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Amazon has announced that the servers for New World: Aeternum, one of the company's MMOs, will be shut down on January 31st, 2027. The game will also be delisted and no longer available for purchase starting today, January 15th.
Last year, Amazon announced that it would be pivoting away from MMOs to put more of a focus on party games, and the company said at the time that it wouldn't be...
Siri, are you there? It’s me, Gemini.
For an AI loser, Apple did an awful lot of winning last year.
The mess that was the Apple Intelligence rollout was embarrassing, to be sure, but through it all, the company kept doing what it does best: selling iPhones. With this week's news that it'll use Gemini models to power the long-awaited smarter Siri, Apple seems to have taken a big 'ol L in the...
Elizabeth Warren and other Democrat lawmakers have written an open letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking for an investigation into alleged "false advertising and deceptive practices" from Trump Mobile. The company first announced its T1 Phone more than six months ago, but is yet to ship a single phone to buyers.
The letter is signed by 11 Democrats, led by Senator Warren and...
The latest AirPods Pro have received a modest discount. | Photo: Chris Welch / The Verge
If you know where to look, you can often score deals on Apple’s ever-expanding AirPods lineup. Both the AirPods Max and AirPods 4 (with and without ANC) now consistently receive discounts, as do the newer AirPods Pro 3. And while recent shopping events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday delivered some...
Amazon's data centers will reportedly utilize copper from a mine in Arizona that's leaching metal from ores using microorganisms, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Amazon Web Services will be the first customer for Nuton Technologies, which developed the "bioleaching" technology. AWS will also be providing "cloud-based data and analytics support," helping to optimize Nuton's mining process...
Ema. | Image: Fábula
Every year, countless independent films without distribution deals make their debuts on the festival circuit only to disappear into the ether before the general public has had a chance to see them. Pijama, a new VOD streaming service, is trying to change that.
Created by filmmakers (and brothers) Juan de Dio and Pablo Larraín - whose past work includes Spencer and...
One of the most controversial issues in the AI industry over the past year was what to do when a user displays signs of mental health struggles in a chatbot conversation. OpenAI's head of that type of safety research, Andrea Vallone, has now joined Anthropic.
"Over the past year, I led OpenAI's research on a question with almost no established precedents: how should models respond when...
Raspberry Pi is launching a new add-on board capable of running generative AI models locally on the Raspberry Pi 5. Announced on Thursday, the $130 AI HAT+ 2 is an upgraded - and more expensive - version of the module launched last year, now offering 8GB of RAM and a Hailo 10H chip with 40 TOPS of AI performance.
Once connected, the Raspberry Pi 5 will use the AI HAT+ 2 to handle AI-...
Move over Squid Game: another bleak fictional world is being turned into competitive reality television. In the midst of season 2 of Fallout, Amazon has announced a new series called Fallout Shelter. According to a casting call, the show will put competitors inside of Fallout's iconic vaults and then test their survival skills in a re-creation of the postapocalyptic world. Presumably there...
Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. | Image: Getty Images
Microsoft's library of books is so heavy that it once caused a campus building to sink, according to an unproven legend among employees. Now those physical books, journals, and reports, and many of Microsoft's digital subscriptions to leading US newspapers, are disappearing in a shift described inside Microsoft as an "AI...