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RIP to a Giant: French Monitor Company Transvideo to Shut Down After 40 Years of Business

In sad news that happens from time to time, the French monitor company Transvideo is shutting down after 40 years of operations. Best known for making multimedia monitors, 3D view stereo monitors, wireless systems, and a range of other accessories for professional videography, the company appears to be wrapping things up.In a post by founder ...

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The Screenwriting Tricks That Don't Work Anymore

There is a lot of screenwriting advice out there. If you've ever been in a writing class, you've probably been given Save the Cat by Blake Snyder or Screenplay by Syd Field. And these are good resources full of valuable information.But if you try to teach a creative skill to large groups of people the same way over sever...

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Hugging Face Releases Smol2Operator: A Fully Open-Source Pipeline to Train a 2.2B VLM into an Agentic GUI Coder

Hugging Face (HF) has released Smol2Operator, a reproducible, end-to-end recipe that turns a small vision-language model (VLM) with no prior UI grounding into a GUI-operating, tool-using agent. The release covers data transformation utilities, training scripts, transformed datasets, and the resulting 2.2B-parameter model checkpoint—positioned as a complete blueprint for building GUI agents from scratch rather than […] The post

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Leonardo DiCaprio Knows It's 'Very Important' To See ‘One Battle After Another’ In a Theater

Last night, I packed into an IMAX screening of One Battle After Another, and for three hours, I had an amazing communal experience with fellow Los Angeles film buffs. I loved the movie, but even if I didn't, I'd have felt good when I left, because I was voting with my wallet. I was telling movie studios that I want more movies l...

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Björk joins No Music For Genocide campaign and removes catalogue from streaming in Israel

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The Top 10 Ethan Hawke Films That Define His Career

Ethan Hawke is one of the most versatile actors out there. I think he's been in every genre imaginable. And he's given amazing performances across all of them. Today, I wanted to go over the best Ethan Hawke movies. I wanted to celebra...

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How 'The Santa Clause' Reinvented Tim Allen as a Family Movie Star

Before 1994, Tim Allen was primarily known as a stand-up comedian with a hit TV show, Home Improvement. So, it was probably a surprise to many after it was announced that he would be playing Santa in a holiday film. But when The Santa Clause hit theaters that November, he became a family movie star. By the early 1990s, h...

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Vibe coding: Hype or new reality? Only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Lauri Moore (Bessemer), David Cramer (Sentry), and Zach Lloyd (Warp) join the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to debate what founders really need from their first engineering hires — and how AI tooling fits into the equation.

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One of our favorite video doorbells is 47 percent off in the run-up to Prime Day

With Halloween and Amazon’s fall Prime Day just around the corner, now’s a great time to grab a video doorbell. They make it easy to watch over trick-or-treaters and keep tabs on Prime Day deliveries and right now, one of our favorites — the Ring Battery Doorbell Plus — is on sale for $79.99 ($70 […]

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The TikTok deal raises more questions than answers

Following months of delays, President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that's supposed to "save" TikTok. Trump claims the deal will make the app "American-operated," fulfilling the divest-or-ban law that threatened the China-owned app's presence in the US. But the Trump administration didn't reveal any information about who will own TikTok's US operations, or […]

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Humanoid robots are Meta’s next ‘AR-size bet’

This is Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Building humanoid robots is Meta's next "AR size bet," a top executive told me recently. That suggests the company plans to spend billions of dollars on the effort. During a recent conversation […]

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Liam and Noel’s brother Paul Gallagher denies rape and sexual assault charges

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What’s behind the massive AI data center headlines?

This week on Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff go beyond the headlines to break down what's really going on in these AI infrastructure deals.

