While it might still be a while before you can stream The Boy and the Heron on Max, you’ll be able to buy digital copies beginning June 25th, and limited edition 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD steelbook edition will be available on July 9th.

Dave2D aims directly at the heart of the existential problem of AI gadgets with his casual redesign of the Rabbit R1. That is, anything meaningful they do can be boiled down to an app on the smartphone that’s already in your pocket.

Given the success of Disney’s “live-action” remake of The Lion King, a prequel seemed inevitable, so here we are with Mufasa. It looks a lot like the original, only this time they added an ice level and a villain voiced by Mads Mikkelsen. It hits theaters on December 20th.

Earth Month is coming to a close, but there’s still time to catch up on The Verge’s package of stories from Costa Rica on turning cattle ranches into forests, Indigenous leaders fighting for their land back, and how the country runs on nearly 100 percent renewable electricity. On the ground in Costa Rica, we found reasons to be hopeful about solutions to climate change.

According to Financial Times, regulators are concerned that Meta isn’t doing enough to stifle disinformation being seeded by countries like Russia in order to undermine EU elections.

Officials reportedly also believe Meta’s process for flagging illegal content isn’t “user-friendly enough to comply with the EU Digital Services Act.” The probe would apparently begin today.

Tesla restrictions set by local authorities have been lifted now that the company’s Chinese-made vehicles have passed their data security requirements, as Musk arrived in Beijing to meet with Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Sunday.

According to Reuters, the automaker has also secured a deal to use Baidu’s mapping license to collect data on Chinese roads — a key step for introducing Full Self Driving software to the country.

Only two at a time, though — try a third, and it’ll be pending until one of those finishes. My Pixel 6 can already do this, but Google often stages rollouts, so you may not have it just yet.

According to 9to5Google, this only applies to new downloads — app updates will still come down the internet tubes single file.

I have finally justified my Vision Pro purchase with the iOS version of the Delta emulator.

This “manual transmission pen” is a much cooler version of that pen with the multicolored ink and sliders to bring each one down that we all had in school.

Except with a functioning clutch and shifter for switching tips. It shifts into reverse for the eraser!

Someone made an ASMR video out of expanding the latest iPhone’s storage. It’s very satisfying as long as you don’t think too much about how deeply frustrating the Herculean effort to do this is, from a right-to-repair perspective.

At the moment, it seems Meta’s “AI studio” will let people make private and public bots, tuned for duties like personal shopping, trip-planning, meme generation, and helping users “never miss a romantic connection.” (I assume that last one is designed to trawl Craigslist Missed Connections for you.)

Alessandro Paluzzi posted these screenshots in a thread where he’s been tracking the feature since January.

I'm a big kid. I play with amazing toys. Recently, I discovered the joy of sharing minute-long videos of them with you.

Now, I've started a Threads account where you can freely subscribe to my vids, get alerts for new vids, and ask me anything. (It's best viewed in the mobile app.)

This self-transforming Megatron? There's a lot more where that came from.

Sega’s Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble — the first truly new game in the series in more than 10 years — is coming to the Nintendo Switch on June 25th.

Here’s a trailer for the 16-player online multiplayer, which looks... so much better than, say, Monkey Tennis in Super Monkey Ball 2.

GamesIndustry.biz did the math to put it in perspective: Zuck’s Reality Labs has burned a billion dollars every month since June 2022, and plans to spend even more: “We continue to expect operating losses to increase meaningfully year-over-year,” CFO Susan Li said on the Q1 earnings call.

Meta is plenty profitable overall, though: it raked in $12 billion last quarter alone.

Paging Helen Hunt. Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton to Twister, please.

Don’t know how I missed this the other week: Nvidia’s quietly pointing its board partners towards small GPUs again! I sincerely hope this means blower cards are back on the menu to exhaust hot air from my case. Nvidia cracked down on those years back, allegedly to avoid cannibalizing workstation GPU sales. It’s one way GPUs might head back in the right direction.