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"Share a Disney quote that sums up how you're feeling right now!" That's what Disney posted on Threads the other day, and people immediately replied with lines from Star Wars , The Hunchback of Notre ...
Bandcamp has built its entire brand around serving artists. And, with the artist furor over AI growing every day, it's no surprise that the company has decided to take a stand against it. In a Reddit ...
The Senate passed a bill that could give people who've found their likeness deepfaked into sexually-explicit images without their consent a new way to fight back. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images an...
The ripple effects from the RAM shortage have already been resonating throughout the PC industry, but the situation just got even worse for PC gamers. The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti has apparently reached en...
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos has spent years people should be able to see big movies at home, without going to theaters. Now he's changing his tune. Rich Polk/2026GG/Penske Media via Getty Images Netfl...
Active AI users got promoted more quickly at Cisco, the company found. David Espejo/Getty Images Cisco said that employees recommended for promotion used AI more often than those who weren't recommend...
Energy abundance, open-source models and manufacturing strengths will push Beijing into first place...
US President Donald Trump’s latest moves to acquire Greenland are rattling Nuuk and Copenhagen....
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The Acura RDX will be the automaker’s first two-motor hybrid. | Image: Honda Honda announced that the next-generation Acura RDX will be the brand's first SUV to feature a two-motor hybrid system. Whil...
EU leaders will meet in the coming days after President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on eight countries in a dispute over Greenland. DW has more....
Sean Hollister demos the Lego Smart Brick at CES. The Lego Smart Brick won our Best in Show award at CES 2026, and it was no wonder after watching Lego designer Maarten Simons' expert demo there. So I...
A teen is turning his passion and drive for helping others, into a longterm mission....
The coldest-ever postseason game remains the 1967 "Ice Bowl" between Green Bay and Dallas....
Hachette and Cengage allege Google bypassed licensing to train Gemini, calling it “historic copyright infringement.”...
ABC News' Victor Oquendo on Florida's Turtle Hospital and the state's signature key lime pie....
Retail crypto access will initially cover Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin and Cardano through participating cooperative banks....
Big financial companies expand beyond traditional securities to arbitrage event contracts in sport and politics...
A Palestinian graffiti artist in Gaza is turning destroyed buildings and collapsed walls into canvases....