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Google's NotebookLM now allows users to provide customized instructions for Audio Overviews tool, which generates a podcast-like discussion between two AI hosts.
  • Google's NotebookLM Audio Overview feature went viral for its podcast-like AI discussions.
  • It's added the ability to further customize what the AI hosts talk about and is piloting a business version.
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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are both courting voters in Pennsylvania
  • I spoke to voters and a mayor in Northampton, one of two bellwether counties in Pennsylvania.
  • Many talked about the economy, especially inflation, but had very different ideas on whom to blame.
  • The mayor told me that politics are local — and the election will likely come down to

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Judalon Smyth and Leslie Grossman in "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story."
  • "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story" adapts the murder trial of Lyle Menendez and Erik Menendez.
  • Leslie Grossman plays a witness in the trial, Judalon Smyth.
  • Grossman said she deliberately did not contact the real Smyth out of respect for her.

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Charli XCX talks to the crowd at her album release show at Storm King Art Center.
  • I've been a Charli XCX superfan for years and saw her when I was 14.
  • Now, I'm a working adult but still a superfan. I've made time to see her perform three times this year.
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Google’s NotebookLM now lets you customize its podcast-like Audio Overviews. Before you generate a discussion using the note-taking app, you can give your AI hosts instructions about what topic you’d like them to focus on, or even tailor their discussions for different audiences.

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Qualcomm has canceled its Windows on ARM PC dev kit, otherwise called the Snapdragon X Elite Developer Kit. Refunds are going out, sales have ceased and support for the kit has stopped, according to reporting by The Verge. It was originally supposed to ship in June before being delayed.

In an email to customers, Qualcomm chalked the whole thing up to quality control. It said the mini PC



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If you've gotten used to where Google Maps displays weather information, I have bad news for you.

Google is planning on slightly tweaking the Google Maps mobile app by putting weather somewhere else, per 9to5Google. Weather has only been part of the Maps experience for less than a year and, until this change, it has sat in the upper left hand corner of the map display as you scroll around looking



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The AirPods Pro 2 recently received FDA authorization as OTC hearing aids. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge

The Federal Communications Commission announced that, going forward, all mobile handsets in the US including smartphones will have to be compatible with hearing aids. It’s also established new rules around volume control and improved product labeling so people with



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It looks like even more AI is going to be trained on your shitposts on X.

X announced back in July that it would use users posts to train X's AI chatbot Grok, but on Wednesday, the social network updated its Privacy Policy to allow third parties to train their AI models on X data, too.

In the third section of the Privacy Policy, X writes that "depending on your settings, or if you decide to share