NYT Pips Today: Hints, Answers And Walkthrough For Saturday, March 21

Looking for help with today’s New York Times Pips? We’ll walk you through today’s puzzle and help you match dominoes to tiles.

Max Watanabe On How He Founded Max Factory And His Love Of ‘Guyver’

One of the formative figures of Japan’s model kit fandom is Makoto “Max” Watanabe, who founded Max Factory. I caught up with him to find out what makes model kits great.

One of the best-value gaming laptops available right now: RTX 5070 Ti, 32GB RAM, OLED, Core Ultra 9 for $1,549

With GPU prices climbing and laptop components following close behind, finding a machine that doesn’t ask you to compromise on the display, the GPU, or the memory at this price has gotten harder. The Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S is down to $1,549.99 at…

A new Nintendo Switch 2 could be the poster child for replaceable batteries
A new Nintendo Switch 2 could be the poster child for replaceable batteries

Nintendo plans to release a Switch 2 revision in the European Union that will let users replace their own batteries, Nikkei reports. The current version of the Switch 2 has a glued-in battery. But Nintendo apparently plans to make the change in order to comply with EU rules going into effect in February 2027 that […]

Future Sony PlayStation games will use AI to imagine new frames
Future Sony PlayStation games will use AI to imagine new frames

Mark Cerny, the lead architect of the PlayStation 5 and PS5 Pro, told Digital Foundry that ML-based frame generation tech is coming to “PlayStation platforms” in the future, letting the game console use AI to imagine new frames between the ones it’s actually rendering, which can create smoother perceived image quality while (typically) introducing some […]

LEGO SMART Play Is Great Fun, But No Revolution — At Least, Not Yet

LEGO SMART Play is weird, silly, and daft, both as a concept, and with its ultimate execution, but needs to grow from its initial ideas.

EU rules push Nintendo toward replaceable battery design for Switch 2

Nintendo reportedly planning repair-friendly Switch 2 revision
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‘The Wheel Of Time’ Returns After Cancellation, But It’s Already Mired In Controversy

A new Wheel Of Time series has been announced, but there are plenty of reasons to be worried.

Valve’s Steam Machine gets its first support update ahead of launch via SteamOS preview 3.8.0 — and it includes one major fix I’ve been waiting for

The Steam Machine could be closer than we expected after its recent delay, as Valve released SteamOS 3.8.0 preview for initial hardware support.