Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was written by Philip K. Dick in 1968, and is considered one of the seminal works of the now-popular cyberpunk genre. Decades later, the dystopian sci-fi novel would become the basis for the iconic Ridley Scott's 1982 film, Blade Runner. Since then, the film's version of the story has been expanded with the 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049 and the upcoming Prime Video series Blade Runner 2099, set to release in 2025. The film has also inspired a series of official graphic novels that explore new corners of the cyberpunk setting.One of the newest additions is Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus, which arrived in February and adds a whole new home planet to the Blade Runner universe. And on June 3, Blade Runner 2039 Box Set will conclude the long-running tale of Aahna Ash Ashina, the first-ever female Blade Runner, and her mission to unravel a conspiracy with implications for both humanity and Replicants. Preorders are now open for the box set ahead of its arrival, and you'll find its predecessors (Blade Runner 2019 and Blade Runner 2029) available at nice discounts.There are several other Blade Runner graphic novels out there that are worth checking out ahead of the new Blade Runner 2099 Prime Video series, and we've rounded them up in the list below, along with a selection of Blade Runner art books that explore the creation of the films, plus multiple versions of Philip K. Dick's original novel. Blade Runner 2039 Box Set$50 | Releases June 3This upcoming collection pulls together the final three volumes of Ash's story. She's investigating the missing wife and daughter of business tycoon Alexander Selwyn. However, she discovers a massive conspiracy during her mission that makes her question her beliefs about Replicants and what it means to be a Blade Runner.This collection includes:Blade Runner 2039 Vol 1: RedemptionBlade Runner 2039 Vol 2: UpgradeBlade Runner 2039 Vol 3: Ash Preorder at Amazon Blade Runner 2019 Box Set$29 ($50)This collection includes the first three graphic novels in Ash's story. So if you're interested in checking out Blade Runner 2039 this June, consider picking up this collection first. It includes:Blade Runner 2019: Los AngelesBlade Runner 2019: Off-WorldBlade Runner 2019: Home Again, Home Again See at Amazon Blade Runner 2029 Box Set$35.81 ($50)Ash's journey continues in Blade Runner 2029, picking up 10 years after her adventure first began. However, her mission is a bit different this time around, and she's beginning to side with the Replicants. This box set includes:Blade Runner 2029: ReunionBlade Runner 2029: EchoesBlade Runner 2029: Redemption See at Amazon Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus - Die in Peace$18This graphic novel takes place on a new planet in the Blade Runner universe, Kathanlia. The story bounces between a rogue group of Replicants as they attempt a daring heist against the Tyrell Corporation, and an elite group of Blade Runners tasked with hunting the group down. See at Amazon Blade Runner Origins Box Set$47 ($50)Set 10 years before the original movie, Blade Runner Origins examines the development of the LAPD Blade Runner division. It follows Cal Moreaux, an ex-detective looking into the suicide of a Tyrell Corporation scientist, who unknowingly stumbles on a massive conspiracy that could have serious impacts for the future of humanity.This box set includes:Blade Runner Origins: ProductsBlade Runner Origins: ScrapBlade Runner Origins: Burning See at Amazon Blade Runner Art BooksSeveral art books are also available for those interested in going behind the scenes on the Blade Runner films. The Making of Blade Runner examines the filming of Ridley Scott's original film from 1982, while The Art and Soul of Blade Runner 2049 offers a detailed look at the creation of Denis Villeneuve's follow-up. There's also Blade Runner 2049: Interlinked, which spans over 200 pages and is filled with exclusive concept art and images.Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner -- $12.44 ($20)The Art and Soul of Blade Runner 2049: Revised and Expanded -- $32.49 ($55)Blade Runner 2049: Interlinked - The Art -- $43.82 ($50) Blade Runner 4K Blu-rayIf you're looking to add the movies to your collection, both Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 are available on 4K Blu-ray. Along with HDR support for enhanced images, these come with heaps of bonus features that go behind the scenes on the production of each film.Blade Runner: Final Cut -- $22.19Blade Runner 2049 -- $19.24 ($35) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Paperback: $10.30 ($18) | Hardcover Collection: $20.42 ($40)Blade Runner is based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick. While the themes and certain events are similar between the book and the movie, the plots are quite a bit different, with the book offering a more expanded exploration of the story's key ideas. Humanity is dwindling after another World War, and now companies are replacing living creatures with simulated androids that are nearly indistinguishable from the real thing. However, these androids are soon banned by the government and forced into hiding--though bounty hunters like Rick Deckard are tasked with tracking them down and "retiring" them. A few different versions of the novel are available, including an affordable paperback and a premium Philip K. Dick: Four Nevel collection. See Paperback See Hardcover Collection

Party Club is a simple yet fun co-op game that puts four players in charge of a small restaurant that serves animal customers of different varieties. It has cute graphics, a charmingly bouncy control scheme, and a steep difficulty curve that keeps players on their toes as they attempt harder difficulties.

