Donkey Kong: Bananza is a triumph, earning a rare IGN 10/10 and prompting our reviewer to call it “a brilliant successor to Super Mario Odyssey and a smashing return for a classic Nintendo character.” It’s high praise for a brand new Donkey Kong game, and one made seemingly without much input at all from original Donkey Kong creator Shigeru Miyamoto. But Miyamoto did still share…
LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight Is the Arkham Game You've Been Waiting For | gamescom 2025
August 25, 2025
Traveler’s Tales is once again bringing a boatload of brick-breaking battles with bat-baddies to the streets of Gotham City. For 20 years, the studio has largely followed the beloved and established formula of adapting some of the biggest media franchises in the world and…
Bitcoin may have set multiple records this year, but ethereum ( ETH) just staged its first breakout since November 2021 this week, pushing YTD gains to 43% against bitcoin’s 23%. The real question now is whether ethereum’s rally has only just begun.
Could Ethereum Be…
In 2025, digital currency treasury reserves took center stage as some corporations filled their war chests with alternative crypto assets beyond bitcoin. The following highlights the top ten publicly traded bitcoin treasury companies and the top ten ethereum treasury firms.
The Top Bitcoin and Ethereum Treasury Companies
This year’s theme has revolved around institutional adoption of crypto…
At 1:30 p.m. Eastern time, XRP traded at $3.03 on Aug. 24, 2025, with a market capitalization of $180 billion and a 24-hour trading volume of $3.36 billion. The intraday price range fluctuated between $3 and $3.08, reflecting tight consolidation amid moderate volatility.
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If you’ve been looking for a great full-frame mirrorless camera to capture the cosmos, you’re in luck. Walmart is currently offering a deal on the Canon EOS R8 with an RF 24-50mm lens for $1316, a huge saving from the original price of $1,699. This is a good time…
Pair of colliding galaxies may hint at the fate of the Milky Way and its closest galactic neighbor
August 25, 2025
New observations of a pair of colliding spiral galaxies hint at what might be in store for the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy if and when they collide.
The findings, described in July in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, may also help to solve a puzzle plaguing the standard model of cosmology.
The two colliding galaxies, NGC 5713 and NGC 5179, are located 88…
The latest mission of the U.S. Space Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane is underway.
The robotic X-37B lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida tonight (Aug. 21) at 11:50 p.m. EDT (0350 GMT on Aug. 22).
The…
Meta is partnering with Midjourney and will license its technology for ‘future models and products’
August 25, 2025
Even three years after its debut, with ever increasing competition in the AI image and video generation space, Midjourney, the bootstrapped San Francisco startup, remains the “gold standard” for its 20 million users — including us here at VentureBeat, where we use it…
OpenCUA’s open source computer-use agents rival proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic
August 25, 2025
A new framework from researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and collaborating institutions provides an open source foundation for creating robust AI agents that can operate computers. The framework, called OpenCUA, includes the tools, data, and recipes for scaling the development of computer-use agents (CUAs).
Models trained using this framework perform strongly on CUA benchmarks…
