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Image: Nintendo LifeHello everyone – welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Last time, we looked at Survival Kids for the Game Boy Color in celebration of the new Switch 2 release from publisher Konami. In the end, although North America's variant is certainly nice enough, Europe and Japan won the day confidently with 71% of the vote. This time, we're looking at the original Pikmin for the GameCube. Yeah we know, we've never done it before! Mad... Released in 2001, the game was praised for its unique premise, but the limited time mechanics certainly put off a few players. That said, it spawned a thriving series that's still going strong to this very day.Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube809kWatch on YouTube North America and Europe are teaming up this time to take on Japan in another Duel. So blow your whistle, gather your Pikmin, and let's get voting. Top Piks, as ranked by you Be sure to cast your votes in the poll below; but first, let's check out the box art designs themselves. North America / Europe Image: Nintendo / Launchbox This is a classic cover design, right? It just perfectly encapsulates the gameplay of Pikmin. It showcases Captain Olimar chucking his Pikmin toward a giant Bulborb, while others are seemingly fleeing in fear. It's Pikmin! This is the gameplay, through and through. And are there really any Pikmin enemies as iconic as the Bulborb? We think not. Japan Image: Nintendo / Launchbox Japan's design, like many similar first-party releases from back in the day, is a bit more abstract in its approach. It displays the three main Pikmin in the centre: blue, yellow, and red. Meanwhile, the background is a yellowy-orange colour with a curous texture to it, while flowers take up some of the empty space. We love the logo design here, and that little 'raised from seed' sub-title at the bottom is adorable in its simplicity. Which region got the best Pikmin box art? (283 votes) North America / Europe70% Japan30% Thanks for voting! We'll see you next time for another round of Box Art Brawl. Related Games See Also Share:0 1 Nintendo Life’s resident horror fanatic, when he’s not knee-deep in Resident Evil and Silent Hill lore, Ollie likes to dive into a good horror book while nursing a lovely cup of tea. He also enjoys long walks and listens to everything from TOOL to Chuck Berry. Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment... Related Articles Switch 2's Backwards Compatibility List Provides Updates On Two Titles Here's what you can expect 126 Games You Should Pick Up In Nintendo's 'Partner Spotlight' eShop Sale (North America) Every game we scored 9/10 or higher 123 Games You Should Pick Up In Nintendo's 'Save & Play' eShop Sale (Europe) Every game we scored 9/10 or higher

Tech The AI-powered robot army that packs your groceries in minutes The future of fast, efficient and contactless grocery fulfillment Published April 20, 2025 6:00am EDT close AI-powered robot army that packs your groceries in minutes A fully automated warehouse system is changing the way we shop for groceries. Imagine a grocery store where your entire order is picked, packed and ready for delivery in just five minutes without a single human hand touching your food. This is exactly what’s happening inside Ocado’s revolutionary Hive, a fully automated warehouse system that’s changing the way we shop for groceries. Fleet of robots (Ocado)What is the Hive?At the core of Ocado’s Customer Fulfilment Centres, or CFCs, is The Hive, a massive 3D grid filled with thousands of grocery products. STAY PROTECTED & INFORMED! GET SECURITY ALERTS & EXPERT TECH TIPS — SIGN UP FOR KURT’S THE CYBERGUY REPORT NOWPicture fleets of robots or "bots" zipping around at speeds up to about 9 miles per hour, all coordinated by an AI-powered "air traffic control" system that talks to each bot ten times every second. These bots work together to pick and transport items, which are then packed by robotic arms with incredible precision and speed.WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)? Fleet of robots  (Ocado)How does it all come together?The magic behind the Hive is Ocado’s smart platform, which combines artificial intelligence, robotics and automation to tackle the unique challenges of online grocery shopping. Factors like tight profit margins, the wide variety of items customers order and the need to handle products at different temperatures all make online groceries a tough nut to crack. But Ocado has been developing this technology for over 20 years, and it shows.Thanks to this platform, a 50-item grocery order can be picked and packed in just five minutes, six times faster than traditional methods. The robotic arms don’t just blindly pack items. They use advanced computer vision and deep learning to make smart decisions on the fly, packing groceries densely and safely even without knowing what’s coming next. And behind the scenes, Ocado uses digital twin technology, essentially a virtual replica of the warehouse, to simulate and optimize everything from customer demand to delivery routes. This means it can innovate quickly and reduce risks before making changes in the real world.GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE Fleet of robots  (Ocado)What makes this so revolutionary?The speed and scale of the Hive are truly game-changing. Orders that used to take over an hour to pick manually are now done in minutes, and many orders can be processed at the same time. Plus, Ocado’s warehouses can offer up to 78% more products than a typical supermarket, giving customers a much wider selection tailored to their preferences. The