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The Wall Street Journal’s parent company, Dow Jones, and the New York Post are suing AI-powered search startup Perplexity for using their content to train its large language models. Both News Corp. publications are accusing Perplexity of copyright infringement for using their articles to generate answers to people’s queries, thereby taking traffic away from the

Hazelight Studios, the developer of A Way Out and It Takes Two, has been working on its next title. Now, a reliable leaker has shared the alleged title of the game. Hazelight’s next game will be called Split Fiction, the leaker claimed Monday. The information arrives after Hazelight founder Josef Fares, the award-winning writer/director of

Another year, another flagship Qualcomm mobile chip. But things are reportedly a bit different with the Snapdragon 8 Elite, the company’s newest offering headed to premium smartphones. For one, it’s using the Oryon CPU that debuted in X Elite chips for laptops last year, according to a leaked slide from Videocardz. It’s also using a

WhatsApp for Android might be getting a new feature for its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Meta AI. As per a feature tracker, the instant messaging platform is adding a new chat memory feature that will let users ask the AI to remember specific information about themselves. Once a piece of information has been saved in

Playing Spilled Mushrooms has been a humbling experience. There I was, thinking I’m good at both puzzles and card games, when I found myself briefly stumped on my very first “delivery” in this card puzzle game about gathering mushrooms. That’s what I get for underestimating a game with cute animals in the cover art. In

Fitness trackers are primarily available in the form of wearables that resemble a wristwatch, but ‘smart rings’ are growing increasingly popular, including products from Oura, Ultrahuman, and Samsung. Unlike smartwatches that include an adjustable strap, smart rings must be purchased in a specific size option that fits the wearer. However, a person’s ring size might

It’s a slower October than usual in the tech industry, thanks mostly to Google and Microsoft having held their typical fall hardware announcements earlier this year. Still, we’ve seen a fair number of companies reveal new devices in the last two weeks, while Amazon’s October Prime Day raged on. Whether you were busy shopping or

Snapdragon 8 Elite — previously expected to debut as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 — is expected to be announced by Qualcomm next week, and details of the upcoming chipset’s performance have now been leaked online. According to a benchmark result for the purported Realme GT 7 Pro, the Snapdragon 8 Elite could offer a

The following article discusses the fifth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks and older Treks. There’s no such thing as “dead” in Star Trek, the sprawling, perpetual opus that has thrived in spite of itself for almost sixty years. What started as a cornball space-ships and punch-fights show for atomic-age kids and their parents has

Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is expected to arrive in early 2025 as the South Korean tech conglomerate’s next flagship smartphone. Details of the successor to the Galaxy S24 Ultra have already surfaced online, from the chipset likely to power the upcoming phone to its design and purported camera specifications. A tipster has now leaked four

DJI has filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Defense over its addition to the Pentagon list that designates it as a “Chinese military company.” In its filing, shared by The Verge, the company said it’s challenging the designation because it’s “neither owned nor controlled by the Chinese military.” It described itself as the

Alan Wake 2’s expansion, The Lake House, will be released October 22, Remedy Entertainment announced Thursday. The second and final expansion for the acclaimed survival-horror title will deepen the base game’s connection with other Remedy titles in a shared universe. The Lake House adds a new protagonist to the mix and tells a new story

It’s been over a year since Peter Parker and Miles Morales joined forces for their epic crossover adventure game on the Sony PlayStation 5. Now they are swinging their way to PCs early next year. Sony announced at New York Comic Con today that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is getting a PC release on January 30,

Facebook owner Meta said on Friday it was releasing a batch of new AI models from its research division, including a “Self-Taught Evaluator” that may offer a path toward less human involvement in the AI development process. The release follows Meta’s introduction of the tool in an August paper, which detailed how it relies upon

Google’s NotebookLM software that primarily impact audio overviews. For the uninitiated, the platform’s Audio Overview tool uses AI to whip up an audio summary of a piece of content. It started with written content, but has since . So what’s new? Users can now input specific instructions before generating a “Deep Dive” overview. Google gives

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday adopted new rules that require all mobile phones introduced in the country to offer compatibility with hearing aids and meet volume control benchmarks. The move is aimed at expanding accessibility options for 48 million American consumers impacted by hearing loss, according to the US regulator. The FCC will also

X is updating its privacy policy with new language that allows it to provide users’ data to third-party “collaborators” in order to train AI models. The , which takes effect November 15, 2024, would seem to open the door to Reddit-like arrangements in which outside companies can pay to license data from X. The updated

Apple Business Connect — the company’s service that allows individuals and companies to add or update their information across the company’s apps — has been updated with new features that allow these businesses to connect with customers, even if they do not have a physical presence. The latest features introduced by Apple will allow a