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HarperCollins has agreed with an unnamed AI tech company to let the company use some nonfiction titles to train its models, 404 Media reports, but only if authors opt-in to having their books be used for training. Some authors are currently suing companies like OpenAI, accusing them of copyright infringement for training AI models on their works without permission.
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BeyoncĂ© will perform songs off "Cowboy Carter" during Netflix's Christmas NFL gameday. Read more âș
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You can already save more than $200 on an M4 MacBook Pro. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Apple currently sells MacBooks equipped with its own M-series chips in a wide range of sizes and price points. It discontinued the M1 MacBook Air to make room for the latest models, but some retailers are still selling the last-gen laptop starting at $649 â a far cry... Read more âș
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Victoria KjĂŠr Theilvig is the first Miss Denmark to win Miss Universe in the pageant's history. She's also the first blond to win since 2004. Read more âș
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Photo by ANDREA RENAULT/AFP via Getty Images Amazon and SpaceX are seeking to hamstring the National Labor Relations Board, asking a court to declare its processes for upholding labor law unconstitutional. But judges on a three-person panel appeared skeptical when the companies presented their arguments Monday. In two separate cases before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the two companies argued that the NLRB is unlawfully forcing them to participate... Read more âș
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In a research note with Hong Kong-based investment bank Haitong today, obtained by MacRumors, Apple analyst Jeff Pu said he agrees with a recent rumor claiming that the so-called "iPhone 17 Air" will be around 6mm thick. If that measurement proves to be accurate, there would be a few noteworthy aspects. First, the iPhone 17 Air could become the thinnest iPhone ever, coming in under the current 6.9mm record held... Read more âș
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Two undersea communications cables in the Baltic Sea have been knocked offline, and at least one appears to have been physically cut. CNN received confirmation from a local telecom company that a cable between Lithuania and Sweden was cut on Sunday morning. A second cable, about 60 to 65 miles from the first, routes communications between Finland and Germany. The cause of that outage has yet to be determined, but... Read more âș
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Apple's next-generation A19 chip for the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Air and A19 Pro chip for the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max will be manufactured with TSMC's latest, third-generation 3nm process called "N3P," analyst Jeff Pu said today, in a broader tech-related research note with Hong Kong-based investment bank Haitong. The current A18 and A18 Pro chips for the iPhone 16 lineup are manufactured with TSMC's... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge A group of state attorneys general are pushing Congress to pass the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which has stalled in the House of Representatives thanks to concerns over online censorship. An open letter published today is signed by 32 attorneys general, including those of 31 states and the District of Columbia. It urges leaders of both parties in the House and Senate to... Read more âș
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In the Half-Life 2 20th anniversary documentary, we finally get the reason why we never got an Episode 3. Read more âș
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President-elect Donald Trumpâs Trump Media & Technology Group is in advanced talks to buy Bakkt, the crypto marketplace backed by the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, in an all-share deal, the Financial Times reported. Shares of Bakkt surged 162% on Monday after the ... Read more âș
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Track your heart rate and fitness stats with the innovative Oura Ring Gen3, now 22% off at Amazon. Read more âș
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Starting next month, making a device backup over iCloud will require iOS 9 or later, Apple has informed some customers via email. New backups for iPhones and iPads running iOS 8 or earlier will no longer be supported, and Apple will delete all existing âiCloudâ backups of those devices as well. Apps and data stored on an iPhone or iPad running iOS 8 or earlier will not be affected, and... Read more âș
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Celebrating 30 years of Star Trek: Generations, OTOY and the Roddenberry Archive's latest short film is a bittersweet farewell to Trek's first generation of heroes. Read more âș
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Speed test data shows that Starlink users in the US get less than 100 megabits per second on average. Read more âș
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Children of emotionally immature parents can struggle with low self-esteem, anxiety, and loneliness in adulthood. Read more âș
