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Dropbox is a PC builder’s best friend
A Verge senior editor recounts how using Dropbox to back up his home-built PC’s files saved him after two separate hard drive failures, arguing that cloud backup is essential insurance for anyone with a lot of important local data. He set up Dropbox to mirror his work partition after taking on a large crowdfunded project…
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‘Our Time Will Come’ Review: Two Orphans Journey to Accra to Find Their Kin in an Emotionally Absorbing Ghanaian Drama
Amartei Armar’s debut feature “Our Time Will Come” is an emotionally resonant Ghanaian drama that follows two orphaned children as they journey to Accra in search of family, drawing loose inspiration from “Oliver Twist” while avoiding excessive misery. The film premiered at Locarno after being developed through Marrakech’s 2025 Atlas Workshops under the working title…
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Live updates: El-Sayed, Ocasio-Cortez set for Sunday show appearances
The supplied article text contains no news content; it only reports that access to the page was denied because JavaScript appears to be disabled. As a result, the reported live updates and the significance of the scheduled appearances cannot be independently summarised. The title indicates that Abdul El-Sayed and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were due to appear…
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Peak gets its final major update and a “new secret for you to discover” next week
Developer Aggro Crab has confirmed that its co-op climbing game Peak will receive its final major update on 11th August, alongside a teaser trailer titled “The Final Ascent”. The update marks a significant milestone for the indie hit, which became one of publisher Landfall’s string of multi-million-selling titles alongside Content Warning and Totally Accurate Battlegrounds.…
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Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: ‘This essentially saved my life’
A former XCOM 2 developer has released “Rubicon Rumble Pack”, a cancelled Quake 4 expansion, publicly on GitHub after finding it stored on an old hard drive. The developer, who worked on the project during a difficult period, said rediscovering and sharing the lost content had a profound personal impact, describing the release as something…
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AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust
Educators and publishers are increasingly relying on AI detection tools to identify AI-generated writing, echoing the earlier rise of anti-plagiarism software. Unlike traditional plagiarism checkers, which compare text against databases of existing content, AI detectors such as GPTZero, Pangram and Turnitin’s own tool use their own AI models to guess whether writing was produced by…
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The Complicated Case of Passing On Your Digital Estate
Managing a deceased or incapacitated person’s online accounts, from cloud storage to social media to cryptocurrency, has become a growing headache for grieving families, particularly when no advance planning has taken place. Wired’s guide explains that without a clear inventory of digital assets and instructions for what should happen to them, survivors often have no…
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Roblox shares plummet by 70% after the company reports persistent decline in player numbers, and of course the solution involves AI
Roblox’s share price collapsed by around 70% after the company revealed that its daily active user numbers have been steadily declining, raising fresh doubts about the platform’s long-term growth prospects. The drop wiped a substantial amount off the company’s market value and has intensified scrutiny of how Roblox plans to reverse the trend, with executives…
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Gulf tensions, Ukraine wildfire arrests and Tube attacker probe dominate today’s briefing
Iran offers to reopen the Strait of Hormuz amid fresh attack claims, Israel seizes West Bank land near Sebastia for a park, and France arrests hundreds over its worst wildfires since WWII; also: a Tube attacker missed link, AI-designed antibiotic viruses, Banksy’s costly legacy and Newcastle’s pre-season win.
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Meetily Lets You Transcribe and Summarize Meetings Without a Subscription—Here’s How
Meetily is a free, open-source meeting assistant that transcribes and summarises meetings without requiring a paid subscription. It addresses two common drawbacks of commercial meeting-assistant tools, which typically cost $10 to $20 a month and require uploading recordings to the cloud, raising privacy concerns for sensitive discussions. The application runs on Windows and macOS (with…