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A first look at Apple’s redesigned Mac Mini and its other new Macs

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Call of Duty’s massive filesize drives peak internet usage

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Comcast is boasting about what it’s calling its “biggest week in internet history,” which it pegs...
Comcast is boasting about what it’s calling its “biggest week in internet history,” which it pegs on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 downloads and Thursday Night Football streams. The company says the Call of Duty game, which it released on October 25th, was responsible for a whopping 19 percent of its overall traffic las...
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Here’s where you can preorder the new MacBook Pro, iMac, and Mac Mini

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Apple has now revealed the entirety of its M4 Mac lineup. It includes a new entry-level...
Apple has now revealed the entirety of its M4 Mac lineup. It includes a new entry-level MacBook Pro with M4 for $1,599, as well as the step-up M4 Pro (or M4 Max) models in 14- and 16-inch sizes, which once again start at $1,999 and $2,499, respectively. We’re also getting a new 24-inch iMac with M4, plus an updated ...
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Google’s Pixel 9A might get a bigger display

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Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users

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Reddit just turned a profit for the first time. As part of its third-quarter earnings results...
Reddit just turned a profit for the first time. As part of its third-quarter earnings results released on Tuesday, the company reported a profit of $29.9 million, along with $348.4 million in revenue — a 68 percent increase year over year.The company hasn’t been profitable at any point in its nearly 20-year history....
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More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI

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Google is building a bunch of AI products, and it’s using AI quite a bit as...
Google is building a bunch of AI products, and it’s using AI quite a bit as part of building those products, too. “More than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers,” CEO Sundar Pichai said on the company’s third quarter 2024 earnings call. It’s a big milestone...
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Google accused of violating labor law for asking workers to ‘refrain’ from talking about antitrust case

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The Alphabet Workers Union filed a charge against Google with the National Labor Relations Board after...
The Alphabet Workers Union filed a charge against Google with the National Labor Relations Board after Google management asked workers to “refrain” from talking about its ongoing Search antitrust case.The union charges that Google issued an “overly broad directive” on discussing the case to employees, according to a...
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An Elon Musk-funded super PAC is putting out fake pro-Harris ads

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If you’re a swing state voter, you may have seen ads claiming that vice president Kamala...
If you’re a swing state voter, you may have seen ads claiming that vice president Kamala Harris wants to institute a mandatory gun buyback program and make it easier for undocumented immigrants to get driver’s licenses. These ostensibly pro-Harris ads are the product of Progress 2025, a campaign designed to look lik...
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The Scary Movie franchise is getting a Wayans brothers reboot

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Miramax is ready to put a new Scary Movie into theaters, and this time around, the...
Miramax is ready to put a new Scary Movie into theaters, and this time around, the studio is doing the sensible thing by keeping the Wayans brothers directly involved.Deadline reports that Marlon, Shawn, and Keenen Ivory Wayans have signed on to co-write / co-produce a new Scary Movie reboot for Miramax that will, l...
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OpenAI will start using AMD chips and could make its own AI hardware in 2026

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Chrome introduces new ‘Performance’ tools to wrangle the tabs gobbling up your memory

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Google is rolling out some new Chrome memory management features aimed at helping you wrangle out-of-control...
Google is rolling out some new Chrome memory management features aimed at helping you wrangle out-of-control tabs more easily. The updates include new “Performance issue alerts” and some tweaks to the existing Memory Saver mode, which already tries to free up the resources of inactive tabs in the background.The new ...
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Netflix’s deal with Universal will add more live-action films

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Netflix will bring even more Universal films to its lineup thanks to a new deal that...
Netflix will bring even more Universal films to its lineup thanks to a new deal that will send the studio’s live-action movies to the streamer starting in 2027. Under the agreement, Universal and Focus Features’ live-action titles will appear on Netflix no later than eight months after their release in theaters. The...
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Microsoft isn’t secretly installing Recall on your Windows PC

