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Before the Oceania data centre arrived, Australians sometimes found the online role-playing game Final Fantasy XIV a surprisingly lonely multiplayer experience. On the Asia server, they’d struggle to find enough fellow English speakers to tackle the game’s notorious super-bosses. Those visiting American servers would find the in-game Golden Saucer amusement park sparsely populated during another…
Meta’s AI gamble is suddenly looking like a win for Mark Zuckerberg. That was far from a given. Even the Meta CEO was doubting himself. His company had poured hundreds of billions of dollars into AI investments with largely unproven results. “Are you sure this is going to work?” he asked his 29-year-old AI chief,…
Google’s revised privacy policy, effective October 16, 2026, now says the company may use data from Drive, Gmail and Google Photos to inform personalized ads, but only when a user chooses to make that data available to other Google services. Ars Technica ran the story under the headline “Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail…
Navigating a child’s first mobile phone is one of the biggest milestones modern families face. Balancing safety, connection, and digital boundaries often leaves parents caught between two extremes: limited, toy-like gadgets or full-featured smartphones loaded with unrestricted internet access and social media. Enter TextNow, the pioneer in accessible mobile connectivity, which officially introduced Yello! today….
ⓘ XboxThe games were revealed during the ID@Xbox and IGN Showcase. The ID@Xbox and IGN Showcase was packed with gameplay reveals, new trailers, and more. On top of that, several new titles were also announced for Game Pass members. The ID@Xbox and IGN Showcase was hosted a few days ago, featuring several announcements and updates…
The idea that a single selfie could predict how long someone with cancer may live sounds like an incredible breakthrough. AI is getting better at spotting patterns in medical data, but can it be used to reliably predict what will happen to an individual patient? I asked a clinical colleague what she thought about the…
Bangla press/Shutterstock In the late 1990s and early 2000s, one sound dominated cafes, airports, malls, and even boardrooms. If a mobile phone rang, it was almost guaranteed to be playing one particular, seemingly inescapable melody. Long before you could use pop songs as your ringtone, you were…
A free AI chatbot in October 2026 still comes with a trade. You get a capable assistant for $0, and the vendor keeps the strongest model, the longest sessions and the newest agent features for paying customers. ChatGPT’s pricing page shows the pattern in a plain feature matrix: GPT-6.1 Sol is marked “No” on Free…
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Now that I’ve had my hands on the iPhone Duo and seen what the hype is about, I better understand Apple’s vision for what a foldable phone should be. That matters, since Apple is just entering the market with its…
The high school football action Friday night in Southern California included some of the best games and player performances of the season. Check out the Southern California News Group’s large collection of photos from the biggest games on Friday, and make sure you take a look at all of our coverage in the high school…