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No Halloween, Thanksgiving or Christmas is complete without viewing one of the holiday adjacent Peanuts specials. These days, Apple TV owns the television rights to It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and A Charlie Brown Christmas but it appears that Apple TV wants everyone to have a chance to enjoy these Peanuts specials this year.

Apple announced that it’s making



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Google and Roblox have teamed up to create a game that teaches kids how to spot internet scams and to increase caution regarding the sharing of personal information online. The suite of experiences is called, and I quote, Be Internet Awesome World. Did Melania Trump name this thing?

This “gameplay experience” exists within Roblox, which Google says helps it “reach kids where they’re already



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Meta's big event, called Meta Connect, took place on Wednesday and with it came lots of news.

While it might not draw the same excitement as an Apple Event, it certainly wasn't without headlines and developments. Chief among them: the Meta Quest 3S and the Orion glasses.

Mashable covered all the big news in detail. Here's everything that was announced as well as links to further coverage and more



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The Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday a new law enforcement effort called Operation AI Comply. As part of the sweep, it took action against multiple companies that used artificial intelligence to "supercharge" deceptive products and services.

The cases involved AI-generated fake reviews, "the world's first robot lawyer," and online storefront schemes.

The FTC said in a statement that



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A photo of Mark Zuckerberg demoing Meta's Orion augmented-reality smart glasses at Meta Connect 2024.
Mark Zuckerberg showed off Meta's Orion augmented-reality smart glasses, which aren't available to purchase, at Meta Connect 2024.
  • Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the Meta Connect 2024 developer conference on Wednesday with a keynote.
  • The big news was his demo of Meta's first "true AR" prototype glasses, "Orion," which are still a work in progress.
  • He also revealed new Meta AI



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Meta Ray-Bans.
  • Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are getting an upgrade with new AI features and memory retention.
  • The glasses can scan QR codes, give live assistance in the moment, and offer live translations.
  • Mark Zuckerberg touted the new functions at Meta Connect 2024.

Meta's smart glasses are getting an upgrade.

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of the tech behemoth, shared the updates to Meta's Ray-Bans



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iRobot's Roomba Combo Essential bundle is available for $280 right now via QVC. This is a discount of $170 for a combo pack that includes the Roomba Combo 2 robovac and the self-emptying base. The vacuum typically costs $280 all by its lonesome, so this basically gets you a free base. However, the vacuum is available for just $200 right now via Amazon without the base.

This is certainly a budget



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You can strike one game off of the busy fall 2024 calender. Ubisoft has delayed Assassin's Creed Shadows until February 14. It was originally supposed to hit PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC, Mac and iPad on November 15.

You can probably guess the main reason why Ubisoft is pushing the latest entry in the saga back by a few months. While all of the features are largely set, the company needs more time to



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This exclusive offer for our readers allows you to secure a two-year Premium subscription to NordPass at a record low price of just $1.18 per month (with an additional three months free) when you use the special code Gizmodo15 from September 24th to 30th.



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Google filed a complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission on Wednesday. In it, Google accused Microsoft of making it prohibitively expensive for cloud customers to move their work from Azure to other providers, like Google Cloud.

Google claims Microsoft’s cloud licensing terms restrict European customers from switching to competing cloud platforms despite “no technical barriers to