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Jan 07 • 4 months ago

Warner Bros. sticks with Netflix merger, calls Paramount’s $108B bid “illusory”

Larry Ellison pledged $40B, but "he didn’t raise the price," Warner chair says. ...

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Jan 07 • 4 months ago

Dell’s XPS revival is a welcome reprieve from the “AI PC” fad

Dell moves from pushing "AI PCs" and back to what matters in laptops. ...

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Jan 07 • 4 months ago

Letting prisons jam contraband phones is a bad idea, phone companies tell FCC

"Jamming will block all communications," including 911 calls, CTIA tells FCC. ...

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Jan 07 • 4 months ago

With GeForce Super GPUs missing in action, Nvidia focuses on software upgrades

Nvidia's only GeForce announcements this year were about software improvements. ...

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Jan 07 • 4 months ago

HP’s EliteBoard G1a is a Ryzen-powered Windows 11 PC in a membrane keyboard

The most familiar, full-fledged PC experience you can get from a keyboard. ...

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Jan 07 • 4 months ago

Motorola reveals the Razr Fold, a book-style foldable launching this summer

Motorola is light on details but heavy on hype for its first book-style foldable. ...

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Jan 06 • 4 months ago

Magneto, Xavier reunite in new Avengers: Doomsday teaser

"The question isn’t ‘are you prepared to die?’ The question is ‘who will you be when you close your eyes?’” ...

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Jan 06 • 4 months ago

Nvidia’s new G-Sync Pulsar monitors target motion blur at the human retina level

Four new monitors promise "effective motion clarity of a theoretical 1,000 Hz monitor." ...

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Jan 06 • 4 months ago

Appeals court agrees that Congress blocked cuts to research costs

The Trump admin can't arbitrarily set university reimbursements to a low flat rate. ...

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Jan 06 • 4 months ago

News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.

OpenAI's loss in privacy fight could lead to sharing even more deleted chats. ...

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Jan 06 • 4 months ago

AI images of Maduro capture reap millions of views on social media

Lack of verified information and rapidly advanced AI tools make it difficult to separate fact from fiction on US attackMinutes after Donald Trump announced a “large-scale strike” against Ven...

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Jan 06 • 4 months ago

The nation’s strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers’ chagrin

Californians can now submit demands requiring 500 brokers to delete their data. ...

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