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OpenAI’s news publisher deals reportedly top out at $5 million a year

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As news publishers ink deals with AI companies to train their models with news stories, the...
As news publishers ink deals with AI companies to train their models with news stories, the price businesses like OpenAI are willing to pay for copyrighted information is coming to light.The Information reports that OpenAI offers between $1 million and $5 million a year to license copyrighted news articles to train ...
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Clicks is a BlackBerry-style iPhone keyboard case designed for creators

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A new company called Clicks Technology has announced an iPhone case with a built-in keyboard on...
A new company called Clicks Technology has announced an iPhone case with a built-in keyboard on the bottom. The case is called Clicks, too; it’s available for $139 and the iPhone 14 Pro version starts shipping on February 1st, with 15 Pro going out in mid-March. The company is also taking reservations for a $159 iPh...
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Amazon’s note-taking Kindle Scribe has fallen to one of its best prices to date

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If I were to venture a guess, the desire to read more books is right up...
If I were to venture a guess, the desire to read more books is right up there with getting fit, saving money, and eating healthier when it comes to the most common New Year’s resolutions. Fortunately, if you are hoping to up your literary ambitions in 2024, the Kindle Scribe is on sale at Amazon for Prime members wi...
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The first US commercial-scale offshore wind farm is live, but the industry faces strong headwinds

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The first week of 2024 has already been a rollercoaster of good and bad news for...
The first week of 2024 has already been a rollercoaster of good and bad news for President Joe Biden’s offshore wind ambitions. The nation’s first large-scale wind farm just started producing power for the New England power grid. The bad news is that another major project on the East Coast threw in the towel, the la...
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Google appears to be working on an ‘advanced’ version of Bard that you have to pay for

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Google appears to be working on an upgraded version of Bard called “Bard Advanced” that will...
Google appears to be working on an upgraded version of Bard called “Bard Advanced” that will be available through a paid subscription to Google One, as shared by developer Dylan Roussel on X (formerly Twitter).Bard Advanced seems to be powered by Gemini Ultra, the top tier of Google’s newly announced large language ...
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You can get $50 in Samsung credit when you reserve a Galaxy S24 phone

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Samsung recently announced its next Unpacked event will kick off on January 17, when the company...
Samsung recently announced its next Unpacked event will kick off on January 17, when the company is expected to reveal the new Galaxy S24 lineup. As usual, the company also simultaneously opened up “reservations” for preorders of its next Galaxy device, which grants you $50 in credit after supplying your name and em...
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ChatGPT, Copilot, and Bard: How AI is rewriting the internet

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Big players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Bard, and OpenAI, with ChatGPT-4, are making AI...
Big players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Bard, and OpenAI, with ChatGPT-4, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. How do these large language model (LLM) programs work? OpenAI’s GPT-3 told us that AI uses “a series of autocomplet...
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How to transfer ownership of a Google Drive folder or file

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I’m afraid that I’m one of those people who have accumulated a number of Google accounts....
I’m afraid that I’m one of those people who have accumulated a number of Google accounts. I have one for subscriptions, newsletters, and other general purposes; one for work; one for my fiction writing; one to use when I want to test an online app; and one — well, quite honestly, I don’t remember what that one’s for...
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Jack Black rumored to play Steve in the Minecraft movie

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Samsung’s new robot vacuum can steam clean your floors

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Samsung is finally bringing out a new version of its Jet Bot robot vacuum, which was...
Samsung is finally bringing out a new version of its Jet Bot robot vacuum, which was last updated in 2021. The Bespoke Jet Bot Combo will be on show at CES 2024 and is the first combination of robot vacuum and mop from the Korean electronics giant. (The company has a standalone robot mop, the Jetbot Mop.)Samsung has...
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X once again adds headlines to article links — but with tiny text

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After removing headlines from URL cards on X (formerly Twitter), the platform is adding them back...
After removing headlines from URL cards on X (formerly Twitter), the platform is adding them back — but they don’t work quite the same as before. Some of us at The Verge are seeing on the web that headlines and website title pages are now appearing over the images that link to those pages, which makes it a lot easie...
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We’re down to just a handful of EVs that qualify for the full $7,500 tax credit in the US

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The list of electric vehicles that qualify for the full $7,500 federal tax credit in the...
The list of electric vehicles that qualify for the full $7,500 federal tax credit in the US has shrunk — considerably. Thanks to new requirements about battery minerals and sourcing that kicked in on January 1st, only five battery electric vehicles are eligible for the full credit as well as one plug-in hybrid vehic...
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The latest Apple Watch SE is $50 off just in time for your New Year’s fitness goals

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The Apple Watch SE is selling for its second-best price of $199 at Amazon and Best...
The Apple Watch SE is selling for its second-best price of $199 at Amazon and Best Buy, saving you $50 on Apple’s entry-level smartwatch. The SE may not have some of the fancier features of the newer Series 9 model (features that recently put the Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 in some patent infringement hot water...
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Dish Network rejoins EchoStar as it tries to compete in 5G

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EchoStar Corporation announced today that it finalized its purchase of Dish Network on the last day...
EchoStar Corporation announced today that it finalized its purchase of Dish Network on the last day of December. Following the merger, which the companies announced in August, Dish is now a “wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar,” and why? 5G, dear reader. Dish Network was known as EchoStar until 2008 when it renamed ...
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Microsoft now says the CMA was “tough and fair” over Activision Blizzard deal

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Microsoft president Brad Smith wasn’t happy with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) last year...
Microsoft president Brad Smith wasn’t happy with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) last year after the regulator blocked Microsoft’s giant Activision Blizzard deal. Now that Microsoft has restructured its deal and won approval in the UK, Smith has kinder words for the CMA, describing the regulator as ...
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Alamo Drafthouse blames ‘nationwide’ theater outage on Sony projector fail

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“Sorry everyone! Sony is having issues with their projectors that is preventing us from being able...
“Sorry everyone! Sony is having issues with their projectors that is preventing us from being able to project movies at some of our theaters today.” That’s what theater chain Alamo Drafthouse posted to social media sites on New Year’s Eve, adding that it was closing five theaters entirely for the rest of the day as ...
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8 great Apple Arcade games for your iPhone or iPad

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Apple Arcade remains one of the best deals in gaming — even after getting a price...
Apple Arcade remains one of the best deals in gaming — even after getting a price bump. Since launch, the service has steadily grown with a mix of original mobile releases and App Store classics, none of which are burdened with the ads or in-app purchases that so often plague smartphone games. 2023 was a particularl...
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The apps, movies, games, and everything else we loved in 2023

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 19, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in...
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 19, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) It’s the last Installer of the year, so we’re going to do something a little different! We’...
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