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03 Oct

Samsung’s FAST TV Plus service is going all in on K-dramas

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Samsung TV Plus, the company’s FAST live TV app preinstalled on its TVs, is getting many more K-dramas. Over 4,000 hours of K-Dramas, K-Thrillers, K-Crime and K-Romance from Samsung’s home country of South Korea were added to the ad-supported streaming app on Thursday.The content comes from partnerships with “Korea’s most acclaimed production companies,” including CJ ENM, NEW ID and the…

03 Oct

Find a new life in death in The Sims 4’s Halloween-themed expansion

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Playing The Sims, the virtual life simulator created by sim game maven Will Wright, has always given its players the feeling that they can control life and death. A new expansion for The Sims 4 takes that concept even further with the Life & Death pack that launches on Halloween.The Life & Death expansion pack will take the world of…

03 Oct

Uber teams with Avride to offer self-driving vehicles for rides and food deliveries

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Uber has entered a new deal to offer customers in select cities an option for self-driving vehicles. The partnership is with Avride, which used to be the self-driving unit for Russian conglomerate Yandex.The multi-year deal will begin by introducing Avride's self-driving robots as a delivery option for Uber Eats orders in Austin, Texas. Later this year, the robots are expected…

03 Oct

The best early Amazon Prime Day deals to shop before October Big Deal Days

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Amazon Prime Big Deal Days is back this year, returning on October 8 and 9. The “fall Prime Day” of sorts has served as the online retailer’s unofficial kickoff to the holiday shopping season for the past few years. We expect most of the deals to be Prime exclusives, meaning you must be an active Prime subscriber to get the…

03 Oct

LG C4 OLED smart TVs hit record-low prices ahead of Prime Day

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The clarion call of next week’s Amazon Prime Day is getting louder and early deals are coming down the line. Case in point? LG’s C4 OLED smart TVs are on sale, with many sizes reaching record-low prices. The 55-inch model is just $1,297, which is around $700 off.LGThis is the company’s mid-grade line of OLED TVs. Each model includes the…

03 Oct

The Echo Dot is going for a record low of $23 thanks to a Prime Day deal

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If you’re looking for an Alexa speaker on the cheap, this Amazon Prime Day deal will be hard to beat. The Echo Dot (5th gen) has improved audio that competes with more expensive rivals like the HomePod mini. Usually going for $50, the latest Echo Dot is only $23 today, cheaper than its July Prime Day price.This Echo Dot model…

03 Oct

Amazon’s Smart Thermostat drops to $56 in this early Prime Day deal

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Amazon Prime Day is just around the corner, so deals have begun to trickle in. The company’s own Smart Thermostat has dropped to just $56, which is 30 percent off. The typical price is a whopping $80, so this is a legit bargain. It’s not a record-low price, but it’s darn close.This is a fantastic smart thermostat with a vast…

03 Oct

The Rubber Keyed Wonder is an adoring portrait of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum

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Hey! If you have fond memories playing Manic Miner or Jet Set Willy on your family TV, you’ll love The Rubber Keyed Wonder. It’s a new documentary chronicling the birth, life, death and rebirth of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum that premieres today. The crowdfunded film is an adoring look at the iconic and legendary artifact of computing history with plenty…

03 Oct

Saber Interactive is making a ‘AAA RPG’ based on Avatar: The Last Airbender

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Paramount just announced that it's going ahead with a new video game based on Avatar: The Last Airbender, which will be developed by Saber Interactive. For the uninitiated, Saber is behind titles like Snowrunner and Teardown. It also has plenty of experience making licensed content, as it published Evil Dead: The Game and World War Z: Aftermath, among others.A new…

03 Oct

Google stuffs more AI into search

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Google is adding more AI to search. On Thursday, the company unveiled a long list of changes, including AI-organized web results, Google Lens updates (including video and voice) and placing links and ads inside AI Overviews.One can suspect that AI-organized search results are where Google will eventually move across the board, but the rollout starts with a narrow scope. Beginning…