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Nearly two years after it first debuted, Panic has caught up on preorders for its adorable Playdate handheld. The company says that it has shipped more than 70,000 of the tiny yellow gadgets — up from 50,000 last April — and that there is now a “limited number” in stock to purchase right now on Panic’s site. (The news comes just a day after A



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The official red band trailer for Sasquatch Sunset has arrived, featuring two bigfeet going at it in full view of God and family. You'd think they'd be able to find somewhere more private considering they live in a secluded forest.

Starring Riley Keough, Jesse Eisenberg, Christophe Zajac-Denek, and Nathan Zellner in extensive prosthetics, the absurdist comedy follows a family of sasquatches over



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Apple TV Plus has some more aliens on the way. The streaming service has confirmed that its sci-fi drama Invasion will be getting a third season, after wrapping up season 2 in October. There aren’t many details about the new season — including when it might start streaming — but production is set to begin sometime in February.

In a statement, series creator



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NVIDIA just released a free demo version of a chatbot that runs locally on your PC. This is pretty neat, as it gives the chatbot access to your files and documents. You can feed Chat with RTX a selection of personal data and have it create summaries based on that information. You can also ask it questions, just like any chatbot, and dives into your data for answers.

The company says it allows



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Once upon a time, the heroes of the DC and Marvel universes teaming up wasn’t too uncommon a thing. From Spider-Man and Superman to Batman and Devil, or to the wild world of ‘90s comics in the Amalgam universe—where DC and Marvel heroes literally got mashed together—the two “rivals” of the comics industry have a long…

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Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter is the subject of Zoë Schiffer's new book "Extremely Hardcore."
  • Twitter engineers faced technical challenges when reinstating Donald Trump's Twitter account.
  • Engineers struggled to find enough capacity to revive the account, Zoë Schiffer wrote in her new book.
  • The situation got so bad that Musk offered to lend a hand, Schiffer wrote in

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Republicans, unable to reach agreement on a border deal, opted to move ahead without those provisions.
Republicans, unable to reach agreement on a border deal, opted to move ahead without those provisions.
  • The Senate approved a Ukraine and Israel aid bill — without any border provisions.
  • Republicans had demanded border security measures, only to reject them as insufficiently harsh.
  • 22 GOP senators, slightly less than half of the conference, joined most Democrats to pass the

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Taylor Swift talked her talk and went viral again — this time on TikTok.

On Monday night, the pop star uploaded a video of her boyfriend Travis Kelce at the Super Bowl after-party. The video opens with Kelce displaying some real "boyfriend in an Instagram story" behavior by sticking his tongue out and playing to the camera. Beneath him are the words, "It's a friends and family party they said."



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Dating apps are now the go-to method for finding lovealmost one fifth of the UK now uses them – "dating the algorithm" has become a commonly used phrase. It refers to the fact that our matches are selected by an algorithm, a digital calculation, which can make us feel like we are dating a computer’s choice, not our own. But are we taking a step further, implementing artificial intelligence into



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From Skynet to The Matrix, the possibility of machines one day being able to outsmart us has provided the backdrop to stories from science fiction books to the silver screen. But with AI technology evolving at rapid speed, will it soon be time to say “hasta la vista baby” to humans’ control over machines? Although many now agree that the trajectory towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has