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Meta is laying off hundreds of employees as it pours money into AI
Meta is laying off hundreds of employees across its company, according to reports from The New York Times, NBC News, and The Information. The job cuts impact workers on Meta's recruiting, social media, and sales teams, along with Reality Labs, the division that develops the company's smart glasses and virtual reality headsets. "Teams across Meta […]
Spotify is letting artists manually approve releases to combat AI fakes
Spotify is beta-testing a new feature called Artist Profile Protection that lets artists review releases before they go live. Sometimes songs end up on the wrong artist pages because of metadata mixups or shared names. But increasingly, artists have been targeted by impostors and AI-generated fakes. Profile Protection offers a buffer against bad actors. Everyone […]
How to get the Darkbringer sword in Crimson Desert
Here's how to get the Darkbringer sword in Crimson Desert, a powerful two-handed weapon that comes with a special abyss gear, the Ator's Orb.
Razer’s new Blade 16 gaming laptop has an Intel Panther Lake chip and very fast RAM
Razer is giving its Blade 16 gaming laptop a speed and battery boost for 2026. The high-end gaming laptop keeps the same thin chassis and RTX 50-series GPU options as last year's model, but it's now making the switch from AMD to an Intel Core Ultra 9 386H "Panther Lake" chip, and corresponding faster RAM. […]
The surprise hit Nex Playground is the latest console to get a price hike
Everything about video games is getting more expensive, and soon that will include a budget-friendly console. The Nex Playground - a Kinect-like device aimed at families that made headlines by outselling the Xbox over the holidays last year - will cost $299 starting on April 1st, a $50 bump. In a statement on the Nex […]