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Amazon has quietly doubled the ad load on Prime Video to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from the 2-3.5 minutes initially discussed when ads launched in 2024. AdWeek reports: According to six ad buyers and documents reviewed by ADWEEK, the current ad load on Prime Video now ranges from four to six minutes per hour. And while that could bring down CPMs, buyers will be watching whether this impacts user experience. "Prime Video ad load has gradually increased to four to six minutes per hour," an Amazon representativ
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Ride-hailing app HERide has offered rides to women and other groups since 2022. Now, it's planning to take on Uber and Lyft. Read more ›
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The Pixel 10 series will likely come with a free trial of Google AI Pro plan, though the duration of the trial isn't clear. Read more ›
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WIRED talked with one of the most influential voices in computer science about the potential for AI and quantum to supercharge supercomputers. Read more ›
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Despite being over two years old, Apple's AirPods Pro 2 still dominate the premium wireless‑earbud space, thanks to a potent mix of top‑tier audio, class‑leading noise cancellation, and Apple's habit of delivering major new features through software updates. Rumors suggest AirPods Pro 3 could arrive as soon as September 2025 alongside the iPhone 17 lineup, giving prospective AirPods buyers a dilemma: snap up the proven AirPods Pro 2 at today's... Read more ›
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Taiwanese prosecutors probe ‘potential trade secret leaks’ in first case since key technologies added to national security legislation Read more ›
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Japan has clinched the sale of 11 Mogami-class stealth frigates, beating out warships from Germany, Spain, and South Korea in the bid. Read more ›
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Secondary markets are increasingly helping VCs get liquidity, but unspoken rules are limiting returns in an exit crunch, investors told BI. Read more ›
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After sharing his OpenAI offer on LinkedIn, AI engineer Yangshun Tay says Meta reached out within hours. Find out why he's probably turning them down. Read more ›
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No breakout song, no runaway blockbuster: Summer 2025's biggest vibe is the lack of actual vibes Read more ›
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Edinburgh-based Approov Mobile Security has closed a €5.7 million Series A funding round to innovate mobile app and API security for the AI era, enabling hem to accelerate R&D and scale global presence. The round was led by the Investment Fund for Scotland, managed by Maven Capital Partners. The round also included participation from Souter ... Read more ›
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In a 2019 event, the Tesla Cybertruck's windows unexpectedly shattered live on-stage when the company's chief designer threw a metal ball at them. Read more ›
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Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost says that as AI tools allow more people to code, other skills will become more important. Read more ›
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"I'm a big fan of airplane mode. Because opening your phone is also like going to work, you know?" Margaret Qualley said. Read more ›
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Amidst Everwild and Perfect Dark's cancellations, legendary British developer Rare is at least getting a cool 40th anniversary 8BitDo controller. Read more ›
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It’s impressive what tablets and ultraportable laptops can do. But to get the most functionality out of them, you may want a few more ports at your disposal, which is where a USB-C hub comes into play. By connecting to just one port, these handy devices give you extra USB connections, HDMI slots, SD card readers and Ethernet jacks. Plus most offer pass-through charging so you can keep your tablet... Read more ›
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BioShock 4 was announced many years back, though recent news has been very scarce indeed. Here's what we know so far. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump has brought his love of maximalism and gold furnishings to the Oval Office. His next project: a $200 million ballroom. Read more ›
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An overemployed Gen Xer earning $800K secretly working six remote jobs lost four of them, but bounced back to a $900K income. Read more ›
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Last week, we exclusively reported that the Oppo K13 Turbo series, which includes the K13 Turbo and K13 Turbo Pro, would launch in India between August 11 and August 14. Today, Oppo corroborated our report as it announced that the K13 Turbo will debut in India on August 11. Additionally, Oppo said that the K13 Turbo series, "with its racing-inspired design, power-packed features, and performance-first engineering," is all "set to... Read more ›
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Hackers from the group UNC2891 attempted a high-tech bank heist by physically planting a 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi inside a bank's ATM network, using advanced malware hidden with a never-before-seen Linux bind mount technique to evade detection. "The trick allowed the malware to operate similarly to a rootkit, which uses advanced techniques to hide itself from the operating system it runs on," reports Ars Technica. Although the plot was uncovered before... Read more ›
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Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Bill Long said the agency will end its Direct File program after a limited pilot and one full filing season. From a report: President Donald Trump's massive spending and policy bill includes funding to research and "replace any direct e-file programs run by the Internal Revenue Service." Already, the program is "gone," Long said at a tax professional summit on July 28, Bloomberg Law reports. "You've... Read more ›
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After an 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia, "weather authorities leapt into action," reports SFGate, by modeling the threat of a tsunami "and releasing warnings and advisories to prepare their communities..." But some residents of Hawaii, Japan and North America's West Coast turned to AI tools for updates that "appear to have badly bungled the critical task at hand." Google's "AI Overview," for example, reportedly gave "inaccurate information about... Read more ›
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Developers are growing increasingly frustrated with AI coding tools that produce deceptively flawed solutions, according to Stack Overflow's latest survey of over 49,000 programmers worldwide. The 2025 survey exposes a widening gap between AI adoption and satisfaction: while 84% of developers now use or plan to use AI tools, their trust has cratered. Only 33% trust AI accuracy today, down from 43% last year. The core problem isn't broken code... Read more ›
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A Brussels court has issued an unusually broad site-blocking order targeting Internet Archive's Open Library alongside shadow libraries including Anna's Archive, Libgen, and Z-Library. The order, requested by publishing and author organizations, directs an unprecedented range of intermediaries to take action beyond traditional ISP blocks. Search engines, DNS resolvers, advertisers, domain name services, CDNs, hosting companies, and payment processors -- including Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Amazon Web. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Efforts to introduce pirate site blocking to the United States continue with the introduction of the "Block BEARD" bill (PDF) in the Senate. The bipartisan proposal, backed by Senators Tillis, Coons, Blackburn, and Schiff, aims to create a new legal mechanism to combat foreign piracy websites. Block BEARD is similar to the previously introduced House bill "FADPA", but doesn't directly mention DNS... Read more ›
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Slashdot reader ffkom writes: The air around you mostly consists of nitrogen [78%]. And in that air exist happy little monogamous pairs of two nitrogen atoms per molecule, also known as N2. Researchers from the University of Giessen, Germany, recently managed to synthesize N6 molecules, "the first, to our knowledge, experimentally realized neutral molecular nitrogen allotrope beyond N2 that exhibits unexpected stability." And these appear to be pretty angry little... Read more ›
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NBC News reports that in the U.S., many recent graduates looking to enter the labor force "are painting a dire picture of their job search." NBC News asked people who recently finished technical school, college or graduate school how their job application process was going, and in more than 100 responses, the graduates described months spent searching for a job, hundreds of applications and zero responses from employers — even... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Yesterday, when Epic won its Google antitrust lawsuit for a second time, it wasn't quite clear how soon Google would need to start dismantling its affirmed illegal monopoly. Today, Google admits the answer is: 14 days. Google has just 14 days to enact major changes to its Google Play app store, and the way it does business with phonemakers, cellular carriers, and app developers,... Read more ›
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"Hyundai sold 79,543 vehicles in the U.S. last month," reports the EV news site Electrek — Hyundai's best July ever, and 15% higher than last year. "The growth was mainly driven by electrified vehicles, including EVs and hybrids..." Hyundai said that electrified vehicle sales "reached new heights," after climbing 50% compared to July 2024. Electrified vehicles accounted for nearly a third (32%) of Hyundai's retail sales in July 2025, with... Read more ›
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