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Meta is killing the standalone Workrooms app on February 16, 2026. The company presented Workrooms as a virtual reality space where teams can meet and collaborate in an immersive environment when it launched the product. Now Meta says its Horizon platform has evolved enough to support “a wide range of productivity apps and tools,” so it “made the decision to discontinue Workrooms as a standalone


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Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary said he wasn't interested in Elon Musk's Starlink.
  • The CEO of Europe's biggest airline and Elon Musk called each other "idiots" in a spat over Starlink.
  • Ryanair's Michael O'Leary said he wouldn't follow other airlines in installing satellite internet on planes.
  • O'Leary said that

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The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) has opened two investigations into Microsoft-owned game studio Activision Blizzard, centered around the mobile games Diablo Immortal and Call of Duty: Mobile. The AGCM alleges the free-to-play games use "misleading and aggressive practices" to encourage in-game purchases.

Regulators say the games rely on a "deceptive user interface design" meant to



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Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell as Dunk and Egg in "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms."
  • "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" is a 'Game of Thrones' spinoff based on three George R. R. Martin novellas.
  • Showrunner Ira Parker described the new HBO show as "'Game of Thrones' without all the stuff."
  • With a smaller cast and limited budget, the show presents a more grounded vision of Westeros.

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Last summer, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland brought fresh life to the zombie franchise 28 Days Later with 28 Years Later, a jaw-dropping marvel of a horror movie. So, Candyman director Nia DaCosta had a dizzyingly high bar to hit with this year's 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, a direct sequel that plunges deeper into the curious characters of the ossuary-building Dr. Ian Kelson (Ralph Fiennes)



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San Francisco-founded Smart glasses maker Viture has been sued in a US court by rival XREAL over claims it infringed on its patents, XREAL announced in a press release. The complaint, lodged in a federal Texas court, accuses Viture of illegally incorporating XREAL's patented tech into its products including the Luma Pro, Luma Ultra and Beast models. 

"The lawsuit is not merely about enforcing a


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Caroline Navarrete and her husband have made her parents' basement their home.
  • Caroline and Gabriel Navarrete live in the basement of Caroline's parents' home.
  • Her parents bought a house with a finished basement that could serve as an apartment for the couple.
  • The Navarretes said the affordable rent they pay has helped them save $20,000 for their own home.

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After telling the YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed that it was putting its RTX 5060 Ti 16GB and 5070 Ti into "end-of-life status," ASUS has backtracked on those comments and now says the GPUs will remain on sale. 

"Certain media may have received incomplete information from an ASUS PR representative regarding these products," the company said in a dedicated press release." The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti



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TikTok is bolstering its age-verification measures across Europe. In the coming weeks, the platform will roll out upgraded age-detection tech in the European Economic Area, as well as in the UK and Switzerland.

The systems will assess the likely age of a user based on their profile information and activity. When the tech flags an account that may belong to a user aged under 13 (the minimum age to