Topic: technology reporting
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Affordable Smart Lighting: Upgrade Your Home on a Budget
Smart lighting is now more affordable and accessible, offering an easy entry into home automation for mood setting, energy efficiency, and convenience. Tech updates include the appearance of Hollow Knight: Silksong, an Instagram iPad app, and a new The Office spinoff, alongside insights from Paul...
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iPhone Air Launch Reportedly Delayed
Apple has delayed the launch of the second-generation iPhone Air and reduced production of the first-generation model due to its underwhelming market performance. The canceled model was expected to feature a lighter design, improved battery capacity, and an advanced vapor chamber cooling system f...
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Trump's DHS Uses Halo Meme to Recruit ICE Officers
The Department of Homeland Security is using Halo franchise imagery in a social media recruitment campaign, linking directly to ICE's hiring portal with game-inspired text like "DESTROY THE FLOOD." This strategy follows a previous DHS post that incorporated Pokémon content, drawing parallels betw...
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Samsung's Moohan Headset Launching Next Week
Samsung will unveil its Project Moohan mixed reality headset on October 21st, marking a major step into immersive technology. The headset runs on Android XR, a platform developed with Google and Qualcomm, focusing on AI-driven experiences across various devices. This launch occurs as Apple is rum...
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Unlock New Achievements in Wordle
The New York Times has introduced a badge system for Wordle, Spelling Bee, and Connections, allowing players to track and showcase their achievements like first-try Wordle solves or flawless Connections games. Future plans include seasonal events and special challenges with unique badges, and sub...
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Amazon's New $39.99 Fire TV Stick 4K Select: Affordable Streaming
Amazon has launched the Fire TV 4K Select for $39.99, offering 4K HDR video, fast performance, and upcoming support for gaming and Alexa, set to ship in October. The company's previous updates in 2023 and 2024 enhanced the Fire Stick lineup with improved processors, Wi-Fi, storage, and features l...
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Apple Watch Ultra 3: 42-Hour Battery & Satellite Connectivity
The Apple Watch Ultra 3 offers enhanced features for adventurers and fitness enthusiasts, including a 42-hour battery life, satellite connectivity, and new health monitoring capabilities. It is available for preorder with a starting price of $799, featuring durable titanium finishes and a focus o...
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Build Apps Inside ChatGPT With OpenAI's New Tools
OpenAI is introducing tools that let users build and interact with third-party apps directly within ChatGPT, turning it into a central hub for tasks with contextual guidance. During a demonstration, ChatGPT integrated with apps like Canva to create promotional materials and Zillow to search for p...
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PlayStation's New Desktop Speakers Go Wireless
Sony has announced the Pulse Elevate wireless desktop speakers, designed for lifelike audio and compatibility with devices like the PS5, PC, and smartphones, featuring a built-in microphone and PlayStation Link technology for low-latency connectivity. The speakers include a built-in rechargeable ...
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TCL's New Google TVs Detect Your Presence with mmWave
TCL's new QM9K QMini LED TV series is now available, starting at $2,999, and is the first to feature Google's Gemini AI for intuitive voice control and a built-in mmWave presence sensor for detecting user proximity. The integrated mmWave sensor enables the TV to automatically power on or enter st...
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PlayStation Unveils New Parental Control App for Safer Gaming
Sony has launched the PlayStation Family app for iOS and Android, enabling parents to remotely monitor and manage children's gaming on PS5 and PS4 consoles. The app provides features like activity reports, playtime approval, spending controls, and customizable privacy settings for tailored family...
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AMD GCN GPUs Get Major Performance Boost in New RADV Driver
The latest RADV Vulkan driver update significantly boosts performance for older AMD GCN-based graphics cards, improving game and application speeds on legacy hardware. Optimizations in geometry processing reduce overhead, leading to smoother frame rates and performance uplifts of 10-20% in demand...
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Xbox Full Screen Experience Now Available on All PCs
Microsoft is expanding the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) to all Windows PCs, including laptops, desktops, and tablets, providing a console-style interface for easier game navigation with a controller. To access FSE, users must be in the Windows or Xbox Insider Program and can activate it via ...
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Vision Pro Scores Its First Live Immersive Sports
The Apple Vision Pro will debut its first live sports experience with Los Angeles Lakers games, using Apple Immersive Video to offer a courtside perspective through unique camera angles and audio. This marks a milestone as the first live sporting events in this format, expanding beyond pre-record...
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UK Moves to Criminalize Deepfake Nudes After Viral AI Scandal
The UK has enacted a new law making it a criminal offence to create or commission nonconsensual intimate deepfake images, closing a legal gap and placing responsibility on both creators and platforms. Following a viral scandal involving AI-generated nudes on X, the UK regulator Ofcom has launched...
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Garmin Adds Nutrition Tracking to Its Fitness Features
Garmin Connect Plus subscribers can now track nutrition within the Garmin Connect app, integrating caloric and macronutrient data with fitness activity for a holistic wellness view. The app simplifies meal logging with a global food database, barcode scanning, photo capture, and on-wrist summarie...
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Facebook's New Look: The TikTok Transformation
Facebook is adopting a TikTok-inspired short-form video strategy, enhancing its recommendations engine to deliver more relevant Reels and revitalize the platform under Meta's leadership. The platform now prioritizes fresh content by showing 50% more same-day Reels and introduces "friend bubbles" ...
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Urgent Unity Security Update Required for All Games
A critical security vulnerability in Unity requires developers using versions 2017.1 or later for Windows, Android, or macOS to update immediately to prevent potential risks like malicious code execution. Unity's partners, including Valve and Microsoft, have implemented security measures, and the...
