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Sinestro, Celeborn and Gandalf on the screen? It’s Friday, the second full day at San Diego Comic-Con, and CNET is onsite for all the happenings. While we eagerly await Marvel’s Hall H presentation on Saturday, we’re gathering here to bring you trailer drops and release dates for
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If you purchased an iPhone 16 or iPhone 15 at launch in order to jump into promised Apple Intelligence features, you were probably disappointed: The signature AI abilities were nowhere to be found, and only a few related features appeared later. The good news is that you may be entitled
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Roku is increasing the cost of its popular streaming players by up to $50, with one report suggesting that the AI-influenced “RAMageddon” is to blame. In an unusual move, Roku lists the existing prices on its website as “limited time,” but hasn’t specified when the new prices listed will
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* Pentagon issues Oracle with first ever direct-award contract * Nearly $7 billion in existing Oracle licensing is consolidated into a single contract vehicle * The contract is projected to deliver $441 million in savings by unifying technology purchases The US Department of War (DoW) has awarded Oracle with a near-$7 billion
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Vietnam is weighing the most unusual version yet of the youth social media bans that are sweeping the globe. Instead of kicking kids off platforms entirely, the country wants to let them stay logged in — just muted. Under a draft decree from Vietnam’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism,
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AI and ML Can you guess who didn't sign on to the group letter? With the US government scrutinizing AI as much as ever, 25 technology companies, industry organizations, and venture capital firms published an open letter on Friday urging policymakers to support open weight AI models. The
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Stop the spread (of online recruiting and propaganda) Europol and its partners' investigators flagged 4,340 “horrific” URLs for removal over several weeks in June and July as part of an ongoing crackdown on The Com (short for community), a loosely knit network of online groups whose young members
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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E-bikes are a great alternative to walking, using public transport, paying for a rideshare or spending massive amounts on gas — something none of us are immune to. Plus, they’re incredibly convenient for daily commuters and are far better for the environment than driving a car. There are various types
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Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie has nothing to do with Nirvana the actual band, and doesn’t actually parody that group at all. It does parody Back to the Future, though. And it’s one of the funniest things I’ve watched so far this year. To back
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We’re on the cusp of a major revolution in home internet connectivity, shifting the focus from wired to wireless solutions and, in the process, doing away with costly, time-consuming technician visits. Key Takeaways * Powered by America’s largest 5G network * Simple 15-minute self-install, no cable installation or technician visit
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Amazon MGM Studios has spent the last couple of days slowly teasing out what is coming to the next season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, and with its San Diego Comic Con panel now over we have a trailer highlighting what’s coming next. It
