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Smart money and digital media don’t always mix well. Just ask KKR. Five years after the private equity firm, together with the Canada Pension Plan, bought a roughly 49% stake in German media giant Axel Springer, parent of Business Insider and Politico, the two investors are fleeing the scene.That might be hyperbolic. Technically what’s happening is that Axel Springer is breaking in two. KKR and the Canadians will walk away with about 85% of Axel’s classified ads business, the most profitable part of the com
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The widely-expected Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 remaster has popped up in a now-deleted PlayStation Store listing, ahead of Sony's State of Play broadcast tonight. Read more Read more ›
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It wasn't much of a secret given it'd already been rated by the ESRB, but Sony's Horizon Zero Dawn remaster is finally official, and it'll be launching for PS5 and PC on 31st October this year. Read more Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg just joined Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in the $200 billion club after adding $72 billion to his net worth this year on Meta's stock surge. Read more ›
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During tonight's PlayStation State of Play we were offered some insight into what awaits the PS5 in the near future. This includes a look at both upcoming titles and updates for released titles. It was a mixture of surprises - such as a new Ghost of Tsushima sequel! - and games we all knew where going to make an appearance at some point. Read more Read more ›
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Sony has revealed Ghost of Yōtei from Sucker Punch, a follow-up to Ghost of Tsushima, and it's due out next year. Read more Read more ›
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With the iPhone 15 models that came out last year, Apple added an opt-in battery setting that limits maximum charge to 80 percent. The idea is that never charging the iPhone above 80 percent will increase battery longevity, so I kept my iPhone at that 80 percent limit from September 2023 to now, with no cheating. My iPhone 15 Pro Max battery level is currently at 94 percent with 299... Read more ›
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Programmer and hardware enthusiast Dmitry Grinberg has shared a video in which he boots and runs commands on an Intel 4004-powered PC running Linux. The video demonstrates the excruciating time to do anything or execute the most straightforward commands. Read more ›
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Screenshot: The Verge Marques Brownlee, the YouTuber known as MKBHD, has responded to backlash over the launch of his new wallpaper app, called Panels. In a post on Tuesday, Brownlee says he’s going to address users’ concerns about pricing and “excessive data disclosures.” Brownlee revealed the new app as part of his iPhone 16 review on Monday — a video that’s usually among his biggest of the year. But a... Read more ›
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The outgoing Senate GOP leader argued that tariffs, a key part of Trump's platform, would "raise the prices for American consumers." Read more ›
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Sony has announced its PlayStation Plus games for October 2024 during tonight's State of Play broadcast, pre-empting the usual leak. Read more Read more ›
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The 2020 PlayStation hit Ghost of Tsushima is getting a sequel featuring a new protagonist, era and landscape. Ghost of Yōtei is heading to PlayStation 5 in 2025. Ghost of Yōtei stars a new Ghost, Atsu, who's journeying through the lands at the base of Mount Yōtei in Ezo — modern-day Hokkaido — in 1603. This means the sequel is set 300 years after the events of Tsushima, which focused... Read more ›
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Amazon offered a benefit that staff appreciated because it let them be close to family while still working during holiday periods. It's gone now. Read more ›
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Two women tell WIRED that when they were 18-year-old college freshmen, John McEntee, a former Trump administration official and co-founder of a Peter Thiel-backed dating app, behaved in ways they considered inappropriate in online conversations. Read more ›
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Palworld is officially out now on PlayStation 5. Read more Read more ›
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Metro Awakening will debut for virtual reality headsets on November 7, as revealed at Sony's State of Play Showcase today. Read more ›
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The upcoming execution of a 55-year-old Missouri man — who maintains he is innocent — is the latest of several recent cases to renew scrutiny of the death penalty. In 2001, Marcellus Williams was convicted of the 1998 killing of social worker and former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Felicia “Lisha” Gayle, and sentenced to death. Since […] Read more ›
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On the surface, it seems virtual influencers are here to stay, particularly owing to the multitude of benefits they bring to the table. Read more ›
