Published on: 2025-07-16 05:25:38
During the heady early days of the Streaming Wars, Netflix spent more than $55 million on a sci-fi show created by the guy who directed the forgotten Keanu Reeves box office bomb 47 Ronin. According to a federal indictment, the director stole $11 million from the streaming giant and spent it on Dogecoin and Rolls Royces. The saga of director Carl Erik Rinsch and Netflix deal has been going on for years. The streamer has been trying to claw its money back from the guy for a long time and Rinsch
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 05:30:16
The Trump administration might be looking to give HIV a hand. The federal government is reportedly eyeing drastic cuts to its funding for HIV prevention efforts at home. The Wall Street Journal first reported on the potential funding cuts Tuesday afternoon, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter. Should the pruning go through, it would threaten to undermine the substantial progress made in the U.S. toward eliminating HIV as a major public health problem altogether. The federal budge
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No matter how my style may change, I always consider Adidas the ultimate shoes for effortlessly cool people. With celebrity endorsements from pro athletes like David Beckham to music icons like Pharrell and Bad Bunny, Adidas has cemented itself firmly in the current zeitgeist. Although most known for classic sneaker styles like Sambas (beloved by skaters and boys I had crushes on in high school), Adidas also has always-stylish apparel, slides, running shoes, and more. WIRED has Adidas promo code
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 05:00:00
Isla Fulford, a researcher at OpenAI, had a hunch that Deep Research would be a hit even before it was released. Fulford had helped build the artificial intelligence agent, which autonomously explores the web, deciding for itself what links to click, what to read, and what to collate into an in-depth report. OpenAI first made Deep Research available internally; whenever it went down, Fulford says, she was inundated with queries from colleagues eager to have it back. “The number of people who we
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 05:15:59
Google is breaking European antitrust laws by favoring its own Shopping, Hotels, and Flights search services over rival comparison providers, according to the European Commission. The EU announced in its preliminary ruling today that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, had also violated anti-steering rules under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) by preventing app developers on its Play Store from steering customers to other distribution channels. Google can challenge the preliminary charges or make
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 01:01:00
The governments of Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore are likely customers of Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions, according to a new technical report by a renowned digital security lab. On Wednesday, The Citizen Lab, a group of academics and security researchers housed at the University of Toronto that has investigated the spyware industry for more than a decade, published a report about the Israeli-founded surveillance startup, identifying the six governments as “su
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 05:00:00
Robots are part of an exciting new frontier in tech, but here’s the challenge: robots rely on arrays of sensors, external signals like GPS and Wi-Fi, and customized software to navigate their environments. Further, robotics often involves expensive, ready-made hardware solutions that include built-in software and sensors designed for specific tasks, like estimating relative motion. These products require complex integration and are limited to specific use cases. As a result, most robots today c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 05:03:54
Have researchers discovered a new AI “scaling law”? That’s what some buzz on social media suggests — but experts are skeptical. AI scaling laws, a bit of an informal concept, describe how the performance of AI models improves as the size of the datasets and computing resources used to train them increases. Until roughly a year ago, scaling up “pre-training” — training ever-larger models on ever-larger datasets — was the dominant law by far, at least in the sense that most frontier AI labs embra
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 05:31:02
A federal judge Tuesday found the Environmental Protection Agency acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner when terminating contracts with three nonprofits. The judge issued a temporary restraining order that requires the EPA and Citibank to give nonprofits access to funds in their accounts. The restraining order is the latest development in a lawsuit brought by three nonprofits that were recipients of grants from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a part of the Inflation Reduction Act sig
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 05:32:02
Google Search and its Play Store app marketplace are suspected of breaching the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), per preliminary findings announced Wednesday by EU Commission enforcers of the bloc’s flagship market contestability law, who have been investigating the company for months. The DMA applies to a handful of tech giants, Alphabet (Google’s parent) included. Aspects of Google’s business have been under investigation by the EU since March 2024, shortly after the regime came in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 05:41:57
