Thursday, November 13, 2025

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Netflix's New Era of TV Games Starts Now

BeauHD / slashdot - Netflix is launching a new slate of TV-streamed party games that are all playable using your phone as the controller. The Verge reports: To start, Netflix is offering Boggle Party, Party Crasher: Fool Your Friends, Lego Party, Pictionary: Game Night, and …

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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket safely made it to space a second time

engadget - Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket has completed its second flight, The Washington Post reports. The rocket launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday, and successfully separated from its first-stage booster, which later landed on …

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Amazon’s Starlink Rival Renamed ‘Leo’ as Blue Origin Lands Rocket at Sea

Austin Blake / iphoneincanada - Amazon has renamed its satellite internet program from Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo, as the company continues building a low Earth orbit network intended to bring high-speed connectivity to underserved regions. There are now over 150 Amazon Leo satellites…

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Firefox Wants to Challenge AI Browsers With Privacy-First ‘AI Window’

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Mozilla has announced 'AI Window' for Firefox, an opt-in assistant focused on user choice and privacy, directly challenging AI-native browsers from OpenAI, Perplexity and Microsoft.The post Firefox Wants to Challenge AI Browsers With Privacy-First ‘AI Win…

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Verizon may cut 15,000 jobs next week

engadget - The Wall Street Journal reported that Verizon plans to cut about 15,000 jobs over the next week. Sources told the publication that Verizon is attempting to reduce costs as it faces more competition for wireless service and home internet customers. At the …

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Apple Denied Appeal in UK App Store Case, Faces Over £1 Billion in Damages

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Apple's request to appeal a landmark UK ruling that its App Store fees are 'excessive and unfair' has been denied, exposing it to over £1.2B in damages.The post Apple Denied Appeal in UK App Store Case, Faces Over £1 Billion in Damages appeared first on W…

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Chinese Hackers Used Anthropic’s Claude AI to Automate Cyber Espionage Campaign

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Anthropic reports that Chinese state-sponsored hackers used its Claude AI to autonomously execute a large-scale cyber espionage campaign, marking a new era of AI-driven threats.The post Chinese Hackers Used Anthropic’s Claude AI to Automate Cyber Espionag…

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Tesla Recalls Powerwall 2 Units After Fires and Property Damage

Matt Novak / gizmodo - The recalled units were installed between Nov. 2020 and Dec. 2022.

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Apple will reportedly bring MLS games to its normal TV subscription

engadget - Apple is reportedly doing away with its Major League Soccer Season Pass and including next season's soccer matches as part of its normal Apple TV subscription. That’s according to reports of a new MLS partnership agreement from The Athletic that’s similar…

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Apple cuts App Store fee in half for 'mini apps' that integrate more of its software

cnbc - The Mini Apps Partner Program offers app developers the better fee in exchange for using some of Apple's technology to build their apps.

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LinkedIn’s new AI people search unlocks the power of its network

Harry McCracken / fastcompany - Last June, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky took on a second job. Microsoft, the social network for business professionals’ owner since 2016, expanded his responsibilities to include Microsoft 365—the suite still better known by its former name, Microsoft Offi…

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Google’s NotebookLM will now do ‘deep research’

Elissa Welle / theverge - Google is pairing up two of its research products: NotebookLM and Gemini’s agentic AI tool Deep Research. On Thursday, the company announced that all users will have access to Deep Research in NotebookLM within a week. Google recently linked Deep Research…

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Samsung tri-fold phone leak reveals name, iPad-like screen size, and launch date

techspot - The handset's specs come from reliable, long-time leaker Evan Blass, who has confirmed that Samsung is sticking with the previously rumored name of the Galaxy Z TriFold for the final retail branding.Read Entire Article

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Waymo to roll out driverless taxis on highways in three US cities

Rafe Rosner-Uddin, Financial Times / arstechnica - Alphabet will add routes in LA, Phoenix, and San Francisco for its driverless cars.

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Watch Google DeepMind’s new AI agent learn to play video games

Hayden Field / theverge - Google DeepMind’s new AI agent learned how to play a bunch of video games — including No Man’s Sky, Valheim, and Goat Simulator 3 — to become a viable “interactive gaming companion.” The new agent tool, SIMA 2, builds on its earlier iteration, SIMA (Scala…

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Apple Reaches Deal to Take Billions of Dollars in China's WeChat

Hartley Charlton / macrumors - Apple has reached a new agreement with Tencent that will allow the company to process payments and collect a 15% commission on purchases made inside WeChat mini games and mini apps on the iPhone, establishing a major new revenue stream in China after over…

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Spotify’s new audiobook recap feature uses AI to remind you of the story so far

Elissa Welle / theverge - Spotify is launching a new AI feature for audiobooks that summarizes what you’ve already heard without needing to rewind. The company likens the feature, called Recaps, to a “previously on” segment at the start of episodes in a TV series. Recaps will be a…

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Google augments AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout and an AI that calls stores for you

Sarah Perez / techcrunch - Google is expanding AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout and an AI that calls stores for you about local inventory.

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Microsoft Accelerates AI Chip Strategy by Licensing OpenAI’s Custom Hardware IP

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft is licensing proprietary chip and system designs from OpenAI to fast-track its in-house AI accelerators, a move confirmed by CEO Satya Nadella that deepens their partnership and aims to create a vertically integrated hardware stack.The post Micr…

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