Rise of the Ronin is an action RPG that takes gamers back to the 19th century, facing foes on all sides of a war-torn Japan as a rogue Ronin looking for their Twin Blade.

AI agents are the new digital workforce, transforming business operations, automating complex tasks and unlocking new efficiencies. Now, with the ability to collaborate, these agents can work together to solve complex problems and drive even greater impact.Businesses across industries, including sports and finance, can more quickly harness these benefits with AI-Q a new NVIDIA Blueprint for developing agentic systems that can use reasoning to unlock knowledge in enterprise data.Smarter Agentic AI Systems With NVIDIA AI-Q and AgentIQ ToolkitAI-Q provides an easy-to-follow reference for integrating NVIDIA accelerated computing, partner storage platforms, and software and tools including the new NVIDIA Llama Nemotron reasoning models. AI-Q offers a powerful foundation for enterprises to build digital workforces that break down agentic silos and are capable of handling complex tasks with high accuracy and speed.AI-Q integrates fast multimodal extraction and world-class retrieval, using NVIDIA NeMo Retriever, NVIDIA NIM microservices and AI agents.The blueprint is powered by the new NVIDIA AgentIQ toolkit for seamless, heterogeneous connectivity between agents, tools and data. Released today on GitHub, AgentIQ is an open-source software library for connecting, profiling and optimizing teams of AI agents fueled by enterprise data to create multi-agent, end-to-end systems. It can be easily integrated with existing multi-agent systems either in parts or as a complete solution with a simple onboarding process thats 100% opt-in.The AgentIQ toolkit also enhances transparency with full system traceability and profiling enabling organizations to monitor performance, identify inefficiencies and gain fine-grained understanding of how business intelligence is generated. This profiling data can be used with NVIDIA NIM and the NVIDIA Dynamo open-source library to optimize the performance of agentic systems.The New Enterprise AI Agent WorkforceAs AI agents become digital employees, IT teams will support onboarding and training. The AI-Q blueprint and AgentIQ toolkit support digital employees by enabling collaboration between agents and optimizing performance across different agentic frameworks.Enterprises using these tools will be able to more easily connect AI agent teams across solutions like Salesforces Agentforce, Atlassian Rovo in Confluence and Jira, and the ServiceNow AI platform for business transformation to break down silos, streamline tasks and cut response times from days to hours.AgentIQ also integrates with frameworks and tools like CrewAI, LangGraph, Llama Stack, Microsoft Azure AI Agent Service and Letta, letting developers work in their preferred environment.Azure AI Agent Service is integrated with AgentIQ to enable more efficient AI agents and orchestration of multi-agent frameworks using Semantic Kernel, which is fully supported in AgentIQ.A wide range of industries are integrating visual perception and interactive capabilities into their agents and copilots.Financial services leader Visa is using AI agents to streamline cybersecurity, automating phishing email analysis at scale. Using the profiler feature of AI-Q, Visa can optimize agent performance and costs, maximizing AIs role in efficient threat response.Get Started With AI-Q and AgentIQAI-Q integration into the NVIDIA Metropolis VSS blueprint is enabling multimodal agents, combining visual perception with speech, translation and data analytics for enhanced intelligence.Developers can use the AgentIQ toolkit open-source library today and sign up for this hackathon to build hands-on skills for advancing agentic systems.Plus, learn how an NVIDIA solutions architect used the AgentIQ toolkit to improve AI code generation.Agentic systems built with AI-Q require a powerful AI data platform. NVIDIA partners are delivering these customized platforms that continuously process data to let AI agents quickly access knowledge to reason and respond to complex queries.See notice regarding software product information.

