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Hyundai’s Ioniq 6 redesign is a little sportier and a bit weirder

Hyundai’s Ioniq 6 electric sedan already had a polarizing “streamliner” design that only owners seem to love. Now the automaker has massaged the front a bit more for a new look for 2026. The latest Ioniq 6 has squintier daytime running lights and headlights that are lower down into the bumper, something that we’re seeing […]

R.A. Salvatore reveals his new D&D novel — and why he wanted to follow Drizzt’s daughter Breezy

R.A. Salvatore’s legacy as an author might be permanently tied to the drow warrior Drizzt Do’Urden, but three decades after introducing the Dungeons & Dragons character, he clearly sees no limit to what’s possible in the Forgotten Realms — or who he can follow to discover it. In the wake of Salvatore’s The Way of […]

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Dan Da Dan lead the 2025 Anime Award nominations

On Thursday, Crunchyroll announced the nominees for the 2025 Anime Awards. Some of Polygon’s favorite anime of the last year — including Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Dan Da Dan, Delicious in Dungeon, and The Apothecary Diaries — came through with a ton of nominations, withe Frieren leading the pack with 29 nominations. (Dan Da Dan […]

Portland-based Hydrolix, a data lake service that offers a repository for log data, raised an $80M Series C led by QED, bringing its total raised to $148M (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

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Portland-based Hydrolix, a data lake service that offers a repository for log data, raised an $80M Series C led by QED, bringing its total raised to $148M  —  GeekWire's startup coverage documents the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial scene.  Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter …

The Switch 2 will have a Piranha Plant camera, because of course it will

Perhaps one of the more unexpected announcements to arrive out of the Nintendo Switch Direct is that the Nintendo Switch 2 will have a camera peripheral to supplement the console’s new group chat feature. While the Switch 2 will be compatible with third-party USB-C webcams, the peripheral manufacturers at Hori are already producing their own […]