Published on: 2025-06-05 09:00:00
In my 15 years of reviewing tech, this pellet-firing, story-telling, pretend-urinating robot attack dog is easily the strangest thing I’ve ever tested. Arriving in a slightly battered box following a series of questionable decisions on Temu, I’m immediately drawn to the words “FIRE BULLETS PET” emblazoned on the box. And there, resting behind the protective plastic window with all the innocence of a newborn lamb, lies the plastic destroyer of worlds that my four-and-a-half-year-old immediately
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 02:15:10
Nebraska is the latest state to crack down on how kids can use social media. The state's governor, Jim Pillen, recently signed into law a package of bills aimed at restricting certain social media features that keep kids hooked on the platform. The final bill signed, called the Age-Appropriate Online Design Code Act, will require companies to offer time limits on usage, restrict certain categories of content and provide chronological feeds instead of algorithmic ones that promote infinite scroll
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 12:44:01
Google TL;DR Google has confirmed that Wear OS 6 will offer media controls on a smartwatch’s always-on display. This will allow you to control your music playback without turning on your watch’s screen. It seems like the always-on display could support more than just media controls, though. Google announced Wear OS 6 earlier this month, bringing some visual changes in line with its Material 3 Expressive design language. However, it looks like a welcome addition to the always-on display went
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 05:48:13
Customers furious after Game cancels Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders 13 minutes ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images UK high street chain Game has apologised after it cancelled some pre-orders of the hotly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2. Gamers have waited years for the Switch 2 - the successor to one of the best-selling consoles in history - with the new model being finally released to the public on 5 June. But some of those who pre-ordered the Switch 2 through G
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 04:00:00
How would you like to earn money while watching TV? Rumi, an AI media company, has raised $4.7 million in a pre-seed funding round to transform passive media with rewards. Rumi is launching its invite-only beta app today and it aims to allows users to engage with media content in real time. The round, co-led by A16z crypto CSX and EV3, will support Rumi’s mission to build the first decentralized AI infrastructure for media, combining cutting-edge artificial intelligence with user-powered index
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 09:30:07
Trump Media & Technology Group, the company that owns President Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform, announced plans Tuesday to buy about $2.5 billion in cryptocurrencies to create what it calls a “bitcoin treasury.” The company plans to raise the money by selling $1.5 billion in common stock and $1 billion in convertible debt to 50 investors, according to a press release. The news, first reported by the Financial Times as $3 billion before Trump Media issued a press release, comes after Presi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 08:30:00
Leading a happier life might seem like a lofty goal, especially if you've been feeling down recently, but it is entirely possible with the right habits. Our moods are affected by everything around us, including the weather, light levels, the food we eat and even how much we move our bodies. While nobody is in a great mood all the time, these daily habits can help you to stay in a more positive mindset, no matter what setbacks life throws at you. If you want to pursue a happier life, try incorpo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 17:17:51
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures at the Bitcoin 2024 event in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., July 27, 2024. LAS VEGAS — Trump Media announced Tuesday a $2.5 billion raise from institutional investors to bankroll one of the largest bitcoin treasury allocations by a public company. Shares of the company fell about 10% following the news. It's the latest and most ambitious move in its evolution from a free-speech social platform to a financial services
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 17:03:16
Texas may soon pass into law one of the most restrictive set of social media rules for minors, including making it illegal for those under 18 to be on social media. House Bill 186 would not only prohibit minors from creating new social media accounts on services such as TikTok, Instagram and X, but it would require age verification for everyone else creating a new account. Under the law, parents could request a minor's social media account be deleted and the platform would be required to remove
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 21:31:48
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. President Donald Trump’s media company could soon own $2.5 billion in Bitcoin. On Tuesday, Trump Media announced that it’s working with “approximately 50 institutional investors” to sell and issue $1.5 billion in stock and $1 billion in convertible notes. The company, which operates Truth Social among other services, will be used to establish a larg
