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Roblox is shutting down its video chat service

Roblox will be shutting down Roblox Connect, its video calling service introduced in 2023. Roblox Connect let you video chat with other people using your Roblox avatar, which would be able to mimic the movements you were making in real life. You could also run around with people on the call in a shared virtual environment. But in a statement, the company says that users 13 and older "predominantly" chat via the platform's party voice chat functionality for calls. "Roblox Connect is being discont

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The Verge Tech

AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs

This weekend, cinephiles across the world will march to their local theaters to feast their eyes on Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of The Odyssey. It's on track to rake in anywhere between $80-$100 million in just a few days. People are clearly excited to see how Nolan uses cutting-edge filmmaking tech to make the Homeric classic feel fresh. But another director is trying to capitalize on the buzz around Nolan's project to drum up interest in an Odysseus-focused movie of his own. On Tuesday,

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CSS-Tricks

pointer-events

The pointer-events property controls whether an element can become the target of pointer events like clicks, hover states, and other pointer-based events. In other words, it lets you decide whether the browser should treat an element as interactive when the … pointer-events originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

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DZone

Building Offline-First iOS Applications with Local Data Storage

Offline-first behavior on iOS is not a cache toggle. It is a persistence decision that makes the device store the place where screens read, edits land, and state survives launch interruptions, suspension, and connectivity loss. Apple describes Core Data as a framework for saving permanent data for offline use on a single device, while SwiftData organizes persistent models around a ModelContainer and ModelContext that manage storage and lifecycle. Once that local layer becomes authoritative, the

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