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Halloween brings spooky, scary, creepy and crawly movies to mind, but what about a despicable flick? Peacock picked a villain-friendly streaming date for Despicable Me 4, the latest film in the franchise that stars Gru and the Minions. In the sequel, Gru faces the revenge-seeking Maxime Le Mal and goes on the run with his … Read more

A former researcher at the OpenAI has come out against the company’s business model, writing, in a personal blog, that he believes the company is not complying with U.S. copyright law. That makes him one of a growing chorus of voices that sees the tech giant’s data-hoovering business as based on shaky (if not plainly … Read more

As November 5 draws closer, the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) warned on Wednesday that malicious foreign influence operations launched by Russia, China, and Iran against the US presidential election are continuing to evolve and should not be ignored even though they have come to feel inevitable. In the group’s fifth report, researchers emphasize the … Read more

With 12 full days left until the 2024 U.S. presidential election, there are still concerns about if Meta can properly moderate political content on its platforms. Two months ago, a Facebook user put the faces of presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on top of Jim Carrey and … Read more

Apple plans to release MacBook Airs with M4 chips in early 2025, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports. The company just refreshed the lineup with M3 chips this spring, but the M4 update will “likely” launch between January and March 2025, Gurman says. Both the 13-inch and 15-inch models will apparently get the M4 update, and they’ll … Read more

For once, the biggest tourist attraction in Philadelphia’s Love Park isn’t the iconic artwork that gives the plaza its name. While a couple of tourists trickle through to take pictures with the love sculpture, the main attraction this week is the Portal, which was encircled by a crowd of about 50 onlookers when it made … Read more

What you need to know Boox announced a trio of devices on October 23: the Palma 2, the Note Air4 C, and it teased the upcoming Note Max. The Palma 2 retains its 6.13-inch e-ink Carta 1200 display but receives a fingerprint reader for security, Android 13, and the upgraded NeoReader software. The Note Air4 … Read more

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Qualcomm has revealed that the Snapdragon 8 Elite will be supported with eight years of Android OS updates. This should make life easier for brands who want to support their phones for as long as possible. This doesn’t mean all Snapdragon 8 Elite phones will get eight years … Read more

If you want to sign up for a subscription to Hulu or Disney+, don’t bother taking out your iPhone. Disney is now telling would-be customers to pay for subscriptions on Disney’s own site, instead of on Apple’s App Store — though people who’ve already started paying for either service via Apple can keep doing that. … Read more

Today is the official launch date of the iPad mini 7, which is the first new iPad mini that we’ve had since 2021. It has a much faster chip and a few other tweaks, so we thought we’d check it out and do a quick review. Apple didn’t change the design of the ‌iPad mini … Read more