Teaching autonomous robots and vehicles how to interact with the physical world requires vast amounts of high-quality data. To give researchers and developers a head start, NVIDIA is releasing a massive, open-source dataset for building the next generation of physical AI.Announced at NVIDIA GTC, a global AI conference taking place this week in San Jose, California, this commercial-grade, pre-validated dataset can help researchers and developers kickstart physical AI projects that can be prohibitively difficult to start from scratch. Developers can either directly use the dataset for model pretraining, testing and validation or use it during post-training to fine-tune world foundation models, accelerating the path to deployment.The initial dataset is now available on Hugging Face, offering developers 15 terabytes of data representing more than 320,000 trajectories for robotics training, plus up to 1,000 Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) assets, including a SimReady collection. Dedicated data to support end-to-end autonomous vehicle (AV) development which will include 20-second clips of diverse traffic scenarios spanning over 1,000 cities across the U.S. and two dozen European countries is coming soon.The NVIDIA Physical AI Dataset includes hundreds of SimReady assets for rich scenario building.This dataset will grow over time to become the worlds largest unified and open dataset for physical AI development. It could be applied to develop AI models to power robots that safely maneuver warehouse environments, humanoid robots that support surgeons during procedures and AVs that can navigate complex traffic scenarios like construction zones.The NVIDIA Physical AI Dataset is slated to contain a subset of the real-world and synthetic data NVIDIA uses to train, test and validate physical AI for the NVIDIA Cosmos world model development platform, the NVIDIA DRIVE AV software stack, the NVIDIA Isaac AI robot development platform and the NVIDIA Metropolis application framework for smart cities.Early adopters include the Berkeley DeepDrive Center at the University of California, Berkeley, the Carnegie Mellon Safe AI Lab and the Contextual Robotics Institute at University of California, San Diego.We can do a lot of things with this dataset, such as training predictive AI models that help autonomous vehicles better track the movements of vulnerable road users like pedestrians to improve safety, said Henrik Christensen, director of multiple robotics and autonomous vehicle labs at UCSD. A dataset that provides a diverse set of environments and longer clips than existing open-source resources will be tremendously helpful to advance robotics and AV research.Addressing the Need for Physical AI DataThe NVIDIA Physical AI Dataset can help developers scale AI performance during pretraining, where more data helps build a more robust model and during post-training, where an AI model is trained on additional data to improve its performance for a specific use case.Collecting, curating and annotating a dataset that covers diverse scenarios and accurately represents the physics and variation of the real world is time-consuming, presenting a bottleneck for most developers. For academic researchers and small enterprises, running a fleet of vehicles over months to gather data for autonomous vehicle AI is impractical and costly and, since much of the footage collected is uneventful, typically just 10% of data is used for training.But this scale of data collection is essential to building safe, accurate, commercial-grade models. NVIDIA Isaac GR00T robotics models take thousands of hours of video clips for post-training the GR00T N1 model, for example, was trained on an expansive humanoid dataset of real and synthetic data. The NVIDIA DRIVE AV end-to-end AI model for autonomous vehicles requires tens of thousands of hours of driving data to develop.https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/rgb_5sec-1.mp4This open dataset, comprising thousands of hours of multicamera video at unprecedented diversity, scale and geography will particularly benefit the field of safety research by enabling new work on identifying outliers and assessing model generalization performance. The effort contributes to NVIDIA Halos full-stack AV safety system.In addition to harnessing the NVIDIA Physical AI Dataset to help meet their data needs, developers can further boost AI development with tools like NVIDIA NeMo Curator, which process vast datasets efficiently for model training and customization. Using NeMo Curator, 20 million hours of video can be processed in just two weeks on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, compared with 3.4 years on unoptimized CPU pipelines.Robotics developers can also tap the new NVIDIA Isaac GR00T blueprint for synthetic manipulation motion generation, a reference workflow built on NVIDIA Omniverse and NVIDIA Cosmos that uses a small number of human demonstrations to create massive amounts of synthetic motion trajectories for robot manipulation.University Labs Set to Adopt Dataset for AI DevelopmentThe robotics labs at UCSD include teams focused on medical applications, humanoids and in-home assistive technology. Christensen anticipates that the Physical AI Datasets robotics data could help develop semantic AI models that understand the context of spaces like homes, hotel rooms and hospitals.One of our goals is to achieve a level of understanding where, if a robot was asked to put your groceries away, it would know exactly which items should go in the fridge and what goes in the pantry, he said.In the field of autonomous vehicles, Christensens lab could apply the dataset to train AI models to understand the intention of various road users and predict the best action to take. His research teams could also use the dataset to support the development of digital twins that simulate edge cases and challenging