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Every iPhone that can be updated to iOS 26 (and when you can install it)

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Pixel 10 fights AI fakes with new Android photo verification tech

Google is integrating C2PA Content Credentials into the Pixel 10 camera and Google Photos, to help users distinguish between authentic, unaltered images and those generated or edited with artificial intelligence technology. The American company notes that the problem of labeling synthetic media has become bigger in recent years as traditional approaches are no longer suitable and leave room for leave room for interpretation and misrepresentation. In the latest Pixel 10 phones, every JPEG photo

iOS 26 update is coming soon - how to download it (and which iPhones support it)

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TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning

Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash As of September 2025, approximately 170 million Americans spend, on average, one hour every day in an app that is designed to maximize psychological grip. While Congress fixates on TikTok’s data collection usages, what hasn’t received enough attention is how the platform has successfully industrialized human attention itself. Where earlier media relied on polished narratives (films with arcs, shows with seasons), TikTok turned culture into a never-ending feedb

TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds

Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash As of September 2025, approximately 170 million Americans spend, on average, one hour every day in an app that is designed to maximize psychological grip. While Congress fixates on TikTok’s data collection usages, what hasn’t received enough attention is how the platform has successfully industrialized human attention itself. Where earlier media relied on polished narratives (films with arcs, shows with seasons), TikTok turned culture into a never-ending feedb

Verizon will give you an iPhone 17 Pro free with trade-in - here's what to know

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AI's free web scraping days may be over, thanks to this new licensing protocol

iweta0077/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much content as possible from websites while also extracting information. Now, several heavyweight publishers and tech companies -- Reddit, Yahoo, People, O'Reilly Media, Medium, and Ziff

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Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions.

Leading Internet companies and publishers—including Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, Medium, The Daily Beast, Fastly, and more—think there may finally be a solution to end AI crawlers hammering websites to scrape content without permission or compensation. Announced Wednesday morning, the "Really Simply Licensing" (RSL) standard evolves robots.txt instructions by adding an automated licensing layer that's designed to block bots that don't fairly compensate creators for content. Free for any publisher to

How to preorder the iPhone 17, iPhone Air, Apple Watch Series 11 and more (plus best deals)

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The 15+ best iPhone 17 accessories for content creators, power users, and more

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You can preorder Apple's new devices this week: iPhone 17, Watch 11, AirPods Pro 3 and more

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With Raspberry Pi and Wi-Fi, researchers built a wireless heart rate monitor - here's how

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How to preorder Apple's latest devices, including the iPhone 17 series

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BlackRock-backed Minute Media acquires Indian AI startup that extracts sports highlights

BlackRock- and Goldman Sachs-backed media startup Minute Media, which owns properties like Sports Illustrated, The Players’ Tribune, and 90 Minutes, announced Monday that it is acquiring VideoVerse, an Indian AI startup that lets broadcasters extract highlights and create content from sports footage. VideoVerse’s clients include the Indian Premier League and Women’s Premier League (cricket) tournaments, FIFA+, and broadcasters Nippon TV and Clubber TV. Mumbai-based VideoVerse was founded in 201

Apple Event live updates 2025: iPhone 17, AirPods 3, Apple Watch Series 11, and more news

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