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The Paul / Tyson fight on Friday was very popular. Netflix streamed it into more than 60 million households, which is a huge number for any TV event, much less a streaming-only one. Whether the whole thing went well, though, is another matter. The fight itself wasnât very exciting, and for a large portion of the audience it wouldnât have mattered if it was â all they could see was laggy, pixelated nothingness. Netflix is clearly bought.
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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 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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A cut data cable and changing standards around nuclear weapons use point to rising tensions in Europe. Read more âș
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SpaceX is set to conduct the sixth test flight of Starship, the 165-foot spacecraft that Musk wants to use to take humanity to Mars, on Tuesday. Read more âș
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From infowarsbabes.com to goblinlove.com, Infowars owns some strange domains. Read more âș
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Google hasn't confirmed just yet, but VPN support may be extended with the next update. Here's everything we know so far. Read more âș
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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 itâs still far smaller than its rivals Threads and X, Blueskyâs current momentum is notable. The app has had several days over the last week where it... Read more âș
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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 âș
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Control. | Image: Remedy Entertainment We already knew that the supernatural thriller Control was getting a sequel, but now Remedy has provided some more details on the game. Well, one major detail: Control 2 will be an action RPG, seemingly deviating from the action-adventure template set by the original. The news came during an investors presentation, in which the studio revealed a few other tidbits about the franchise: the original... Read more âș
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Image: Microsoft Microsoft is creating a new companions experience for the Windows 11 taskbar that will surface important data with just a click. Microsoft 365 Companions will include contacts and people, files, or calendar appointments integrated into the taskbar of Windows 11. âWe will bring Microsoft 365 People, Files, and Calendar to your taskbar so your Graph data is just a click away,â said Windows chief Pavan Davuluri on stage... Read more âș
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Four executives have publicly said they'd raise prices for consumers if Trump enacts his proposed tariffs. Read more âș
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The app keeps your fridge stocked and wallet stuffed by connecting shoppers with deeply discounted items at major US grocery chains. Read more âș
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Five Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, were shot down and one caused a fire at a military facility in Russia's Bryansk region. Read more âș
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Image: Sony Sony announced its new A1 II pro-focused mirrorless camera during todayâs livestream from its Creative Space event in New York City. The camera has various speed and performance improvements over its predecessor, plus a fast new zoom lens to accompany it. The $6,499 A1 II sports a 50.1-megapixel full-frame stacked sensor thatâs capable of shooting full-resolution RAW photos at 30 frames per second and up to 8K video... Read more âș
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Two undersea cables miles apart connecting Sweden and Finland to Central Europe have been sabotaged. Read more âș
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In a blog post this week, Display Supply Chain Consultants CEO Ross Young said that he expects Apple's next-generation Pro Display XDR to feature the same quantum-dot display technology adopted by the latest MacBook Pro models. It is unclear if Young confirmed this information with his sources, or if it is merely a prediction, but he is a display industry expert and his track record with display-related rumors for future... Read more âș
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The same promotion has a huge $420 price drop on the 512GB model of the Galaxy S24 Ultra. Read more âș
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Russia's nuclear doctrine now sees any aggression made with the help of a nuclear state as a joint attack. Read more âș
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A civil fraud case reveals that the hydrogen fueling stations promoted by Toyota, Shell, and Chevron never worked in the first place. Read more âș
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Howard Lutnick, the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, is already serving as the co-chair of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team. 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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