weather conditions. These simulations could be used to train and test autonomous driving models in situations that are rare in real-world environments.At Berkeley DeepDrive, a leading research center on AI for autonomous systems, the dataset could support the development of policy models and world foundation models for autonomous vehicles.Data diversity is incredibly important to train foundation models, said Wei Zhan, codirector of Berkeley DeepDrive. This dataset could support state-of-the-art research for public and private sector teams developing AI models for autonomous vehicles and robotics.Researchers at Carnegie Mellon Universitys Safe AI Lab plan to use the dataset to advance their work evaluating and certifying the safety of self-driving cars. The team plans to test how a physical AI foundation model trained on this dataset performs in a simulation environment with rare conditions and compare its performance to an AV model trained on existing datasets.This dataset covers different types of roads and geographies, different infrastructure, different weather environments, said Ding Zhao, associate professor at CMU and head of the Safe AI Lab. Its diversity could be quite valuable in helping us train a model with causal reasoning capabilities in the physical world that understands edge cases and long-tail problems.Access the NVIDIA Physical AI dataset on Hugging Face. Build foundational knowledge with courses such as the Learn OpenUSD learning path and Robotics Fundamentals learning path. And to learn more about the latest advancements in physical AI, watch the GTC keynote by NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang.See notice regarding software product information.

The Find My Device app for Android is getting an update: The new Find My Device app is now split up into two tabs, one for Devices, and one for People. With it, you can easily coordinate meet-ups with friends or check that your kids have safely arrived home.You'll find the app preinstalled on Pixels, and it's a free download for other Android devices. It's also available on the web, but there's no iPhone app. Despite that, you can still keep tabs on the real time locations of your contacts if they have iPhonesmore on that in a moment. The new People tab in Find My Device. Credit: Lifehacker This is the same Find My Device tool that received a pretty major upgrade last year. While it's existed in some form for a long time, showing you Android phones and other gadgets on a map if they were ever lost and stolen, the new and improved version added a bunch of features to make it more useful.Whereas before you would need your phone to be on and connected to wifi to be able to find it, the 2024 improvements mean you can now enlist the help of all the other millions of Android gadgets out there to (securely and anonymously) track down missing devices (Apple's Find My Network works in the same way). The same location sharing list is available in Google Maps. Credit: Lifehacker There's also now support for third-party Bluetooth trackers, and recent Pixels can even be located when they're powered off. Phones and tablets you track down with the app can be made to play a sound to help you find them, plus you have the option to lock them or even wipe them remotely to keep your data safe.All those upgrades were already in place, and now people finding is the latest one to arrive: Contacts who trust you can let you see where they are on a map, and you can opt to share your own location with them in return. If you're thinking that sounds a lot like the functionality that was already built into Google Maps, that's because it isit's just that now you've got another screen to access it from.Use Find My Device to find peopleOpen Find My Device on your phone and you'll see the People tab has a little Beta label next to it, indicating that this feature is a work in progress. There's also a sticker on the map, showing you that the location sharing feature is powered by Google Maps, even though you're accessing it through Find My Device.If you've already set up sharing through Google Maps, you'll see your contacts listed and their current locations shown on the map. Tap the + (plus) button to share your location with someone new: The default option is to share your whereabouts for an hour, but you can tap this to change it to Today only, Until you turn this off, and Custom duration. You can choose how long you save your location for. Credit: Lifehacker You can then pick a contact from the panel below, or generate a link to send to someone in an app of your choice. They'll be able to see the location of your phone for the time you've specified, as well as the battery level of the device, and they'll get the opportunity to share their location in returnthough they don't have to.This is functionality that's been in Google Maps for some time: If you've never used it, you can find it in the Google Maps app by tapping your profile picture (top right) then Location sharing. As it works through Google Maps, contacts with iPhones can be added as well, and see your locationas long as they've got Google Maps installed. You can share your location with anyone who uses Google Maps. Credit: Lifehacker Back in Find My Device, tap on any contact in your list to see where they are on the map. The next screen enables you to get directions to their current location (via Google Maps, of course), and to stop sharing your location with them. Tap the three dots next to a name to hide them from the map, if you only want to check up on them occasionally.Head to Find My Device on the web, and you get the same Devices and People tabs, though you can't add new contacts in the web app. You're always in control when it comes to who can see where you are and for how long, and given the tight integration with Android, you might find it preferable to location sharing tools in apps such as WhatsApp.