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-15 04:56:02
What’s the difference between “streaming” and “downloading” video, audio, or some other kind of linear media? Many platforms make a firm distinction between streaming and downloading, implying that they’re very different. But they’re not. They’re basically the same thing Despite what various platforms would have you believe, there’s no significant technical difference between streaming and downloading. Suppose you’re choosing whether to download or stream a video. In both cases: The server
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 05:02:02
Texas could become the next US state to lay down the law with social media platforms. A Texas bill that would ban social media use for anyone under 18 recently moved past the Senate committee and is due for a vote in front of the Texas State Senate. The bill has until the state's legislative session comes to an end on June 2, leaving roughly a week for it to be approved by both the Senate and the governor. Earlier this year, the bill passed the House committee stage and was later voted in favor
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 11:45:37
Image by Getty / Futurism Mental Health It's a common refrain these days that some specific invention was a mistake, in our age of seemingly every human innovation blowing up catastrophically in our faces. And what better subject of our collective remorse than the advent of the entire internet, the glorious information superhighway now turned AI slop trough? According to a new survey conducted in the UK, this appears to be the sentiment held by nearly half of young people — at least across th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 00:35:50
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. As YouTube prepares to air an exclusive NFL opening week game for free on September 5th, it’s hiring former Disney exec Justin Connolly. The move has caused Disney to respond by suing both YouTube and Connolly, saying he was in the middle of leading the team negotiating Disney’s license renewal with YouTube. He’d most recently been running the stre
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 05:35:50
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. As YouTube prepares to air an exclusive NFL opening week game for free on September 5th, it’s hiring former Disney exec Justin Connolly. He’d most recently been running the streaming services and linear media networks, and will take over as YouTube’s new global head of media and sports, as first reported by Bloomberg, and confirmed by YouTube spokes
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 16:17:26
National parks, gay country music and thirst traps have a lot in common, at least on the internet. Viral TikTok posts combining sexually explicit audio, comical memes and stunning views of nature have flooded social media feeds. The growing trend coincides with President Donald Trump's unprecedented funding cuts targeting federal parks, forests, monuments, seashores and trails. The message of #ParkTok and #MountainTok is G-rated: to conserve and protect public lands. The raunchy content is mer
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 09:01:09
Table of contents: Introduction: WANTED: Somebody to go back in time with me (when suggesting to build a social media platform was ok). This is not a joke. Email [email protected]. You’ll get paid when we get acquired. Must bring your own web framework. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before. I think we need a new social media platform to emerge from the web. Now, if the above sentence just sent shivers down your spine as a relic of a bygone era of entrepreneurship (So Mo L
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 07:43:14
Writers at The Chicago Sun-Times, a daily newspaper owned by Chicago Public Media, are speaking out following the paper's publishing of AI-generated misinformation, urging that the "disaster" content threatens the paper's reputation and hard-earned reader trust. The Sun-Times came under fire this week after readers called attention to a "summer reading list" published in the paper's weekend edition that recommended books that turned out to be completely nonexistent. The books were all attribute
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 05:01:11
Overlap builds video marketing AI agents for media companies that can search, edit, and understand video content. We work with some of the world’s largest media companies and thousands of creators have used our product. Our approach combines SOTA AI technology with a sleek, user-friendly interface to help users clip long form video and post it to social media, entirely on autopilot. The Role: We're seeking a Product Engineer to join our dynamic team and play a crucial role in shaping the future
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 20:21:50
The Chicago Sun-Times, a daily non-profit newspaper owned by Chicago Public Media, published a "summer reading list" featuring wholly fabricated books — the result of broadcasting unverified AI slop in its pages. An image of a "Summer reading list for 2025" was first shared to Instagram by a book podcaster who goes by Tina Books and was circulated on Bluesky by the novelist Rachael King. The newspaper's title and the date of the page's publication are visible in the page's header. The page was
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 05:03:00
