
But even a company with Apple’s scale and buying power can’t totally defy gravity. At some point between March 4 and now, Apple quietly removed the 512GB RAM option from its top-tier M3 Ultra Mac Studio desktop. Pricing for the 256GB configuration has also increased, from $1,600 to $2,000. The Tech Specs page on Apple’s support site still acknowledges the existence of the 512GB configuration, but both the Apple Store page and the list of available configurations have removed any mention of it.
We’ve asked Apple to comment on the disappearance of the 512GB Mac Studio and will update this article if we receive a response.
Last week, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman unveiled a major shakeup in the Artemis Program, intended to put the nation on a better path back to the Moon. The changes focused largely on increasing the launch cadence of NASA’s large SLS rocket and putting a greater emphasis on lunar surface activities. Days later, the US Senate indicated that it broadly supported these plans.
This is all well and good, but it neglects a critical element of the Artemis program: a lander capable of taking astronauts down to the lunar surface from an orbit around the Moon and back up to rendezvous with Orion. NASA has contracted with SpaceX and Blue Origin to develop these landers, Starship and Blue Moon MK2, respectively.
As part of his announcement, Isaacman said a revamped Artemis III mission will now be used to test one or both of these landers near Earth before they are called upon to land humans on the Moon later this decade.
The life sim goes out of its way to capture Pokémon’s personalities
The National Videogame Museum has acquired an extremely rare MSF-1 development kit, believed to be the oldest surviving prototype of the canceled Nintendo PlayStation. Engadget reports: Nicknamed the Nintendo PlayStation, the idea was that a new CD-ROM format backed by Sony would be added to the cartridge-based Super NES, resulting in a hybrid console that could play both. The partnership didn’t last long, though, with Nintendo backing out before it ever really got off the ground, announcing that it would instead be working with Philips. Sony decided to make the PlayStation on its own instead, in an act of revenge that you have to say paid off in the long run, and we never did get to see Crash Bandicoot running around the Mushroom Kingdom. Still, the short-lived Nintendo PlayStation remains a fascinating what-if scenario in video game history, and the USA’s National Video Museum has acquired the original development kit.
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A user saw the price of Assassin’s Creed Unity increase upon signing into their PSN account
Life EV has completed a court-approved acquisition of Rad Power Bikes, granting a second life to the troubled e-bike brand.
The Florida-based Life EV now owns Rad’s brand, intellectual property, inventory and certain unspecified operating assets, and will continue to operate as Rad Power Bikes in the US, with plans to expand to “select key markets.”
Rad’s new owner has committed to honoring certain warranties and gift cards purchased prior to the acquisition, and says new bikes will be built in the US going forward. Life EV will adopt a Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) structure for its manufacturing operations, allowing it to take advantage of special domestic customs procedures when sourcing parts from global suppliers.
“Rad Power Bikes has helped define the e-bike category in North America with its innovative products and passionate rider community,” said Life EV CEO, Rob Provost. “Respecting and preserving that legacy – its brand, vision, and leadership – is foundational to this acquisition. Together, we will build on that trust and create new opportunities for riders nationwide.”
The completed acquisition marks the end of a turbulent period for Rad. Back in December, the company was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) warned Rad’s customers to “immediately stop using” some of its e-bike batteries due to a serious fire hazard. At the time, Rad said it couldn’t afford to recall the at-risk batteries.
Less than two months later, in what can only be described as a strange twist of fate, a fire broke out at a Rad Power Bikes retail store warehouse in Huntington Beach, California. “We’re working with local authorities to review a thermal incident that occurred at our Huntington Beach store Sunday evening,” a Rad Power Bikes spokesperson told Engadget at the time. “The incident was contained and happened while the store was closed. The cause of the fire has not been confirmed.”
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/transportation/rad-power-bikes-gets-a-new-owner-pledge-to-build-bikes-in-the-us-144641940.html?src=rss
The villain was previously leaked by a movie theater chain
After losing its original eyes, one of our distant ancestors may have done what evolution does best: tinkered with what was available, reshaping a single central visual organ into two new eyes.
