At CES 2025, the Ultraloq Bolt Mission UWB + NFC turned heads with support for hands-free auto-unlocking and Matter support.This flagship smart lock is the first to add ultra-wideband supportHeadlining U-tec's CES announcement is the premium Ultraloq Bolt Mission UWB + NFC, which is the world's first smart lock with Ultra-Wideband technology built in. This delivers what the brand calls "centimeter-level accuracy" in tracking the phone's location as it approaches.UWB precision, often used with digital car keys, helps determine when a user is walking towards the door. It can also prevent inadvertently unlocking the door when located on the inside of the house. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

At the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show, UnifyDrive has announced a new network attached storage device featuring a built-in tablet-style display, and AI-powered features in the operating system.The UnifyDrive UP6, with its built-in battery and on-device screen, is ideal for remote location use.CES is underway, and artificial intelligence (AI) is once again the key phrase for the event in 2025. Everything is packed with AI technology, including network-attached storage (NAS).The UnifyDrive UP6 was revealed on Monday, and includes a built-in rechargeable battery for on-the-go transfers. The new battery should be an improvement on the previous UT2 drive's battery, which was only good for up to an hour in our testing. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Athom's new privacy-first home hub gives users plenty of ways to manage their smart homes at a competitive price.Homey Pro miniOn Monday, Athom unveiled its new, budget-friendly home hub, the Homey Pro mini. This compact hub has been designed to offer an exceptionally customizable home hub experience, all while minimizing data sharing with the cloud.Like the original Homey Pro, the Homey Pro mini allows customers to connect directly with more than 1,000 other smart home brands' devices via local and cloud-based API, too. And, out of the box, the Homey Pro mini is compatible with Matter, Thread, Zigbee, and LAN. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Because of the thermal mass the temperature inside the building changes a lot slower than a conventional build saving you a lot in energy costs. Its mold resistant and pest resistant, fire resistant. We told architects and engineers they didn't believe us so we pulled out a block and a torch and we showed themthey werelike this is unbelievable - Danny DesjarlaisOn the plains of Minnesota, the Lower Sioux Indian Community are building de-carbonized housing, using locally grown hemp. MPR News also covered the program, specifically the opening of the tribe's Industrial Hemp Campus which should allow them to scale up significantly.Click here to learn more about the Lower Sioux Hemp Program and Housing Project.

Call of Dutyhas been and continues to be one of the games industrys biggest and most successful properties, but even though its no secret that the shooter series is one of the most lucrative IPs around, curiously enough, its not often that we get official sales figures revealed for any of its instalments.Recently, however, Activision executive Peter Kelly head of creative onCall of Duty revealed sales figures for threeCall of Dutygames in a December court filing, as caught and reported by Game File and the numbers are unsurprisingly high.As per the court filing,Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold Warhas sold over 30 million units worldwide since its release in 2019. Meanwhile, the title preceding it 2019sCall of Duty: Modern Warfarereboot stands at over 41 million units sold worldwide. Then theresCall of Duty: Black Ops 3, which has sold over 43 million units since releasing close to a decade ago in November 2015.Call of Dutygames selling staggering numbers isnt the most surprising thing in the world- and as per the aforementioned court filing, the series certainly needs to sell that much if it is to turn a profit against its eye-watering development costs, with the aforementioned Black Ops Cold Warsdevelopment costing as much as over $700 million. Read more on that through here.

Massively ballooning game development budgets are among the biggest issues facing the games industry right now, and we continue to see increasing examples of that by the day. Unsurprisingly, it has emerged that Call of Duty as one of the biggest gaming properties on the planet has some of the largest and most eye-watering budgets in the industry.Caught and reported by Game File, development budget figures for threeCall of Duty titles wererevealed by Activisions Patrick Kelly who is head of creative on theCall of Dutyfranchise in official court filings in December. As per the filing, 2020sCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold Warhad a development budget of over $700 million, 2019sCall of Duty: Modern Warfarereboot stands at over $640 million, while 2015sCall of Duty: Black Ops 3stands at over $450 million.Kelly states in the filing that those figures cover development costs over the games lifecycle for each game, suggesting that costs associated with developing each games post-launch content is also included.That said, its also worth noting that these figures only cover development costs- marketing costs, which usually tend to be just as high as development costs for AAA titles (especially for something likeCall of Duty), are bound to take the total budget figures radically higher for the three aforementioned titles. Then again, all three titles have also sold exceedingly well, based on figures revealed by Kelly in the filing.This putsCall of Dutyat the top of the list of highest game development budgets, though its worth noting that information on that front is scarce at best, thanks to the consistent reluctance of developers and publishers to disclose relevant numbers. Notable examples in recent years have been limited to the likes ofThe Last of Us Part 2, Horizon Forbidden West, Marvels Spider-Man 2, Concord, The Callisto Protocol, and others, though these newly revealed figures forCall of Dutyput the shooter series far above any of the aforementioned titles.

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The Last of Us will return to HBO and Max this April. Series creative director, Neil Druckmann, announced the premiere of the shows second season onstage at CES this evening alongside a short teaser for the new season. A specific premiere date wasnt given.The shows first season wrapped up in March 2023, so itll be more than two years between seasons by the time the new one debuts. The Last of Us first season was very well-received particularly for a video game adaptation so expectations are high for the shows return.This season is supposed to cover a portion of the second game, with the full story being split across two or more seasons, according to an interview last year with the shows creators. We dont think that were going to be able to tell the story even within two seasons [2 and 3] because were taking our time and go down interesting pathways which we did a little bit in Season 1 too, showrunner Craig Mazin told Deadline.Alongside the return of The Last of Us, Sony also announced plans to bring several other PlayStation titles to the screen. Ghost of Tsushima is being adapted into an anime series, and both Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers 2 are being made into films.