Iran's protests face an information blackout, fueling a surge of AI-generated videos and recycled footage online. DW Fact check investigates how disinformation thrives when truth is hard to verify....
We’ve been building rule engines (quick ways to spin up decision APIs against JSON data) for a while and had the fun idea lately to see what happens when we use our decision table UI with Claude’s Pre...
Last year, Nova Launcher founder and sole developer Kevin Barry announced he had left Branch Metrics, Nova's parent company at the time - which followed an announcement from 2024 that nearly everyone ...
Doug Bowser is joining Hasbro's board of directors just weeks after retiring as Nintendo of America's president, according to an announcement on Tuesday . Though Hasbro's press release doesn't provide...
Lawsuits seeking damages from Google's illegal ad tech monopoly are piling up following the Justice Department's successful antitrust case . Vox Media, The Verge's parent company, is the latest in a w...
Nvidia is rolling out a new app update today that includes its latest DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution and Nvidia Surround settings. DLSS 4.5 includes Nvidia's second-generation Super Resolution transformer ...
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Attention Everyone : Animal Crossing: New Horizons has a jump button now! You can also walk backwards, and sideways!!! Why am I freaking out over this? Look. This is almost as exciting as when we all ...
The Federal Trade Commission will appeal its loss in a landmark antitrust case against Meta, the agency announced Tuesday. US District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled in November that the government ...
OpenAI plans to focus on "practical adoption" of AI in 2026, according to a blog post from CFO Sarah Friar . As the company spends a huge amount of money on infrastructure, OpenAI is working on "closi...
On Friday morning, X and Grok went offline for users around the world on both the websites and apps. Outage reports began spiking on DownDetector around 10:00AM ET, while Cisco's ThousandEyes outage m...
Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of X owner Elon Musk's children, is suing his company for enabling its AI to virtually strip her down into a bikini without her consent. St. Clair is one of the man...
Naya has already shipped one successful Kickstarter for a weird keyboard. The Naya Create was an ergonomic split deck with four swappable controller addons: a touchpad, a trackball, a rotary encoder, ...
For the past year I've been working to rethink how AI manages timing in conversation at Tavus. I've spent a lot of time listening to conversations. Today we're announcing the release of Sparrow-1, the...
Parents can now manually set a time limit on their kids' YouTube Shorts feed, ranging from fifteen minutes to two hours (with an option for zero minutes coming soon). The update, announced on Wednesda...
Disney Cory in the House , an obscure Nintendo DS game at the center of a bizarre viral campaign, is now being sold for hundreds of dollars on eBay. Earlier this week, we reported that Disney Cory in ...
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Rockstar has launched an official marketplace where creators can sell mods. The Cfx Marketplace, described as a "curated digital storefront where talented FiveM/RedM creators can share and sell their ...
Did you save your Google Stadia controller like I told you last month ? It's still not too late. This week, Google has finally removed the tool that converts the now-useless controller into a decent B...
Xreal is filing against competitor Viture, which also makes AR glasses. You know a gadget category is starting to go mainstream when patent lawsuits start cropping up. Today, Xreal filed a lawsuit in ...