As we're gearing up for back-to-school season, Google is rolling retired a caller dedicated pupil hub successful Gemini. It's a one-stop repository for collecting probe successful a survey notebook, creating flashcards, taking signifier quizzes, and more. Google is besides enhancing its survey notebooks with enactment for graphs and images. It tin adjacent adhd trial dates and deadlines to your Google Calendar based connected your syllabus.

Google is besides adding Deep Research to Gemini Live. You tin inquire Gemini to make analyzable probe reports and speech done the results. If it's taking a while, you tin adjacent the chat and fastener your telephone screen, and Gemini volition fto you k …

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Valve conscionable leaked respective caller videos showing the Steam Frame's unboxing, setup process, and assorted accessories. The videos seemingly appeared connected the ARM Steam lawsuit pursuing an update, but they were "quickly pulled aft that," according to the Steam Hardware Updates relationship connected X.

The Steam Frame is Valve's virtual-reality headset that tin watercourse games from a PC oregon play them locally. Valve first took the wraps disconnected the headset past year, and it offers LCD screens with 2160 x 2160 solution per eye, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip, and an up to 110-degree tract of view. But these leaked videos connection a person look astatine what it mightiness beryllium similar to un …

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In bid to beef up its quality to accurately measure viewership information successful the streaming era, Nielsen is moving guardant with a program to usage much accusation gathered from its partners' wearable devices.

Today, Nielsen announced "a fig of cardinal enhancements" that are being added to its information capturing process up of the upcoming autumn TV season. As of August 31st, Nielsen's co-viewing information volition present see accusation obtained from smart-watch similar gadgets that Neilsen's probe panelists deterioration successful their homes. The Portable People Meter (PPM) Wearables - which Nielsen first began deploying nationally successful 2016 to bolster its audio, section TV, and …

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This is Optimizer, a play newsletter sent from Verge elder reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that curse they're going to alteration your life. Opt successful for Optimizer here.

For the past week, I've been investigating the Google Pixel Watch 5. In galore ways, it's a typical, modern smartwatch. In others, it feels similar 1 portion of a wearable aboriginal that's progressively successful flux. Everyone I've spoken to successful wearable tech has astir the aforesaid extremity - soon, your tracker of prime volition diagnostic a adjuvant AI coach, "check engine" alerts that preventively emblem hard-to-detect wellness conditions, and personalized wellness re …

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• Beats 360 person interchangeable cushion options for some receptor cups and headband, truthful you tin person a caller acceptable acceptable aft your workout oregon a caller colour conscionable to power up your look. These over-ear noise-cancelling headphones are built for progressive lifestyles and all-day comfort.


• Active Noise Cancelling (ANC) blocks retired unwanted sound to assistance you focus, aft adapting to your situation and unsocial acceptable - with up to 1.75x much sound cancellation than Beats Studio Pro.


• The bespoke, high-fidelity acoustic level delivers almighty bass and pinpoint precision crossed the tonal scope with ultra-low distortion for the eventual listening experience. Personalised spatial audio with dynamic caput tracking delivers immersive situation sound.


• Ear cushions are built from acoustically engineered representation foam and shaped to acceptable comfortably implicit your ears, forming an optimal seal for unthinkable sound.


• Exceptional telephone prime powered by an precocious Al-trained algorithm and beam-forming mic strategy that filters retired inheritance noise.


• Our first-ever sweat- and water-resistant over-ear headphones, with an IPX4 standing to guarantee they're built to spell everyplace you do.


• All-day artillery beingness for extended playback adjacent with ANC on.


• Compatible with some Apple and Android for one-touch pairing and more. Easy-to-use controls are positioned connected the backmost of each receptor cup, including a measurement rocker, a multifunction fastener to power euphony and calls, a powerfulness fastener and a listening mode button.


• Fold-flat plan for other comfortableness and convenience. Woven ripstop cloth lawsuit included.


• What's successful the box: Beats 360 existent wireless over-ear headphones with interchangeable show knit cushions, woven ripstop cloth carrying case, warranty paper and Quick Start Guide. Additional Beats 360 cushion kits, USB-C charging cablegram and powerfulness adapter sold separately.

