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Andrew Webster is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. The Emmys have a new home — and it looks like Amazon paid plenty for the rights. The awards show and Amazon announced a
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Skydance now controls some of the biggest film studios, TV networks, and streaming services. by Emma Roth Oct 6, 2026, 1:32 PM UTC Image: The Verge Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a
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Omnivision has announced a pair of new global-shutter image sensors, in five- and 12-megapixel variants, targeting computer vision products in industrial automation, vehicles, and robotics. "In situations where speed, vibration and motion are constant, maintaining image clarity becomes critical," says Omnivision's Kelly Yan of the advantage
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The Arduino VENTUNO Q was built primarily for edge AI and robotics applications, but in the hands of a hacker, it can do a lot more. Jim Bruges wanted to push this new board to its limits, so he tried turning it into a gaming PC. An embedded hardware platform
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It includes AI voice removal for karaoke, Wi-Fi sound and touch controls. JBL JBL has just released its most powerful (and expensive) PartyBox speaker, the $1,800 PartyBox Ultimate 2 offering 1,500 watts of sound, trumping its previous 800-watt PartyBox 720 model. It has a very large form factor
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ZDNET’s key takeaways * Mistral’s open-weight ML4 model Le Chonk is in preview. * ML4 was trained with fewer GPUs than OpenAI’s Astra, but competes. * Open models are positioned as democratic defenders from AI attacks. French AI lab Mistral has shipped its latest model, Mistral Large 4 (ML4) — and
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As tensions mount over who gets access to top-end artificial intelligence, French company Mistral has released a new freely-available model that it claims can compete with the very best from the US and China. The new one trillion-parameter model, Mistral Large 4—nicknamed Le Chonk—can be used and customized
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After suffering years of frustration with Apple’s parental control features, I’ve been eagerly anticipating the revamped Screen Time that launched last month with iOS 27. Unfortunately, I can’t use it. Technically, this is because my 18-year-old son hasn’t got round to updating his MacBook. But mostly,
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* PocketBook has announced the Verta and Verta Color * These six-inch ereaders have changeable back plates * They're shipping in November at competitive prices Just a few days ago Amazon launched a new wave of Kindles, and now PocketBook is launching some new competing ereaders of its own — and these
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Watch NCIS season 24 online * NCIS season 24premiere: Tuesday, October 6 at 8:00 pm ET/PT * US broadcast: CBS via Fubo * US stream:Paramount Plus * Use NordVPN to watch from anywhere It's all change for fans of NCIS in season 24, with familiar faces returning and long-standing
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When you think of the biggest Nintendo games, images of Link’s green tunic, Mario’s blue dungarees and Princess Peach’s pink dress invariably come to mind. Yet where mascots Samus, Starfox and Kirby won the battle for players’ hearts, it was 2006’s Wii Sports that truly conquered
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* Meta halved its number of Claude seats while pushing MetaCode adoption * Microsoft also reportedly asked workers to use Copilot over Claude * Anthropic could face reputational damage from DoD designation There seems to be an ongoing shift away from Claude happening in Big Tech, but the reasons behind why two major