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication.This deal on the refurbished Apple Watch Ultra (GPS + Cellular) for $359.99 on Woot (for the next six days or until it sells out) is temptingespecially considering that its going for over $445 on Amazon. Thats a solid price cut, but the catch is, this is a refurbished unit. That means some level of wear and tear is expected, but it has been tested to be fully functional with at least 80% battery capacity, and Woot backs it with a two-year limited warranty. If youre OK with a few cosmetic imperfections in exchange for savings, this might be worth grabbingjust note that its only available for shipping within the contiguous U.S. Prime members also get free shipping, while non-members will have to pay $6. Apple Watch Ultra (GPS + Cellular) $359.99 at Woot $445.00 Save $85.01 Get Deal Get Deal $359.99 at Woot $445.00 Save $85.01 As for the Apple Watch Ultra itself, this thing is built tough. Designed for extreme conditions, its MIL-STD 810H certification means it can handle freezing temps, high altitudes, sandstorms, and general rough treatment. Apple says itll keep working between -4 and 130 degrees Fahrenheit, which is overkill for most people but great if youre into extreme sports or outdoor adventures. The GPS + Cellular connectivity of this model is a big advantage, too, letting you take calls, stream music, or use maps even when youre away from your phonea huge plus for runners, hikers, and anyone who hates being tied to their iPhones. Also, its 1.9-inch OLED Retina screen is ridiculously bright at 2,000 nits, making it super easy to read in direct sunlight.The Apple Watch Ultra runs on watchOS 9, packing features like heart rate zone data, sleep stage tracking, advanced running metrics, and more. It also includes Apples safety and health tools like car crash detection and overnight body temperature tracking. Battery life holds up well, lasting 55 to 57 hours with normal use, even with the always-on display enabled, notes this PCMag review. If you want one of the most rugged Apple Watch ever made at a lower price (and dont mind some cosmetic flaws), this Woot deal is worth considering before it sells out. But if youd rather have a newer model without the Ultras bulk, the Series 10 ($359, down from $429) is the best iPhone-compatible smartwatch for most users, while the Watch SE ($249) is the best budget-friendly option, according to this PCMag "Best Smartwatches for 2025" roundup.

