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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Netflix on Wednesday said it will add a soccer simulation title to its gaming portfolio, as the streaming giant looks to leverage the FIFA World Cup 2026 tournament to deepen its video game push. The soccer title will be developed and published by Delphi Interactive, which is also helping create a premium James Bond game called "007 First Light," and in association with the sport's governing body, FIFA. Netflix said the game will launch in time for the world
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Find out how to watch "Wicked: For Good" at home, including when and where it will be streaming. Read more ›
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Acer’s Swift 16 AI puts an extra-large haptic touchpad front and center, with MPP 2.5 stylus support for sketching and edits. Here’s what matters before pricing and configs land. Read more ›
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The uncomfortable reason the internet fell for a fake delivery app whistleblower. Read more ›
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Tim Cook's tenure as Apple CEO could be defined by how he navigates an AI arms race, the future of the iPhone, and other key challenges. Read more ›
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The Google cofounder has severed ties between California and several of his business entities, including his family office. Read more ›
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The iDock Qi2.2 AI Robot Charging Station is a weird but clever charging station that actually earns desk space. Read more ›
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Astronomers used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to find new evidence confirming the existence of a companion star for Betelgeuse. Read more ›
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Samsung has published a security advisory after a high-severity vulnerability was discovered in its Magician SSD management software on Windows. Read more ›
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Elon Musk says China's electricity advantage gives it the edge to "far exceed the rest of the world in AI compute." Read more ›
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According to reports circulating in South Korean media last week, Samsung is set to launch its Galaxy S26 series on February 25 at a dedicated Unpacked event held in San Francisco. That same launch date is now reiterated by Evan Blass (evleaks), who is certain that we’ll see the Galaxy S26 series hit store shelves by early March. The date of 25 February is 100% correct. You can take it... Read more ›
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Ruchir Baronia left behind an incredible salary, stock refreshers, and interesting problems at Meta after a year and a half to build his AI business. Read more ›
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Ethan Spibey, 33, quit his director-level job in London to move to Barcelona, where he runs his own business. He asked himself: "if not now, when?" Read more ›
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Two Y Combinator veterans behind a nine-figure exit have now raised $15 million, led by YC CEO Garry Tan, to build an AI-powered money manager. Read more ›
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ChatGPT's web traffic has decreased since November, when Google launched Gemini 3. ChatGPT still has the lead, but it could signal shifting tides. Read more ›
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Nvidia's G-Sync technology has just levelled up, with G-Sync Pulsar now the answer to stutter and motion blur-free gameplay. Read more ›
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Trump said the interim president of Venezuela will "be turning over" 30 to 50 million barrels of oil to be sold at market prices in the US. Read more ›
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Color-changing lights are a lot of fun, but it can be hard to figure out how to best use them in your home. Most smart lighting companies offer pre-designed scenes to help you light your space, but the lights don't know where they are physically in your home, and the effect can get diluted. Philips […] Read more ›
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Samsung warns of impending price hikes across all electronics as AI drains memory supplies. Read more ›
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Apple is exploring multispectral imaging technology for future iPhone cameras that could improve Visual Intelligence, enhance material detection, and boost image processing, according to a new supply chain rumor out of China. In a post on Weibo, leaker Digital Chat Station said Apple is currently evaluating components related to multispectral imaging within the supply chain, but cautioned that formal testing has not yet begun, suggesting the technology remains at an... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Only the government could spend 20 years creating a national ID that no one wanted and that apparently doesn't even work as a national ID. But that's what the federal government has accomplished with the REAL ID, which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) now considers unreliable, even though getting one requires providing proof of citizenship or lawful status in the country. In a... Read more ›
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A new sweeping meta-analysis has found no reliable link between economic inequality and well-being or mental health, challenging a long-held assumption that has shaped public health policy discussions for decades. The study, led by Nicolas Sommet at the University of Lausanne and Annahita Ehsan at the University of British Columbia, synthesized 168 studies involving more than 11 million participants across most world regions. The researchers screened thousands of scientific papers... Read more ›
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The U.S. has surpassed 2,000 measles cases for the first time in more than 30 years, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From a report: As of Dec. 23, a total of 2,012 cases have been reported in the U.S. Of those cases, 24 were reported among international visitors to the U.S. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: MTV shut down many of its last dedicated 24-hour music channels Dec. 31. The move, announced back in October, affected channels around the world, with the U.K. seeing five different MTV stations going dark. These include MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV, and MTV Live. As Consequence notes, MTV Music -- which launched in 2011 -- notably ended its run by airing... Read more ›
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After Congress approved President Donald Trump's rescission package eliminating federal funding, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting voted to dissolve after 58 years, rather than continue to exist and potentially be "vulnerable to future political manipulation or misuse." The shutdown leaves hundreds of local public TV and radio stations facing an uncertain future. Variety reports: The CPB was created by Congress by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 to support the... Read more ›
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A new working paper from researchers at the University of Hong Kong has found that Chinese graduate students who plagiarized more heavily in their master's theses were significantly more likely to pursue careers in the civil service and to climb the ranks faster once inside. John Liu and co-authors analyzed 6 million dissertations from CNKI, a Chinese academic repository, and cross-referenced them against public records of civil-service exam-takers to identify... Read more ›
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Last June the Trump organization announced sales of a $499 "T1" smartphone with a gold-colored case. But though they originally were scheduled for release in August, this week a customer service representative for the wireless carrier told CBS News the device will be pushed back again, now until the end of January, "attributing the delay to the recent U.S. government shutdown." Some context from The Independent: Shortly after the phone... Read more ›
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Stack Overflow's monthly question volume has collapsed about 300 -- levels not seen since the site launched in 2009, according to data from the Stack Overflow Data Explorer that tracks the platform's activity over its sixteen-year history. Questions peaked around 2014 at roughly 200,000 per month, then began a gradual decline that accelerated dramatically after ChatGPT's November 2022 launch. By May 2025, monthly questions had fallen to early-2009 levels, and... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Californians are getting a new, supercharged way to stop data brokers from hoarding and selling their personal information, as a recently enacted law that's among the strictest in the nation took effect at the beginning of the year. [...] Two years ago, California's Delete Act took effect. It required data brokers to provide residents with a means to obtain a copy... Read more ›
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The tech industry needs to move "beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication" and develop a new "theory of the mind" that accounts for humans now equipped with "cognitive amplifier tools," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote in a year-end reflection blog. Read more ›
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