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Verily aspires to be an independent company and is preparing employees for a life outside of Google. Read more âș
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The United States Department of Justice wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser as part of an ongoing antitrust lawsuit, reports Bloomberg. Earlier this year, Google was found to have a search monopoly, and antitrust regulators have since been deciding on the actions that should be taken to address Google's anticompetitive practices. The DoJ plans to ask the court to force Google to sell Chrome, which is the most... Read more âș
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Alex Jones in 2022. | Photo by Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images The satirical news outlet The Onion has acquired Infowars, the conspiracy theory-riddled site run by Alex Jones, in a bankruptcy auction. In a press release posted to X Thursday, The Onion announced that it plans to âend Infowarsâ relentless barrage of disinformation for the sake of selling supplements and replace it with The Onionâs relentless barrage of humor for goodâ... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Short-form posting platform Bluesky crossed the 15 million user mark today amid a recent surge of user signups in the wake of the US presidential election. Thatâs according to a stat-tracking site put together by Bluesky developer Jaz, using the Bluesky API. The platform, which rests on the decentralized AT Protocol, added about a million new users in the last week. Bluesky COO Rose... Read more âș
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Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge So, youâve finally decided to give Bluesky a shot. The social network has come a long way since the early bare-bones days of invite-only signups and recently grew past the 15 million user mark. Along the way, itâs gathered a lot of familiar posting platform features, like direct messages, pinned posts, and the ability to post videos up to 60 seconds in length. But... Read more âș
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Image: Freevee Amazon is going to shut down Freevee, its free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service. The serviceâs content has already been migrated over to Prime Video and new episodes of Freevee shows will be available to people who donât pay for Prime, Deadline reports. The brand will be phased out âover the coming weeks,â Deadline says. Freevee originally launched out of Amazon-owned IMDb in 2019 as IMDb Freedive and... Read more âș
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Apple Logic Pro for Mac 11.1 with Quantec Room Simulator | Image: Apple Apple today announced some minor updates to Logic Pro for both the Mac and the iPad, including the ability to search for plug-ins and sources and the addition of more analog-simulating sounds. In Logic Pro for Mac 11.1 and Logic Pro for iPad 2.1, you can now reorder channel strips and plug-ins in the mixer and plug-in... Read more âș
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Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk has updated his fraud, breach of contract, and racketeering lawsuit against OpenAI to make antitrust claims against Microsoft, accusing the two companies of attempting to âmonopolize the generative AI market.â The amended complaint filed on Thursday names Microsoft as a new defendant, as well as LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Microsoft VP Dee Templeton, a former OpenAI board member. Microsoft... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images If you want to preserve the existing version of Lil Jonâs âGet Lowâ in your brain, maybe donât listen to this cover T-Pain made with Mark Zuckerberg â excuse me, Z-Pain. Their version transforms the âGet Lowâ I got down to at all my school dances into a song with a much slower tempo complete with an acoustic guitar. Trust me, I... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Social network Bluesky, in a post on Friday, says that it has âno intentionâ of taking user content to train generative AI tools. It made the statement shortly ahead of competitor X implementing its new terms of service that spell out how it can analyze user text and other information to train its generative AI tools. âA number of artists and creators have made... Read more âș
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The Zefiro is a tiny USB-C MIDI controller that can be played like a wind instrument. | Image: Kickstarter An Italian startup called Artinoise has created an unusual USB-C accessory for mobile devices that turns them into playable musical instruments. The Zefiro looks like a flash drive or a tiny vape, but by gently blowing into one end, it can be used to play simulated instruments with even less skill... Read more âș
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Image: Tesla Robin Zeng, the founder of the worldâs largest EV battery company, says Tesla CEO Elon Muskâs big bet on 4680 cylindrical cell technology âis going to fail and never be successful.â Zeng, the chairman of Chinaâs Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), tells Reuters that when Musk visited China in April, âWe had a very big debate, and I showed him. He was silent. He doesnât know how to make... Read more âș
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