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Fans of MrBeast expressed anger and disappointment at a three-night immersive event themed after the YouTube star.MrBeast, the stage name of James Donaldson, did not appear at the gathering at Las Vegas' Resorts World casino, which officially wrapped on Tuesday. While a flyer promoting the "MrBeast Experience at Resorts World" didn't promise the star's appearance, what really had attendees steaming was the dearth of "activations" at the casino's restaurants and pool, and an underwhelming "myster

Since ChatGPT's AI image generator launched to free users a couple of weeks ago, people online have been toying around with its possibilities. The latest trend involves people anthropomorphizing their pets. Yes, really. To be clear, we all kind of act like our pets are humans — my perfect dog, Henry, is a good boy who loves deeply like a real person. But folks are now using ChatGPT's image generator to imagine what their pets would actually look like as people. It'

TikTok has already secured its status as Gen Z's ultimate search tool, and now it's dipping its greedy little app toes into reviews.The social media app hosts plenty of content creators who make a living off showing their audience reviews of tech, restaurants, and clothes they've bought. But now, TechCrunch reported that TikTok has started surfacing reviews for some places — like stores and restaurants — inside the comments section of a video. Right now, if you see a place you want t

Skullcandy headphones and earbuds have long been a well-known budget option, though not exactly a brand that makes you think "premium sound."Its latest release might change that. Thanks to a partnership with Bose, the new Skullcandy Method 360 ANC earbuds feature sound powered by Bose's technology. Following a press event with new brand ambassador Tony Hawk on April 15, the earbuds are now available to the public. As Skullcandy ups the sound quality of its earbuds, it's keeping the cost low with

Elon Musk’s steady mission to erase every trace of Twitter’s former identity continues — and the next feature on the chopping block appears to be Direct Messages. According to rumblings from X employees and independent researchers, the classic DM tab may soon be replaced by something called XChat.SEE ALSO:Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk call to delete IP laws, but artists are pushing back
The change was first hinted at by Zach Warunek, a software engineer at X, who responded to a user r

TikTok is testing out Footnotes, which is effectively its version of X's Community Notes. The company announced the new feature Wednesday in a blog post on its website. TikTok is just the latest social media platform to roll out its own version of Community Notes, joining giants like Facebook and Instagram. The idea is that a community of users can help combat misinformation. In the post announcing the feature, TikTok wrote:"Footnotes will draw on the collective knowledge of the TikTok community

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UPDATE: Apr. 16, 2025, 2:18 p.m. EDT Now that the OpenAI livestream has ended, this article has been updated with the latest information about the o3 and o4-mini launch.OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models for ChatGPT have arrived. As expected, during a livestream event today, the ChatGPT maker released the newest versions of its reasoning models. OpenAI launched o1, its first reasoning or chain-of-thought model, last summer and skipped over o2 to announce its progress on o3 in late December. While o

The Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs have ruffled feathers across the world — and reignited Europe’s push for digital sovereignty.  One of the key focus points has been Europe’s cloud infrastructure, which is currently dominated by US tech giants: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Together, the “big three” account for more than 50% of the continent’s cloud market. “Europe has been heavily reli

In the lead up to Earth Day on April 22, tech giant Apple announced it's making major headway in its goal to be more environmentally friendly, including cutting global greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent since 2015. Apple outlines these initiatives, including recent renewable energy investments, in its newly published Environmental Progress Report. The company says it redirected 600,000 metric tons of waste through its Zero Waste program and explains it surpassed the 99 percent mark for use o

This week, we're getting a peek behind the scenes at Meta and Facebook as the FTC's antitrust trial against the company begins.On Monday and Tuesday, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand as the U.S. government makes its case that Zuckerberg and company run a social media monopoly. The FTC argues that "Facebook has engaged in a systematic strategy — including its 2012 acquisition of up-and-coming rival Instagram, its 2014 acquisition of the mobile messaging app WhatsApp, and

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If you don't unlock your Android device for three straight days, it will now automatically restart.Why? Because it will make it harder for bad actors, such as a thief, to break into your device. We believe the feature will also make it harder to sell stolen phones.In the latest Google Play services v25.14 update released earlier this week, Google rolled out a new feature under Security and Privacy, as first noticed by TechCrunch."[It enables] a future optional security feature, which will automa

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OpenAI has introduced a new image library inside ChatGPT, which gives users quick access to their AI-generated creations in a slick sidebar.SEE ALSO:Want to be an AI action figure? Just give ChatGPT a full-body pic.
The feature, now rolling out across both web and mobile platforms, is available to all users, paid or not. OpenAI even dropped a short demo on X showing just how seamless it is. If you’ve made images in ChatGPT before, the library should already be visible on the left panel. If

Well, this doesn't really seem like what President Donald Trump would've wanted. Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that Chinese retailers Temu and Shein have seen a big uptick in sales as people in the United States look to beat Trump's tariffs. The outlet added that shoppers, in particular, stocked "products like makeup brushes and home appliances before tariff-led price increases set in." SEE ALSO:Whatever Trump decides on tariffs, Apple and Tim Cook lose
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With Season 7 of Black Mirror, series superfan Jimmi Simpson returned to reprise the roles of video game billionaire James Walton and his less vicious in-game clone in "USS Callister: Into Infinity." Mashable Entertainment Editor Kristy Puchko sat down with Simpson over Zoom for an interview about what it was like to come back to Black Mirror. And beyond that, what was it like to go full-on Cast Away with a touch of Oldboy? Sure, Clone Walton was thought to be dead after his heroic self-sacrific

Google's use of AI to combat harmful ads has resulted in the suspension 39.2 million fraudulent accounts. On Wednesday, the tech giant published its 2024 Ads Safety Report, highlighting its use of advanced LLMs (Large Language Models) to detect and enforce advertiser fraud. Since 2023, Google has added "50 enhancements" to its LLMs that "need only a fraction of the information earlier models needed to quickly recognize emerging threats, identify patterns of abuse, and distinguish legitimate busi

There's a big problem with Microsoft Outlook Classic right now, and the main way for regular people to fix it will require a bit of old-school computing.The tech giant confirmed on its support website that CPU usage on a Windows machine can jump by as much as 50 percent when simply typing a message in Outlook Classic in the current build of the email app. That's a startling figure, to be sure, and you can confirm if it's happening to you by opening Task Manager while using Outlook. However, you

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If you've ever wanted to watch Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch hurl insults (and oranges) at each other, then today's your lucky day. Searchlight Pictures has released a trailer for The Roses, an upcoming dark comedy about a divorce from hell.Directed by Jay Roach (Meet the Parents, Bombshell) and written by Tony McNamara (The Favourite, Poor Things), The Roses reimagines the 1989 dark comedy The War of The Roses, based on the novel by Warren Adler. The original film starred Kathleen Turn

Music streaming service Spotify is unavailable to many users early on Wednesday. The company's official Spotify Status account on X tweeted they are "aware of some issues right now and are checking them out!"This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
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Let’s get this out of the way: Bionic Bay is going to be compared to Limbo and Inside. A lot. It’s inevitable. Psychoflow Studios, in collaboration with Mureena Oy, has delivered what feels like a sci-fi reimagining of Playdead’s moody 2010 classic. The visual storytelling, the shadowy menace, the precisely brutal puzzles — it’s all here, reassembled with a slick, biomechanical sheen.But don’t mistake Bionic Bay for a copycat. Beneath the familiar silhouette l

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