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28 Mar

You can now use your phone to get started with Amazon’s palm-reading tech

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Amazon just launched an app that lets people sign up for its palm recognition service without having to head to an in-store kiosk. The Amazon One app uses a smartphone’s camera to take a photo of a palm print to set up an account. Once signed up, you can pay for stuff by using just your hand, ending the tyranny…

28 Mar

More YouTube creators are now making money from Shorts, the company’s TikTok competitor

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YouTube’s TikTok competitor, Shorts, is becoming a more significant part of the company’s monetization program. The company announced that more than a quarter of channels in its Partner Program are now earning money from the short-form videos. The milestone comes a little more than a year after YouTube began sharing ad revenue with creators making Shorts. YouTube says it currently…

28 Mar

Google reverses course and brings its Gemini AI to the regular Pixel 8

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Google will bring Gemini, the company’s new large language model, to Pixel 8 smartphones after all. The phone will incorporate Gemini Nano, a version of the model built to run locally on personal devices. This follows a successful rollout to the Pixel 8 Pro late last year and the Samsung Galaxy S24 in January. The Pixel 8 features the same…

28 Mar

Sam Bankman-Fried just got sentenced to 25 years in prison

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Disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was just sentenced to 25 years behind bars in a ruling handed forth New York's Southern District Court. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan announced the decision this morning. As posted by CNN, Bankman-Fried expressed regret for his actions and the people he harmed. "It's been excruciating to watch," he said. "Customers don't deserve any of…

28 Mar

Vizio just announced a $999 86-inch 4K TV

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Walmart ag ’d have to sell a kidney to afford a giantg 4K TV for the living room. That is no longer true, as television prices continue to decline. Case in point? Vizio just announced a new 86-inch 4K smart TV that costs just $999. The first thing worth mentioning about the latest member of Vizio’s lineup of 4K televisions…

28 Mar

Visions of Mana preview: A faithful reimagination of a classic

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Classic JRPGs are sort of having a moment. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has brought new life and a new generation of gamers to one of the most iconic franchises around. More recently Unicorn Overlord has given us a spiritual sequel to Ogre Battle that’s so good even series creator Yasumi Matsuno (and director of Final Fantasy Tactics) has been telling people…

28 Mar

Take-Two is buying Gearbox from Embracer for $460 million

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More major changes are afoot on the business side of the video game world, as a notable name is changing hands once again. Take-Two Interactive (the parent company of Grand Theft Auto publisher Rockstar and others) has agreed to buy Gearbox Entertainment from the embattled Embracer Group. The deal is worth $460 million in stock and is expected to close…

28 Mar

Meta and Google face claims of restricting reproductive health ads and fueling misinformation

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A new report found Meta and Google are restricting reproductive health information in Asia, Africa and Latin America. MSI Reproductive Choices and the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which partnered on the report, claim that the companies have restricted local abortion providers' ads and allowed misinformation to fester, among other misdoings. Take Mexico, which decriminalized abortion in 2023 but where…

28 Mar

Tamagotchi Uni finally feels complete after its biggest update yet

John RoutledgeLatest News

Ever since Tamagotchi Uni became globally available last summer, it’s felt like a product with a lot of unrealized potential. Bear in mind, I say this as someone who loves this device and has run it daily since launch. But on top of all the basic activities one would expect at this point from the digital pet toy, the Wi-Fi…

28 Mar

Microsoft Copilot AI will soon run locally on PCs

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Microsoft's Copilot AI service is set to run locally on PCs, Intel told Tom's Hardware. The company also said that next-gen AI PCs would require built-in neural processing units (NPUs) with over 40 TOPS (trillion operations per second) of power — beyond the capabilities of any consumer processor on the market. Intel said that the AI PCs would be able…