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Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has agreed a deal with Google Cloud to use the latter's Vertex AI to generate captions for programming across a variety of platforms. WBD claims that its Caption AI system can significantly reduce production time and costs while improving the accuracy of captions for US-based viewers.
The tech will be used for unscripted programming at the outset, which could include news, sports and reality TV across the likes of Max, CNN and Discovery+. WBD claims the system can reduce the tim
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PayPay and Alipay+ announced an extended partnership at the Singapore FinTech Festival 2024, to increasing merchant coverage across Japan. PayPay, Japan’s leading QR payment operator, and AliPay+, Ant International’s mobile payment method that helps merchants reach shoppers in Asia, will now connect over three million local merchants to the global payment ecosystem. The extended partnership... Read more » Read more ›
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Adams added that the storyline for his character, Michael Ross, had played out by the end of season 7. Read more ›
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"You don't have to keep a human being alive, which means you can be a lot faster and you can move a lot more quickly," Andreessen told Joe Rogan. Read more ›
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The Tesla CEO went after the F-35, calling crewed fighter jets "obsolete in the age of drones," but uncrewed technology isn't there yet. Read more ›
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"He has a good meal program there at San Diego State, but he says it just doesn't taste the same as it does at home," Guy Fieri said. Read more ›
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Nintendo's Switch might be nipping at its heels, but PlayStation 2 continues to hold the record as the best-selling console of all time - with Sony now confirming the machine has shifted a whopping 160m units since launching all the way back in March 2000. Read more Read more ›
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Five of the top business schools enrolled fewer underrepresented minority students in the year since the Supreme Court overturned affirmative action. Read more ›
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Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Porsche is not ready to turn in its gas caps for charging ports just yet. The company reportedly plans to launch more internal combustion engine models due to a slowdown in EV sales, according to Automotive News Europe. The automaker’s CFO, Lutz Meschke, told the outlet, “What is clear is that we are sticking with the combustion engine for much longer.” As Car... Read more ›
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Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge If you’re looking to catch up on recent shows and movies — including Shogun, The Penguin, and Dune: Part Two — the upcoming holiday weekend is the perfect time to do so. Thankfully, multiple streaming services are slashing subscription prices ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, including Max, Hulu, and others. Right now, for example, you can sign up for a year... Read more ›
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Nandan Nilekani says small language models trained on specific data are ‘quite effective’ Read more ›
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TV brands are taking prices down a notch ahead of Black Friday for some of the best deals of the year. Read more ›
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Investors hit by losses following billionaire’s takeover of social media platform reap rewards from shares in his AI start-up Read more ›
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Watch Liverpool vs. Real Madrid in the Champions League for free from anywhere in the world. Read more ›
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Eric Schmidt said the emotionally and physically "perfect" AI girlfriend may lead young male users to become obsessed with the chatbot. Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge These days, Black Friday isn’t so much a single-day shopping holiday as it is an ever-expanding, monthslong event that often begins as early as October. The 24-hour deal blitz that once was the focus of newspaper headlines and mobs outside of stores is no more, which makes knowing when and where you should be spending your cash all the more confusing. Luckily, we’re here... Read more ›
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Another legal complication may have surfaced in The Onion’s bid to buy the Infowars empire from bankrupt conspiracy media mogul Alex Jones. X filed a limited objection to the transfer of Infowars’ X accounts to the satirical media empire in a federal Bankruptcy Court on Monday. The objection claims that X Corporation’s terms of service states “the Trustee cannot sell, assign or otherwise transfer such license absent X Corp.’s consent,”... Read more ›
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Watch Red Star Belgrade vs. Stuttgart in the Champions League for free from anywhere in the world. Read more ›
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Keep your devices charged and ready with this smart plug outlet that's now only $40, and works with Alexa and Google Home. Read more ›
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William Shatner, who once sparred with Engadget over Twitter’s verification policy, has finally reprised his most famous role. Captain Kirk is back in the short film 765874 - Unification. This eight-minute story is live now on YouTube and follows the events of Star Trek: Generations, which was the last time Shatner donned his Starfleet uniform. The short was made by a graphics company called OTOY, along with Paramount and Shatner... Read more ›
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As people leave or deactivate their X accounts, there's been meaningful growth for alternative platforms like Meta's Threads and underdog Bluesky. Despite the huge gap in both user numbers and funding between the two, Threads seems to be borrowing from Bluesky's feature set to prevent it from becoming competitive. The Verge reported that Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, announced that Threads’ algorithm is getting a “rebalancing” to “prioritize content... Read more ›
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Hackers breached an online course founded by far-right influencer, and accused human trafficker, Andrew Tate, according to reporting by Daily Dot. The hackers captured data on more than 800,000 users and revealed the email addresses of around 325,000 of them. Tate’s self-proclaimed “online university” hosts courses on fitness, finance and content creation, all for the low price of $50 per month. The site currently claims it has over 113,000 active... Read more ›
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday present great opportunities to get a bunch of tech for less, and some of the best deals you can typically find are on charging gear and mobile accessories. Anker makes some of our favorites in both departments, and this year a ton of Anker gear has been discounted as part of the Black Friday deals. Whether you’re looking for a new power bank to take... Read more ›
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Season passes are one of the most common ways to generate revenue for games such as Fortnite or Call of Duty that want players to keep returning day after day, month after month. This week, PC game platform Steam has rolled out support for this monetization approach. The Valve-owned platform clarified its policy about what it considers a season pass, as well as implementing rules for how developers should communicate... Read more ›
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It's hard to beat the promise of a big box for one-stop shopping. Target is one of my favorites if I just want to browse with no agenda, because I'll inevitably stumble on something fun or on sale. Or in the case of this Black Friday deal, both. Target is currently selling a Meta Quest 3S for $300, as is Amazon. That's the usual price tag for this virtual reality... Read more ›
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Researchers from the University College London have done what celebrity chefs and Italian nonnas could only dream of: they've made the world's thinnest spaghetti. This culinary-sounding accomplishment, published in Nanoscale Advances, has yielded strands of starch nanofibers that are just 372 nanometers wide, which is invisible to the naked eye and is even smaller than some wavelengths of light. "The world's thinnest spaghetti" sounds silly, but starch can actually have... Read more ›
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Apple's new Mac mini hasn’t been available for that long yet, but you can already grab it at a discount. The M4-powered Mac mini has dropped to an all-time low of $500 thanks to a discount and an additional, clippable coupon that will bring the final price down to $500. That’s a total of $100 of savings off the original price of the model with 16GB of RAM and 256GB... Read more ›
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Ooni is discounting all of its ovens and accessories by 20 percent as part of a Black Friday deal. This sweeping sale means you can snag one of our two top choices for a home pizza oven. If you're looking to splurge, the Ooni Karu 16 Multi-Fuel pizza oven is available for $519, down from its typical price tag of $799. We appreciate that this model can use wood, charcoal... Read more ›
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The battle over who will get all of X’s users now that it’s an utter cesspool continues. Threads just began rolling out its own custom feeds feature to compete with rival Bluesky. Custom feeds have long been a hallmark of Bluesky and now Threads users can get in on the action. Meta announced it was testing custom feeds just last week, so those tests must have been successful. It’s either... Read more ›
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