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Amazon scraps its TikTok-style Inspire feed

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Amazon scraps its TikTok-style Inspire feed Amazon has discontinued Inspire, its TikTok-like feed featuring photos and videos of products, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. In a statement to The Verge, Amazon spokesperson Maxine Tagay said the company “regularly evaluate various features to better align with what customers tell us matters most, and as part of that, Inspire is no longe…

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GTA VI: all the news on Rockstar’s next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series

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GTA VI: all the news on Rockstar’s next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series It’s been a decade and two console generations since the release of GTA V. But that time’s over. Rockstar announced that it would reveal the game’s first trailer on Tuesday, December 5th, 2023, at 6AM PT / 9AM ET. Unfortunately, an early leak prompted the company to release the trailer more than half a day

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Rockstar’s working on bringing Roblox creators to GTA VI

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Rockstar’s working on bringing Roblox creators to GTA VI With GTA VI looming over the fall 2025 release schedule, a new report from Digiday claims that Rockstar is going all-in on user-generated content. According to the report, the developer is having discussions with Fortnite, Roblox, and GTA creators about making “custom experiences” inside what’s shaping up to be the biggest gaming release since t…

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Google Meet’s AI transcripts will automatically create action items for you

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Google Meet’s AI transcripts will automatically create action items for you Google Meet’s Gemini-powered note-taking feature is getting a bit more useful for Workspace teams. It will now generate a checklist of suggested next steps at the end of your meetings, going as far as assigning due dates and attaching a primary stakeholder to the task. The note-taking feature was initially launched in August last year.

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Facebook is about to mass delete a lot of old live streams

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Facebook is about to mass delete a lot of old live streams Facebook will start deleting users’ live broadcast recordings after 30 days starting on February 19th. Users who go live after that date must download the videos to save them from getting deleted before their 30-day expiration period ends. Alternatively, you could share the recordings to your profile as Reels, although that means fitting clips i…

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Electricity demand surges for the world’s two biggest polluters

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Electricity demand surges for the world’s two biggest polluters China and the US, the world’s two top greenhouse gas polluters, could burn through a lot more electricity over the next couple of years, according to the latest forecast from the International Energy Agency (IEA). The steepest rise in global electricity demand in a while is expected over the next few years, with much of that coming from new data…

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Acer is the first to raise laptop prices because of Trump

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Acer is the first to raise laptop prices because of Trump Acer CEO and chairman Jason Chen says your laptop will cost an extra 10 percent in the United States next month — and that his rivals might attempt price gouging if they think you’ll pay even more. “We think 10pc probably will be the default price increase because of the import tax. It’s very straightforward,”

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It’s clearly time: all the news about the transparent tech renaissance

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It’s clearly time: all the news about the transparent tech renaissance Gadgets, much like fashion, can make style comebacks. For tech: we’ve lived through the ’80s beige keyboards, transitioned to the ’90s with gray and black plastic video game systems plus bright colors for Sony’s Walkman and Nintendo’s Game Boy handhelds, and then, at the turn of the millennium, welcomed the amazing see-through iMacs, N64 control…

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Magic: The Gathering’s Final Fantasy sets will tell the stories of the games

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Magic: The Gathering’s Final Fantasy sets will tell the stories of the games Magic: The Gathering has revealed a look at its forthcoming Final Fantasy-themed set. In an interview with IGN, senior game designer Daniel Holt talked about the collaboration and this initial look, which focuses on four major character cards and their associated pre-constructed Commander decks. The revealed cards include Terra from Final Fantas…

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WhatsApp is now a Very Large platform in the EU, and will face tougher regulation

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WhatsApp is now a Very Large platform in the EU, and will face tougher regulation Meta’s WhatsApp has now gathered enough users to be designated a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), opening it up to stricter regulations in the region, reports Bloomberg. The DSA assigns VLOP status to any online service with more than 45 million users, a threshold WhatsApp crossed last

