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Loot boxes, influencers, and addictive features face an EU crackdown
Gaming, social media, and e-commerce platforms are facing a fresh wave of sweeping European Union rules that aim to make "your online experience fairer." The newly proposed Digital Fairness Act (DFA)
Trump admin loses fight to spy on random journalists’ LinkedIn DMs
Confidential sources “lifeblood” of free press, court rules in LinkedIn fight.
Big Walk used AI to fix a bug. Now the indie gaming world is having a reckoning.
Any amount of AI coding is too much for many Indie Game Festival judges.
Toyota’s Scion is back, starting with an American-made, 25-mph kei truck
Toyota is dusting off the Scion badge for a radically different mission. Rather than targeting youth-market hatchbacks, "Scion by Toyota" is being positioned as an experimental mobility incubator - an
Apple is shuttering its 28-year-old online community forum
Apple has already made the forum read-only.
IBM to offer access to a dual-processor quantum system in 2027
The company plans on linking two 520-qubit chips before next year is over.
Is Jensen Huang’s bad behavior more commonplace than it seems?
“There are a lot of senior people in the industry that know this is happening, and are effectively condoning it,” an investment intel consultant said.
OpenAI’s quarterly revenue reportedly crosses $10B for the first time
Sales of $10B represents an almost 50% jump from revenue of $6.7 billion the company recorded in the second quarter.
Google’s Tabletop AI experiment lets you build custom collaboration apps
Tabletop isn’t anything to do with D&D or boardgames, but it does make it easier to coordinate with freinds, | Image: Google Google has cooked up a new experimental AI tool called Tabletop that genera
The best early Black Friday deals you can already shop
The countdown to Black Friday is on, and the first discounts are starting to appear. Although the shopping holiday isn’t officially until November 27th, retailers are already dropping early deals on s
Sharge’s eye-catching MacBook charger is over 25 percent off
Looking for a MacBook and device charger that’s as stylish as it is capable? Both Amazon and Sharge are selling the Pixel 140W GaN charger for $69.88 and $69.90, respectively, a $24 discount on its us
Trump wanted little Kei trucks for America, Toyota makes it happen
Does this herald the start of a small car revolution, or is it a meaningless distraction?
Siri co-founder backs Helix for its voice ID tech
Helix said that its voice ID tech can run on an iPhone 13
Google’s AlphaGenome 2 zooms in on the cellular roots of disease
A graphic representing Google’s AlphaGenome Atlas. | Image: Google Researchers at Google DeepMind have unveiled a new AI model designed to unravel how changes in our DNA affect different cells, giving
Ocarina of Time is even better if you use a smartphone app
Hey there, buddy. I never liked hunting for Golden Skulltulas in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The game has 100 of them tucked all over Hyrule, and even over my many hours with the N64 classic
Databricks’ new AI agent tells CEO Ali Ghodsi the unvarnished truth
At 12,000 employees, AI Ghodsi is the first to admit that he can't know everyone and that they are unlikely to confess the things that go wrong to him. But he doesn't need them to. He uses Databricks'
Google DeepMind just mathematically verified key parts of Signal
The four-week project hints that AI could make formal verification far more practical.
Adobe’s AI experiments let you walk around in photos and interview your characters
Project Screen Test lets you talk with AI-generated characters to shape their personality. | Image: Adobe Some of the most impressive tech that Adobe showcases at its annual Max conference each year i