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Any Friday night plans? A decent number of you will probably tune into tonight’s boxing match on Netflix between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul because you’re curious whether the great heavyweight of the 1980s can, at the age of 58, beat the 27-year-old influencer turned pugilist. Another group of you may watch more because you’re curious how Netflix is going to present the event to its nearly 300 million subscribers—and where the streaming service might go next in live sports. The Tyson-Paul fight is one of Net
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Comcast plans to break off some of its NBCUniversal cable channels, including MSNBC, CNBC, E!, Oxygen, and the Golf Channel, the WSJ reported. Read more ›
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Elon Musk's ambitions for settling Mars rest on SpaceX's Starship rocket system, which launched its 6th test flight on Tuesday without the main event. Read more ›
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Comcast plans to spin off most of NBCUniversal’s cable TV networks including MSNBC, CNBC, USA and Oxygen, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The decision, which comes a month after company executives first floated the idea to investors and analysts, could pave the way for more ... Read more ›
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It's update time for the PlayStation Portal, and Sony's latest offers something just a little bit fancier than usual: cloud streaming is coming to the handheld device if you're a PlayStation Plus Premium member, albeit initially as a beta. Read more Read more ›
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Google today revamped its Switch to Android app for the iPhone and iPad, introducing a streamlined interface, a new icon, and changing the name to Android Switch as part of a rebranding effort to lure new iPhone users. The app is designed to make it easy for iPhone users to swap over to an Android-based device like a Google Pixel. It can transfer contacts, calendar events, photos, and videos, and... Read more ›
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Graykey, a forensics tool used by law enforcement officials to break into locked iPhones, has limited access to iOS 18 and iOS 18.0.1, 404 Media recently learned. The site secured documents that describe Graykey's functionality in-depth, giving us a look at what the device is capable of. Graykey parent company Magnet Forensics does not share information about the tool, and complete details about the devices that Graykey can unlock have... Read more ›
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PlayStation maker Sony is currently in talks to acquire FromSoftware, the developer behind Elden Ring, Dark Souls and Bloodbourne, as part of a buyout of its owner, the Japanese publishing giant Kadokawa. Read more Read more ›
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Trump said that Oz, a tv personality and surgeon, will "cut waste and fraud" in the department. Read more ›
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A lawyer for Sean Combs said the feds should never have seen a to-do list kept in his jail cell. Prosecutors say it's a to-do list for obstruction. Read more ›
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An early bitcoin investor concealed the chests, which include bitcoin, antiques, and an emerald, and published a book with clues to find them. Read more ›
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Walmart is the latest company to signal price hikes may be on the way if Donald Trump makes good on his tariffs promise. Read more ›
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Starship lifted off for its sixth test flight on Tuesday, but its Super Heavy Booster splashed down in the ocean rather than being caught by the company's giant "chopsticks." Read more ›
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PubMatic has previously said its platform could help X tap budgets beyond social media, such as display and video advertising. Read more ›
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SpaceX's Starship rocket successfully completed its sixth launch today. Not only did it carry the first-ever payload but it also briefly re-lit one of its six Raptor engines about 38 minutes into flight, a crucial milestone for future space missions. Space Magazine reports: SpaceX landed Starship's huge first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, back at the launch tower on the vehicle's most recent flight, which occurred on Oct. 13. The... Read more ›
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Microsoft introduced the Windows 365 Link, a mini-PC that solely works as a client for its Windows 365 service. Read more ›
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Apple's free butterfly keyboard service program for select MacBooks models ended late last week, nearly six and a half years after it launched. With the program now over, it is no longer guaranteed that customers with affected MacBook keyboards will be able to receive a free repair from Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider. However, exceptions could be made. Below, we take a look back at Apple's butterfly keyboard... Read more ›
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Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images for Netflix © 2024 Despite widespread issues with video quality and buffering, Netflix’s live-streamed Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul boxing match brought in an average of 108 million viewers, based on TVision data in the US and first-party data in global markets. With 65 million concurrent streams, Netflix says the fight was the “most-streamed global sporting event ever.” Of those simultaneous streams, 38 million were... Read more ›
