Peacock subscribers will see ads immediately upon opening the streaming app or website next year. It’s a bold new strategy for attracting advertisers—something that’s been increasingly important to subscription-based streaming services—but it also risks alienating viewers As reported by Variety, the new type of ads will display on the profile selection page that shows when ..
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If you’ve already got a decent gaming PC, you’re feeling pretty good about all of this—as long as the games you want to play don’t have Mario or Pikachu in them, your PC is all you really need. It’s also not a completely awful time to be upgrading a build you already have, as long ..
Apple doesn’t like to talk about its upcoming products before it’s ready, but sometimes the company’s software does the talking for it. So far this week we’ve had a couple of software-related leaks that have outed products Apple is currently testing—one a pre-release build of iOS 26, and the other some leaked files from a ..
As Google admits in the email alert, its dark web scans didn’t offer much help. “Feedback showed that it did not provide helpful next steps,” Google said of the service. Here’s the full text of the email. Credit: Google With other types of personal data alerts provided by the company, it has the power to ..
Mohu’s Leaf antenna. Bye, bye, bunny ears. Mohu’s Leaf antenna. Bye, bye, bunny ears. Credit: Mohu The best part is that companies can’t track what you watch with an antenna. As Nielsen said in a January 2024 blog post: Big data sources alone can’t provide insight into the viewing behaviors of the millions of viewers ..
OpenAI says it doesn’t allow its LLMs to be used this way When reached for comment about the sexual conversations detailed in the report, an OpenAI spokesperson said: Minors deserve strong protections, and we have strict policies that developers are required to uphold. We take enforcement action against developers when we determine that they have ..
Long ago, Google’s Android-powered wearables had hands-free navigation gestures. Those fell by the wayside as Google shredded its wearable strategy over and over, but gestures are back, baby. The Pixel Watch 4 is getting an update that adds several gestures, one of which is straight out of the Apple playbook. When the update hits devices, ..
Some releases really take advantage of the extra real estate of the gatefold jacket and printed inner sleeve, Chris Foresman Some releases really take advantage of the extra real estate of the gatefold jacket and printed inner sleeve, Chris Foresman while others have barely any additional information beyond song titles. Chris Foresman while others have ..
I still think there’s significant room to grow, but the content situation is better than ever. It’s not enough to keep you entertained for hours a day, but it’s enough to make putting on the headset for a bit once a week or so worth it. That wasn’t there a year ago. The software support ..
“The Qualcomm acquisition doesn’t modify how user data is handled or how we apply our open-source principles,” the Arduino blog says. Arduino’s blog didn’t discuss the company’s new terms around patents, which states: User will use the Site and the Platform in accordance with these Terms and for the sole purposes of correctly using the ..
