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Schools choosing to restrict AI altogether will no longer be able to access Google Search, as AI features are now integrated into the search engine.

The mayor's comments come after the entertainment giant's data breach last year, which exposed James Dolan's surveillance.

The 2026 midterm elections will determine the scope of President Donald Trump’s power in his final two years in office, and signal what voters care about going into the 2028 presidential election. While this year’s races are expected to be most broadly defined by affordability issues, there’s several topics impacting the tech industry that appear to be on voters’ minds. Among them are concerns about data centers, and whether voters will have to bear the burden of higher energy costs, AI safety,

Apple's new App Store rules will require 18+ ratings for dating apps and AI companions that offer sexual or romantic content.

Apple's latest earnings show how it's continuing to capitalize on the AI boom without busting its budget on the infrastructure spending consuming its competitors. Overall, Apple posted its best-ever fiscal year for revenue and earnings per share. iPhone and Mac sales continued to grow strongly in the fourth quarter. iPhone revenue rose 17.5% from a year earlier to a September quarter record of $57.6 billion while Mac revenue climbed 24% to $10.8 billion, its highest level in four years. Shares n

You're going to need a lot of extra storage space on your console if you're planning to play Grand Theft Auto VI later this month. Rockstar Games confirmed on Tuesday that the pre-load file will require up to 212GB "depending on your device." Rockstar says you can start pre-loading the game on the PlayStation 5 on Tuesday, November 10th at midnight in your local time zone, while users on Xbox Series X | S devices can start pre-loading on November 10th at 12AM GMT. The company says to "make sure

Bethesda is officially confirming today that the next Elder Scrolls game will be called The Elder Scrolls VI Sentinel. The confirmation came in a less than 10-minute video celebrating 40 years of Bethesda game studios. It's been more than eight years since Bethesda officially announced the existence of the sixth game in its Elder Scrolls series, and studio chief Todd Howard made the announcement today and called it the "perfect time" to fully name the game. Bethesda isn't sharing any more detai

The Stargate AI data center ’compute campus’ in Abilene, Texas. | Bloomberg via Getty Images People hate data centers. They're loud, resource-hungry eyesores that are so profoundly unpopular they have managed to achieve the near-impossible in today's polarized political landscape: genuine bipartisan opposition. But what about "compute campuses"? Those sound lovely, right? OpenAI seems to be gambling that a quiet rebrand could be all it takes to defuse the growing political backlash that threat

From hallucinations to partisan bias, artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are not helpful when it comes to Election Day.

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Almost 22 years after it was launched, NASA's Swift Observatory is now about to fall back to Earth on Wednesday after attempts to push it back into a higher orbit failed. NASA announced that the aging space telescope is anticipated to re-enter Earth's atmosphere at approximately 3:30AM ET (give or take 11 hours), and that it expects most of the spacecraft to burn up, but some components will likely survive re-entry. The observatory weighs around 3,200 pounds and measures in at 5.6 meters (18.4 f

The inventive instrument maker collapsed into insolvency, leaving buyers empty-handed and users scrambling to keep their musical gear alive.

After pioneering the passenger screen, Mercedes has designs on the windshield.

The iPad Mini’s impressive new features make it a better tablet than ever—only to be betrayed by its higher price.

Adobe is teaming up with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to add a library of licensed music clips to the Premiere mobile video editing app. No specific musicians have been announced with this partnership, but Adobe said it will include "popular songs" from "leading artists," and enable Premiere mobile users to quickly jump on "the latest trend." "By bringing licensed music from UMG artists into Adobe Premiere mobile, we're giving creators new ways to build their stories around the s

The iPad Mini sometimes feels like a trap. It is, in some ways and for some people, the perfect iPad: meaningfully larger than my phone's screen but still small and light enough to use for reading in bed or gaming on the subway. As most of the rest of the iPad line has tilted ever closer to laptop territory, the Mini might be the most iPad-y iPad left. I've taken a Mini everywhere with me since the very first one. But Apple only updates the Mini sporadically, and those updates sometimes feel lik

The Bambu H3C. | Image: Bambu Lab Three years ago, I told you how home 3D printers had evolved for speed, producing parts in minutes that used to take hours or days. Now, the next evolution is here: printers that can swap between materials on the fly, mix different colors to produce nearly the full rainbow, mix soft and hard materials, and even mix different sizes of nozzle and different diameters of filament so you can switch between high speed and fine detail in a single print. Today, Bambu

Peak Design, best known for its backpacks and travel bags packed full of useful features, announced it's expanding its collection of chargers and charging accessories with new devices that focus on pairing premium materials with innovative functionality. "Somewhere along the way, we accepted that the electronics we use every day should be cheap, disposable and just good enough," says Peter Dering, Peak Design's CEO and founder. "We didn't set out to make another collection of chargers and cables

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Apple will soon start asking developers to provide more details about their apps to enforce new App Store age rating requirements for dating and location-sharing features. The upcoming content descriptors announced on Monday will require developers to declare if their apps allow users to share their real-world location with others, or include features that enable dating, relationship, or sexual behaviour between real people or virtual companions. Apps that include dating and relationships featur