It’s Amazon Prime Day, and the all-consuming day of offers has already begun. There are your regular suspects, together with numerous Amazon {hardware}, Instant Pots and headphones. The regular Prime Day guidelines apply. It’s an excellent likelihood to economize on belongings you already deliberate to purchase — sure, I’m wanting into over-ear headphones — however the sea of different offers accessible throughout Amazon (and different retailers) is constructed for a number of purchases and distraction. We’ve received a group of editors working to spotlight probably the most notable offers accessible at the moment. The finest solution to sustain can be by our offers feed on Twitter: .

So far the largest shock is perhaps lower-than-usual costs throughout numerous Apple {hardware} and equipment, together with AirPods and the Apple Watch.

And if you happen to can’t stand Prime Day? Don’t fear, it’ll all be over quickly, and we’ll have loads of information to distract from retail distractions.

— Mat Smith

A great deal for wi-fi earbuds that simply received added worth.

Amazon is promoting Apple’s true wi-fi earbuds for $190, a wholesome $60 under the official value. That’s one of many lowest costs we have seen outdoors of Black Friday. They’re Apple’s best-sounding earbuds, providing sturdy lively noise cancellation, a cushty match and workout-friendly water resistance. In current occasions, Apple has additionally added Spatial audio in motion pictures and Apple Music, providing you a stage of immersion nonetheless uncommon in wi-fi earbuds. The solely factor which may provide you with pause is we’re anticipating Apple to disclose its next-gen buds comparatively quickly. The next-generation AirPods might, nonetheless, be extra budget-friendly than the Pro mannequin, even at this discounted value. Oh, and the unique AirPods are. Continue studying.

GAN Theft Auto is predicated on NVIDIA’s GameGAN neural community.

On Friday, YouTuber Harrison Kinsley shared a video displaying off GAN Theft Auto, a neural community that may generate a playable stretch of Grand Theft Auto V’s sport world by itself. The generative adversarial community (GAN) is, predictably, fairly difficult and includes two competing neural networks: a generator and a discriminator. The generator is educated on a pattern dataset and advised to supply content material based mostly on what it noticed. The discriminator compares the output of the generator with the unique dataset, “coaching” its counterpart to output one thing more and more near the supply materials.

The community fashions a stunning variety of techniques from the sport, together with shadows and reflections. Even mountains within the distance get nearer, which isn’t one thing Kinsley essentially anticipated the AI would do. As it’s made by an AI, there’s a dream-like fluidity to the gameplay. Kinsley says there was one occasion the place he noticed an oncoming police cruiser cut up into two simply because it was about to crash along with his automotive. Watch the entire thing, proper right here.

It’ll be a Premium characteristic at first earlier than rolling out to all customers within the US.

YouTube is bringing a long-awaited characteristic to its iPhone app: picture-in-picture (PiP). All Premium subscribers will quickly have entry to the viewer, and YouTube says it plans to allow PiP for all iOS customers within the US. The characteristic means you possibly can proceed to observe the video in a smaller window whereas looking different apps.

It’s taken its time: Apple introduced PiP to iPhone final 12 months as a part of iOS 14. Many video streaming apps already assist the characteristic, together with Netflix, Twitch, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ and Apple TV. Even although it has supported PiP on Android since 2018, YouTube had been a notable holdout on iOS. Continue studying.

The telescope is actually in protected mode till the issue is resolved.

NASA every week attempting to repair a glitch in Hubble’s payload laptop. The system broke down on June thirteenth, and the operations group had no success both restarting the pc on the 14th or switching to a backup reminiscence module. This is not the primary such glitch this 12 months. NASA spent days Hubble in March following a software program error in the primary flight laptop. Continue studying.

It’s been a busy, quiet kinda present.

The first online-only E3 formally ended final week, and the complementary Summer Game Fest has simply begun. While many of the huge gamers had been in attendance, there weren’t many big bulletins, and the largest reveal of E3 wasn’t even at an official E3 occasion. Here’s every thing that occurred, from Elden Ring by to Metroid Dread. Continue studying.

But wait, there’s extra…