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28 Feb

LG’s latest OLED evo TVs start at $1,500 and go up to a sky-high $25,000

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LG unveiled its 2024 OLED evo TVs in January at CES 2024 promising extra brightness and other features, and we're now learning the prices for its best models. They'll start at $1,500 for the mid-range C4 models and go up to an impressive $25,000 for the 97-inch G4 flagship. First, here's what you're getting. The big theme this year was AI…

28 Feb

An Apple modder added a USB-C port to the AirPods Max, and you can buy a kit to do the same

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It's no secret that Apple is slowly transitioning away from the Lightning connector and embracing USB-C after the European Union forced its hand. While many accessories, the iPad and even the iPhone now use USB-C, the AirPods Max are still mired in Lightning land. However, engineer Ken Pillonel (who previously brought USB-C to the iPhone and AirPods before Apple did)…

28 Feb

The best fast chargers for 2024

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Nowadays, companies like Apple, Samsung and others are attempting to curb e-waste by not including USB phone chargers with the purchase of a new handset. This means you actually need to think about which one you should get instead, and how much you ought to spend. But it’s not all bad, because if you pick the right charging brick, it…

28 Feb

Former Call of Duty designer to lead new NetEase studio

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It's been a bleak year so far for the gaming industry, between mass layoffs, projects getting canceled and studios shutting down. There are some specks of light in the darkness, though, thanks to a few surprise hits like Palworld and Helldivers 2, while there are still some studios opening up. One of those is BulletFarm, a nascent NetEase studio led…

28 Feb

The Morning After: Apple’s car project may be dead

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After roughly a decade, multiple leadership changes and a regular spot in Apple rumor reports, the Apple Car project, internally known as Project Titan, could well be dead. A new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple has officially canceled the car, breaking the news to nearly 2,000 employees working on it.Apple will reportedly move “many employees working on the…

28 Feb

This is what the Nothing Phone 2(a) looks like

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Nothing's drip feed of specs and line drawings gets us to this point. At MWC 2024, the company finally revealed its next phone in the flesh during its MWC soiree. Sadly, it was in a glass box — which seems to be the not-great trend of this year's Mobile World Congress. But, for a phone seemingly pitched as its cheapest device…

28 Feb

Biden signs executive order to stop Russia and China from buying Americans’ personal data

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President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that aims to limit the mass-sale of Americans’ personal data to “countries of concern,” including Russia and China. The order specifically targets the bulk sale of geolocation, genomic, financial, biometric, health and other personally identifying information.During a briefing with reporters, a senior administration official said that the sale of such data to…

28 Feb

Nintendo lawsuit accuses Switch emulator creators of ‘piracy at a colossal scale’

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Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against the creators of a popular Switch emulator called Yuzu, which gives users a way to play games developed for the platform on their PCs and Android devices. In the lawsuit shared by Game File's Stephen Totilo, the company argued that Yuzu violates the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Nintendo…

28 Feb

Amazon accused of using AI to ‘replicate the voices’ of actors in Road House remake

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Amazon is being sued by the writer of the original 1989 Patrick Swayze version of the film Road House over alleged copyright infringement in the movie's remake, The Los Angeles Times has reported. Screenwriter R. Lance Hill accuses Amazon and MGM Studios of using AI to clone actors' voices in the new production in order to finish it before the…

27 Feb

Google is reportedly paying publishers thousands of dollars to use its AI to write stories

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Google has been quietly striking deals with some publishers to use new generative AI tools to publish stories, according to a report in Adweek. The deals, reportedly worth tens of thousands of dollars a year, are apparently part of the Google News Initiative (GNI), a six-year-old program that funds media literacy projects, fact-checking tools, and other resources for newsrooms. But…