Wednesday, September 03, 2025

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Google Ruling Shows Antitrust Tools Struggle to Keep Up With Tech Markets

Dave Michaels / wsj - The marketplace moves faster than the legal system, and judges are skittish about crafting industry rules.

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‘Marvel Rivals’ Shakes Heaven and Earth Adding Daredevil and Angela to Its Hero Roster

Isaiah Colbert / gizmodo - The characters will appear in the free-to-play game's season four event, 'The Heart of the Dragon,' on September 12.

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xAI’s CFO is the latest executive to leave Elon Musk’s AI firm

Rebecca Bellan / techcrunch - Mike Liberatore left xAI at the end of July. He is the latest in a string of executive departures at Elon Musk's AI firm.

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Apple to upgrade Siri with web search powered by Apple Intelligence

appleinsider - A new rumor suggests Apple will introduce a web search feature backed by Apple Foundation Models that can call out to Google Gemini to enhance Siri's ability to gather and summarize information.Siri to get new LLM-backed web search in iOS 26.4The rumors o…

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4 unnecessary smartphone features I'm glad disappeared

Craig Donaldson / pocket-lint - Smartphones have evolved a lot over the years, and I believe these four features are better off in the past.

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Google brings Material 3 Expressive to Pixel 6 and newer devices, along with other features

Aisha Malik / techcrunch - The tech giant is introducing Material 3 Expressive to Pixel phones, Adaptive Audio for the Pixel Buds Pro 2, on-wrist navigation for the Pixel Watch, new AI writing tools in Gboard, enhanced audio sharing capabilities, the ability to create custom Androi…

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007 First Light looks like a hit, man

Ash Parrish / theverge - IO Interactive, developers of the much-beloved Hitman series, showed off its latest title, 007 First Light during a special September State of Play. In it, instead of a bald Agent 47, you play a youthful and immaculately coiffed James Bond — and that’s pr…

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Game Of Thrones Star Sophie Turner Confirmed To Play Lara Croft In TV Series

Eddie Makuch / gamespot - Amazon MGM Studios has announced that Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner will indeed play the role of Lara Croft in an upcoming Tomb Raider series. A previous report said Turner had dropped out and the show itself was "dead."Variety and others confirmed t…

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Instagram finally has an iPad app 15 years after it first launched

Lawrence Bonk / engadget - The social media platform Instagram is finally available on the iPad as a native app. It only took 15 years, as the app first launched all the way back in 2010. We knew this was coming and, well, now it's here.The iPad is a different platform from a smart…

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PayPal Offers Early Access to Perplexity’s Comet Browser

PYMNTS / pymnts - PayPal is offering customers early access to Perplexity’s new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered browser Comet. The offering, announced Wednesday (Sept. 3) and open to Venmo and PayPal customers in the U.S. and certain global markets, lets users experie…

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Netflix rolls out expanded clips feature on mobile

Bradly Shankar / mobilesyrup - In December, Netflix introduced Moments, a feature that lets you save and share your favourite scenes from movies and shows. Now, the streamer is expanding the feature so you can create your own clips. Previously, you could only set a starting point when …

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Google will reveal more Gemini smart home plans and devices on October 1

Steve Dent / engadget - Google is set to reveal more information about its "Gemini for Home" plans, including new Nest devices designed for the AI assistant, the company announced on X. "Gemini is coming to Google Home," the teaser states, while showing what could be a new Nest …

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Remarkable’s new digital notepad is smaller than a paperback

Andrew Liszewski / theverge - A year after Remarkable introduced its Paper Pro digital notebook with an 11.8-inch color E Ink screen, the company is following up with a smaller version that prioritizes portability. The new Remarkable Paper Pro Move feels like what you’d be left with i…

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New iPhone 17 Pro Details: Brighter Display, Best Battery Life, and More

Hartley Charlton / macrumors - Apple's iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max models will feature a number of significant display, thermal, and battery improvements, according to new late-stage rumors.According to the Weibo leaker known as "Instant Digital," the iPhone 17 Pro models will …

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IQM raises record $320M Series B to cement Europe’s place in the quantum computing race

Cate Lawrence / tech - Today IQM Quantum Computers announced that it has raised $320 million in venture capital, the largest Series B raise ever in the quantum space, both in Europe and outside of the US. It brings the comp...

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Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 514 review: The new ChromeOS sweet spot

Nathan Ingraham / engadget - In the last few years, I’ve felt like Chromebooks have hit a plateau. ChromeOS is a quirky but mature platform at this point, and Google has continued to add smart and useful features on a regular basis. But the hardware has felt pretty stagnant, with a f…

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Acer's new gaming lineup includes an 18-inch AI laptop and a 720Hz monitor

Ian Carlos Campbell / engadget - Acer maintains two different gaming product lines and it's updating both of them at IFA 2025. Among the new gear is a gigantic new 18-inch Predator laptop, an ultra high-refresh rate monitor and multiple entry-level Nitro laptops and monitors.The updated …

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Acer's Swift 16 Air laptop weighs less than 2.2 pounds

Lawrence Bonk / engadget - Acer just unveiled the new Swift 16 Air laptop at IFA 2025. The biggest selling point here is likely the weight. The 16-inch laptop clocks in at just over two pounds, which is lighter than a 13-inch MacBook Air.The Swift 16 Air is available with two displ…

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Anthropic Secures $13B Series F Funding, Valued at $183B

Anthropic has successfully wrapped a $13B Series F round—truly a blockbuster in the AI arena—pushing its valuation to an eye‐watering $183B as it sets out to turbocharge AI product development.

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Google will not be forced to sell Chrome – but it has work to do

Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - A judge has ruled that Google will not have to sell its Chrome browser after the Department of Justice proposed this last year. But as part of the ruling, the court says that the company will have to change some things about the way it operates. The short…

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