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TV giant Sinclair is putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air

Sinclair Broadcasting will air Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show on its 38 ABC affiliate stations once again, the company announced, after Disney reinstated Kimmel from a suspension earlier this week. Along with fellow broadcast company Nexstar, Sinclair had suspended airing Kimmel’s show under pressure from FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, but Sinclair initially chose to replace […]

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Travel leaders gather in Cancún for World Travel Awards Latin America Gala Ceremony 2025

Cancún is making its final preparations to host the World Travel Awards Latin America Gala Ceremony 2025 on 27 September. Travel and tourism leaders from across Central and South America are gathering in México’s tourism jewel to discover who has been voted the industry’s finest.

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Checkout.com’s new $12B valuation is a glass half-full situation  

Checkout.com is boosting its valuation as part of an employee stock buy-back program, and now says it's profitable.

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Electronic Arts will reportedly be acquired for $50B

The rumored buyers of EA include investors like Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.

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‘The Social Network’ sequel will focus on Haugen leaks, with Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg

Fifteen years after "The Social Network," director Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel film about Facebook called "The Social Reckoning."

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New Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy Cards Are Up for Preorder

All the new Final Fantasy-themed Magic: The Gathering cards are up for preorder at Amazon.

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YouTube Music tests AI hosts that share trivia and commentary

YouTube Music's new AI hosts are currently being tested through YouTube Labs, the platform's new hub for AI experiments.

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Costco is already selling piles of Lego Game Boys cheaper than the Lego company

The Lego Game Boy isn’t supposed to go on sale until October 1st — but I already bought one and built it for you. How? Costco and Sam’s Club have pallets full of them at warehouses across the country, they’re already on sale at a discount, and I’ll tell you how to check if they’re […]

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New Avatar: Fire and Ash Footage Included With The Way of Water Theatrical Re-Release

Fans will be able to see three new scenes from the upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash only in theaters when Avatar: The Way of Water is re-released on October 3, 2025. There’s a catch, however.

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V/H/S/Halloween Review

V/H/S/Halloween review: A horror anthology with tricks and treats.

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Windows Hardware Compatibility Program - Windows 10 Certification Deprecation Plan

As part of our ongoing commitment to transparency and ecosystem readiness, we are sharing the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program (WHCP) and Hardware Lab Kit (HLK) end-of-support plan for Windows 10, in alignment with its upcoming end-of-support (EOS) milestone on October 14, 2025.   Key Updates WHCP Windows 10 Certification Deprecation...

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YouTube’s new AI experiment adds AI hosts to your music

YouTube is adding AI hosts to radio and mixes in the YouTube Music app as part of a new test available through its new Labs program. The hosts are designed to “deepen your listening experience by sharing relevant stories, fan trivia, and fun commentary about your favorite music,” YouTube says in a blog post. If […]

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Watch Sleep Token cover Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Dancing In The Dark’

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How Leonardo DiCaprio is Using a Hitchcock Classic to Prepare for His Next Scorsese Film

It’s no secret that the actor-director duo of Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese is one of the most iconic in modern cinema. The duo pumps out great moves together in a way that actually feels nostalgic for the old days.From ...

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Feature: Six Things We Want To See From Forza Horizon 6 And Its Japan Setting

Our early wishlist for FH6!Forza Horizon 6 is real, and the franchise is finally heading to Japan after years of fan outcry for the Asian nation to feature in the series. Truth be told, we've been happy with most of Horizon's location choices so far, but Japan is pretty exciting, so we're looking forward to heading East and cruising around with our digital pals next year.

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The Social Network sequel has a new title and release date

When knew that Aaron Sorkin was working on a follow-up to The Social Network, and now we know what the movie will be called and when Sony plans for it to debut in theaters. Deadline reports that The Social Reckoning has been given an October 9th, 2026 premiere date. Along with Succession's Jeremy Strong, who […]

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The Logitech G502 X Lightspeed Gaming Mouse Is Still Special Even With Its Age

Logitech’s G502 X Lightspeed remains a comfortable and responsive gaming mouse that brings great battery life and ergonomic upside, even if it doesn’t feel quite as premium as it once did.

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