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Almost everything with high-end representation oregon retention is much costly these days, and tablets are nary exception, truthful we’re gladsome to spot that Amazon and Best Buy person the most recent 11-inch iPad Air with the M4 spot connected merchantability for $649. That’s $100 little than the caller retail terms that went into effect (alongside plentifulness of different Apple terms hikes) successful June. You tin besides drawback the 256GB exemplary for $749 (usually $849), and the version with a cellular antenna for $799 (usually $899).

Apple iPad Air M4

Where to Buy:

• $749 $649 astatine Amazon (128GB, Wi-Fi)
• $749 $649 astatine Best Buy (128GB, Wi-Fi)
• $899 $799 astatine Amazon (128GB, LTE)

We reviewed the M4 iPad Air erstwhile it released successful March, and recovered a precise akin acquisition to the erstwhile generation, for amended oregon worse. The upgraded internals springiness the strategy a show boost and amended connectivity, similar Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6, but different this update is abbreviated connected notable oregon breathtaking features if you’ve utilized an iPad Air the past fewer years.

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Other deals to consider

• The Garmin InReach Mini 2 is discounted to $249.99 astatine a assortment of retailers, including Amazon, REI, and straight from Garmin. This compact instrumentality uses a outer connection, which requires a Garmin InReach subscription, to supply exigency services, determination sharing, and adjacent substance messaging erstwhile paired with astute device.
• Best Buy has the Anker 140W 4-Port Laptop Charger connected merchantability for $55.99, a $24 discount disconnected the accustomed price. With 3 USB-C ports and a USB-A larboard mounted connected its bottommost to forestall sagging successful your outlet with aggregate devices plugged in, you tin easy complaint a play worthy of devices. The built-in show lets you cheque your full powerfulness usage astatine a glance, oregon marque definite you’re charging astatine the close powerfulness level.
• Amazon is selling the Marshall Stanmore III Bluetooth talker for $199.99, fractional disconnected the accustomed retail terms and matching the lowest terms to date. While it doesn’t person a phono pre-amp, it does person RCA inputs for usage with a properly-equipped grounds player, and vintage amplifier styling that helps acceptable it isolated from the assemblage of different speakers.

With a looming IPO, aggravated contention from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping astatine its heels, OpenAI has plentifulness of reasons to determination fast. Instead, it hit the brakes.

On Tuesday, the institution said it had slowed the gait of immoderate AI improvement portion it tightened information and safeguards. That included a two-week intermission successful reinforcement learning grooming connected its "latest models intended for deployment," and an ongoing hold to its "largest planned frontier RL run."

The determination is simply a precise nationalist trial of an thought AI information advocates person pushed for for years: that companies should beryllium consenting to bow retired of the AI contention and dilatory things …

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Clips of what appears to beryllium Grand Theft Auto VI person deed the internet, perchance spoiling aspects of the crippled up of Rockstar Games' heavy dive debuting connected Netflix adjacent week and its long-awaited motorboat successful November.

I've seen 3 clips seemingly showing disconnected the game, though 2 person been pulled from the tract I saw them connected "due to a copyright claim." The archetypal clip (now removed) was a quiescent country that mostly focused connected Jason Duval, 1 the game's 2 protagonists, shooting a hoops into a hoop. Another clip (also removed) featured much of the crime-focused gameplay you'd expect from GTA, including Duval hitting a idiosyncratic with a wrench, a …

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Meta is launching a caller Mac app dedicated to its AI chatbot. In an announcement connected Wednesday, Meta says you tin stock your model with its AI chatbot, which tin supply suggestions, reply questions, oregon make contented based connected what's connected your screen. Meta AI connected the Mac besides supports dictation crossed each apps.

The motorboat comes arsenic Meta makes its AI chatbot more similar a productivity-focused assistant to amended vie with its AI rivals - galore of which already person desktop apps. You tin stock your model with Google's Gemini AI app, portion OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude apps instrumentality things a measurement further by allowing the chatbots to instrumentality con …

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It'd beryllium casual to place the Pixel 11. Want the champion cameras? The Pixel 11 Pro is your answer. Want the champion bargain? The Pixel 10A is inactive a large deal.

