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Everything the anchors say on this tape, story by story.

Arduino UNO Q gets a 10.1-inch touch display with integrated speakers, audio jacks, camera connectors (CNX Software)

GRANT BRICKMAN: The Arduino UNO Q gets a ten-inch touchscreen it can simply plug into. Ada has the details.

GRETA FOOTNOTE: For viewers just joining: Waveshare has made a 10.1-inch touch display for the Arduino UNO Q, and it plugs straight in. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: A big screen for a little board. Ada, does the board know it is being upstaged? ▶

ADA: So the UNO Q sends its display signal out through two 60-pin headers, JMEDIA and JMISC. Normally you need the Arduino UNO Media Carrier for those. ▶

ADA: This display builds those headers right in. No adapter board, no special wiring. You just insert the UNO Q. Mind the orientation and the alignment. ▶

ADA: That's file footage of an UNO Q on its carrier. Now picture the carrier gone and the board sitting right on the back of a screen. ▶

ADA: It also has two MIPI CSI camera connectors, two speakers, two audio jacks and one RGB LED. Cameras and sound, all on one board. ▶

ADA: Software side, enable carrier board support in Arduino App Lab. The documentation site has the tips. And there's one catch: it only works with the UNO Q. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Waveshare says the VENTUNO Q is not supported. The official carrier works with both. The display is $80.09 on AliExpress and $69.99 on Waveshare's own store. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: Seventy dollars. For that I used to get a hotel minibar's worth of peanuts, and nobody gave me a touchscreen. ▶

8-bit horror Tenebris Somnia mixes weird live-action horror with a retro 2D adventure to impressive and unsettling effect (Eurogamer)

GRETA FOOTNOTE: A pixel-art horror game with a live-action film welded into it. Vera has the big picture.

ODETTE: How we got here, in one tidy explainer. ▶

DIRECTOR MARGE: Pencil it in: THE BACKGROUND. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: The Big Picture. An 8-bit horror game called Tenebris Somnia. I assume that is a polite word for Monday. ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: According to the background note, Tenebris Somnia was co-created by Andrés Borghi and Tobías Rusjan with Saibot Studios, developed in Argentina. ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: It is published by New Blood Interactive. Released October 16, 2026 for Switch, PlayStation 5, Windows and Xbox Series X and S. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: So it looks like a teletext page that learned to scream. Greta, who made it? ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: Should I play it with the lights on? ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: The article doesn't say, Grant. The lights are your call. ▶

THE SWINGOMETER (PXL)

GRANT BRICKMAN: We count the programming languages on GitHub trending like a results programme.

GRANT BRICKMAN: Good evening. Fourteen slots on GitHub's trending page, and every one of them is a language waiting for its result. This is the Swingometer. ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: Counted from the page, not polled. TypeScript leads with five slots, thirty-six percent, down one slot against yesterday. ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: Shell has three slots, twenty-one percent, unchanged. Python has two, fourteen percent, also unchanged. ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: JavaScript and Swift each take one slot, seven percent, both new on the page. Rust also has one slot, seven percent, down one. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: Two newcomers! A shock! A stunner! I'd bring the swingometer needle out, but it is only a bar chart. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Grant, TypeScript is down one slot and still in front. Nobody is conceding anything. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: That's the count. Shell is steady, Swift is new, and we go back to the desk. ▶

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