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This summer, The Sphere in Las Vegas is going to debut a new experience: The Wizard of Oz at Sphere. And it's doing so with the help of Google and AI.This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
“The power of generative AI, combined with Google’s infrastructure and expertise, is helping us to achieve something extraordinary,” said Sphere Entertainment Executive Chairman and CEO Jim Dolan in a press release. “We needed a partner who could p

After 17 years of delays, the Department of Homeland Security is set to finally require REAL IDs for Americans boarding domestic flights.Starting on Wednesday, May 7, U.S. travelers must be REAL ID compliant to board domestic flights (and access military bases and certain federal facilities), according to DHS. In other words, a standard driver's license or state ID without the REAL ID logo, typically on the top right of the license, will no longer be acceptable identification for Americans flyin

TL;DR: On April 10, The Last of Us Complete hit the PlayStation 5, which includes PS5-enhanced versions of both games in the iconic series. You can buy the digital version starting today, or you can preorder the physical Collector's Edition, which will be released on July 10.Shop 'The Last of Us Complete''The Last of Us Complete' for PlayStation 5$99.99 at PlayStationShop Now'The Last of Us Complete' Collector's Edition$109.99 at PlayStationPre-Order Here
The Last of Us Season 2 premieres on Apr

OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT's existing ability to remember more information about you. On Thursday, the AI company announced via X that "ChatGPT can now reference all of your past chats to provide more personalized responses." There was already a memory setting that, when toggled on, enabled ChatGPT to remember saved memories and reference them in conversations. But now ChatGPT can remember even more. "In addition to the saved memories that were there before, it can now reference your past chats

Last week, Nintendo showed off the Switch 2. I even got to play it. However, that's where the good news ends.Barely 48 hours after the big Nintendo Direct livestream, Nintendo put a pause on pre-orders in the United States due to President Donald Trump's wide-ranging tariffs, which were put in place just hours after the Direct. Canada eventually got the same treatment, too. When the news first broke, Nintendo released a statement that read, "Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not

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If you have a teen in your life, this might not come as a shock. A new survey from the investment bank Piper Sandler Companies shows that teens really do prefer iPhones — at least, that's the device they're using.The majority of teens — a whopping 88 percent — own an iPhone. This is backed by data from MIT's App Inventor, which showed that while Android systems are the most popular choice of smartphone globally, young people — particularly members of Gen Z

US biotech startup Colossal Biosciences has resurrected the dire wolf — or at least that’s what the company would like you to believe. Social media is abuzz with viral videos, memes, and images of fluffy white puppies. The Game of Thrones references are — predictably — omnipresent. The news even made it to Time magazine’s latest cover.  But behind the hype lies a dangerous de-extinction delusion that could distract from proven solutions to the biodiversity cri

To no one's surprise, there have been a lot of AI-related announcements at the Google Cloud Next event. Even less surprising: Google's annual cloud computing conference has focused on new versions of its flagship Gemini model and advances in AI agents. So, for those following the whiplash competition between AI heavy hitters like Google and OpenAI, let's unpack the latest Gemini updates.SEE ALSO:Google reveals Reddit Answers is powered by Gemini AI
On Wednesday, Google announced Gemini 2.5 Flash

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The 89th Masters Tournament tees off today, April 10, at Augusta National Golf Club. The biggest names in golf are gathering on the green to compete for the iconic green jacket, including last year's c

Going to the movies these day is a crapshoot. People might scroll on their phones or record the screen the whole time. Audiences may lose their damn minds over "chicken jockey." And thanks to a new announcement from Meta and Blumhouse, the production company behind horror films like M3GAN and The Woman in the Yard, the moviegoing experience might be about to get a whole lot worse.SEE ALSO:Why is everyone using their phones in movie theaters?
On April 9, Blumhouse revealed it would be re-releasin

Fruitvale Station. Creed. Black Panther. Together, Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan have built a cinema collaboration transcending genre. They've leaped from heart-wrenching biographical drama to soul-warming sports drama to a politically daring superhero movie that is undoubtedly the best the MCU has produced. Now, they reunite for a vampire movie with Sinners, and not only make one of the greatest vampire horror movies ever made, but also easily one of the best movies of the year.Written and

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It's time for yet another foldable Apple device rumor.This one comes courtesy of analyst Jeff Pu, who said in a new research note seen by 9to5Mac that Apple is planning on mass producing not one but two foldable devices in late 2026. Specifically, Apple will allegedly sell a 7.8-inch foldable iPhone and an 18.8-inch foldable iPad. You'd be wise to take this prediction with a grain of salt, not because Pu's credibility is in question (it's not), but because we've heard this many times before. We

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The Windows sound — yes, that Windows sound — is now officially historic. The United States Library of Congress this week added the Windows 95 reboot sound to its National Recording Registry (NRR). The sound you're thinking of is the soft chime jingle that's oddly calming.The sound was actually created by Brian Eno, a legendary artist and producer. It was inducted alongside several other famous songs and sounds, including “My Heart Will Go On,” a recording of Hamilton, an

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While we don't encourage panic-buying (re: tariffs), we do think it's a good idea to

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Bête Noire is a long way from the bleakest episode of Black Mirror Season 7, but its twist — or at least the sci-fi element of the episode — is probably one of the trickiest to get your head around.The bulk of the episode plays out like a drama/mystery, only for the last 10 minutes to go impressively off the rails. So what happens at the ending of Bête Noire, and how does the device that Verity (Rosy McEwen) uses to alter reality actually work? We've done our best to brea

Yep, we're going to need a while to recover from that one.Black Mirror Season 7 starts off on an impressively depressing note with "Common People", a story about a woman forced to use a subscription service to stay alive.But what exactly happens at the end? Why did Mike (Chris O'Dowd) do what he did, and what was he planning to do next? Let's unpack.SEE ALSO:Do you need to rewatch 'USS Callister' before 'Black Mirror' Season 7's sequel episode?
What is Black Mirror episode "Common People" about?

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The International Energy Agency (IEA) has published its first major report on the AI gold rush’s impact on global energy consumption — and its findings paint a worrying, and perhaps contradictory, picture.   Energy use from data centres, including for artificial intelligence applications, is predicted to double over the next five years to 3% of global energy use. AI-specific power consumption could drive over half of this growth globally, the report found. Some data centre

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