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Instagram parent company Meta today said that it is testing a new tool that's designed to allow users to reset their content recommendations for "a fresh start." Using the reset tool removes prior data that's used to power Explore, Reels, and Feed recommendations. Recommendations will start to personalize over time, providing content recommendations based on the content and accounts that users interact with. Using the reset option will provide users... Read more ›
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Bluesky has passed the 20 million user mark as the app continues its recent surge in growth. The decentralized service, which reached 15 million users less than a week ago, has just about tripled its user base in the last three months. Though it’s still far smaller than its rivals Threads and X, Bluesky’s current momentum is notable. The app has had several days over the last week where it... Read more ›
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Barclays analyst Tom O'Malley and his colleagues recently traveled to Asia to meet with various electronics manufacturers and suppliers. In a research note this week, outlining key takeaways from the trip, the analysts said they have "confirmed" that a fourth-generation iPhone SE with an Apple-designed 5G modem is slated to launch towards the end of the first quarter next year. In line with previous rumors, that timeframe suggests the new... Read more ›
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On a sunny day last month, a propeller plane made multiple passes in the air over a large industrial building surrounded by grassy fields near downtown Memphis, Tenn., as its passengers snapped photographs and videos of the facility. It was a secret reconnaissance mission. Elon Musk had recently converted the building from a former manufacturing plant for home appliances into a data center that housed one of the largest clusters... Read more ›
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The other evening, a stranger told Lucid Motors CEO Peter Rawlinson that if he ever came across an electric vehicle that would go 500 miles on a charge, he’d buy it. “And I said, ‘That’s Lucid Air!’” Rawlinson recalls, referring to his company’s sleek sedan. “He said, ‘What? How long has that been in production?’ I said, ‘Two and a half years.’” He paused. “The world doesn’t know that two... Read more ›
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Everyone from Hollywood veteran Jeffrey Katzenberg to Snap and Meta Platforms has tried luring Americans with minuteslong TV-style shows on social media apps. All have failed. But that isn’t deterring TikTok from exploring the concept. The ByteDance-owned video app is considering ways of using such minidramas, which have proved to be a huge hit for its sibling app, Douyin, in China, to broaden its audience. Some small video makers already... Read more ›
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In China, one of the biggest names in tech is Kai-Fu Lee, a Taiwan native and a bestselling author who used to head Google’s operations in the country. When Lee founded an artificial intelligence startup called 01.AI in Beijing in March last year, Chinese investors including Alibaba Group were so eager to back him that the startup became a unicorn just eight months later. But in the U.S., where Lee... Read more ›
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Valuations of generative artificial intelligence startups appear to be coming down—slightly. The latest example is Synthesia, which helps companies create AI videos. It’s raising $150 million in funding at a valuation of $2.1 billion after the investment, double its valuation from 17 months ago, according to a person involved in the deal. While the valuation may seem high, it’s actually far lower than valuations many startups were getting earlier this... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms plans to introduce advertisements to its text app, Threads, early next year, hoping to cash in on the app’s rapid growth, according to three people with direct knowledge of the company’s plans. A team inside Instagram’s advertising division is leading the effort, which is still in the early stages, the people said. Threads is planning to kick off the effort by letting a small number of advertisers create... Read more ›
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Google has recently struggled to achieve performance gains in its Gemini conversational artificial intelligence at the same rate it did last year, prompting researchers to focus on other ways to eke out gains, according to an employee who has been involved in the effort. The situation appears similar to the slowdown in AI advances that rival OpenAI has experienced this year, which spurred the ChatGPT owner to use new techniques... Read more ›
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Any Friday night plans? A decent number of you will probably tune into tonight’s boxing match on Netflix between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul because you’re curious whether the great heavyweight of the 1980s can, at the age of 58, beat the 27-year-old influencer turned pugilist. Another group of you may watch more because you’re curious how Netflix is going to present the event to its nearly 300 million subscribers—and... Read more ›
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Chinese tech giant Tencent said its net profit rose 47% in the third quarter, as its videogame business in China recorded solid growth. Tencent’s total revenue in the quarter rose 8% year on year. Revenue from the videogame business in China rose 14% in the quarter, compared to a 9% ... Read more ›
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Amazon has launched its Temu-like discount storefront under the name “Haul.” As of Wednesday morning, the storefront was visible on mobile in beta to some U.S. shoppers, offering items like $3 handbags and $14 pajama sets. The launch of Haul comes after a yearslong debate inside Amazon about how ... Read more ›
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