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Amazon is approaching brands that already buy search ads on its e-commerce website with an unusual pitch: if you buy streaming TV ads, we’ll make them for you.
The incentive highlights the lengths Amazon is willing to go to in order to try to build a streaming ad business. Smaller brands that sell on Amazon often don’t have the money or expertise to make video commercials, and that typically makes them a less attractive source of business for an ad seller. In response, Amazon in recent months has been payi
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Mistral AI releases content moderation API powered by its Ministral 8B language model. The €6 billion-valued European AI startup has backing from tech giants Nvidia and Microsoft. The European artificial intelligence powerhouse Mistral AI has announced the release of its new content moderation API, marking a step in its mission to deliver sovereign AI solutions.... Read more » Read more ›
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Donald Trump's proposed tariffs could raise car prices, impacting US and European automakers such as General Motors, Volvo, and Jaguar Land Rover. Read more ›
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Elon Musk praised Apple's new hearing aid feature for AirPods, despite his rocky history with the tech giant. Read more ›
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The Google Nest wired indoor camera is $70 via Amazon as part of an early Black Friday deal. The cam is normally $100, so this represents a savings of 30 percent. This is close to a record low price, which is never a bad thing. The sale includes three colorways, including white, beige and light blue. The second-gen wired device is designed for indoor use, thus the name, and is... Read more ›
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Senior reporter Jess Conditt joins host Cherlynn Low and producer Ben Ellman on a quiet news week to talk about the latest developments at Sony, Threads, TikTok and more. We also take a look at some gadget announcements and discuss the impact that social media and technology have had on the way we work and how we think of celebrity and success. Listen below or subscribe on your podcast app... Read more ›
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Notre Dame Cathedral is set to reopen on December 7, more than five years after a fire devastated parts of the building. Read more ›
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If you thought Breath of the Wild was big, wait until you experience Tears of the Kingdom. | Image: Nintendo Significant discounts on first-party Nintendo Switch games can be notoriously difficult to come by, particularly on landmark titles like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. However, that trend seems to be shifting with Black Friday, as last year’s Game of the Year contender has dropped to just $30... Read more ›
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Thanksgiving 2024 box office may see record-breaking sales with 'Wicked,' 'Gladiator II,' and 'Moana 2' leading a lucrative cinematic lineup. Read more ›
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A little over week after Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl's launch, developer GSC Game World is back with the post-apocalyptic shooter's first patch, promising over 650 fixes for Xbox and PC. Read more Read more ›
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Apple today announced that a new stop-motion animation featuring Wallace & Gromit will be projected onto London's Battersea Power Station this holiday season. The festive, six-minute video will be shown every day from 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. from today until New Year's Eve. It is free to watch, and reservations are not needed. Apple is promoting the animation as part of its latest "Shot on iPhone" campaign. Aardman, the... Read more ›
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Learn the best way to handle these annoying pests from an expert entomologist. Read more ›
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After over 10 years of wearing my natural curls, I've gone straight again, and this viral gadget is the reason. Read more ›
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Now that they're $95 off for Black Friday, I can finally get those magic white buds as a gift for her. Read more ›
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Watch thousands of cool docs with Curiosity Stream Lifetime Subscription that's 60% off for Black Friday Read more ›
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Taylor Swift's self-published "The Eras Tour Book" was released exclusively at Target on Black Friday. Read more ›
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From 3rd January 2025, Riot Games will ban content creators for bad "off-platform conduct". Read more Read more ›
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A mockup of the Earth selfie from YouTuber Mark Rober. | Screenshot: Mark Rober The stunt escalation on YouTube may have reached new heights with Mark Rober’s offer to snap anyone’s selfie with the planet Earth using a satellite he’s launching into orbit with the help of Google and T-Mobile. Rober is a former NASA engineer who made a name for himself on YouTube by glitter bombing porch pirates, creating... Read more ›
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Don't miss this $400 HP G10 Laptop for your everyday use – $200 off this Black Friday Read more ›
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If you're a first-time HSN buyer, a special Black Friday promo code nets you $20 off the workhorse kitchen tool. Read more ›
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Brightcove, which makes software to help companies create and make money from videos, agreed to be taken private by Italian mobile app operator Bending Spoons for $233 million in cash in a deal expected to close early next year, the companies announced on Monday. The purchase price Bending ... Read more ›
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Last year, the board of now-collapsed fintech startup Synapse Financial Technologies discussed whether to remove the company’s CEO, Sankaet Pathak. At the time, discrepancies in Synapse’s ledgers were piling up, which the board was aware of. Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Angela Strange argued in favor of keeping Pathak in the role based on the belief that founders were best placed to run their companies, according to a person close to... Read more ›
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Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic governor, announced on Monday that he would reinstate a tax credit for electric vehicle purchases if the incoming Trump Administration removes federal EV tax credits. But the state may not extend the credits to Tesla because of the company’s large market ... Read more ›
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If Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. had its way, the chip manufacturing powerhouse would be a neutral party in the battle between the U.S. and China for technological supremacy—a semiconductor version of Switzerland, one TSMC executive told The Information. Unfortunately, the company may find it increasingly tough to avoid picking a side. Last month, the U.S. Commerce Department launched an investigation into whether TSMC was still producing chips for Chinese tech... Read more ›
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Uber announced a new service on Tuesday to help companies label their data and train artificial intelligence models. Through the new service, Scaled Solutions, Uber will hire data labelers on contract to provide companies with human-written annotations, such as descriptions of images or rankings ... Read more ›
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Apple’s desire to make its products thinner could dampen sales in China if its engineers can’t overcome a design hurdle with the slim iPhone planned for release next fall—it can’t fit a physical SIM card tray, which is required in China. Apple plans to release its slim iPhone next year, alongside new versions of its traditional models, aiming to rejuvenate iPhone sales by providing customers with a compelling reason to... Read more ›
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The judge overseeing Google’s search antitrust case warned that he doesn’t want to delay the upcoming trial of remedies to deal with Google’s illegal search monopoly, now scheduled for the spring. At a status conference for the case on Tuesday, the judge said the incoming presidential ... Read more ›
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It’s a bit early to be offering predictions for 2025, but here goes anyway. Chances are very good that sometime next year we’re going to hear a bunch of complaints about newly released Apple iPhones dropping calls more often than previous models did. In other words, we’re in for a repeat of the “Antennagate” brouhaha of 2010, when similar connectivity issues on the new iPhone 4 became a big story.Assuming... Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Saturday said that the company will balance compliance with technological advancement and customer service under the incoming Trump administration. “The advancement of AI is global. Open science and open research of AI is global, and nothing can stop this,” Huang told ... Read more ›
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Ray Kurzweil’s predictions about technological advancements have intrigued—and unnerved—people for decades. At 76, he’s still quite up to the task and threw out a whopper within minutes of sitting down with me. “When we achieve AGI in the 2030s, we’re going to actually merge this intelligence with ourselves,” Kurzweil said, with utter straightforwardness. (AGI, of course, is the technical term for AI that has achieved human-level intelligence.) “It will actually... Read more ›
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