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Enjoy 25% off a membership, 40% off, plus an additional 10% off annual plans, and more deals to save at Vimeo.
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Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for Dec. 6.
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We've tested and reviewed every Apple phone, including the new iPhone Air and iPhone 17 series, and these are our latest recommendations for which model will best suit you.
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The largest streaming network says it will purchase Warner Bros.' studios and streaming assets after winning a bidding war with Comcast and Paramount.
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Meet Octoid, the squishy robot that changes from blue to green to red.
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 If you're looking for the perfect tech or tech-adjacent present for someone who loves Apple products or just uses them daily, I have a few suggestions that might be helpful to you this holiday season.
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Dec. 6, No. 439.
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You can use these techniques, such as a VPN or proxy server, to quickly and easily change your IP address.
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Electric toothbrushes can make dental care easier. With the holiday rolling in, this is a great time to pick up one of the best models we've found.
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Meta has acquired Limitless, the maker of an AI-powered "Pendant," to work on building consumer hardware for the company, the startup announced via a YouTube video and blog post. So far, Meta has focused on selling VR headsets and AI smart glasses. Now the company seems interested in branching out.
"Meta recently announced a new vision to bring personal superintelligence to everyone and a key part of that vision is building incredible AI-enabled wearables. We share this vision and we'll be joining Meta to help bring our shared vision to life," Limitless CEO Dan Siroker said in the post announcing the acquisition.
Limitless' first product was Rewind, desktop productivity software that recorded everything you did on your computer and turned it into a searchable database you interacted with via a chatbot. The company later expanded into hardware with Pendant, essentially a clip-on Bluetooth microphone that applies the same concept (privacy concerns be damned) to the things you say or hear throughout the day.
The company plans to support its existing Pendant custo
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Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle for Dec. 6, No. 643.
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It's a busy time of year, between work and holiday festivities. If you happen to misplace or have your iPhone stolen, here's how to get it back.
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LinkedIn and Zoom were among the Cloudflare sites affected.
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First it was banned. Then its sales blew up. But Horses fails to meet the lofty goals of its own ideas.
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The fine would put a big dent in one Musk's only revenue-generating moves after taking over Twitter.
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 You know what they say: If at first you don't succeed at mass government surveillance, try, try again. Only two days after India backpedaled on its plan to force smartphone makers to preinstall a state-run "cybersecurity" app, Reuters reports that the country is back at it. It's said to be considering a telecom industry proposal with another draconian requirement. This one would require smartphone makers to enable always-on satellite-based location tracking (Assisted GPS).
The measure would require location services to remain on at all times, with no option to switch them off. The telecom industry also wants phone makers to disable notifications that alert users when their carriers have accessed their location. According to Reuters, India's home ministry was set to meet with smartphone industry executives on Friday, but the meeting was postponed.
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The European Commission has fined Elon Musk's X €120 million (around $140 million) for breaching its transparency rules under the Digital Services Act. The European Union's executive arm announced that it was investigating the social media company's blue checkmarking verification system — first introduced when it was still known as Twitter — last year, along with other alleged DSA violations. Today's verdict concerns the "deceptive design" of the checkmark, as well as "the lack of transparency of [X's] advertising repository, and the failure to provide access to public data for researchers."
The Commission's issue with X's verification system is that where blue checkmarks were once something that Twitter that Twitter vetted, they can now be bough by anyone. According to the EU, this puts users at risk of scams and impersonation fraud, as they can't tell if the accounts they're engaging with are authentic. "While the DSA does not mandate user verification, it clearly prohibits online platforms from falsely claiming that users have been verified, when no such verification took place," it wrote in a statement.
The EU has also ruled that X's advertisement repository employs "design features and access barriers" that make it difficult for good faith actors and the general public to determine the source of online ads and spot scams or threat campaigns. It says that X fails to provide information pertaining to both the content of an ad and the entity paying for its placement.
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The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune have filed separate lawsuits against Perplexity over alleged copyright infringement. The Times said it had sent Perplexity several cease-and-desist demands to stop using its content until the two reached an agreement, but the AI company persisted in doing so.
In the lawsuit [PDF], the Times accused Perplexity of infringing on its copyrights at two main stages. First, by scraping its website (including in real time) to train AI models and feed content into the likes of the
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The long-expected fine prompted pushback from Musk and Vice President JD Vance.
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In the face of rising costs for memory and storage, major manufacturers are notifying their clients of impending price hikes.
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EVENTS Internet Archive Blog: 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest: The Internet Archive is Looking For Creative Short Films Made By You!. "This contest offers a chance to explore and reimagine the […]
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'Bugonia,' 'Frankenstein,' 'Sinners', and 'Wicked For Good' are already racking up the nominations.
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EU regulators also reprimanded the social media company for its lack of ad transparency and failure to provide researchers with access to data.
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If you're an audiophile, dongles might be your new best friend.
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 Dozens of Apple engineers and designers with expertise in audio, watch design, robotics, and other core product areas have left the company for OpenAI in recent months, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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NEW RESOURCES Royal Danish Library: The Carl Nielsen Letter Edition is published digitally. "Royal Danish Library and Multivers are now publishing the Carl Nielsen Letter Edition digitally with English translations, so that […]
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Make sure every corner of your home has Wi-Fi range this holiday season with our favorite Wi-Fi extenders picked out by CNET's experts.
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Commentary: The Beast in Me is one of the best TV shows of the year, and the perfect weekend binge.
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It's more than just a tool for streaming shows.
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 Apple today unveiled the winners of its 2025 App Store Awards, including task planning app Tiimo, which was named iPhone App of the Year.
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From baking to making deviled eggs, knowing how long those eggs really last is crucial for holiday planning.
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 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced plans to launch a creative studio that will be led by former Apple UI designer Alan Dye. As we learned earlier today, Dye is leaving his position as Vice President of Human Interface Design at Apple to become Meta's new chief design officer.
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NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: New PALABRA Archive Recordings Released for Digital Streaming. "The PALABRA Archive is a collection of audio recordings of 20th and 21st century poets and writers from Luso-Hispanic […]
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These are full-blown 5th-gen Echo Dot smart speakers with limited-edition themed covers, meaning you can take them off once the holiday season is over and use these Echo Dots like normal. This isn't the first time we're seeing the Jack Skellington cover, but it is the first time we're seeing Sally! And she's looking just gorgeous.
Echo Dots have improved a lot over the years, and these are the latest model so you're getting crisp vocals, impressive bass, and overall great audio performance. Alexa integration makes it easy to play music, search the web, control other smart home devices, and more. (Learn more about why we recommend smart speakers as a first step for beginners!)
If you don't have a smart speaker yet, this is a great opportunity. Don't miss your chance to order the Jack Skellington Echo Dot or Sally Echo Dot bundles for just $64.98 each—or both for $129.96.
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The US Patent and Trademark Office has refused one of Tesla's initial attempts to trademark the term "Robotaxi" because it believes the name is generic and already in use by other companies, according to a filing spotted by TechCrunch. Tesla was hoping to trademark the term in connection to its planned self-driving car service, but now it'll have to reply with more evidence to change the office's mind.
The main issue outlined in the USPTO decision is that "Robotaxi" is "merely descriptive," as in its an already commonly used term. A robotaxi typically refers to the self-driving cars used in services like Waymo. As long as Silicon Valley has believed money could be made selling autonomous vehicles (and the rides you can take in them), the term has been in use. That means Tesla can't trademark "robotaxi" because the "term is used to describe similar goods and services by other companies," the USPTO writes. Like,
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