That’s the idea behind a new theoretical synthesis published in Current Biology. According to the data considered by its authors—a team from the University of Sussex (UK) and Lund University (Sweden)—vertebrate eyes, ours included, may not descend directly from the paired eyes of early bilaterian animals. Instead, they may have been “reinvented” from what was once a single light-sensitive organ that survived an evolutionary detour.
“Vertebrate eyes are so fundamentally different from the lateral eyes of other animal groups,” explains Dan-Eric Nilsson, senior author of the study from Lund University and a leading expert in eye evolution. “The key difference is the identity of the main photoreceptor, which is of ciliary nature in the vertebrate eye but rhabdomeric in other animal groups, such as arthropods and cephalopods,” he adds.
Sent out today was this week’s batch of Slab allocator fixes for the Linux 7.0 development kernel. Making this pull notable is fixing a “severe performance regression” with a ~64% performance drop having been noted in late February…
Bianchi’s new Infinito embraces the latest endurance bike trends that have appeared since it was last updated in 2024.
The previous generation saw only subtle changes, with Bianchi keeping the Infinito’s tyre clearance at 32mm. That felt conservative at the time, with some of the best endurance bikes fitting rubber up to 38mm wide.
Now, Bianchi appears to have taken a leaf out of where this category of bike is headed and the latest Infinito can fit tyres up to 40mm wide.
That puts its tyre clearance neatly between the recent Scott Addict, which has a clearance of 38mm, and the Cannondale Synapse, which won our 2025 Bike of the Year Award, that can fit 42mm-wide tyres.
Another endurance trend the Infinito shares with these two bikes is down-tube storage. This is becoming commonplace on endurance bikes, and is a feature Warren Rossiter argues should take the place of saddle packs.
When the latest Addict launched, Scott described it as “long ride ready” and Bianchi makes a similar pitch for the 2026 Infinito, describing it as an “all-rounder” that “makes you feel like you could ride forever”.
That is down partly to the increased tyre width, which is said to bring “gravel-ready versatility” – although the best gravel bikes now fit tyres wider than 40mm – but it also comes down to the performance and comfort of the bike.
Bianchi says the new Infinito’s frame and form were developed as a “fully integrated system” to ensure stiffness and precise handling, which has also resulted in a 12-watt improvement compared to the previous generation.
Elsewhere, Bianchi has added a new sculpted seatpost to the Infinito, which is “designed to flex where it’s needed, without compromising reactivity”.
The post uses Bianchi’s updated Countervail vibration-cancelling technology, a viscoelastic material incorporated into the carbon fibre, which is said to be 20 per cent lighter than the previous generation.
Bianchi has also tweaked the Infinito’s geometry, with a higher stack for increased comfort and longer chainstays for extra stability. The new seatpost has zero offset to optimise “the hip angle to improve breathing and pedalling efficiency”.
Bianchi CEO Alberto Cavaggioni says: “With the new Infinito, we wanted to honour our high-performance racing DNA whilst fully embracing modern cycling, where a single ride might transition from pristine asphalt to unpredictable light gravel.
“This is a bike that doesn’t just manage the road, it empowers cyclists to ignore the surface altogether and focus entirely on the pure joy of the ride, allowing them to go further, faster, and with more control.”
To mark the release, Bianchi has made a ‘Launch Edition’, limited to 200 numbered bikes and costing €7,790.
The bike comes with a personalised welcome kit and a “unique, glossy white and purple fade”. It can be fitted with either a Shimano Ultegra Di2 groupset or a SRAM Force XPLR 1×13 AXS groupset, pushing the Infinito further into gravel territory.
Otherwise, the Infinito is available in two builds:
To coincide with the release of the Infinito, Bianchi has revealed two new wheelsets, the RC 49R and the B 49R.
The RC 49R carbon wheels are being introduced on the Infinito Pro. They are 49mm deep with an internal width of 25mm and Bianchi says they have been “optimised to complement the frame”.
The B 49R wheelset shares the same depth and internal width as the RC 49R, but it trades straight-pull for J-bend spokes and weighs 135g more at 1,575g.