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If you were hoping to create some silly images this long holiday weekend with Google's new Nano Banana Pro model, I have some bad news: the company is restricting free usage of the AI system. In a support document spotted by 9to5Google, Google notes free users can currently generate two images daily, down from three per day previously. "Image generation and editing is in high demand," the company writes. "Limits may change frequently and will reset daily." It would appear Google is also limiting free Gemini
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Trump promised to send $1,776 in bonus checks to military members for Christmas, and said that tariffs are funding the payments. Read more ›
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When a president gives a primetime televised speech, it is typically about something of serious import: to make the case for a major new policy or to announce the beginning of a war. President Donald Trump’s speech on Wednesday night had no grave significance. In fact, there didn’t seem to be much of a point […] Read more ›
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"This moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up with the transformative changes that we are witnessing," Sanders said. Read more ›
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In July, Sony sued Tencent to prevent the release of Light of Motiram, a game Sony alleged was a "slavish clone" of its popular Horizon series. But the legal battle is already over; the two companies have reached a "confidential settlement" and the case has been dismissed with prejudice, according to a court document filed […] Read more ›
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Shareholder’s claims of impairments put billionaire investor Oliver Samwer’s stewardship back in the spotlight Read more ›
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders wants to delay AI data center projects to slow down progress, to ensure that AI will benefit the largest number of people and not just the richest few. Read more ›
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The Academy has struck a multi-year deal to move the Oscars to YouTube starting in 2029, ending decades on ABC and making the ceremony free to stream worldwide with YouTube holding exclusive global rights. Variety reports: The Oscars, including red carpet coverage, behind-the-scenes content and Governors Ball, will be available live and for free on YouTube to viewers around the world, as well as to YouTube TV subscribers in the... Read more ›
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Micron posted record revenues in its first earnings call since killing the consumer Crucial brand, though it admits that supply shortages will persist. Read more ›
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Texas AG Ken Paxton claims the companies are "illegally recording Americans’ devices inside their own homes." Read more ›
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AI tools designed to diagnose cancer from tissue samples are quietly learning more than just disease patterns. New research shows these systems can infer patient demographics from pathology slides, leading to biased results for certain groups. The bias stems from how the models are trained and the data they see, not just from missing samples. Researchers also demonstrated a way to significantly reduce these disparities. Read more ›
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LG is teaming up with Dolby for a new collection of speakers that the companies are unveiling ahead of CES 2026. The LG Sound Suite features a modular lineup the H7 soundbar, M7 and M5 wireless surround speakers and the W7 subwoofer. The speakers can be combined in more than two dozen different configurations, from a pair to a full 13.1.7 channel surround sound home theater setup.The main pitch of... Read more ›
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"My identity was never super wrapped up in my appearance," Zooey Deschanel said. Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle a critically important climate research center in Colorado. What’s happening? US Office of Management and Budget Director Russ […] Read more ›
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The actress would like to see DreamWorks re-release the film to honor the late, great Alan Rickman. Read more ›
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Peter DeSantis appointed to oversee a new group leading the company’s artificial intelligence model development Read more ›
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"The lead negotiator for Amazon called me on Thursday," Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer told Business Insider. The deal would pay more than $20 billion over the next 20 years, he said. Read more ›
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Billionaire Ray Dalio and his wife said they would donate $250 to the Trump Accounts of about 300,000 children in Connecticut. Read more ›
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NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring the surface of Mars since it landed there in spectacular fashion nearly five years ago. In that time, NASA’s most advanced rover to date, which is about the size of a small car, has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers) while all the time conducting science research and collecting ... Read more ›
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Behold: Ken Paxton will now demonstrate that broken clocks are indeed right twice a day. The Texas Attorney General is notorious for, well, a very long list of reasons. But in this case, he at least appears to be doing consumers a solid: He sued five television companies for using ad-targeting spyware on their TVs.Texas sued Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense and TCL for allegedly recording what viewers watch without their... Read more ›
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Half-Life fans are nothing if not patient. For the diehard fans out there, the latest test of patience comes from Insider Gaming Weekly's podcast, which claimed that the third installment in the Half-Life franchise is set to release with the launch of the Steam Machine sometime in spring 2026. "The window I was specifically told was spring 2026 for the Steam Machine, for the Frame, for the Controller, for Half-Life... Read more ›
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A director who was charged with defrauding Netflix out of millions of dollars has been found guilty, Business Insider reports. Carl Rinsch, director of the 2013 Keanu Reeves movie 47 Ronin, now faces up to 90 years in prison.Rinsch began filming the project, White Horse (later renamed Conquest), around 2017. (Its premise: A scientist creates an organic humanoid species that turns on its creators.) The director completed six short-form episodes... Read more ›
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The zombie-decapitating sim Dead Island 3 is still being developed, according to financial documents from Dambuster Studios that were published on X and reported on by Video Games Chronicle. These documents suggest a 2028 release date, so that's something to look forward to. Dambuster Studios' financial statements are out (as of March 2025)The company employed 194 employeesDead Island 3 is in developmentThe current predicted release window for the project is... Read more ›
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Remedy Entertainment's Control is a bizarre yet totally captivating action game that feels like Die Hard by way of David Lynch. InControl: Resonant, players step into the role of the original game's most enigmatic and unsettling characters for their own jaunt through a 'new-weird' world outside The Oldest House.Just ahead of the reveal at The Game Awards, we got an early look at Control: Resonant, the next game in the... Read more ›
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iRobot, the company that brought robotic vacuum cleaners to homes and popular culture, has filed for bankruptcy. It plans to sell all assets to its primary supplier, the Chinese company Picea Robotics. Investors “will experience a total loss and not receive recovery on their investment” if the deal is approved, iRobot said. The company didn’t discuss how the move might affect its employees in the US or elsewhere. Amazon dropped... Read more ›
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It looks like Disney wasted no time delivering on CEO Bob Iger’s promise to bring AI-generated content to Disney+. On Thursday, the company announced the start of a three-year licensing agreement with OpenAI to bring more than 200 of its beloved characters, including those from Star Wars and Pixar, to the Sora app and ChatGPT. With the deal in place, OpenAI users will be able to prompt ChatGPT to generate... Read more ›
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Despite changing its name and using decidedly bird-free branding, X is trying to hold on to its original Twitter trademarks, TechCrunch reports. The xAI-owned social media platform has updated its terms of service to include references to Twitter after previously only mentioning X, and seemingly attempted to counter a startup's petition to cancel the company's Twitter trademarks with a petition of its own.The startup X appears to be responding to... Read more ›
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The Meta Quest 3S is back on sale at its all-time low price of $250. That's $50 off, or a discount of 17 percent, and matches a deal we saw on Cyber Monday. The 3S is the more affordable model in the company's current VR headset lineup. It features the same Snapdragon XR2 processor as the more expensive Meta Quest 3, but with lower resolution per eye and a slightly... Read more ›
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On Thursday evening, President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for a single, nationwide regulatory framework governing artificial intelligence at the expense of the ability of different states to regulate the nascent technology. “To win, United States AI companies must be free to innovate without cumbersome regulation,” the order states. “But excessive State regulation thwarts this imperative.” As was expected after a draft of the order leaked earlier this... Read more ›
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