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The Wire Service That Defined American News Is Quietly Reinventing Itself — And Leaving Print Behind
The Associated Press, an institution that has supplied newspapers with reporting since 1846, is offering buyouts to staff and reshaping its editorial operations in what amoun...
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The Quiet Rise of Hedge Fund Replication: Why Investors Are Paying Less for the Same Returns
For decades, hedge funds have occupied a privileged perch in institutional portfolios — charging premium fees for strategies that, in aggregate, have often failed to justify...
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The $81 Billion Bet: How Gulf Sovereign Wealth Is Rewriting Hollywood’s Power Map
Three sovereign wealth funds from the Persian Gulf have agreed to invest roughly $5 billion to back Paramount Global's proposed $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discov...
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The Zombie Maestro Builds Again: Jason Blundell’s Magic Fractal Aims to Rewrite the Rules of Cooperative Shooters
Jason Blundell wants to make you care about the people you're shooting with — not just the things you're shooting at.The veteran game designer, best known for shaping...
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Samsung Finally Opens the Door to Google Cast — and the Streaming Wars Will Never Look the Same
For years, if you owned a Samsung smart TV and wanted to cast something from your phone, you were stuck with Samsung's own protocols or AirPlay. Google Cast — the underlying...
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Flipboard Bets Its Future on ‘Surf’ — A Customizable Feed That Treats Users Like Adults
Flipboard just made the most consequential product decision of its 15-year existence. And it has nothing to do with AI-generated content or short-form video.The compan...
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Google Turns Its Video App Into an AI Studio — and Nobody Saw It Coming
Google Vids was, for most of its existence, a modest tool. A slide-deck-to-video converter tucked inside Google Workspace, aimed at corporate presenters who wanted something...
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YouTube Bets Big on Coachella 2025: 4K Streaming, Pixel Cameras, and the Fight for Live Music’s Digital Future
For more than a decade, YouTube has been the default screen for anyone who couldn't make it to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. This year, the platform is raisin...
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YouTube Wants to Be Your Cable Box Again — And This Time, It Might Actually Work
YouTube is building something that looks a lot like television. Not the sprawling, algorithm-driven video platform that dominates the internet, but something closer to what y...
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A Federal Judge Blocked Trump’s Defunding of NPR and PBS. The Wreckage Was Already Spreading.
A federal judge in Washington has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from cutting off funding to NPR and PBS, ruling that the government likely overstepped its auth...
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Google’s Gemini Live Wants to Be Your Morning News Anchor — And It Might Actually Pull It Off
For decades, the morning news routine has been remarkably resistant to disruption. Radio, then television, then smartphones each reshaped the container, but the format stayed...
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Your Antenna TV Shouldn’t Need the Internet — But Roku Made It So
A television antenna is, by design, one of the simplest technologies still in use. You plug it in, scan for channels, and watch free over-the-air broadcasts. No subscription....
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The 22-Year-Old Who Turned TikTok’s Algorithm Into a Factory for Viral TV Shows
Rowan Winch was 17 when he started posting videos on TikTok. Five years later, his company Fallen Media is producing some of the most-watched unscripted content on the intern...
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Meta Accused of Using BitTorrent to Pirate Books — And a Federal Judge Just Let the Case Move Forward
A federal judge in California has allowed some of the most damaging claims against Meta Platforms to proceed in a copyright lawsuit that alleges the tech giant didn't just do...
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Someone Built a Free App That Turns YouTube Into Cable TV — and It Might Be the Most Subversive Streaming Hack Yet
There's a quiet rebellion happening in how people watch video online, and it doesn't involve a new streaming service, a price hike, or another bundling deal. It involves maki...
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