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21 May

Ooni’s Memorial Day sale discounts pizza ovens by up to 30 percent

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Sure, you could spend the summer grilling up burgers and dogs, but wouldn’t pizza be a nice change of pace? Ooni has discounted its pizza ovens by up to 30 percent as part of a Memorial Day sale. The most notable item here is the Ooni Fyra 12 wood pellet pizza oven, which is $245 as part of the sale.…

21 May

Microsoft teams up with Khan Academy to make the Khanmigo AI teaching assistant free

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Microsoft and non-profit educational organization Khan Academy have formed a partnership that will allow all K-12 educators in the US to access the pilot version of Khanmigo for Teachers at no cost. Khanmigo is an AI-powered teaching assistant that can help teachers find ways to make lessons more fun and engaging. it will also recommend assignments, display information on a…

21 May

Microsoft unveils Team Copilot that can assist groups of users

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At this year's Build event, Microsoft has announced Team Copilot, and as you can probably guess from its name, it's a variant of the company's AI tool that can cater to the needs of a group of users. It expands Copilot's abilities beyond that of a personal assistant, so that it can serve a whole team, a department or even…

21 May

Ayaneo’s latest handhelds are inspired by the Game Boy and GB Micro

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We might just be living in the ultimate golden age of portable gaming. There’s the Switch for Nintendo first party games and indies, the Steam Deck and its rivals for modern PC titles and, of course, a whole bunch of systems intended for retro gaming. Ayaneo has been one of the leaders of this retro resurgence and it’s not slowing…

21 May

A Super Mario 64 mod may be as close as we ever get to Mario Maker 3D

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Super Mario Maker and its sequel are terrific games that let fans create and share their own Mario levels with ease. But it was a bit of a disappointment that Nintendo only factored in the 2D Mario games. None of the plumber's 3D incarnations have made it to a Mario Maker title to date. So thank goodness for modders. A pair…

21 May

Engadget Podcast: Microsoft’s Surface and Windows head on Copilot+ AI PCs

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Microsoft made some unusually major moves ahead of its Build developer conference: It announced a new Copilot+ initiative for powerful AI PCs, which will be led by the new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop. These machines are powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Plus and Elite chips, and they come with a special version of Windows 11 optimized for Arm…

21 May

The DOJ makes its first known arrest for AI-generated CSAM

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The US Department of Justice arrested a Wisconsin man last week for generating and distributing AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM). As far as we know, this is the first case of its kind as the DOJ looks to establish a judicial precedent that exploitative materials are still illegal even when no children were used to create them. “Put simply,…

21 May

Disney is laying off around 175 Pixar workers as it pulls back on original streaming shows

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Pixar is losing around 175 of its workers amid a Disney cost-cutting drive. It was reported as far back as January that layoffs were planned for the digital animation pioneer and the studio's headcount is being reduced by around 14 percent. According to The Guardian, the downsizing is part of moves to scale back on development of original shows and…

21 May

Twitch introduces new filtering tools that lets you exclude sexual and violent content

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Twitch has updated its filtering tools to allow the exclusion of livestreams that feature mature themes, like sexual, violent and profane content. In other words, you won’t have to sift through hundreds of gross streams just to find someone innocently drinking soda pop and playing through Hades 2. These new filter settings let people opt out of specific content labels,…

21 May

Kickstarter now allows late pledges after a campaign has ended

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We’ve all been there. You see something cool on Kickstarter. It’s reasonably priced and made by reputable folks. You fully intend on backing it, but life gets in the way and the campaign ends, leaving you out in the cold. Kickstarter just solved this very specific problem by continuing to allow financial backing after a campaign finishes. The new tool…