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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Peacock is raising prices across its streaming plans once again, with the company’s cheapest ad-supported Select tier going from $7.99
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* Windows 11's right-click menu has some big changes in testing * This context menu is being streamlined and is now more responsive * You can also customize the entries in the menu, or even switch it to be like Windows 10's version Microsoft is finally streamlining Windows 11&
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For financial institutions, operational resilience has long been embedded in regulatory and supervisory expectations — to say nothing of the high expectations of consumers. With the implementation of the European Union’s Digital Operational Resiliency Act (DORA), those expectations have become even more stringent, with more explicit, harmonized, and evidence-driven requirements.
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Enterprise teams running AI agents at scale are finding that a single model handles every task poorly — either the model is too expensive for simple questions or not capable enough for hard ones. Model routing, which picks the right model for each task automatically, is becoming the fix. Snowflake’s
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Most voice agent pricing starts with a single number: voice agent cost per minute. However, this figure doesn’t reveal much about the real cost of running a production system. I discovered this firsthand while building and running a voice agent for enterprise use. When you factor in speech recognition,
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Web pages have become increasingly busy. Alongside the content people actually want to read, many sites now include display advertising, video promotions, pop-ups, cookie banners, sponsored elements, and social widgets. Ad blockers offer a way to reduce some of that clutter directly within a browser. However, they are not all
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From 24 August, YouTube counts a view the moment a video starts playing. No minimum watch time, across long-form, Shorts and live, everywhere. The YouTube view count will go up. Nobody will watch more. Nobody will earn more. What the rule was, and nobody could tell you Until now a
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* A 19-year-old resident of Kurgan, Russia, is facing charges for searching for and listening to a banned song online * Authorities allege the teenager used a VPN to deliberately bypass local internet restrictions * The charge falls under a controversial administrative law penalizing the search for "knowingly extremist" materials The
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* Watch The Great ADHD Myth?free on Channel 4 (UK restricted) * Use NordVPN to watch Channel 4 from abroad * Premieres August 18, 2026 Channel 4 is wading into one of the fiercest medialkrishi debates with The Great ADHD Myth?, a provocative 60-minute documentary hosted by NHS psychiatrist Dr. Max Pemberton,
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Enterprise AI is reaching an important economic turning point. For the past two years, organizations have largely evaluated AI through the lens of token pricing and model capability. As AI moves from experimentation into business-critical operations, that approach is becoming increasingly incomplete. The question is no longer simply what each
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Companies are still grappling with exactly how software development should work in the AI area, but one early answer is the so-called software factory. Essentially an agent loop that’s built around the traditional stages of software development, the software factory approach has become a popular way for companies to
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Anthro Energy broke ground on Tuesday on a factory in Louisville, Kentucky, that can make enough battery materials for more than 300,000 electric vehicles. But the facility’s headline output, 25 gigawatt-hours worth of electrolytes, is just part of the story. Anthro’s factory could give solid-state batteries a
