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AI companies know that children are the future - of their business model. The industry doesn't hide their attempts to hook the youth on their products through well-timed promotional offers, discounts, and referral programs. "Here to help you through finals," OpenAI said during a giveaway of ChatGPT Plus to college students. Students get free yearlong [ā¦]
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Netflix is poised to purchase Warner Bros.ā studio and streaming business after being selected as the winner of the bidding war for the media giant. The two companies will now move forward into exclusive deal talks, TheWrap reports, likely including a $5 billion break-up fee in case regulators block the buyout. Netflix reportedly offered $30 [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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yuv, a British beauty technology company developing a smart hair colour lab system for salons and freelancers, today announced the close of its ā¬10 million ($12 million) Series A funding round. The round was led by Nineyards Equity, with participation from yuvās Founder Francisco Gimenez, existing investor VNV Global, and a network of strategic angels. ... Read more āŗ
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Netflix is in exclusive talks to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's film and TV studios and HBO Max streaming service, according to sources from Bloomberg and CNN. That suggests Netflix submitted a superior offer to rivals including Paramount Skydance Corp (owned by billionaire Larry Ellison) and Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal. The deal could be consummated within days and, if approved, would change the landscape of Hollywood and the streaming market.Ā Warner... Read more āŗ
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CEO Steve Huffman said Reddit would scrap its r/popular default feed because it "gives the false impression of a singular Reddit culture." Read more āŗ
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At WIREDās Big Interview event, the activist and organizer said he doesnāt āthink the Chuck Schumers of the world understandā whatās coming for the party. Read more āŗ
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LinkedIn is ending its associate product manager program. Now, it will train new hires to code, design, and ship products as "full-stack builders." Read more āŗ
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Unlock up to 50% off, 40% off packages, and 25% off with top Groupon coupon codes. Explore coupons to save extra on travel getaways, holiday gifts, spa days, and event tickets. Read more āŗ
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It appears Meta's Horizon Worlds may literally and figuratively not have legs after all. Read more āŗ
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Bullish forecasts come despite recent investor jitters over tech spending and potential bubble in AI sector Read more āŗ
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Episode 6 of "Pluribus" reveals the horrifying secret that Carol uncovered in the Agri-Jet warehouse. It's certainly not pretty. Read more āŗ
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The Galaxy S26 series could have integrated magnets, but there might not be a shortage of official Qi2 chargers. Read more āŗ
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Full Self-Driving now allows drivers to text and drive in certain traffic conditions. Police advise against it. Read more āŗ
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For me, agriculture has never just been about yields; it has been about resilience. In my family, this meant keeping a horticultural business alive in wartime, or building one of the first tissue culture labs in Europe. Today, for me, it means asking: How can we take the most fragile, manual steps of plant propagation ... Read more āŗ
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Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all. Read more āŗ
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The United States Inspector General report reviewing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's text messaging mess recommends a single change to keep classified material secure. Read more āŗ
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Fei-Fei Li said that this "extreme rhetoric" is filling tech discourse and misinforming people outside Silicon Valley. Read more āŗ
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New documents reveal how the USS Gettysburg shot down an F/A-18 and nearly hit a second one above the Red Sea last year. Read more āŗ
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Sahil Lavingia, previously a DOGE operative at the Department of Veterans Affairs, is now a career employee at the IRS. He said at WIRED's Big Interview event that he expects to work there 10 years. Read more āŗ
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Spot XRP ETFs have now attracted nearly $850 million in inflows since launching in mid-November ā one of the strongest altcoin ETF starts on record ā suggesting long-horizon capital continues to accumulate exposure. Read more āŗ
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Discord's first personalised end-of-year wrap up offers stats on your chatting and gaming habits. Here's how to view yours. Read more āŗ
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Micron is retiring the Crucial brand, marking the end of its line of budget-friendly solid-state drives (SSDs) and RAM kits, as reported earlier by VideoCardz. In an announcement on Wednesday, Micron says winding down its consumer-focused business will āimprove supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segmentsā ā a.k.a. AI companies. The [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs, unless subscribers are using older casting devices. An updated help page on Netflixās website, first reported by Android Authority, says that the streaming service āno longer supports casting shows from a mobile device to most TVs and TV-streaming devices,ā and instead [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney thinks Steam and other game stores should drop āMade with AIā tags, arguing that theyāll soon be irrelevant as generative AI becomes ubiquitous in production. āThe AI tag is relevant to art exhibits for authorship disclosure, and to digital content licensing marketplaces where buyers need to understand the rights situation,ā [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Marques Brownleeās Panels wallpaper app is shutting down on December 31st, barely a year after its controversial launch. āWe made mistakes making our first app, and ultimately, we werenāt able to turn it into the vision I had,ā Brownlee said in a video on the MKBHD YouTube channel. The Panels launch in September 2024 was [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Alan Dye, who has led Appleās UI design team since 2015, is leaving to join Meta as its chief design officer, Bloomberg reports. Heāll join Meta on December 31st, and Meta is opening a design studio and giving Dye oversight of design for āhardware, software and AI integration for its interfaces,ā according to Bloomberg. Dye [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Billionaire Elon Musk ā whoās long used his X (formerly Twitter) platform to stoke anger at immigrants and support antisemitic conspiracy theories āĀ has spent the past day spreading and praising claims that āWhite people are on the verge of extinction,ā Somali immigrants have āno right to be in America,ā and nonprofits who support them are [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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The tides are turning in the AI race, and the pressure is getting to OpenAI. Chief executive Sam Altman reportedly declared a ācode redā on Monday, urging staff to improve its flagship product ChatGPT, an indicator that the startupās once-unassailable lead is eroding as competitors like Google and Anthropic close in.Ā Ā In the memo, reported [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Indiaās Department of Telecommunications is giving phone manufacturers 90 days to comply with an order to pre-install a state-owned app on new phones and push it to existing phones through software updates, reports Reuters. The government order was privately sent out to phone manufacturers on November 28th, according to Reuters, including Apple, Samsung, Vivo, Oppo, [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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For years, lawmakers at the state and federal levels have tried a variety of measures aimed at making kids safer on the internet, from kids-tailored design standards to age verification for individual websites. More recently, a new model has caught on in the states, and now it's gaining steam in Congress: putting the onus on [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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President Donald Trump announced a new plan that lets carmakers pollute more by making less fuel efficient vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said today that itāll roll back fuel economy rules finalized last year by the Biden administration for model year 2022-2031 vehicles. The Trump administration has eliminated incentives for EV purchases, [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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