But the Pixel 11 mightiness beryllium the saccharine spot successful Google's lineup this year. With 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, it delivers the aforesaid show arsenic the basal Pixel 11 Pro for $899 - $200 less. And portion it's $400 much than the Pixel 10A, it has a faster processor, much RAM and storage, Qi2 charging, and a telephoto lens.

It's besides the cheapest mode to acquisition what's really caller astir the Pixel 11 series. With the hardware fundamentally unchanged from the Pixel 10 but for caller colors and a …

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The Google Pixel Watch 5 has, successful galore ways, been the hardest Pixel Watch to accurately review. Barely thing has changed successful presumption of hardware. The sizes are the same, the chips and artillery got an itty-bitty boost, and there's a caller pyrite satin lawsuit finish. Instead, the large updates are each software-related: This year's ticker gets ambitious caller wellness features that grow connected the overhauled Google Health app and its AI manager introduced with the Fitbit Air earlier this year.

The lone occupation is those wellness updates aren't here. The watch's astir absorbing caller features - humor unit and insulin absorption trends, nightly slumber breathing q …

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The foldable telephone marketplace is successful the mediate of a immense transformation, but nary 1 told Google.

Last year, Samsung transformed its Galaxy Z Fold 7 with a dramatically thinner design. This year, it made its phones thinner and lighter again, astir eliminated the crease, and introduced a caller passport-sized signifier origin that feels similar the future. Next month, Apple is expected to participate the marketplace with a foldable iPhone that, rumor has it, includes each of the supra and adds iOS too.

In the look of each that flux, Google's Pixel 11 Pro Fold has hardly changed a thing.

Like the different Pixel 11 phones, this is an iterative hardware upgrade, but dissimilar …

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Google is trying to get you disconnected your phone. The Pixel 11 Pro is "A Phone Designed to Help You Use It Less," the institution promises. It tin proactively assistance you publication edifice reservations, instrumentality the champion frames from a video, and assistance you voice-text importantly faster. The transportation is that the caller features bundled with the Pixel 11 bid of phones tin assistance hole your narration with exertion - 1 that Google knows has severely degraded successful caller years.

But the hardware of the Pixel 11 Pro and 11 Pro XL is precise akin to past year's models - and successful astatine slightest 1 case, a downgrade - truthful those bundle features are beauteous overmuch the full pitch.

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The embargo has lifted connected Google's Pixel 11 series, arsenic good arsenic for its Pixel Watch 5. Now we get to speech smack - conscionable kidding, the caller hardware is good. We person 4 reviews unrecorded connected the tract that you tin peruse astatine your leisure. We're giving subscribers a accidental to prosecute with america straight successful an AMA aboriginal today. I'll beryllium determination (I reviewed the modular Pixel 11) to reply your questions, and truthful volition David "11 Pro" Imel, Dominic "11 Pro Fold" Preston and Victoria "Pixel Watch 5" Song.

Subscribers, driblet successful your questions and we'll statesman answering them astatine 3PM ET. We can't halt you from asking irrelevant questions, but we'll beryllium prioritizing ones th …

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• macOS Tahoe 26.7 is Full of References to Unreleased Apple Products


• Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed: See Them successful Action


• Apple's Camera AirPods May Launch arsenic 'AirPods Pro,' Not 'AirPods Ultra'


• Unreleased AirPods 5 Models Referenced successful macOS 26.7


• New Apple TV to Come With Upgraded Siri Remote


• Apple's Home Hub Will Have a Widget Gallery With iPhone Widget Support

Another video of what appears to beryllium morganatic Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay has leaked online, and again it bears the watermark of the radical allegedly connected with today's earlier leaks, CyberLeek.

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Amazon is bringing Alexa Plus to Fire TV instrumentality owners successful the US for free. Starting today, users successful the US with an Amazon Fire TV Stick, Fire TV Cube, Amazon Ember astute TV, oregon different TV with Alexa Plus built in, including those from Panasonic and Hisense, volition get entree to the much conversational AI assistant.

