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Public officials and journalists will soon be able to keep track of AI-generated deepfakes of themselves on YouTube through the platform's likeness detection feature. The tool is already available to...

Yamaha is taking a big leap into subscription services with its new Creator Pass, which bundles a bunch of different services and apps focused on music and podcast production under a single umbrella....

Sonos is returning to focus on the system that made it a driving force in whole-home audio. And to support that system, it's releasing its first new consumer speakers since 2024, the Sonos Play and Er...

iRobot has announced its first new robot since the company filed for bankruptcy last December and was later acquired by China's Picea Robotics. At just 9.5-inches in diameter, the new Roomba Mini is h...

Adobe announced more agentic AI features for its Creative Cloud apps this week, allowing users to edit images and documents by describing the changes to a chatbot. A native AI-assistant is now availab...

Have you ever wondered what Arrival would be like if it was also a goofy buddy comedy? Me neither. And yet the strange combination somehow fits together in Project Hail Mary. The movie follows a scien...

The MacBook Neo is basically the M1 MacBook Air all over again. That laptop changed the game in 2020, and became the default option for just about anyone who wanted a great all-around thin-and-light l...

Google is embedding its Gemini AI assistant even more deeply within its Workspace apps. The changes, which are rolling out to Google Workspace and AI plan subscribers, include a new Gemini chat window...

A few years after selling Wordle to the New York Times, creator Josh Wardle has returned with a new word game - albeit one that's quite a bit trickier. Wardle and a team of collaborators have just rel...

From artificial intelligence to fatalities from music streaming to the effects of immigrants on elderly health care, the Planet Money newsletter rounds up some interesting new economic studies.

Meta's methods for identifying deepfakes are "not robust or comprehensive enough" to handle how quickly misinformation spreads during armed conflicts like the Iran war. That's according to the Meta Ov...

The LinkedIn post seemed like yet another scam job offer, but Katya was desperate enough to click. After college, she’d struggled to make a living as a freelance journalist, gone to grad school, then...