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Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Sony has just revealed seven additional games that’ll get enhanced by its PS5 Pro, coming November 7th, on top of the games it already revealed. New titles include Stellar Blade, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, F1 24, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, both Resident Evil Village and Resident Evil 4 and Dragon Age: The Veilguard. That means the whole confirmed lineup so far... Read more ›
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Get access to Alexa at home and on-the-go with this bundle deal. It includes the Amazon Echo Frames and an Echo Pop! Read more ›
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Microsoft’s deal to bring back a Three Mile Island nuclear reactor is just one part of Big Tech’s quid pro quo with nuclear power. Read more ›
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A year after Meta Platforms introduced its artificial intelligence assistant, a picture is emerging of how people are using it—and how that differs from usage of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the leading conversational AI. Most people who use Meta AI daily do so through WhatsApp, according to a person who has seen recent internal data; the second biggest group arrives from Facebook. Few Instagram users are tapping Meta AI. Among monthly users,... Read more ›
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As director of IBM Research and co-chair of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Dr. Dario Gil oversees one of the world’s largest research institutes. He shapes IBM’s AI vision and, as chair of the National Science Board, has a rare vantage point into the technology’s many evolutions and uses. As part of The Information’s recent San Francisco AI Summit, Amir Efrati, executive editor of The Information, sat down with Gil... Read more ›
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Telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov said that the private messaging app will start sharing the IP addresses and phone numbers of users who violate its terms of service with “relevant authorities in response to valid legal requests.” Telegram’s encrypted messaging has made the app a magnet for ... Read more ›
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Google’s YouTube isn’t the focus of the Justice Department’s second antitrust case against Google, now on trial in a Virginia courthouse. The case centers on the tech giant’s dominance of tools used by other companies buying and selling ads across the web and whether that sway hurts independent publishers. But YouTube benefits from Google’s ad-buying tools, which have helped it become the leader in the market for streaming video ads.... Read more ›
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Surely if you’re a reader of this newsletter, you know by now that OpenAI is in late-stage talks to raise a mammoth funding round that could value it at $150 billion. What you may not know is that the company has asked investors to fork over a minimum of $250 million, according to people with knowledge of the terms. To recap, OpenAI is closing in on a new financing of... Read more ›
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Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom said he is worried about the “chilling effect” SB 1047, a state bill regulating artificial intelligence developers, would have on the state’s AI industry. Newsom has until the end of the month to sign or veto the bill and he hasn’t yet said what he plans to do. The ... Read more ›
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Smart money and digital media don’t always mix well. Just ask KKR. Five years after the private equity firm, together with the Canada Pension Plan, bought a roughly 49% stake in German media giant Axel Springer, parent of Business Insider and Politico, the two investors are fleeing the scene.That might be hyperbolic. Technically what’s happening is that Axel Springer is breaking in two. KKR and the Canadians will walk away... Read more ›
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When I met Mariam Naficy last week, she couldn’t wait to show me her new jewelry. She had designed the earrings she was wearing herself. And her bracelet. And her ring for good measure. Technically, Naficy—whose keen eye for e-commerce trends led her to found the early online makeup retailer Eve.com and Minted, which makes custom holiday cards and wedding invites—had a little help with the creation of her accessories.... Read more ›
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Anthropic, OpenAI’s largest startup competitor, has started talking to investors about raising capital in a deal that could value the startup at $30 billion to $40 billion, roughly doubling its valuation from a funding that closed early this year, according to an existing investor who spoke to company leaders. Anthropic, which generates revenue from selling access to its Claude conversational artificial intelligence, is taking the temperature of investors in the... Read more ›
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Google convinced a European Union court to overturn a $1.7 billion fine levied by EU competition authorities over the company’s advertising practices. The victory comes after Google lost separate antitrust cases in Europe and the U.S. The European Commission applied the fine in 2019 after ... Read more ›
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