system also helps reduce food waste dramatically. Ocado’s waste rate is just a tiny fraction of the industry average, thanks to smart forecasting and precise inventory management.Another big advantage is flexibility. The Hive’s modular design means retailers can scale their operations up or down depending on their needs. Whether it’s a huge warehouse serving an entire region or a smaller fulfillment center closer to customers for faster delivery, the technology adapts. Groceries picked and packed by an AI robot  (Ocado)So, how do you actually use this robot-powered grocery tech?If you live in an area served by Kroger’s delivery network in the U.S., you can order groceries through the Kroger website or app. Behind the scenes, your order is picked and packed by hundreds of AI-driven robots at a fulfillment center known as the Hive. Then, a Kroger associate delivers your groceries straight to your door, often in less time than a traditional delivery. This system is the result of a partnership between Ocado and Kroger, bringing advanced automation to American grocery delivery.Beyond just groceriesWhat’s exciting is that Ocado’s innovations don’t stop at grocery shopping. The same robotics, AI and automation principles are being explored for other uses, like vertical farming, assisted living, car parking and even airport baggage handling. The Hive is paving the way for smarter, more automated logistics across many industries. AI robot  (Ocado)Kurt's key takeawaysIt’s pretty incredible to imagine your entire grocery order being picked and packed in just five minutes, without anyone actually handling your food. That’s exactly what Ocado’s Hive is doing, using smart robots and AI to make grocery shopping faster, easier and more reliable than ever before.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPDo you like the idea of a robot picking and packing your groceries, or do you prefer things to stay the way they are with human hands involved? 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Table of Contents Table of Contents Huawei Pura X Oppo Find N5 Xiaomi 15 Ultra Vivo X200 Pro I’m wrapping up a two-week trip to China, which has taken me to two cities, allowed me to attend the Oppo Find X8 Ultra launch, and visit Huaqiangbei, the world’s most vibrant technology market. During a visit to the latter, I found $9 AirPods Pro, which are shocking, and a $12 Apple Watch Series 10, which is downright bizarre. This trip also allowed me to experience a plethora of phones that aren’t widely available globally, if at all. Companies like Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, and Vivo aren’t available in many countries, and even when they are, the best phones often do not make their way to Western markets. Instead, they’re for local Chinese customers to experience only. Recommended Videos Here are four Chinese phones that I wish were available globally.. Related Nirave Gondhia / Digital Trends The most unique phone is also the newest. Announced a few weeks ago, the Huawei Pura X rethinks the form factor for the best flip phones. Phones like the Motorola Razr and the Galaxy Z Flip 6 feature large front displays that unfold into traditional smartphone-sized displays and form factors. The Pura X takes a refreshingly different approach: the cover display is smaller than those used by Samsung and Motorola at 3.5 inches, but it’s designed to be used horizontally, and the cameras are located entirely separately from the display. When you unfold it, you get a 6.3-inch display that’s also smaller than the competition, but crucially, it’s significantly wider. Nirave Gondhia / Digital Trends Before I experienced it, my initial reaction was that it would be unlikely to be that useful. However, it is the ideal form factor, especially if you enjoy watching movies, reading books, or scrolling through social media. A wider display isn’t as ergonomically friendly, but it’s the first time we’ve seen a company attempt to blend the flip and book-style folding phone form factors.  It’s so unique that it deserves a spot on our list of the best folding phones, just for that reason.  Nirave Gondhia / Digital Trends I’ve already reviewed the Oppo Find N5, and it’s the one folding phone that I always keep with me. Its biggest problem? It’s only available in China and Singapore. The world’s thinnest folding phone, it’s a behemoth that builds on the successful OnePlus Open and adds a range of improvements, including a triple camera (two of which are 50MP), stylus support on both displays, and IPX8/IPX9 water resistance. It features the largest main display on a folding phone, measuring 8.12 inches, a Snapdragon 8 Elite processor, and a 5,600 mAh battery with support for 80W wired charging and 50W wireless charging. Nirave Gondhia / Digital Trends All of this is packed into an impossibly thin body that measures just 4.21 mm when unfolded and 8.9 mm when folded. For context, the latter is over 3mm thinner than the Galaxy Z Fold 6, and less than 1 mm thicker than the iPhone 16 Pro Max and Galaxy S25 Ultra. As far as folding phones go, the Find N5 proves that you don’t always have to compromise. Andy Boxall / Digital Trends From folding phones to non-folding models, and the Xiaomi 15 Ultra, a camera powerhouse. It was announced at MWC 2025 in February and is the latest addition to a long line of Xiaomi Ultra phones dedicated to photography. It features a total of five sensors. There’s a 50MP main camera, a 50MP ultrawide camera, and a time-of-flight 3D depth sensor. There’s also a 50MP telephoto lens that offers 3x optical zoom, and a secondary 200MP periscope telephoto lens that provides a unique 4.3x optical zoom. Andy