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Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge

AI summary Attendees at GitHub Universe received a conference badge that doubles as a small computer with a color display. Steve Francia used Gemini to get an NES emulator running on the device, then added support for Game Boy and Game Boy Color titles. With a ROM, the badge can play The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, and flipping it over exposes touch buttons on its body that serve as game controls.

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Googlebot Must Follow Redirects From Homepage To Favicon, Updated Doc Say

AI summary Google Search has revised its favicon guidance, stating that Googlebot needs to crawl a site's home page and trace any redirects leading to the page that declares the favicon. Googlebot-Image must also be able to fetch the icon file itself, and none of these URLs may be blocked through robots.txt or any other method. Google's John Mueller said the wording was changed after the company noticed AI systems struggled to work out how to troubleshoot missing favicons, and testing the new text as a prompt gave much better results.

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