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News Image Report: Neil Gaiman May Step Back From Good Omens‘ Final Season

Reports earlier this week alleged that production had paused on the third and final season of the Amazon series, in light of accusations of sexual assault against the writer.

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News Image Your Wordle Streak Is Under Threat After NYT Fails to Bargain With Tech Workers

The paper of record's tech workers are prepped to strike.

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News Image Genome Sequencing Provides Latest Evidence Against Easter Island’s Societal Collapse

The new study also indicates the Polynesian people who settled Rapa Nui mixed with indigenous South Americans centuries before the arrival of Europeans.

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News Image The Broadway play about content moderation

Talking with writer Max Wolf Friedlich about his Broadway play that confronts the horrifying work of online content moderation.

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TechCrunch Minute: Why this entrepreneur is running the Oakland Ballers like a startup

The coolest startup in the Bay Area isn’t making AI robots or self-driving taxis. It’s actually a baseball team. As his beloved Oakland A’s plan to leave the Bay, serial entrepreneur Paul Freedman sought out a different type of venture. What if he could take what he learned from leading edtech startups to build the […]

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Google’s AI note-taking app NotebookLM can now explain complex topics to you out loud

Google announced on Wednesday that its AI note-taking and research app, NotebookLM, is adding an “Audio Overview” feature. Audio Overview will give users another way to digest and comprehend the information in the documents they have uploaded to the app, such as course readings or legal briefs. Since its launch, NotebookLM has used text to […]

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News Image A rundown of what’s new and improved in Android 15

After previews at Google I/O 2024 and months of testing, the finished version of Android 15 is now available for developers. That doesn’t mean it’s out for users just yet: according to Google, it’ll be a few weeks before it arrives on Pixels and then will get to Samsung and other select devices “in the coming months.” As usual with Android, the software will come with a variety of different tweaks and variations depending on the make of your phone. In terms of the core Android 15 functionality that Google, Samsung, and others are building on top of, here’s some of what’s new with this release. Android 15 will improve the multitasking experience on tablets and large-screen displays by enabling you to pin the taskbar...

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Apple’s newly available ‘win-back’ offers let developers reach lapsed subscribers

Apple explains that these offers are designed to reach an app or game's previous subscribers and encourage them to return.

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PVV Cabinet member wants to imprison Dutch convicts in Estonia: report

State Secretary Ingrid Coneradie of Justice and Security wants Dutch convicts to serve their sentences in prisons in Estonia.

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News Image Apple’s AirPods Pro Could Soon Disrupt the Hearing Aid Industry

AirPods revolutionized the wireless earbuds category and are poised to do the same for over-the-counter hearing aids.

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News Image Senators Believe AI Summaries May Be an Antitrust Violation

The lawmakers say summaries further entrench the monopolies that companies like Google hold over online search, by lifting content from publishers without permission and then directing traffic and profits away from those publishers.

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News Image Only Three Lonely Products Still Use Apple’s Lightning Connector

Now that AirPods Max have finally been upgraded to USB-C, just a few Apple items are holding on. Can you guess all three?

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News Image Sony’s PS5 Pro is a pricey test of next-gen consoles

The PS5 Pro’s announcement yesterday wasn’t a surprise. What was a surprise was the price: at $699.99, it debuts as Sony’s most expensive console ever. It brought back memories of the PS3’s controversial price tag, a console that when adjusted for inflation is the same $779 price point of a PS5 Pro with the additional disc drive. It’s a very expensive PlayStation, and I fear it’s a test of what’s to come for next-gen console pricing. For years, console gamers have been used to purchasing hardware at a significantly reduced price compared to what you could build yourself in the PC gaming space. Yes, you can find components that match the PS5 or Xbox Series X on paper, but it’s still difficult to hit the price points that consoles sell...

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