Boxall / Digital Trends By far the most interesting feature is the optional photography kit, which adds a protective housing around the phone, transforming it into a handheld camera complete with easy zoom triggers and a metal camera ring. Of all the phones on this list, the Xiaomi 15 Ultra is available in the most countries, including the UK, but it isn’t available in the US. Tushar Mehta / Digital Trends From one photography powerhouse to another: the Vivo X200 Pro. It’s set to be joined by the Vivo X200 Ultra in the next few days, but the X200 Pro brings the best of other Ultra phones in a more affordable Pro model. The 50MP main camera is joined by a 50MP ultrawide camera and a 200MP periscope telephoto camera that offers 3.7x optical zoom. It’s another unique focal length, and while I’m yet to spend enough time with it to comment on the camera, the rear finish on the blue model is particularly different. Vivo X200 Pro Andy Boxall / Digital Trends It features a glass finish with a wavy pattern underneath that is striking, especially when compared to the more mundane finish on most phones. It features 90W wired charging, 30W wireless charging and a 6,000 mAh Silicon Carbon battery. All of this at a price that’s roughly $880 when converted from Chinese Yuan. China has a lot more phones and gadgets that stand out for a variety of reasons, but these four phones all offer something unique and stand out from the best phones you can buy in the US. I should know: I have all four in my possession as I type this while in a car from Shenzhen to Hong Kong. Editors’ Recommendations

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Real Estate By Jamie Heller The Trump administration carried out immigration raids in Chicago as part of the president's mass deportation campaign. Chip Somodevilla/Pool/AFP/Getty Images 2025-04-20T10:41:02Z Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? This post originally appeared in the BI Today newsletter. You can sign up for Business Insider's daily newsletter here. Welcome back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. Interested in a career pivot? A teacher with no tech experience shared the four résumé tweaks that helped him land a gig at Google.On the agenda today:Steve Bannon tells BI why Elon Musk is "evil" — and his plans for a third Trump term.Real estate agents and Zillow are going to war over listings.Million-dollar payouts and no job security: what it's like to work at a hedge fund.A BI editor accidentally cheated on his taxes. Here's what happened.But first: Back to the factory?If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. Download Business Insider's app here.This week's dispatch Graphic House/ Getty Images The push for 'manly' jobsPresident Trump is pushing for a return to factory jobs. By and large, Americans don't want them.BI's Emily Stewart is one of the most authoritative and original thinkers on how Trump's economic policies are affecting people and businesses in this country.After her piece this week about whether men, in particular, really want the traditionally "masculine" manufacturing jobs the president is promoting, I sought her thoughts on her beat and the economy broadly.The economic upheaval under President Trump is overwhelming. And yet, you consistently find ways to identify a particular vein and explore it with fresh takeaways. How do you get and sculpt your ideas?I'm lucky that people often come to me with ideas or nuggets — my editors, sources, even friends. Chances are, if someone saw something and thought, "Huh, that's weird/interesting/annoying/scary," they're not alone.I do think it's helpful to ground larger concepts in something that's more real and tangible. The economy isn't some nebulous theoretical concept, it's what we live day-to-day. I obviously read the normal business outlets, but I also listen to the friend who's complaining that the bridesmaid dress she's about to buy got more expensive because of the tariffs.Besides Trump, what other economic trends are fascinating you right now?There's a palpable anger across America at the ultrawealthy and corporations that's manifesting in really interesting ways. I've written about it in my coverage of middle-class shoplifting, but you also see it in the Tesla protests and even small-time stuff like consumers abusing return policies. People feel like they're being taken advantage of, and — right or wrong — they're finding little ways to lash out and reassert some agency.What would you say makes you both most concerned and most hopeful about the US economy?I know it's cliché, but there's so much uncertainty now that it makes it hard to imagine what stability would even look like. If we do enter a recession, there might not be any appetite on Capitol Hill to shore up the economy, given what happened with post-COVID inflation.What makes me hopeful is that we've been "about to be in a recession" for what feels like forever. The economy is resilient, and consumers have kept spending even though they say everything is terrible. Things feel bad, but maybe it will be fine? It sounds silly to say, but that's the hope.Steve Bannon, unchained Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images Fresh out of prison for contempt of Congress, Bannon remains an influential force in Trump's Washington. His podcast is a hot spot on the DC media circuit, attracting conspiracy theorists and leading senators alike for guest appearances.Bannon's dedication to Trump hasn't wavered — even though he thinks Elon Musk "has always been evil." 