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PlayStation Plus, Sony's subscription gaming service for its consoles, is increasing its price for new subscribers. The company blamed "ongoing market conditions" for the price increase. It's the go-to explanation for gaming hardware companies, including Microsoft and Nintendo's increases in pricing for
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Dive Brief Phil Wiser helped guide AI adoption at the media firm. His departure comes less than a month after Paramount’s Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition. Published May 18, 2026 Dive Brief: * Paramount CTO Phil Wiser is stepping down after more than seven years with the media company, according to
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AWS News Blog Just a year ago, we launched AWS Transform for .NET, Mainframe and VMware workloads, the first agentic AI service purpose-built for modernizing enterprise applications at scale. At re:Invent 2025, we introduced AWS Transform custom, which enables organizations to modernize and transform code at scale using AWS-managed
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Musk’s legal team looked “sunken in their chairs” after the jury’s decision was announced, the NYT reported. One of the billionaire’s lawyers, Marc Toberoff, who hosted daily calls with press during the trial, quickly confirmed that Musk will appeal. Altman and Brockman were not present when the
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The tech trial of the year, Musk v. Altman, was ultimately a fight for control. Elon Musk argued that Sam Altman, with whom he helped found the now-massive company OpenAI, shouldn’t direct the future of AI. Altman’s lawyers, in turn, poked at Musk’s own credibility. A jury
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, what sort of project should you spend next weekend building? How about a smart mirror that shows you the time, a calendar, your to-do list, room temperature and humidity, and a weather forecast? Looking into it will help you get ready for the day as
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If you moderate user-generated content at scale, you need a system that catches policy violations accurately without over-flagging legitimate posts. A moderation system that misses harmful content puts you at risk, while one that flags too aggressively frustrates your audience. Every organization defines its own policies, so a single classifier
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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. Walmart’s Onn brand just launched a whole line of budget-friendly Android tablets that, all together, cost less in total than a single iPad
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* Apple has sent out invites for WWDC, kicking off on June 8 with a keynote * ‘Coming Bright Up’ tagline strongly hints at major Siri AI upgrades * Expect the AI-powered Siri and Apple Intelligence to headline the event While we’ve known Apple’s WWDC 2026 was set for the second
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data
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