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This $1,500 robot cooks dinner while I work

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Posha uses AI and a motorized arm to cook your dinner autonomously. It’s impressive but expensive, and raises all the usual concerns about connected kitchen appliances.

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Apple: “Pluribus is the most watched show in Apple TV history.”

The company didn’t share specific numbers, but it still seems like a meaningful milestone. Guess I should watch it.

The Verge’s 2025 holiday gift guide

A curated mix of tech-y standouts, everyday favorites, and other delights for everyone on your list.

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Wake Up Dead Man digs deep for a darker, more powerful Knives OutWake Up Dead Man digs deep for a darker, more powerful Knives Out
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You can now 3D-print anything in Noctua beige and brown.

I love my Noctua fans as much as the next PC nerd, but I’ve never quite understood the obsession with their colors. Nonetheless! If you want matching shrouds, cases, and more, Prusa now sells exact color-matched filament in Noctua Brown and Noctua Beige for the same price as its other colors.

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iFixit’s teardown of the RedMagic 11 Pro reveals the inner workings of its liquid-cooling tubes.

This China-only Android phone is the first to include the feature, along with just about every other type of cooling tech, including fans, a heatsink, and a vapor chamber, all topped by the blue liquid cooling system.

According to iFixit, however, all that cooling didn’t make up for the RedMagic 11 Pro’s limited repair options.

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Emma Roth
The Creative Commons says pay-to-crawl shouldn’t be a website’s default setting.

In a blog post, the nonprofit says it has “significant reservations” about systems that require AI companies to pay to train on their content, stating that they “could become new concentrations of power, with the ability to dictate how we experience the web.”

Despite its concerns, the Creative Commons recently partnered with the RSL Collective to allow creators to collect “contributions” from AI companies, as it aims to “infuse concepts of reciprocity in standards that are ready for adoption.”

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Amazon’s Matter Casting is supported by a second streaming app.

Free, ad-supported streamer Tubi is now compatible with Matter Casting, making it the first app other than Prime Video to adopt the standard, which is currently only available on Amazon Fire TV devices.

Will you use it? Maybe not, but at least it’s an option, unlike Netflix.

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Mia Sato
Ringo Starr accidentally crashed a gambler’s livestream.

The Beatles drummer pops into the corner of a livestream titled “Airport Gamble Sesh” and asks the streamer if he’s “on the radio.” At one point, Starr gets right up to the camera, apparently trying to make sense of whatever is happening on the stream. The streamer seems to have zero idea who Ringo is while viewers try to tell him in the chat. Starr pretty quickly leaves the area because the streamer keeps coughing and seems to be sick.

“Beatle Ringo?” the streamer asks while reading a comment. “Who is that?”

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Jay Peters
An update to Google’s Live with Search feature.

The tool, which lets you have voice conversations in AI Mode in the Google app, now uses Google’s newest Gemini model for native audio, which means that responses are “more fluid and expressive than ever before,” the company says. You can hear an example in this video.

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Andrew Liszewski
RAM is ruining everything

Price hikes related to the memory shortage aren’t just coming for PC gamers; smartphones, laptops, and storage drives could soon get increases, too.

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A look at Apple TV’s early 2026 lineup.

New seasons of Hijack, The Last Thing He Told Me, Shrinking, and Monarch are all on the docket as well as the debut of the film Eternity. Personally, I’m anticipating Hijack the most; the first season was so dumb but also was way more gripping than I expected.

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The Washington Post’s AI podcasts face backlash from staffers.

The outlet’s standards editor called errors within the personalized AI podcasts “frustrating” as staffers report that the feature is “misattributing or inventing quotes” and “inserting commentary,” according to Semafor. The Washington Post launched AI podcasts earlier this week, offering users two AI hosts that discuss top stories tailored to reading habits.

A first look at Google’s Project Aura glasses built with Xreal

It’s kinda like a pair of chunky sunglasses that runs Android apps.

Victoria Song
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The best part of The Game Awards? The orchestra.

Gaming’s biggest awards show might be losing its luster, but last night’s annual Game of the Year medley was as good as ever. The transition from Hades II to Pauline’s song from Donkey Kong Bananza? Chills. And of course, there was a lot of Flute Guy, who even brought a custom PVC pipe flute.

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GameSir’s new wireless controller clamps half a Game Boy to your smartphone.

The Pocket 1 is a compact Bluetooth controller that gives Android smartphones and “other compatible devices” Game Boy-style controls in a vertical orientation. It’s got a 600mAh battery, shoulder buttons, and will be available starting on December 25th for $34.99 through GameSir’s website, but discounted to $29.99 for early birds.

The GameSir Pocket 1 wireless controller on its own and clamped to the bottom of an Android smartphone.
The Pocket 1 won’t drain your smartphone’s battery and it includes a hole so you can connect a charging cable directly to your phone.
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Andrew Webster
Wake up, Knives Out fans.

The third movie in the whodunit series is now streaming on Netflix. You can also check out my review of Wake Up Dead Man (it’s good!) and an interview with director Rian Johnson about why he doesn’t plan in advance and why the movies are always rooted in the present.

The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake

Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. AI companies are ignoring it.

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Doom developers are the latest to unionize at Microsoft.

id Software, which created Doom and Quake, announced on Friday that they’ve voted to join the Communication Workers of America.

They’re now among a growing number of game developers, artists, designers, producers, and engineers under Microsoft who have chosen to unionize, including Bethesda and the teams working on Diablo, World of Warcraft, and Overwatch.

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Charles Pulliam-Moore
Listen up, fives. A X-2 is singing.

Sure, The Game Awards had Miss Piggy and Rowlf the Dog making up a song about Geoff Keighley. But that’s nothing compared to Koda Kumi’s live performance of one of the most iconic Final Fantasy bangers in the franchise’s history.

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Charles Pulliam-Moore
HBO Max has big 2026 plans.

We don’t even know who will own HBO Max this time next year, but the streamer is putting on a good face with this sizzle reel of new footage from upcoming seasons of House of the Dragon, Euphoria, Dune: Prophecy and Lanterns — all of which are coming in 2026.

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