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The Information: ‘Apple Can “Distill” Google’s Big Gemini Model’

Daring Fireball

My brief, weird time with the Samsung TriFold

The Verge - All Posts

Stranger Than Heaven trailer reveals RGG's latest will span 5 time periods and cities

Polygon - All

Katie Notopoulos Bids Farewell to Sora: ‘You Were Too Beautiful and Stupid for This World’

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The Next Web

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn release date update announced alongside closed beta

Polygon - All

MacOS 26.4 Adds ‘Slow Charger’ Indicator for MacBooks

Daring Fireball

Meta stock fell 8% on Thursday after juries in two US trials found the company failed to adequately warn or protect young users (Reuters)

Techmeme

How to beat the Crimson Nightmare in Crimson Desert

Polygon - All

Dragonlance's new novel revisits the legendary past of Krynn

Polygon - All

Govee’s color-changing smart lamps are on sale for up to 30 percent off

The Verge - All Posts

Jennifer Daniel on the New ‘Distorted Face’ Emoji

Daring Fireball

Meta gets ready to launch two new Ray-Ban AI glasses

The Verge - All Posts

Cohere launches Transcribe, its first voice model; the 2B-parameter, open-source speech recognition model handles tasks like notetaking and speech analysis (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

The US FCC opens a comment period for a proposal to help return outsourced call center jobs to the US; critics say the plan could drive companies to automation (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)

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Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice review: Hulu's new time-travel movie is Looper but dumb

Polygon - All

ByteDance launches its Dreamina Seedance 2.0 audio and video model in its CapCut editing platform, supporting clips up to 15 seconds across six aspect ratios (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

How to solve the Five-Finger Mountain puzzle in Crimson Desert

Polygon - All

A US federal judge dismisses X's antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and a group of major companies of illegally boycotting X (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

Techmeme

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, an audio model with improved tonal understanding and lower latency for real-time dialogue, watermarked with SynthID (Valeria Wu/The Keyword)

Techmeme