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Mario Kart Live with real kart in your real home, and more tech news today
Jul 23, 2025
1. Mario Kart Live is Mario Kart AR for the real world
Nintendo pulled off a surprise yesterday, announcing a flurry of new Mario games to celebrate the 35th birthday of the world’s most well-known plumber. Loaannouncements galore, but the pick of the bunch is Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit.
Thevideo hereexplains it better than any words, but I also made you a gif to explain, too:
Those other Mario games?
But this is not a Mario echo chamber! Kotaku gets it right by pointing out thatNintendo’s new Mario games have a weird purchase-by deadline, and it sucks. You only have five months to buy some of them. For no real reason, except Nintendo!
- Here’s a great Labor Day deal:Save $100 on the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro series this week(Android Authority).
3.Speed Test G: Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra vs OnePlus 8 Pro, and the winner is a bit of a shock given the Note 20 Ultra has the Snapdragon 865 Plus. It’s close, and doesn’t mean everything, but the winner is interesting.
- On that note:OnePlus 8T may bring 120Hz and quad rear camerasto a lower-priced phone, but still a ways off seeing it come to fruition (Android Authority).
5.HUAWEI Watch Fit hands-on: The skinny Apple Watch (Android Authority).
Former Essential employees arebuilding a startup called OSOM Products(Android Authority).
Source:Only the top-spec of Apple’s new iPhones support mmWave, the fastest 5G tech, and only the US, South Korea, and Japan versions (Fast Company).
Apple wants to stop advertisers from following you around the web by reducing tracking. Facebook has other ideas, and the fight affects developers and advertising across the web and apps.Now, Apple has extended the time before it makes these big changes(TechCrunch).
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 is out today on PS4, Xbox, PC!Review: Coming home feels great(Polygon).
10.The secret Avengers video game the world never got to play: THQ spent years working on an Avengers video game. CNET has the story of how it was torn apart (CNET).
11. Alphabet’s Loon balloonsare helping scientists study gravity waves(Engadget).
12.SpaceX hops a full-scale Starship prototypefor the second time, this time SN6 (Ars Technica).
- Explore theworld’s first-ever Sounds of the Forest map(timberfestival.org.uk)
14 “What’s a relatively unknown technological inventionthat will have a huge impact on the future?” (r/askreddit).
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