Google rolled out a bunch of new features with Android 16 on Tuesday, but the company appears to be saving its big Material 3 Expressive redesign for a future update. The update doesn’t feature the design language’s revamped elements, and a source tells Android Authority’s Mishaal Rahman that…
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Google is starting to offer buyouts to US-based employees in its sprawling Search organization, along with other divisions like marketing, research, and core engineering, according to multiple employees familiar with the matter. The buyouts, which Google is referring to as a “voluntary exit program,” are currently not being…
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Alexa Plus was announced in February 2025 and is now rolling out to users in an Early Access program. While a smarter Siri may have been a no-show at WWDC, Alexa Plus, the generative AI-powered overhaul of Amazon’s voice assistant, is finally appearing in the wild. No one…
Read MoreThere’s a line in showbiz that goes, “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.” Ian Proulx, CEO of Splitgate 2 developer 1047 Games, has recently learned the hard way that’s not entirely true. Last week, during the Summer Game Fest keynote livestream, Proulx came out to promote his…
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Director Dean DeBlois and star Gerard Butler reunite for Universal Pictures’ live-action adaptation of How to Train Your Dragon out later this week. The filmmaker sat down with io9 to discuss the unique opportunity he and Butler had in re-imagining the role of Stoick the Vast, Berk’s Viking…
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Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Editor’s note: Louis will lead an editorial roundtable on this topic at VB Transform this month. Register today. Open-source AI is shaping the future of…
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Eufy’s X10 Pro Omni is down to a record-low price at Amazon. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge We’re in an age where you can realistically delegate tasks to smart hunks of metal, whether it’s a self-driving car or a robot that can clean on…
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The Switch 2’s Joy-Con 2 is full of extra functionality, from upgraded gyros to the slick mouse mode, but sometimes you just need a more traditional gamepad to play your games. The bigger issue users are experiencing this go-around is connecting all their old devices to the Nintendo’s…
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Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more A new framework from researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the University of California, Berkeley gives developers more control over how large language…
Read MoreChange isn’t always easy. Case in point: “Liquid Glass.” Apple’s upcoming “26” updates for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Vision Pro introduce this new design language that adds a transparent, glassy look to icons, menus, and windows. Some people are digging it, while others are…
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