Streaming service and software maker Plex is raising its prices. The company announced on Wednesday its first price increase in a decade for its premium subscription service Plex Pass, which offers power users a variety of additional features, like offline access, themes, hardware transcoding, and other advanced settings. The service will now cost $6.99 per month, up from $4.99 previously. The yearly cost will also increase to $69.99 up from $39.99, and the lifetime Plex Pass will be $249.99, u
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 09:38:00
Why it matters: The handheld gaming market is no stranger to innovation, but some devices can be more innovative than others. One of these is the rather sweet-sounding OneXSugar Sugar 1. The chunky device, with its 6.01-inch main display, features a cleverly integrated 3.92-inch secondary screen that slides out and flips up, transforming the Sugar 1 into a dual-screen setup on demand. The OneXSugar Sugar 1 is the brainchild of One Netbook, the Chinese company behind the OneXPlayer line of handh
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 06:56:01
In this article META Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk Manuel Orbegozo | Chip Somodevilla | Reuters After news broke on the last day of January that Meta might follow Elon Musk's lead in exiting Delaware to incorporate in another state, Democratic Gov. Matt Meyer sprung into action. Delaware has long been the dominant state for U.S. companies to incorporate due to its flexible corporate code and expert judiciary. More
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 09:16:49
A man holds an Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max ahead of the launch of sales of the new iPhone 16 series smartphones in a store in Moscow, Russia September 20, 2024. European Union regulators are taking steps to rein in Google and Apple on antitrust charges, even as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to hit the bloc with tariffs for alleged "overseas extortion" of America's tech giants. The European Commission, which is the executive body of the EU, said Wednesday that it found Google parent company
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 08:22:36
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have finally returned after being stranded on board the International Space Station for nine months. The pair became stuck in June after Boeing's plagued Starliner spacecraft was deemed unfit to return them last summer due to a litany of technical problems. After splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico, Williams and Wilmore were greeted by a curious pod of dolphins — a soothing experience after being thrown in the middle of a politically charged cir
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 08:33:19
For nearly ten years, Bernard Moses had been ferrying passengers around Chicagoland as an Uber driver. But after dropping off his umpteenth passenger one day in April 2024, Moses recalls that he swiped to find his next rider — only to discover he'd been locked out of his Uber driver account. A message came up, telling him he had been suspended due to a customer complaint. After logging over 20,000 rides and earning an average rating of 4.99 out of 5, Moses had been locked out of his primary sou
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 09:05:45
Content Warning: this story discusses sexual abuse, self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, and other disturbing topics. Partway through our conversation, Megan Garcia pauses to take a call. She exchanges a few words with the caller and hangs up. In a soft voice, she explains that the call was from school; it was about one of her two younger children, now both at the same K-12 academy that her firstborn, Sewell Setzer III, had attended since childhood. "Sewell's been going to that school since
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 09:06:00
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Large language models (LLMs) have seen remarkable advancements in using reasoning capabilities. However, their ability to correctly reference and use external data — information that they weren’t trained on — in conjunction with reasoning has largely lagged behind. This is an issue especially when using LLMs dynamic, information-intensive scenarios that demand up-to-da
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 09:40:56
Hundreds of projects were exhibited in a massive hall during the conference, featuring demonstrations and research results. Here are four of the most interesting innovations MIT Technology Review spotted on site. Steel made with lasers Startup Limelight Steel has developed a process to make iron, the main component in steel, by using lasers to heat iron ore to super-high temperatures. Steel production makes up roughly 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions today, in part because most steel is
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 05:06:21
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR WhatsApp is exploring a new AI-based text rewriting feature that would help users change the style and tone of their message. When users type in the text box, a new Pencil button will appear. Tapping on it will allow the user to edit their text in various styles. This feature is currently in development and thus, not yet available to users. WhatsApp is the instant messaging app of choice for billions of users worldwide. Meta takes changes to the plat