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Three months later, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is the glorious pain in the ass its makers intended

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Three months later, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is the glorious pain in the ass its makers intended When S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl was released in November, it was clearly not yet the game its developers, GSC Game World, wanted it to be. Sure, this imagining of the Zone was fabulously moody, a desolate and bleak expanse of bog, scrubland, abandoned warehouses, and pallid vistas. For all the ways it was transportive

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Mira Murati is launching her OpenAI rival: Thinking Machines Lab

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Mira Murati is launching her OpenAI rival: Thinking Machines Lab After her sudden departure from OpenAI last fall, ex-CTO Mira Murati vanished from public view to start something new. Now, she is ready to share some details about what she’s working on. Her new AI startup is called Thinking Machines Lab, and while the specifics of what it plans to release are still under wraps,

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Can Meta still make the metaverse?

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Can Meta still make the metaverse? Meta is clearly all in on AI, and for good reason. With models like Llama, products like the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, and a monetization plan like Facebook ads, it’s one of the companies best positioned to make AI really work. But it wasn’t that long ago that Meta was making a different, just as

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Nothing’s new video pits the Phone 3A’s camera against the iPhone 16 Pro Max

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Nothing’s new video pits the Phone 3A’s camera against the iPhone 16 Pro Max Nothing is comparing its coming budget Phone 3A’s camera against that of the iPhone 16 Pro Max in a new YouTube video released today. Specifically, it’s showing off the performance of the Phone 3A’s 50MP periscope camera, which appears in the bottom right of the triangular three-camera array in the photo (emailed to the The

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Chase will start blocking Zelle payments over social media

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Chase will start blocking Zelle payments over social media Chase Bank is going to make it harder to use Zelle for transactions stemming from social media. In an update to its policy on Zelle, Chase says it may “decline or block” payments related to purchases from social media marketplaces or messaging apps, as spotted earlier by Bleeping Computer. The new policy, which goes into

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Insta360’s new gimbal add-on brings subject tracking to any camera app

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Insta360’s new gimbal add-on brings subject tracking to any camera app Insta360 has announced a new accessory for its Flow 2 Pro smartphone gimbal that allows any camera app to take advantage of the company’s AI-powered tracking technology. Previously, subject tracking required the use of the company’s own Android or iOS camera app, or iOS apps that supported Apple’s DockKit framework. The new Insta360 Flow 2 Pro

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Meta’s new ‘LlamaCon’ event will focus on AI

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Meta’s new ‘LlamaCon’ event will focus on AI Meta is holding a new “LlamaCon” conference where it will share updates on “open source AI developments” to help developers create apps and products, the company said on Tuesday. LlamaCon will take place on April 29th, 2025 — months ahead of its Meta Connect conference, which it just announced will run from September 17th to

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All of Chipolo’s Bluetooth trackers are discounted in sitewide sale

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All of Chipolo’s Bluetooth trackers are discounted in sitewide sale Did you know Apple’s AirTags weren’t the first Find My Bluetooth trackers for iPhones? Chipolo actually beat Apple to its own game in 2021 with the Chipolo One Spot. It’s easy to pass them up given that AirTags are often discounted, but Chipolo’s ongoing sale is tempting. All of Chipolo’s trackers are discounted right now,

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Spotify’s HiFi streaming could finally arrive this year

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Spotify’s HiFi streaming could finally arrive this year It’s been nearly four years since Spotify announced a HiFi tier for its music streaming service that would support lossless audio. That wait could end this year, Bloomberg reports, as the company works to finalize details, including streaming rights. Spotify could charge as much as $5 or $6 extra per month for the new tier

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A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA’s air traffic control system

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A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA’s air traffic control system A team from Elon Musk’s SpaceX is visiting the Air Traffic Control Command Center in Virginia Monday to help overhaul the system in the wake of last month’s deadly air disaster in Washington, DC, US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced. The news comes after CNN reported that the Federal Aviation Administration fired hundreds of

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