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Apple's AI Relies on Anthropic, Insider Reveals
Apple's internal AI development heavily relies on custom versions of Anthropic's Claude models for engineering and design tasks, despite its public partnership with Google's Gemini for consumer features like Siri. The company attempted a formal deal with Anthropic, but negotiations failed due to ...
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Judge Rules Tesla Misled Buyers on Self-Driving Tech
A California judge ruled Tesla's marketing of its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems is misleading, and the state's DMV has adopted this ruling, threatening a 30-day sales license suspension if advertising is not corrected. The DMV found Tesla's product names violate state law by implying a ...
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Apple Lawsuit: Jon Prosser Yet to Respond, Says Company
Apple is suing Jon Prosser for allegedly stealing confidential trade secrets about unreleased iOS features and is seeking a default judgment due to his lack of formal response. The lawsuit claims Prosser collaborated with Michael Ramacciotti to access a development iPhone, extract proprietary inf...
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Google Restricts AI Searches on Trump and Dementia
Google has restricted AI search summaries for queries about Donald Trump's mental health, showing no AI Overview for terms like dementia, Alzheimer's, or senility. This limitation does not uniformly apply to other political figures, as similar searches for Joe Biden or Barack Obama can generate A...
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AI Vigilantes Wrongly Accuse in Charlie Kirk Shooter Hunt
The FBI's release of grainy photos related to the Charlie Kirk shooting led to AI-upscaled versions that invented false details, spreading dangerous misinformation. AI tools like X's Grok and OpenAI's ChatGPT generated these altered images, often creating implausible results that strayed from rea...
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Apple Extends Free iPhone Satellite Features for Another Year
Apple has extended free satellite connectivity for iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 users for an additional year, now valid until November 2026 for eligible devices activated before September 2025. The service, initially offered as a two-year complimentary trial, includes Emergency SOS and expanded featur...
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Seamless VMware Migration for Uninterrupted Business
Ransomware has become a common threat for businesses, making robust disaster recovery and VMware migration essential for uninterrupted operations, with a significant increase in organizations affected compared to traditional disasters. Modern VMware environments require specialized migration appr...
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Jon Prosser Paid $650 for iOS 26 Leak, Co-Defendant Claims
Apple alleges that leaker Jon Prosser paid $650 for a FaceTime demonstration of the unreleased iOS 26, though Ramacciotti claims the payment occurred after the call and was not pre-arranged. Ramacciotti admits accessing a development iPhone and demonstrating iOS features to Prosser but denies tra...
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AMD Rebrands Old CPUs to Boost Budget Laptop Performance
AMD is refreshing its laptop processor lineup by rebranding older chips with new model numbers, creating confusion for buyers expecting genuine upgrades. The rebranded processors use either Rembrandt-R architecture with Zen 3+ cores and RDNA 2 graphics or Mendocino architecture with older Zen 2 c...
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Apple in 'Active Communication' With Leaker Over Lawsuit
Apple is actively communicating with tech leaker Jon Prosser, contradicting claims that he has ignored the lawsuit, as he has engaged with the company since the early stages of the legal dispute. Prosser confirmed ongoing discussions with Apple, despite a default being entered against him for mis...
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Google to Pay $68 Million in Privacy Settlement Over Recorded Conversations
Google has agreed to a $68 million settlement over a lawsuit alleging its Assistant feature sometimes activated accidentally, recording private conversations without consent and sharing snippets with third parties for advertising. The lawsuit argued these false activations, triggered by backgroun...
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Roblox Adds Age Verification for Chat Feature
Roblox has rolled out a mandatory age verification system for its chat features globally, aiming to create safer, age-appropriate social interactions by grouping users based on verified age brackets. The platform uses facial scan technology for initial age estimation, with options to appeal via I...
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EA and Stability AI Team Up for AI Game Creation Tools
Electronic Arts is partnering with Stability AI to co-develop advanced AI tools and workflows, aiming to accelerate game development and expand creative possibilities for its teams. The company emphasizes that AI will serve as a partner to handle routine tasks, freeing up human creativity for sto...
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Twitch Adds Easy Rewind Feature for Streams
Twitch has introduced a new feature allowing viewers to rewind live streams directly from the channel page, making it more convenient than navigating to the Videos section. Initially, the rewind function is available only on the web version and is limited to Twitch Turbo and channel subscribers t...
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US Video Game Hardware Sales Plunge in November
U.S. video game hardware spending fell sharply in November, dropping 27% year-over-year to $695 million, the lowest November total since 2005. The market slump was driven by record-high console prices, with the average selling price reaching $439, discouraging buyers during the holiday season. De...
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Instagram May Open Directly to Reels
Instagram is testing a new default home screen in India that prioritizes the Reels tab, emphasizing short-form video content as a key growth driver. The redesigned home feed includes familiar elements like Stories but transitions to a full-screen Reels experience when scrolling, while still integ...
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Indie Game Awards Revokes Expedition 33 Win Over AI Use
The Indie Game Awards revoked the Game of the Year award from *Clair Obscur: Expedition 33* after confirming its developer used generative AI, violating the awards' strict ineligibility policy for AI-generated content. The award was reassigned to *Blue Prince*, whose publisher highlighted its ent...
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App Developer Sues Apple Over Continuity Camera 'Sherlocking'
Reincubate is suing Apple, alleging it copied the core technology of the Camo webcam app to create its own Continuity Camera feature after initially supporting the app. The lawsuit claims Apple's actions were anticompetitive, designed to lock users into its ecosystem by disadvantaging the cross-p...
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