Previously, Amazon made Alexa Plus disposable to Fire TV customers with a Prime oregon Alexa Plus subscription. But now, everyone volition get entree to Alexa Plus, which tin supply movie recommendations based connected your mood, assistance you jump to circumstantial scenes, and reply questions astir what you're seeing on-screen. It tin besides link to your …

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Rumored Features

A17 Pro Chip oregon Newer

Increased RAM

Siri AI

N1 Chip With Wi-Fi 7

Updated Siri Remote

Design

Launch Timing and Pricing

• Apple TV 4K (3rd generation): October 2022


• Apple TV 4K (2nd generation): April 2021


• Apple TV 4K (1st generation): September 2017


• Apple TV HD: September 2015

Hello! This portion is simply a portion of Optimism Week connected Eurogamer - a week of features either astir optimism itself oregon those which anticipation to animate it. For much articles similar this, you tin sojourn our Optimism Week hub. Thank you arsenic ever for reading!

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Robot vacuums are large astatine keeping your floors clean, but determination are a fewer areas they autumn down connected the occupation - stairs being one. Another is chairs and stools.

You cognize the scenario: You person a enactment of stools astatine a room table, oregon chairs tucked nether a eating table, and the robovac conscionable can't get successful and astir them, leaving a particulate bunny bonanza. Plus, arsenic these are mostly areas wherever you eat, crumbs and nutrient debris tin rapidly accumulate.

Of people you tin determination the chairs retired to fto the robot roam, but past the seat legs are inactive grungy, and you've had to bash fractional the work. Mova has a solution.

Its latest robot vacuum and mop - the V70 Ul …

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• Complete repeating tasks early: Repeating to-dos present show a regular checkbox, conscionable similar immoderate different to-do, allowing them to beryllium completed early, with the adjacent transcript scheduled based connected the existing rule.


• Make Exception oregon Update Rule: Rescheduling a fixed-schedule repeating to-do by moving it to a caller day present prompts a prime betwixt "Make Exception," which moves lone that lawsuit and leaves the remainder of the docket untouched, and "Update Rule," which changes the recurrence signifier itself going forward, truthful moving a Monday to-do to a Tuesday makes it repetition each Tuesday from past on.


• After-completion repetition changes: To-dos that repetition a play of clip aft completion, alternatively than connected a fixed schedule, simply determination to the caller day erstwhile rescheduled, with nary prompt.


• Create Next Copy: Selecting "Repeat" past "Create Next Copy" allows users get a caput commencement connected a to-do oregon task earlier its scheduled date, adding notes oregon completing checklist items successful advance.


• Repeat icon: Generated copies of repeating to-dos present diagnostic a tiny grey repetition icon to bespeak their origin.


• Redesigned setup dialog: The setup dialog for configuring repeating to-dos present has a ocular refresh with easier day selection.


• Bulk actions: Multiple repeating to-dos tin present beryllium paused, resumed, oregon stopped astatine once.


• Unified codebase: The show and editing of to-dos, some wrong lists and erstwhile expanded, is present driven by the aforesaid codification crossed the Mac, iPadOS, and iOS.

14-Inch MacBook Pro

16-Inch MacBook Pro

Horizon Hunters Gathering has reportedly been rebooted successful bid to ditch its unrecorded work elements, pursuing antagonistic feedback during aboriginal backstage playtests.

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Jason Statham's upcoming movie Mutiny is acceptable to deed theaters connected August 21st, but it tin already beryllium streamed successful afloat connected the US mentation of Amazon's Prime Video service. My workfellow Dominic Preston was capable to verify that each 1 hr and 35 minutes of the movie is disposable to ticker connected Amazon's streaming platform, contempt the Mutiny website and marketing materials stating that it'll lone beryllium disposable successful theaters erstwhile it's officially released successful 2 days.

There's thing to suggest that this was released connected Prime Video intentionally, oregon that it's intended to beryllium immoderate selling stunt - neither the Punch Palace Productions and MadRiver Pictures pro …

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Processor and Performance

Display

Chassis Design

Release Date

Pricing

Most phantasy sports leagues endure the aforesaid problem: retention. Leagues play retired implicit monthslong seasons, necessitate regular attention, and tin punish players severely for missing adjacent a azygous week. I've started Fantasy Premier League (FPL) aggregate times, but ne'er finished a season.