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 09:22:24
Google just formally introduced the Pixel 9a , its latest attempt at offering a slightly more affordable point of entry into the world of Pixel phones. And despite being one notch down from flagship status, it still delivers a pretty darn attractive hardware package, including the largest battery in a Pixel phone yet . But news of the Pixel 9a’s debut hasn’t arrived without a little unexpected uncertainty, as Google has yet to share full details of its plans for both pre-orders and the start of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 09:44:15
Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority TL;DR AT&T customers with an unlimited plan can get the Pixel 9a for $2.99 per month without a trade-in. T-Mobile customers on most plans can get the phone for free by adding a line or trading in an eligible device Both carriers are offering a free pair of the Pixel Buds A series for online orders. After all the leaks and rumors, Google has finally launched the latest iteration of its budget Android phone — the Pixel 9a. If you’ve been planning on picking one
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 08:53:37
Update: Apple has responded to the EU’s announcement with a statement provided to 9to5Mac, that strongly opposes the decision. The EU has followed up on its Digital Markets Act specification procedures for Apple regarding the iPhone’s interoperability with third-party connected devices like smartwatches and headphones, as announced last fall. Today’s announcement details exactly what third-party integrations the EU commission expects Apple to implement. This includes giving third-party devices
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 09:01:39
In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple firmly rebuked the EU decision announced today about specific interoperability requirements the company must implement over the coming months. Apple said “Today’s decisions wrap us in red tape, slowing down Apple’s ability to innovate for users in Europe and forcing us to give away our new features for free to companies who don’t have to play by the same rules. It’s bad for our products and for our European users. We will continue to work with the European Commi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 09:45:56
Now sitting alongside yesterday’s deal on Apple Pencil Pro and Apple’s upgraded 24GB 14-inch M4 Pro MacBook Pro at $270 off, today we are kicking things off with a massive price drop on the super-powerful M4 Max MacBook Pro. You can now score an open-box 36GB M4 Max MacBook Pro with a 1-year Apple warranty at $774 off the list price or a brand-new unit at $350 off. From there we have the return of rock-bottom pricing on 24GB M3 MacBook Air at $600 off the original price alongside on new lows on
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 09:05:39
Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Google’s Nest Learning Thermostat is on sale for $240 right now, as part of the Amazon Spring Sale. That’s close to a record low price for the 4th-gen device that was released just last year. This deal is available for multiple colorways, including silver, gold and black. This is a mo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 09:28:44
Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Although the Amazon Spring Sale doesn't start in earnest until next week, there are a bunch of early deals to be had. Among them is an offer that sees Google's Pixel Buds Pro 2 drop to a record low price. The earbuds are currently $179, which is $50 (or 22 percent) off. The Pixel Buds
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 09:40:11
There is something so incredibly frustrating about typing on a digital keyboard with a controller. Whether for streaming or gaming, the slowness with which you often have to find each letter is just painful. Well, thankfully, there's an improvement on the way for Xbox controllers, with Microsoft announcing a new gamepad keyboard for Windows 11's touch keyboard. Microsoft The updated keyboard should make it easier to use the on-screen one with an Xbox controller. It brings greater navigation to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 09:10:00
Allison Murray/ZDNET The Petlibro Polar Wet Food Automatic Feeder is currently $45 off at just $85 during the lead-up period to Amazon's Big Spring Sale. ZDNET's key takeaways The Petlibro Polar Wet Food Automatic Feeder normally retails for $130 and is available in black. The Polar feeder can keep wet food fresh for up to three days and connects to an app to customize feeding schedules. It is a relatively large device and needs power and Wi-Fi to function. After getting our orange tabby c
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ZDNET's key takeaways The Dali IO-8 headphones are available on Amazon for $1,100. They produce a clarity of sound and separation that will blow you away. The beige colorway isn't the most attractive, and they're not cheap. $850 at Amazon I've been a connoisseur of headphones since the 1980s. Back then, I was living on a student's budget and couldn't afford the best of the best. Still, I sought out headphones that not only I could afford but delivered a sound worthy of my discerning palette.
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