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The Heavys H1E True Wireless Earbuds deliver a metal-first experience in spite of their bijou size (and largely plastic build). They're tuned to really bring out the low-end and bass prominence of heavier music genres, such as death metal and metalcore, even if it means they're
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* CD Projekt Red and Fool's Theory say there were narrative challenges when developing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt- Songs of the Past * The expansion is about Dandelion, but they didn't want him to "steal the show" from Geralt * There was also "pressure"
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Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ took the top three spots at the regional final of Road to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 2026 and will represent Central Eurasia in Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco on October 13-15, before 10,000+ tech leaders attending. The three emerged from
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The browser-based play mode will initially only be available on Chrome. Roblox Roblox is making it easier to access games on its platform. At the annual Roblox Developers Conference, the company has announced that it will launch browser-based gaming by the end of 2026. Players will be able to join
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Before now, Apple really didn’t have a device that sat between an iPhone and an iPad to give you a bigger screen while still being a smartphone. But is Apple’s first foldable phone all you need now? CNET Senior Tech Reporter Abrar Al-Heeti says the new iPhone Duo
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Exclusive preorder bonus: Minecraft Dungeons 2 won’t come out until Sept. 29, but if you preorder ahead of time, you’ll unlock some exclusive bonus features. Here’s how. Minecraft continues to be an explosive hit, and players are understandably excited to get their hands on the new game.
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Microsoft broke its previous Patch Tuesday record with yet another record-setter this week. September's Patch Tuesday will contain 974 total fixes, with 113 of them rated "Critical" for high likelihood of exploitation. So far this year, Microsoft has released 2760 security patches, more than doubling its
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Five ElevenLabs services are listed on the software lot of G-Cloud 15, the UK government’s cloud buying framework, according to the Digital Marketplace. They cover conversational agents, transcription, dubbing and text-to-speech. Three months ago the same government signed an agreement with the company that committed it to buying nothing.
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OpenAI has stopped selling the $200 tier of ChatGPT Pro, saying demand for its Astra model is straining its systems. European organisations face a second constraint the pause does not touch, because Astra still has no EU data zone deployment and no paid option keeps processing inside the EU data
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Pony.ai and Verne have started fully driverless passenger rides in Zagreb, the first anywhere in Europe, with nobody in the driver’s seat and Uber taking the bookings. The pair want more than 2,000 robotaxis on European roads, but the only EU-wide approval route for a fully automated
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China exported more than 6.2 million passenger cars in the first eight months of this year, beating its full-year total for 2025 with four months to spare, while domestic sales fell 25.6% in August. Europe absorbed much of the growth through plug-in hybrids, which the EU’s tariff
