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A small update is rolling out to Android 15 beta users with supported Pixel devices in the form of Beta 4.1. Inside, users will find fixes for “various issues that sometimes caused device audio to crash while making or receiving calls.” That’s all that is listed in the changelog, so we don’t expect to find … Continued
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In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna's Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify's library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It's essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has made books available for free. Read more ›
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Windows 11 users rave about lightning-quick SSD performance uplifts from the native NVMe driver from Windows Server 2025. Read more ›
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Trump's Department of Education completed its update to income-based repayment plans, expanding access to borrowers with higher incomes. Read more ›
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Best known for its pastrami sandwich, Katz's Deli in New York goes through 70,000 pounds of meat a week and serves 4,000 people on its busiest day. Read more ›
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Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen, and Adele have had multiple albums spend double-digit weeks atop the Billboard 200 chart, a rare feat in this century. Read more ›
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Ukraine said a resistance agent was able to sneak into a Russian hangar and destroy two Russian fighter jets. Read more ›
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Ina Garten and her husband, Jeffrey, are celebrating their 57th wedding anniversary. Here's a timeline of their relationship. Read more ›
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Time-travelling psychological horror game Cronos: The New Dawn is finally getting an additional, easier difficulty mode for people who want less of a gameplay challenge. Read more Read more ›
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Politicians blame renewables and data centers, but those aren't the main causes of rising costs. Read more ›
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The intelligence findings are alarming, but some space security experts aren’t convinced Russia would take such a misguided risk. Read more ›
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Tech titans from Elon Musk to SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son have envisioned humanoid robots working next to people in factories, schools and homes. Realizing that future will require humanoid makers to assure their human customers that the robots won’t harm them. To help ease those concerns, robotics companies are working on a set of standards that would guide how humanoids can be safely put to work in industrial settings. That process,... Read more ›
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A group of activists has scraped Spotify's entire library, accessing 256 million rows of track metadata and 86 million audio files totaling roughly 300TB of data. The metadata has been released via Anna's Archive, a search engine for "shadow libraries" that previously focused on books. Spotify described the activists as "anti-copyright extremists who've previously pirated content from YouTube and other platforms" and confirmed it is actively investigating the incident. The... Read more ›
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Would you double your salary for a fully in-person job? A TikTok video has sparked a debate — tell us which you'd choose by taking our poll. Read more ›
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The company made 80 times as many reports to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children during the first six months of 2025 as it did in the same period a year prior. Read more ›
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A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United States. Read more ›
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Some of the parties featured Optimus robots, truffle mushrooms, and carnival rides. Read more ›
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Instacart is ending its AI-powered pricing tests, which led some users to see higher prices on certain products than others. "Now, if two families are shopping for the same items, at the same time, from the same store location on Instacart, they see the same prices - period," Instacart writes in a blog post on […] Read more ›
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Linux's share of the desktop market has climbed to as much as 11% by one count, but that figure includes Chromebooks, and the traditional Linux desktop remains hamstrung by the same fragmentation that killed Unix decades ago. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, writing in The Register, argues that the proliferation of Linux desktops -- more than a dozen significant interfaces exist today, and DistroWatch lists "upwards of a hundred" -- makes it... Read more ›
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Before we tell you know what we think, and before we get to what you think, we thought we'd do something a little bit different this as part of our usual end-of-year celebrations. What, we wondered, do the people who actually make the games think? As so we've chatted with the developers behind some of our favourite 2025 releases to find out which new games have resonated most with them... Read more ›
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It was earlier this year when Meta announced the Conversation Focus feature for its AI glasses. This week, that feature is detailed to be rolling out in the Early Access Program for Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta glasses in the US and Canada. If you didn’t hear about this, the AI glasses amplify the voice of the person you’re talking … Continued Read the original post: Meta AI Glasses Get... Read more ›
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Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1 released. Google shipped Android 16 QPR2 to stable channels this month as the December Pixel update, bringing an end to several months of testing of beta software for many of us. What do we all do next? Well, Google almost always releases the next quarterly build in beta following that … Continued Read the original post: Android 16 QPR3 Beta Program Goes Live for Pixel... Read more ›
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All of Google’s still-supported Pixel devices received a huge QPR2 update in early December with new features and tons of bug fixes. We all assumed this would be the last update of the year and have mostly been waiting around for Google to give us a QPR3 beta to test out. And then this morning, … Continued Read the original post: Verizon Pixel 8, Pixel 9, and Pixel 10 Devices... Read more ›
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Google Labs has opened the waitlist for its latest experiment, CC. CC is powered by Gemini, and after granting it access to your Google account, it will begin summarizing your upcoming day and sending you a daily email with everything on your agenda. And by everything, we mean everything. It will remind you of meetings, … Continued Read the original post: Google Labs Launches CC, AI-Powered Experiment That Summarizes Your... Read more ›
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The mystery second December update that arrived on Pixel phones earlier in the week remains mostly a mystery today, but at least we have factory image files for it. The new December update first popped up on Pixel devices running on Verizon’s network, with the Pixel 8, Pixel 9, and Pixel 10 series devices all … Continued Read the original post: Google Confirms New December Pixel Update Read more ›
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Within the past several days, a group of Pixel owners noticed a change to the way the Search bar at the bottom of their Pixel Launcher home screen worked. Because this change was not an improvement in the eyes of many, they immediately took to places like reddit to question this change by Google and … Continued Read the original post: Google Makes Controversial Pixel Search Bar Change Read more ›
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Google is sending out $200 in credit towards the purchase of a Pixel 10 Pro or Pixel 10 Pro XL to eligible members, which can be combined with savings already taking place. The phones are already discounted by up to $300, meaning there’s a free max of $500 in savings waiting for eligible buyers. Combined … Continued Read the original post: Google Sends Out $200 Credit Towards Pixel 10 Pro,... Read more ›
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You may have forgotten the timeline, but Google was pushing to force all off of Google Assistant and onto Gemini by the end of this year. Like with all things AI, the timing hasn’t quite worked out and they are instead “adjusting” that previous timeline to a later date within 2026. Google made the short … Continued Read the original post: Google Decides That Google Assistant Can Stick Around a... Read more ›
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Google is pulling out all of the promos from several services to try and get you to buy one of their new Pixel 10 series phones. We saw the Google Play $200-off deal earlier in the week that stacked on top of their current holiday offers, and now, we’re seeing YouTube Premium subscribers get a … Continued Read the original post: YouTube Premium Kicking 40% Off Pixel 10 for Subscribers Read more ›
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Find Hub went live for Android devices earlier this year, ditching the beta tag that was previously attached. The app has now gained support for select Pixel Watch models, adding to its growing ecosystem. Pixel Watch 3 and Pixel Watch 4 models are supported, but older models don’t have support. Whether they lack the necessary … Continued Read the original post: Find Hub App Comes to Select Pixel Watches Read more ›
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