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Oppo is making the Pad Air5 official on December 25, and ahead of that, today the company has published a quick official unboxing of the upcoming device. This shows the tablet in all its glory in the Starlight Pink colorway (it will also be offered in Space Grey), along with the 45W wired charger that will be included in the retail package in China. The Pad Air5 has a “2.8K” resolution screen and a 10,050 mAh battery, and will come in Wi-Fi-only and 5G-enabled versions, with 8/128GB, 8/256GB, and 12/256GB RAM/storage combos. Source link

A group of writers, including Theranos whistleblower and “Bad Blood” author John Carreyrou, is filing a lawsuit against Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity, accusing the companies of training their models on pirated copies of their books. If this sounds familiar, it’s because another set of authors already filed a class action suit against Anthropic for these same acts of copyright infringement. In that case, the judge ruled that it was legal for Anthropic and similar AI companies to train on pirated copies of books, but that it was not legal to pirate the books in the first place.…

Summarize This Article:ChatGPTPerplexityGrokGoogle AISamsung has released the second beta of One UI 8.5 in the US, Korea, Germany, and the UK. Additionally, the beta program has also been launched in India and Poland. The first beta, released in early December, introduced some new features. The second beta, however, focuses on several improvements. Here’s the full changelog available with the One UI 8.5 Beta 2 update.With the second beta live, most of the features and changes that will be included in the final One UI 8.5 update are now clear. If you’ve already gone through the One UI 8.5 Beta 1…

Google Cloud Backs Genesis Mission with Gemini for Government and Secure AI Infrastructure Dec. 23, 2025 — The White House’s Genesis Mission has set a bold ambition for the United States: to double U.S. scientific productivity within the decade and harness artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the pace of discovery. This requires a profound transformation in U.S. national scientific enterprise, one that seamlessly integrates high-performance computing (HPC), world-class experimental facilities, and AI. The challenge is no longer generating exabytes of exquisite data from experiments and simulations, but rather curating and exploring it using AI to accelerate the discoveries hidden…

Nick Donahue’s parents were in the business of building houses, which means he spent his childhood hearing about the U.S. construction industry. His dad built homes for major developers, and his mom sold to big-box builders across the East Coast. Donahue was particularly interested in why designing a custom home cost a fortune and took forever, and why most people had to settle for whatever the developers were offering that year. So when he dropped out of NC State and moved to the Bay Area, he eventually did what you might expect a college drop-out to do in San Francisco:…

Summarize This Article:ChatGPTPerplexityGrokGoogle AIAmazon Luna is Amazon’s take on the cloud gaming service. Amazon Luna began its service in 2020 and since then has been slowly made available to a select number of regions around the globe. Amazon Luna offers you a decent amount of games from Ubisoft, Jackbox Games, and several other developers and publishers. By default, you can make use of the Lunar Controller to play your games right away, no matter what device you have. But not everyone wants to buy a separate controller just for playing Amazon Luna games. But, did you know that Amazon Luna also…

The oft-rumored ban of DJI drones in the US has now become reality, but the US government hasn’t just banned sales of DJI drones. Instead, all foreign-made drones and their components are now banned in the country. Obviously, DJI is the most impacted in the consumer market, though. The FCC says several security agencies have determined that drones and their critical components produced in foreign countries pose an unacceptable risk to the national security of the US. Today, based on an Executive Branch national security determination, the FCC has added foreign-produced UAS (drones) and foreign-produced UAS critical component parts to…

Instagram might be ditching its short-form obsession. Head Adam Mosseri hinted at embracing long-form videos and premium creator content to challenge TikTok and YouTube. This reverses past reluctance as user habits shift toward deeper engagement. Instagram long-form video could mean 3+ minute Reels evolving into full-length uploads with subscription options. This isn’t Instagram’s first rodeo with long-form content. The company previously launched IGTV in 2018, allowing videos up to 60 minutes to compete with YouTube. However, that experiment flopped and eventually got merged back into the main feed. The flip-flopping suggests Instagram is still figuring out its…

Across Uzbekistan, a network of about a hundred banks of high-resolution roadside cameras continuously scan vehicles’ license plates and their occupants, sometimes thousands a day, looking for potential traffic violations. Cars running red lights; drivers not wearing their seatbelts; and unlicensed vehicles driving at night, to name a few. The driver of one of the most surveilled vehicles in the system was tracked over six months as he traveled between the eastern city of Chirchiq, through the capital Tashkent, and in the nearby settlement of Eshonguzar, often multiple times a week. We know this because the country’s sprawling license plate-tracking…

The Honor Win series is scheduled to debut in China on December 26 as the brand’s first gaming-focused lineup. While Honor has already confirmed several details about the phones, a new leak has now revealed their camera specifications. According to a tipster on Weibo, the Honor Win and Win RT will come with a 50MP Sony LYT-700 primary rear camera and a 12MP ultrawide unit. Both phones will also offer a 50MP selfie camera. The Honor Win is confirmed to feature a triple rear camera setup, whereas the Win RT will stick to a dual-camera unit. The former will also…