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By Ed Cara Published April 20, 2025 | Comments (0) | Trump speaking at a White House press briefing on January 30. © Joshua Sukoff via Shutterstock The Trump administration pledged this week to substantially reduce the high prices Americans commonly pay for their prescription drugs. It’s a promise that will undoubtedly come up short. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order laying out the steps that the federal government, via the Department of Health and Human Services, is planning to take to lower drug prices. While some of the proposals are sound, others are unlikely to move the needle. Trump and GOP lawmakers are also preparing to, or already have, enacted other measures that could very well raise drug prices for many Americans. A major plank of the executive order involves improving the Medicare Drug Pricing Negotiation Program: a Biden-era program that allows the government to directly negotiate the prices that Medicare will pay for some of the costliest prescription drugs on the market. The first round of negotiations occurred last year and resulted in ten drugs being discounted, though the price cuts won’t come into effect until 2026. The second round of negotiations involves 15 drugs and will conclude this year, with discounts arriving in 2028. One of the most important drugs in this second round is semaglutide, the active ingredient in the type 2 diabetes drugs Ozempic and Rybelsus, as well as the obesity medication Wegovy. Semaglutide-based drugs cost upwards of $1,000 per month without insurance, and many eligible patients can’t access them due to the high list prices and lack of coverage. So if drug prices are truly cut, it would represent a genuine accomplishment. But again, any such discount wouldn’t arrive until 2028, in Trump’s (hopefully) last year of the presidency. In the meantime, his HHS has actually made it harder for people on Medicare to afford these medications. Currently, Medicare cannot directly cover any weight loss medications, though it can provide coverage to people taking Ozempic and similar drugs for diabetes or certain obesity-related conditions, such as heart disease. The Biden administration proposed a rule last year that would have ended this restriction and opened up coverage to some 7 million Americans on Medicare and Medicaid by 2026. Earlier this month, however, the Trump administration dropped this proposal. HHS chief Robert F. Kennedy stated last week that the administration is considering some sort of “framework” to expand coverage, though RFK Jr. himself has repeatedly questioned the value of these drugs in the past. Another wrinkle in Trump’s plan to lower drug prices concerns the so-called “pill penalty.” Drugs are not eligible for the negotiation program until they’ve been on the market for a certain amount of time. For small molecule prescription drugs, typically taken as pills, this delay is currently seven years (actually nine years before the price cut comes into effect). But for biologics—more complex, expensive-to-produce drugs typically taken by injection—the delay is 11 years (13 years really). In the executive order, Trump pledged to “align the treatment” of these two drug types in the program. But as David Dayen at the Prospect and others have noted, the executive order doesn’t actually say that HHS will shorten the delay of biologics eligible for the program. And current pharma-backed GOP bills trying to address this discrepancy have done so by extending the exclusivity period of small molecule drugs to match that of biologics (solutions from the Democrats have tried to lower the period for both). According to a KFF analysis released on Wednesday, a four-year delay would have removed more than half of the drugs included in the negotiation program to date, including semaglutide. Going forward, a longer exclusivity period for these drugs would cost the government plenty of potential savings and ultimately hurt the wallets of many Americans who rely on them. In a statement Wednesday, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, argued that Trump’s executive order is certain to only weaken drug pricing reform. “Just like his first term, Trump is all bark and no bite when it comes to lowering the cost of prescription drugs,” Wyden said. “This executive order is rife with goodies that Big Pharma has been begging for, primarily by weakening Medicare negotiation, which is going to mean higher prices for American seniors and families while the drug companies get a windfall to the tune of $10 billion.” There are some nuggets of good ideas nestled in the executive order, such as further reducing the cost of insulin, trying to make it easier for states to import drugs (an initiative that started during the first Trump term), or accelerating the approval of generic drugs. But even these proposals are undermined by actions the White House has taken elsewhere. The FDA has shed nearly 20% of its workforce as part of a DOGE-orchestrated “restructuring,” for instance, which is already hampering its ability to process potential drug approvals. And the administration has begun to lay the groundwork needed to impose tariffs on drugs imported into the U.S, which could lead to higher costs and drug shortages, particularly for generic drugs. Nothing about Trump’s past or recent track record suggests that prescription drugs in America are about to get significantly cheaper. And if we’re truly unlucky, some drugs could become even more expensive soon enough. Daily Newsletter You May Also Like By Matt Novak Published April 18, 2025 By Matt Novak Published April 18, 2025 By Matt Novak Published April 18, 2025 By AJ Dellinger Published April 17, 2025 By Lucas Ropek Published April 17, 2025 By Matt Novak Published April 17, 2025