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News Corp sues Perplexity for ripping off WSJ and New York Post

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News Corp, the parent company of media outlets like The Wall Street Journal and the New...
News Corp, the parent company of media outlets like The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, is suing the AI search engine Perplexity for infringing copyrighted content. In a lawsuit filed on Monday, News Corp alleges Perplexity copies news articles, analyses, and opinions “on a massive scale.”Perplexity is an...
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Elon Musk is offering people $1 million to vote

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk gave a $1 million check to an audience member at a rally...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk gave a $1 million check to an audience member at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he’s been Trump-stumping, on Saturday. And he said he will continue to give that prize to one random voter per day until the Presidential election on November 5th. The move could very well break US ...
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Alien: Romulus is getting a VHS release

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The tech YouTuber who opened a coffee shop

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For the last eight months, David Cogen has been living a double life. By day: a...
For the last eight months, David Cogen has been living a double life. By day: a YouTuber and creator, the face of TheUnlockr, reviewing phones and testing ebikes and explaining how food smokers really work. By night and morning and every single other available moment in between: a coffee shop entrepreneur, working t...
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Apple’s macOS Sequoia lets you snap windows into position — here’s how

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The Internet Archive hackers still have access to its internal emailing tools

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Early this morning, I received an email from “The Internet Archive Team,” replying to a message...
Early this morning, I received an email from “The Internet Archive Team,” replying to a message I’d sent on October 9th. Except its author doesn’t seem to have been the digital archivists’ support team — it was apparently written by the hackers who breached the site earlier this month and who evidently maintain some...
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Time to upgrade your reading gadgets

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 57, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in...
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 57, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy Kindle Season to all who celebrate, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about sports betting and designer proteins an...
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Why are Instagram searches for ‘Adam Driver Megalopolis’ blocked for CSAM?

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Ford tells some EV customers to stop using its Tesla Supercharger adapter

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iFixit’s Meta Quest 3S teardown reveals a Quest 2 ‘hiding inside’

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Ember’s temperature-controlled smart mugs are 20 percent off today

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Fall has arrived, bringing cooler temperatures with it. Thankfully, Ember is running a sale through October...
Fall has arrived, bringing cooler temperatures with it. Thankfully, Ember is running a sale through October 21st that takes 20 percent off many of its self-heating vessels — including the Ember Mug 2, a guilty pleasure of ours. The 10-ounce mug is available for about $104 ($27 off) with promo code SEASON20, while th...
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At 21 years old, the iMac G4 is still down to party

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It’s been 20 years since Apple discontinued the iMac G4, a unique computer with a funky...
It’s been 20 years since Apple discontinued the iMac G4, a unique computer with a funky half-globe base and a flatscreen LCD on a fancy hinge and adjustable arm. In its unaltered state, it’s a nice-to-look-at, nostalgic relic that’s unusable in modern contexts. I coveted it and never got to own one at the time, but ...
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Anora’s Sean Baker writes the ending first

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Sean Baker’s film Anora won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — the...
Sean Baker’s film Anora won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — the latest in the director’s acclaimed narratives about sex workers that include Tangerine, The Florida Project, and Red Rocket. But Anora might be his most inviting, accessible work yet.Anora — or Ani, as she prefers — is a lap dancer ...
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DJI sues the US Department of Defense for labeling it a ‘Chinese Military Company’

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DJI, the world’s largest drone company, is suing to avoid being seen as a tool of...
DJI, the world’s largest drone company, is suing to avoid being seen as a tool of the Chinese government. On Friday, it sued the US Department of Defense to delete its name from a list of “Chinese Military Companies,” claiming it has no such relationship to Chinese authorities and has suffered unfairly as a result o...
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Stoke Voltaics’ portable electric cookware review

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Sometimes you just need a portable electric cookset. Maybe it’s during a major power outage when...
Sometimes you just need a portable electric cookset. Maybe it’s during a major power outage when everyone’s huddled together over the warm glow of the family power station. Or maybe it’s at a tailgate party or picnic. In my case, it’s anywhere I decided to park my van over the last few months while testing two cooki...
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Here are the best smart locks you can buy right now

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A smart lock is an easy solution to some common problems. Locked yourself out? Need to...
A smart lock is an easy solution to some common problems. Locked yourself out? Need to let a friend in to water the plants? Your latchkey kid lost their key? Hands are full, and it’s raining cats and dogs? A smart lock solves all of these problems and more. One of the best smart home upgrades you can make, a smart l...
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Penguin Random House books now explicitly say ‘no’ to AI training

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Book publisher Penguin Random House is putting its stance on AI training in print. The standard...
Book publisher Penguin Random House is putting its stance on AI training in print. The standard copyright page on both new and reprinted books will now say, “No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems,” according to a repor...
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Zens’ new Qi2 charger is about as close as you get to plugging your phone directly into a wall

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Qi2 chargers are quite prevalent these days, and come in all kinds of shapes and sizes,...
Qi2 chargers are quite prevalent these days, and come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, so why not make one exclusively for Europeans with outlets above their kitchen countertops and a neat assortment of olive oils?Zens may have figured out the key to a truly wire-free wireless charger with its new Wireless Charging...
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Watch Adobe rotate a flat drawing of a bread basket as if it were a 3D object

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Adobe has been working on some experimental tech that could help speed up concept and planning...
Adobe has been working on some experimental tech that could help speed up concept and planning work for graphic designers and audio engineers. Some of the “sneaks” previewed during Adobe’s MAX event include tools that can turn sketches into a variety of polished designs, and a feature for rotating 2D art as if it we...
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What is the best controller for Xbox consoles and PC?

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You may not realize it, but we’re living in a golden age of gaming controllers. The...
You may not realize it, but we’re living in a golden age of gaming controllers. The gamepads on the market now are higher quality, more versatile, and more customizable than anything from just a few console generations ago. If you’re gaming on an Xbox Series X or Series S (or a Windows PC), you now have a plethora o...
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Netflix says subscribers spend two hours a day on the platform

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Netflix says subscribers spend an average of two hours each day using the platform, while household...
Netflix says subscribers spend an average of two hours each day using the platform, while household viewership increased compared to last year, according to the company’s third-quarter earnings report released today.The streamer has had a massive past few months, reporting $9.83 billion in revenue and $2.91 billion ...
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YouTube is testing its cheaper Premium Lite subscription again, but it now has limited ads

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Last year, YouTube axed Premium Lite, its cheaper version of YouTube Premium, but the company has...
Last year, YouTube axed Premium Lite, its cheaper version of YouTube Premium, but the company has been testing a new version of the subscription in Australia, Germany, and Thailand, YouTube confirmed to Android Authority.The company confirmed the tests to The Verge as well, with spokesperson Jessica Gibby saying tha...
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Rivian’s new update could make your EV feel like Knight Rider (or Back to the Future)

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Rivian’s getting into the Halloween spirit by adding new “car costumes” to its electric vehicles that...
Rivian’s getting into the Halloween spirit by adding new “car costumes” to its electric vehicles that can theme out its screens to look like the Time Machine interface from Back to the Future or KITT from Knight Rider. (It’ll animate red KITT-like scanner lights on the front of the car, too.) There’s also a non-IP-s...
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Automattic offered employees another chance to quit over WordPress drama

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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg offered a second buyout round to employees who don’t agree with his...
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg offered a second buyout round to employees who don’t agree with his actions, according to a report from 404 Media. In a message to employees seen by the outlet, Mullenweg gave employees until October 17th to decide whether they would resign in exchange for nine months of pay.“New alignm...
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