That's a occupation for immoderate phantasy league, but particularly truthful for a caller crippled successful a increasing sport, hoping to pull caller fans who mightiness turn on with it. And truthful erstwhile Manchester United instrumentality connected London City Lionesses connected the opening time of the Women's Super League (WSL) play adjacent month, fans volition person a accidental to vie successful a phantasy league that's a small antithetic …

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April - 1805

Napoleon is maestro of Europe

Only the British fleet stands earlier him

Compute is present an plus class

I spot it is erstwhile again clip to speech fiscal innovation. Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR are each moving with Nvidia to enactment unneurotic $500 cardinal successful financing to crook compute into an plus class.

"This is truly the archetypal clip that exertion chips person go an investable plus class," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said to CNBC. "These are revenue-generating assets now. They're productive, they're long-lived, they're fungible, they're flexible."

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Amazon says its drone transportation work volition scope "nearly 500 cities and towns successful the United States" by the extremity of this year, expanding its sum by six times compared to the existent footprint. Prime Air deliveries volition soon beryllium launched successful the Chicago, Illinois; Syracuse, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Atlanta, Georgia; and Boise, Idaho metro areas, according to Amazon's announcement, with "more communities to travel aboriginal this year."

These volition articulation 11 locations crossed the US wherever Amazon already offers drone deliveries, with each Prime Air tract serving an country of astir 175 quadrate miles. The work aims to rapidly present packages o …

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The Binding of Isaac: Repentance + Online has revealed a merchandise day and it's 1 you astir apt person marked connected your calendar. The package, a postulation of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and each antecedently released add-ons, arrives 19th November connected consoles -exactly the aforesaid time arsenic Grand Theft Auto 6.

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Consumer rights question Stop Killing Games has released a nationalist connection admonishing the actions of the radical which took work for leaking Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay footage overnight.

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The Apple AirTag whitethorn beryllium a jack-of-all-trades - radical usage it for keeping way of keys, suitcases, backpacks, purses - but I deliberation the astir logical usage lawsuit for it, by far, is keeping way of your pet. I connect it to my corgi Jelly's collar via a matching silicone holder. Have I ever erstwhile truly needed it to find her, and bash I deliberation she'd ever tally disconnected connected me? No - she's a beauteous loyal herding dog, truthful she likes to support an oculus connected her parents - but conscionable similar immoderate other you whitethorn connect an AirTag to, there's a important accidental that the 1 clip you genuinely request it, you'll beryllium thanking God that you had it. (Kind of similar insurance.)

I deliberation it'd b …

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What appears to beryllium morganatic gameplay footage of Grand Theft Auto 6 has leaked onto the internet, alongside an alleged representation of the game's full map.

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The DualSense Edge, Sony's £200 / $200 pro-style controller for PlayStation 5 and PC, looks to beryllium getting a revised model. That's according to filings connected the website of US authorities bureau the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

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I was not a earthy parent. The emotion was determination instantly, but with it came each this anxiousness I had not expected. Having a babe was similar opening the doorway to a hilariously overstacked closet, and each of a abrupt my elemental beingness was buried nether endless caller things, caller worries and caller sources of nightmares. Cutlery was abruptly a people of crisp objects. Plug sockets were abruptly electrocution hazards. A mid-day locomotion done the adjacent woods was abruptly filled with uneven flooring, with deadly mushrooms 1 mightiness accidentally eat.

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Framework has refreshed its 12-inch convertible laptop, introducing Intel's latest Core Series 3 processors, expanded hardware customizations, and a pre-built Linux option. The cheapest pre-built basal configuration for the Framework Laptop 12 now starts astatine $699 - $100 little than the previous version erstwhile it launched past year. Preorders are unfastened now, with the archetypal question of deliveries expected to vessel successful October.

That pre-built basal configuration is lone disposable successful green, and includes an Intel Core 3 304 CPU, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. It besides comes preloaded with Linux Fedora 44 KDE Plasma, a determination brought connected by Framework finding …

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