Business Insider
Carolina Gazal @ Business Insider · today 11:26 EDT

I made chocolate chip cookies in 3 different appliances. One cooking method blew me away.

I made chocolate chip cookies using the oven, air fryer, and microwave to see which appliance made the crispiest, most appetizing dessert. Read more

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Gizmodo
Germain Lussier @ Gizmodo · today 15:30 EDT

FYI: New ‘Avatar’ Movie Long AF

Apparently, 'Avatar: Fire and Ash,' out December 19, is 3 hours and 15 minutes long, same as 'Titanic.' Read more

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Eurogamer.net
Will Judd @ Eurogamer.net · today 13:00 EDT

How did Valve design its new Steam Machine? It started with the fan, of course

Tech companies tend to be pretty cagey when talking about how their design processes. What did the esports team you consulted with change about this mouse? What other materials did you consider for this speaker driver? Normally, these kinds of questions don't result in satisfying answers, but Valve's engineers are refreshingly open. The Steam Machine? Oh yeah, we chose a fan big enough to cool the components and worked backwards... Read more

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Vox
Andrew Prokop @ Vox 1 place · today 10:40 EDT

What we know about Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

Just how close was President Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein — and how much did he know about Epstein’s crimes? The president’s onetime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein — the well-connected financier who was indicted for sex trafficking underage girls and died in prison in 2019 — has long been a matter of public record.  But […] Read more

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VentureBeat
VentureBeat 1 place · today 14:31 EDT

Another day in late 2025, another impressive result from a Chinese company in open source artificial intelligence.Chinese social networking company Weibo's AI division recently released its open source VibeThinker-1.5B—a 1.5 billion parameter large language model (LLM) that is a fine-tuned variant of rival Chinese tech firm Alibaba's Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B. It's available now for free download and usage by researchers and enterprise developers—even for commercial purposes—under a permissive MIT License on Huggin Read more

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Tom's Hardware
Tom's Hardware · today 13:00 EDT

Valve brings back Steam Machine and Steam Controller — hands-on with Valve's new AMD-based living room gaming hardware

Valve's new Steam Machine brings SteamOS to the living room with more power than the Steam Deck and the possibility of 4K gaming, while the new Steam Controller brings Steam Deck-style inputs to your couch. Read more

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CNET
Katelyn Chedraoui @ CNET 3 place · today 17:00 EDT

You Can Use an AI Clone of Matthew McConaughey's Voice, If He Says It's Alright, Alright, Alright

Michael Caine, Maya Angelou, Judy Garland, Alan Turing, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Babe Ruth are other AI voices available to license through ElevenLabs. Read more

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Engadget
Engadget · today 13:28 EDT

Valve announces new Steam Machine and Steam Controller

Valve is taking another run at offering a console-style experience in your living room. The company has announced a new Steam Machine and Steam Controller that let you play PC games on your TV in the same way the Steam Deck lets you play them on the go.The Steam Machine works like a console, but is technically a compact PC. The boxy device features a customizable front plate and LED... Read more

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Slashdot
msmash @ Slashdot · today 13:06 EDT

Apple Study Finds Mandated Fee Reductions Never Reached European Consumers

Apple said Wednesday that European Union developers pocketed the savings from mandated commission reductions rather than lowering prices for consumers. The iPhone maker commissioned Analysis Group to study pricing behavior [PDF] after the Digital Markets Act forced Apple to cut its App Store fees from up to 30% to an average of 20%. The research examined 41 million transactions across 21,000 products between March and September 2024, generating 403 million... Read more

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Engadget
Engadget · today 11:00 EDT

Framework Laptop 16 (2025 upgrade) review: The RTX 5070 is the star

Plenty of companies have promised to produce a gaming laptop that could be upgraded over time. If we’re honest, nobody has managed to properly deliver on that pledge until now, as Framework launches a meaningful CPU and GPU upgrade for the Laptop 16. Almost two years after the machine first went on sale, you can now swap out its discrete Radeon RX 7700S for NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5070. If the... Read more

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Business Insider
Eugene Kim @ Business Insider · today 15:10 EDT

Amazon plans to absorb Whole Foods' entire workforce as part of 'Project Cremini'

The high-end grocery chain has operated separately from Amazon for years. That is about to change in dramatic ways. Read more

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The Verge
Verge Staff @ The Verge · today 13:00 EDT

Steam Machines have returned: all the news about Valve’s new hardware universe

In 2012, The Verge broke the news that Valve was making a game console. Gabe Newell himself dished on the company’s grand plans. By 2015, the “Steam Machines” had utterly flopped. But Valve never stopped quietly working on the idea. The Steam Deck handheld became the seed for a grand reboot of Valve’s console and […] Read more

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Slashdot
msmash @ Slashdot · today 16:25 EDT

OpenAI's GPT-5.1 Brings Smarter Reasoning and More Personality Presets To ChatGPT

OpenAI today released GPT-5.1, an update to its flagship model line. The update includes two versions: GPT-5.1 Instant, which OpenAI says adds adaptive reasoning capabilities and improved instruction following, and GPT-5.1 Thinking, which adjusts its processing time based on query complexity. The Thinking model responds roughly twice as fast on simple tasks and twice as slow on complex problems compared to its predecessor. The company began rolling out both models... Read more

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Eurogamer.net
Will Judd @ Eurogamer.net · today 13:00 EDT

Steam Frame preview: a long-awaited standalone VR headset that runs Steam games on ARM

Codename Deckard, Valve's long-rumoured standalone VR headset, is here. Despite being the subject of rumours for years, this is in many ways the most unconventional part of Valve's November hardware announcements, which also include the Steam Machine and Steam Controller, as it's an entirely new category for Valve. It also marks the debut of two key technologies, Foveated Streaming and SteamOS on ARM, allowing the headset to be a capable... Read more

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The Verge
Emma Roth @ The Verge · today 12:42 EDT

Apple launches a Digital ID and says it’ll be accepted by the TSA

Apple is launching Digital IDs, a feature that allows you to create and store an ID in Apple Wallet using your US passport. In the announcement, Apple says Digital ID acceptance will begin to “roll out first”at TSA checkpoints for domestic travel in over 250 airports across the US. You can present your Digital ID […] Read more

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MacRumors
Joe Rossignol @ MacRumors · today 12:15 EDT

Apple Announces Launch of U.S. Passport Feature in iPhone's Wallet App

Apple today announced that iPhone users can now create a Digital ID in the Apple Wallet app based on information from their U.S. passport. To create and present a Digital ID based on a U.S. passport, you need: An iPhone 11 or later running iOS 26.1 or later, or an Apple Watch Series 6 or later running watchOS 26.1 or later Face ID or Touch ID and Bluetooth turned on... Read more

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Slashdot
msmash @ Slashdot · today 14:25 EDT

US Ends Penny-Making Run After More Than 230 Years

The US is set to make its final penny. The Philadelphia Mint will strike its last batch of one-cent coins on Thursday, after more than 230 years of production. From a report: The coins will remain in circulation but the phase-out has already prompted businesses to start adjusting prices, as they say pennies are becoming harder to find. The government says the move will save money, or as President Donald... Read more

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