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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals
TechCrunch has unveiled the lineup for its new Real World AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, a track dedicated to AI’s growing presence in the physical world, from robotics and defence to industrial automation and biotechnology. The addition reflects how rapidly autonomous hardware is moving beyond self-driving cars into public spaces, battlefields, homes and even…
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Operationalize AI at scale with HPE and NVIDIA
This is a sponsored article from HPE and NVIDIA promoting their joint “AI Factory” concept, a pre-integrated infrastructure package designed to help enterprises deploy, scale and govern AI systems more effectively. It highlights a common industry problem: many organisations have started AI projects but lack the top-level planning needed to build, operate and extract full…
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Marvel Rivals Is About To Give Your SSD Some Much-Needed Breathing Room
It looks like Marvel Rivals has been playing around with Pym Particles, as it’s set to get much smaller on PC and console. As part of an update that will add super-evil supervillain manager The Hood to the game, developer NetEase announced that it has managed to shrink the install size by a considerable margin on…
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Should a tech tycoon be able to pay his way into conducting a world-class orchestra? And should they really sell tickets?
The Guardian’s music critic Tom Service questions whether wealthy amateurs should be able to buy their way onto the podium of major orchestras, prompted by Canadian businessman Mandle Cheung’s plan to conduct the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Mahler’s Second Symphony. Cheung, a 78-year-old self-described amateur who founded his own Mandle Philharmonic in Canada, previously paid…
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Beyoncé teams up with Jay-Z on new B’Day-era remix
Beyoncé has released an extended four-track remix pack for “Morning Dew (Donk)”, featuring Jay-Z’s first new rap verse in nearly five years. The archival track, which dates back to her self-titled Beyoncé album era and was originally shared last month, now includes new production drawing on samples from Soulja Boy, the Isley Brothers and Sheck…
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Google Assistant will vanish from Android phones and connected devices in September
Google Assistant will stop working on Android phones and tablets, WearOS watches and some paired devices from 4 September, as the company completes its shift to the Gemini chatbot. Google has begun emailing affected users to warn them of the change, which it says could take a few weeks to roll out fully; once it…
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‘AI PCs will become more important’: AMD’s Lisa Su remains optimistic about the market despite runaway pricing caused by *checks notes* the AI industry
“I remain optimistic about the PC market as an important way for us to reach a broader set of users.”
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As Gen Z reconsiders dating apps, Tinder’s IRL events expand to dozens more cities
Tinder is expanding its in-person “Events” feature, launched in Los Angeles in March, to dozens more cities as Gen Z users increasingly favour real-world encounters over swiping. Parent company Match Group revealed the plans during its second-quarter earnings call, framing it as part of a broader effort to reverse years of declining user numbers by…
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Marvel Rivals season 9.5 will finally address a growing issue with NetEase’s hero shooter
Marvel Rivals developer NetEase Games will overhaul how the hero shooter handles texture compression in the upcoming season 9.5 update, tackling the game’s steadily growing file size without any loss of visual quality. The change matters because storage space remains a persistent concern for live-service games, which tend to balloon in size as content is…
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Fake party invitation scam can hijack your computer
Fake party invitations trick victims into downloading malware that gives criminals remote access to computers and spreads through contact lists.