In a nutshell: Texas wants to emulate Florida by imposing a ban on minors signing up for social media accounts, but it would go even further: while Florida bars those under 14, the Texas proposal would raise the minimum sign-up age to 18. House Bill 186, which was introduced in November, is currently making its way toward becoming a law in Texas. It has already passed the Texas House with bipartisan support, and it appears to be gaining plenty of approval from members of the Senate, paving the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 21:00:35
Texas is set to lead the nation in restrictive legislation. Under a proposed bill, minors would be banned from social media, while platforms would also be required to introduce age verification methods. While supporters say the change would make children safer, critics argue that such legislation may do the exact opposite. Introduced in November, House Bill 186 would prevent minors from creating accounts on social media platforms like Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, and more. Platforms would be req
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 19:16:25
National parks, gay country music and thirst traps have a lot in common, at least on the internet. Hundreds of TikTok posts combining sexually explicit audio, comical memes and stunning views of nature have flooded social media feeds. The viral trend coincides with President Donald Trump's unprecedented funding cuts targeting federal parks, forests, monuments, seashores and trails. The message of #ParkTok and #MountainTok is G-rated: to conserve and protect public lands. The raunchy content is
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 13:43:34
Last year, Google open-sourced its SynthID AI watermarking system, allowing other developers access to a toolkit for imperceptibly marking content as AI-generated. Now, Google is rolling out a web-based portal to let people easily test if a piece of media has been watermarked with SynthID. After uploading a piece of media to the SynthID Detector, users will get back results that "highlight which parts of the content are more likely to have been watermarked," Google said. That watermarked, AI-ge
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 13:30:00
National parks, gay country music, and thirst traps have a lot in common, at least on the internet. Hundreds of TikTok posts combining sexually explicit audio, comical memes and stunning views of nature have flooded social media feeds. The viral trend coincides with President Donald Trump's unprecedented funding cuts targeting federal parks, forests, monuments, seashores and trails. The message of #ParkTok and #MountainTok is G-rated: to conserve and protect public lands. The raunchy content i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 07:00:35
Furious Former Twitter Advertisers Tell Elon Musk They've Had Enough of His Tantrums He did this to himself. Media Empire Fights Back Elon Musk's social media company X-formerly-Twitter sued several major advertising brands last year, accusing them of conspiring to "collectively withhold billions of dollars in advertising." It's an easily debunked claim that flatly ignores the extremely hostile environment the mercurial CEO has created on the platform, with hate speech and disinformation run
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 04:20:57
Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a revised media player layout for Android Auto that moves the Play/Pause button. The Play/Pause button now has a larger background area and swaps placement with the Previous button. These changes affect multiple apps but are only visible on the home screen card UI, not full app views. Google recently showed off Gemini for Android Auto, giving us a glimpse of the platform’s much-anticipated upgrade. Beyond this, we know Google is also wo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 13:01:04
Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra , the new Marvel action-adventure game, has been delayed. The game was originally slated to release this year but Skydance New Media, the studio developing the game, has announced it will instead come out some time in early 2026. Marvel 1943 was first teaseed in 2021 as the first project under Skydance New Media, a new gaming initiative spearheaded by parent company studio Skydance Media known for films like Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning. Skydance appointed for
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 10:51:42
This week, the Armbian development team pushed several noteworthy enhancements, with improvements spanning user experience, bootloader upgrades, and broader system support. Notably, this week saw the debut of OpenMediaVault in Armbian’s software installer, a move that brings plug-and-play NAS functionality to supported boards. OpenMediaVault is a feature-rich platform that enables users to turn single-board computers into fully-fledged network storage devices. Thanks to a contribution by Igor,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 08:00:03
Everything from how often you get up and move around to the food you eat directly influences your mood and mental well-being. If you've been feeling off recently, it might be time to try building new habits to help you improve your mental health. Simple things like journaling, spending time with friends, and getting enough sleep at night will go a lot further than you may expect. If you want to pursue a happier life, try incorporating some of these ideas into your daily or weekly routine. The b
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