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Casting is dead. Long live casting!

Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too

Grok undressed the mother of one of Elon Musk’s kids — and now she’s suing

Dave Filoni takes charge of Star Wars as new president of Lucasfilm

Natural Cycles launches wristband to replace thermometers for its FDA-cleared birth control app

You can save over $1,500 on LG’s 65-inch C5 OLED TV

The best alternatives to Spotify for listening to music

Asus says it’s dropping the RTX 5070 Ti as the memory shortage squeezes supply

The US claims it just strongarmed Taiwan into spending $250 billion on American chip manufacturing

Krafton is trying to find its next PUBG

Amazon’s New World: Aeternum MMO will shut down next year

Apple lost the AI race — now the real challenge starts

Democrats push FTC to investigate Trump Mobile

An OpenAI safety research lead departed for Anthropic

Amazon is buying copper harvested by bacteria for its data centers

Pijama wants to bring more indie films to a global audience

Amazon is turning Fallout’s postapocalypse into a reality show

Raspberry Pi’s new add-on board has 8GB of RAM for running gen AI models

Xreal sues Viture over AR glasses patent

Microsoft is closing its employee library and cutting back on subscriptions

Over 100 episodes of classic Sesame Street have arrived on YouTube

The next Subway Surfers game comes out in February

Verizon will pay you $20 following its nationwide outage — here’s how to get it

The Sony Bravia 8 II is a TV enthusiast’s dream

Ricoh’s black-and-white-only camera launches in February for $2,200