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Despite Epic Games’ surprise win at trial, I was skeptical that Judge James Donato would seriously consider forcing Google to let the Epic Games Store live inside its own Google Play Store, and give it access to every app inside Google Play. Those were two of the biggest



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Warren Buffett and Bill Gates
  • Bill Gates said he learned an important scheduling lesson from fellow billionaire Warren Buffett.
  • The Microsoft founder used to schedule his day down to the minute.
  • But Buffett's intentionally light calendar helped him ditch the overbooked schedule. 

Microsoft founder Bill Gates says you should stop overbooking your calendar.

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Social media is abuzz with examples of Google’s new AI Overview product saying weird stuff, from telling users to put glue on their pizza to suggesting they eat rocks. The messy rollout means Google is racing to manually disable AI Overviews for specific searches as various memes get posted, which is why users are seeing so many of them



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The following contains spoilers for “73 Yards.”

Russell T. Davies admits his writing eschews narrative formalism in favor of things that just feel right. Two decades ago, his critics pointed to his use of deus ex machina endings as a stick to beat his reputation with. But we’re in a different era now, where vibes matter just as much as logic — both inside the show’s new more fantastic skew, and in



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There's never been a Doctor Who season arc like Season 14's mystery of Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson), companion to the 15th Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa).

Since she was introduced in "The Church on Ruby Road" — set on her 19th birthday, Dec. 24 2023 — fans of this foundling have wondered who her parents were.

Doctor Who has thrived on season-arc mysteries since its return to our screens in 2005. From Rose



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The families of the victims killed in the Uvalde, Texas school shooting are suing Meta and Call of Duty developer Activision over allegations that they promoted the use of firearms to underage boys. The lawsuit claims both companies “knowingly exposed the Shooter to the weapon, conditioned him to see it as the solution to his problems, and trained him to



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Meredith Whittaker
  • Signal's CEO criticized OpenAI's handling of the Scarlett Johansson controversy in a TechCrunch interview.
  • Meredith Whittaker said OpenAI's leadership is pulling "disrespectful" and "unnecessary" "Edge Lord bullshit."
  • Johansson accused OpenAI of stealing her voice for its "Sky" assistant, which OpenAI denies.

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YouTuber Apple Demo has found a prototype third-generation iPod that contains a game called Stacker, which never made it to retail models. In addition to Apple’s own version of Tetris, the engineering sample iPod also came loaded with other unreleased titles, including games called B



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Jennifer Lopez stars in Netflix's sci-fi drama

Artificial intelligence is everywhere these days, and Netflix's new sci-fi epic Atlas knows it. Directed by Brad Peyton (San Andreas, Rampage), the film stars Jennifer Lopez as Atlas Shepherd, a woman on a quest to take down an evil artificial intelligence unit that's caused countless human deaths. 

In a distant future in which humanity is on the brink of destruction, Atlas decides to fight fire