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Erika Roberts jokes around wearing national dress at the Munich beer festival.
  • Erika Roberts moved to Germany to study, partly because she didn't enjoy college in the US.
  • She attends medical school in Munich and plans to become a doctor.
  • The 27-year-old pays the equivalent of $100 per semester for tuition.

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HBO head Casey Bloys with "Task" star Mark Ruffalo. What happens to Bloys — and shows like "Task" — if Netflix's proposed $83 billion deal for HBO/Warner Bros. goes through?
  • Netflix became HBO faster than HBO could become Netflix.
  • That's why Netflix is buying HBO.
  • But assume the deal goes through, does HBO stick around, or get merged into Netflix? I have some

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The Switch 2's lack of a built-in camera means you need an external one for GameChat video calls. But now, if your phone is a Google Pixel, you don't even need one of those. Android Authority reported on Friday that the two now work nicely together (without needing third-party apps), and our tests confirm that.

Google has technically supported the use of Android devices as external webcams for two



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The debut game from Liquid Swords will arrive in early 2026, it was announced at today's PC Gaming Show. Samson: A Tyndalston Story is billed as "a consequence-heavy noir action game" by its developer, and focuses on the eponymous Samson McCray, a man who's got himself into serious debt in a city that doesn’t seem particularly forgiving. 

The debut trailer doesn’t give too much away in terms of


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Several AI applications can be seen on a smartphone screen, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, Grok and DeepSeek. The apps are grouped in a folder labeled

Well, AI is joining the ranks of many, many people: It doesn't really understand poetry.

Research from Italy’s Icaro Lab found that poetry can be used to jailbreak AI and skirt safety protections.

In the study, researchers wrote 20 prompts that started with short poetic vignettes in Italian and English and ended the prompts with a single explicit instruction to produce harmful content. They tested



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"Rebel Without A Cause" and "Friends" are beloved works in the Warner Bros. library.
  • Netflix is set to acquire Warner Bros. in a $72 billion deal for its streaming and studios business.
  • That means the streamer would own a slew of classic movies and TV shows from the WBD catalog.
  • Titles that would be owned by Netflix include "Casablanca," "Friends," and the "Harry Potter" franchise.

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