If youve upgraded your phone recently, theres a good chance it supports wireless charging. Battery life can be one of the first things to deteriorate as your phone ages, so youll need quick and easy ways to power up wherever you are. You may not always be able to have a cable on your person, but investing in a wireless phone charger (or a few) can make it more convenient to plop your phone down and know itll have more juice when you pick it back up again.While youre not going to get the same charging speed with a wireless charger that you would with a power cable, the convenience of a power source like this is undeniable. Stick a wireless charger on your bedside, on your desk at work, in your kitchen or wherever you spend a good chunk of your time and youll have a reliable way to power up your phone, sans bulky, messy cables. Needless to say, there are a ton of options out there with different charging capabilities and price ranges. Below, weve collected the best wireless chargers weve tested to make your search a little easier. Table of contents Best wireless chargers for 2025 What to look for in a wireless charger Where and how will you use your charger? Wireless charging performance Quality and box contents Wireless chargers FAQs Best wireless chargers for 2025 What to look for in a wireless charger While its tempting to buy a wireless charging pad optimized for the specific phone you have now, resist that urge. Instead, think about the types of devices (phones included) that you could see yourself using in the near future. If youre sure youll use iPhones for a long time, an Apple MagSafe-compatible charger will be faster and more convenient. If you use Android phones or think you might switch sides, however, youll want a more universal design. If you have other accessories like wireless earbuds or a smartwatch that supports wireless charging, maybe youd be better off with a multi-device wireless charger. Where and how will you use your charger? Odds are that you have a specific use case in mind for your charger. You may want it by your bedside for a quick charge in the morning, or on your desk for at-a-glance notifications. You might even keep it in your bag for convenient travel charging instead of bulky power banks. Think about where you want to use this accessory and what you want to do with the device(s) it charges while its powering up. For example, a wireless charging pad might be better for bedside use if you just want to be able to drop your phone down at the end of a long day and know itll be powered up in the morning. However, a stand will be better if you have an iPhone and want to make use of the Standby feature during the nighttime hours. For a desk wireless charger, a stand lets you more easily glance at phone notifications throughout the day. For travelling, undoubtedly, a puck-style charging pad is best since it will take up much less space in your bag than a stand would. Many power banks also include wireless charging pads built in, so one of those might make even more sense for those who are always on the go. Wireless charging performance Although wireless charging is usually slower than its wired equivalent, speed and wattage are still important considerations. A fast charger can supply enough power for a long night out in the time it takes to change outfits. In general, a 15W charger is more than quick enough for most situations, and youll need a MagSafe-compatible charger to extract that level of performance from an iPhone. With that said, even the slower 7.5W and 10W chargers are fast enough for an overnight power-up. If anything, youll want to worry more about support for cases. While many models can deliver power through a reasonably thick case (typically 3mm to 5mm), youll occasionally run into examples that only work with naked phones. There are some proprietary chargers that smash the 15W barrier if you have the right phone. Apples latest MagSafe charging pad can provide up to 25W of wireless power to compatible iPhones when paired with a 30W or 35W adapter the latter being another component youll have to get right to make sure the whole equation works as fast as it possibly can. Quality and box contents Pay attention to whats included in the box. Some wireless chargers dont include power adapters, and others may even ask you to reuse your phones USB-C charging cable. What may seem to be a bargain may prove expensive if you have to buy extras just to use it properly. As mentioned above, youll want to make sure all of the components needed to use the wireless charger can provide the level of power you need youre only as strong (or in this case, fast) as your weakest link. Fit and finish is also worth considering. Youre likely going to use your wireless charger every day, so even small differences in quality could make the difference between joy and frustration. If your charger doesnt use MagSafe-compatible tech, textured surfaces like fabric or rubberized plastic are more likely to keep your phone in place. The base should be grippy or weighty enough that the charger wont slide around. Also double check that the wireless charger youre considering can support phones outfitted with cases the specifications are usually listed in the chargers description or specs. Youll also want to think about the minor conveniences. Status lights are useful for indicating correct phone placement, but an overly bright light can be distracting. Ideally, the light dims or shuts off after a certain period of time. And while we caution against lips and trays that limit compatibility, you may still want some barriers to prevent your device falling off its perch on the charging station. Wireless chargers FAQs Do wireless chargers work if you have a phone case? Many wireless chargers do work if you leave the case on your phone. Generally, a case up to 3mm thick should be compatible with most wireless chargers. However, you should check the manufacturers guide to ensure a case is supported. How do I know if my phone supports wireless charging? Checking the phones specification should tell you if your phone is compatible with wireless charging. You might see words like Qi wireless charging or wireless charging compatible. Do cords charge your phone faster? Most often, wired charging will be faster than wireless charging. However, wired charging also depends on what the charging cables speed is and how much power its designed to carry. A quick-charging cable that can transmit up to 120W of power is going to be faster than a wireless charger.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/computing/accessories/best-wireless-charger-140036359.html?src=rss