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Microsoft’s Recall feature, which creates screenshots of mostly everything you see or do on a Copilot...
Microsoft’s Recall feature, which creates screenshots of mostly everything you see or do on a Copilot Plus PC, has been mired in controversy ever since it was announced earlier this year. After security researchers found that a pre-release version of the Recall database wasn’t encrypted, Microsoft moved to delay the...
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Sony closes Concord studio and permanently shuts down the game

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Sony is closing Firewalk Studios, the studio behind its PlayStation Concord game that it took offline...
Sony is closing Firewalk Studios, the studio behind its PlayStation Concord game that it took offline last month after a disastrous launch. In a message to PlayStation staff, Hermen Hulst, CEO of the PlayStation studio business group, says Firewalk Studios will close alongside Neon Koi, a mobile game studio. The shu...
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Instagram saves the best video quality for the most popular content

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Ever wondered why some of your Instagram videos tend to look blurry, while others are crisp...
Ever wondered why some of your Instagram videos tend to look blurry, while others are crisp and sharp? It’s because, on Instagram, the quality of your video apparently depends on how many views it’s getting. That’s according to a video AMA from Instagram head Adam Mosseri, in which he explained why some videos are l...
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Apple’s first smart home display could pay homage to a classic iMac

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The smart home display that Apple is rumored to be releasing next year could sport a...
The smart home display that Apple is rumored to be releasing next year could sport a look that harkens back to the iMac G4, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman suggests in his Power On newsletter today.The new smart home display will apparently be small. Gurman writes it will have a square display angled above a small base that...
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How to use the new Private Space feature in Android 15

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While there aren’t a lot of new features in Android 15, it does offer some useful...
While there aren’t a lot of new features in Android 15, it does offer some useful additions for your phone — and one of the most interesting is called “Private Space.” Think of it as a separate app vault that locks away specified apps on your Android device. Of course, the main lockscreen already stops other people ...
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This is the Mac Mini’s big moment

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When the Mac Mini was first introduced in early 2005, it was pitched as a compact,...
When the Mac Mini was first introduced in early 2005, it was pitched as a compact, “stripped down” desktop — and the most affordable Mac in Apple’s lineup. Steve Jobs referred to it as a “BYODKM” system: you’d bring your own display, keyboard, and mouse, and the Mini would provide a dependable computing experience w...
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Wilmot Works It Out is the best parts of jigsaw puzzles, but faster and cleaner

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I used to hate jigsaw puzzles. I thought they were frustrating, messy, and took way too...
I used to hate jigsaw puzzles. I thought they were frustrating, messy, and took way too long to solve. But my wife showed me how those parts of jigsaw puzzles can actually be fun: there’s something satisfying and meditative about working through those frustrations, sorting through the mess, and putting a picture tog...
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The VR game I’ve been waiting for

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 58, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in...
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 58, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, Batman forever, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Simone Giertz and billionaire assistants and Checo Pérez and Call...
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Google is reportedly developing a ‘computer-using agent’ AI system

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Lyft fined $2.1 million for misleading ads about how much drivers could make

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Friday that rideshare company Lyft has agreed to pay $2.1...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Friday that rideshare company Lyft has agreed to pay $2.1 million as part of a proposed settlement that requires it to change how it advertises driver pay. The company routinely advertised that drivers could make “specific hourly amounts” — in one instance, claiming earni...
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Tim Walz and AOC are going to play Madden together on Twitch

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Android 16 could get iPhone-like ‘ongoing’ notifications

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Android 16 may come with a new “Rich Ongoing Notifications” feature that lets developers keep persistent...
Android 16 may come with a new “Rich Ongoing Notifications” feature that lets developers keep persistent notifications in the Android status bar, according to Android 15 beta code discovered by Android Authority’s Mishaal Rahman, who frequently dives into code to surface coming features.Right now, the code enables a...
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