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Here's Why Patti LaBelle Reportedly Isn't Pleased With the New Luther Vandross Documentary

The Root

A Dark Universe reboot in the year 2025? It might just work…

Polygon - All

The touchless smart locks are here

The Verge - All Posts

Nelly and Ashanti: An Evolution of Their Love

The Root

Google and Microsoft donate $1M to Trump's inauguration; Google says the donation, a YouTube livestream, and a homepage event link align with past inaugurations (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Techmeme

Analysis: Elon Musk's UK obsession is driven by a few X accounts; an ex-Twitter exec says Musk may be the first tech leader to be radicalized by his own product (Financial Times)

Techmeme

Siri’s listening to you — but is it spying?

Vox - All

Epic gave a game away for free, then it blew up on Steam

Polygon - All

The Switch 2 is almost here — but PC handhelds are giving it big competition

The Verge - All Posts

Freewrite’s latest keyboard has a mechanical word-counter to track your writing

The Verge - All Posts

Amazon launches Amazon Retail Ad Service to let companies show ads in search results, product pages, and other areas of their own websites, initially in the US (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Techmeme

VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos

The Verge - All Posts

Microsoft’s Xbox Developer Direct returns on January 23rd with a ‘brand new game’

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Perplexity partners with Tripadvisor to source hotel info from real people

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Mercedes-Benz EV owners can start using Tesla Superchargers in February

The Verge - All Posts

The best tabletop role-playing games we played in 2024

Polygon - All

Come on Karen Bass? Amid Fires, L.A. Mayor is Being Taken to Task For a Poorly-Timed Move

The Root

Dublin-based Xocean, which provides ocean data to the energy and hydrography industries using uncrewed surface vessels, raised €115M, taking its total to ~$189M (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Irish scaleup XOcean bags $115M to expand autonomous ocean vessel fleet

The Next Web

Apple says it "has never used Siri data to build marketing profiles" and never sold it for advertising or other purposes, after paying $95M to settle a lawsuit (Richard Lawler/The Verge)

Techmeme