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After years of teasing, the viral Nopia synth is ‘basically finished’

After setting the music gear corner of the internet on fire back in 2023 with the first glimpse at the Nopia , creators Martin Grieco and Rocío Gal are almost ready to bring it to market. The duo brought it to the MusicRadar offices for an in-depth first look and revealed that it will be launching in “a couple of months” for around £550.

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Nintendo’s Talking Flower got a small price cut

If you’re the type of person who could always use a little extra positive affirmation, or you have a weakness for weird gadgets, the Talking Flower might be of interest. I’m only kind of serious.

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White House taps the guy who keeps crying ‘aliens’ to run UFO group

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb will head the UAP Science Advisory Council established by the White House, the Pentagon, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI, and “the intelligence community.” The Council will provide scientific reports and advice to the UAP Governing Board, in an effort to “resolve the nature of UAP,” or…

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OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households

More than three years after ChatGPT’s launch brought generative AI into the mainstream, OpenAI is broadening its focus beyond individual users to families. OpenAI is hiring a dedicated product manager in San Francisco to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults across its products.

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ICE are heavily armed killers. They’re also huge losers

Donald Trump’s Homeland Security regime has been at the center of two critical stories in the past two weeks. In the first, federal agents shot and killed a man and quickly got to work justifying the use of force under the flimsiest of pretenses.

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A tasty RPG that will make you very hungry

Roleplaying games are often defined by excess. Storylines that span dozens of hours, side quests so big they could be their own game, massive worlds that require complex maps to explore, and casts so big you start forgetting character names.

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Are you filthy enough for a $700 portable shower?

Hot showers, like electricity, are a luxury that’s easy to take for granted. That all changes after a few nights camping at a music festival, a week toiling at a backcountry job site, or overlanding all summer in the great unknown.

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[AINews] not much happened today

So dancing bugs got upstaged by kpop girls , there’s the whole Bun vs Zig drama , and yesterday’s ChatGPT/Codex superapp launch was bumpier than expected , and the reset button was pressed a couple times to compensate. After buying Statsig and making a big deal out of GPT5’s routing/getting rid of the model picker , the main issue now is that GPT 5.6’s…

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Meta turns off the Instagram feature that let users make AI deepfakes of public accounts

Following significant backlash, Meta is turning off the feature it announced this week that let users generate AI images based on content from public Instagram accounts just by tagging them. The feature, as originally set up, meant that content from any public Instagram account could be used in AI creations without the account owner’s permission.

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No, Flock isn’t threatening people for debating surveillance

We’re aware of at least two forged letters circulating on the internet, including this one, that purport to be cease-and-desist letters from our legal department. To be clear: these letters did not come from me or from anyone at Flock.

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Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash

Meta has axed a controversial feature that allowed users to modify photos from public Instagram accounts using AI. The feature, which was rolled out earlier this week along with a batch of other AI tools, “missed the mark” and is no longer available, according to the company.

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The FCC is cracking down on DJI tech that dodged the foreign drone ban

Last year, we told you about Xtra , the company that lets DJI sneak its popular cameras into the US, and Skyrover, a brand seemingly selling DJI drones in disguise . They’re just two of the many firms DJI is suspected of starting to skirt the United States’ foreign drone ban .

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Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets

Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that engineers stole Apple secrets to advance the AI startup’s hardware plans. In its complaint , Apple says it uncovered “a pattern of theft of Apple’s trade secrets by OpenAI employees who were formerly at Apple.” In addition to OpenAI, the lawsuit also names IO Products — Jony Ive’s hardware startup, which OpenAI bought…

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Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft

Apple filed a lawsuit Friday against OpenAI over allegations of trade secret theft and breach of contract. The iPhone maker alleges that this misconduct, which it says reveals a pattern of theft from OpenAI employees who previously worked at Apple, was directed by OpenAI’s senior leadership, including Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan .

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ICE is threatening to deport witnesses of its latest shooting

Advocates are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security release bodycam footage of the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant who was killed by ICE officers in Houston during a traffic stop earlier this week. But DHS claims the agents involved in the shooting weren’t wearing body cameras because of the lengthy government…

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A decade later, Pokémon Go finally made good on its original promise

When Niantic dropped the first Pokémon Go trailer in 2015, it was hard to grasp how a bunch of players could work together to catch a pokémon like Mewtwo. But this week at the game’s 10th anniversary event in New York City, Pokémon Go showed the world how it’s done.

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Hugging Face's CEO on why companies are done renting their AI

Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue . The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500.

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Spotify will let you fine-tune your weekly Release Radar playlist

Spotify is giving listeners control to fine-tune what gets surfaced for them in Release Radar — one of its most popular weekly playlists. The new options allow you to narrow the playlist to a specific genre, focus on artists that are new to you, and more.

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Nvidia’s biggest RAM supplier just had a trillion-dollar debut on Wall Street

As the AI boom boosts demand for RAM, SK Hynix — one of the world’s biggest suppliers of memory chips — launched on Wall Street Friday. The South Korean chipmaker opened at $170 per share and raised $26.5 billion, surpassing Alibaba’s record as the largest debut of a foreign company, according to reports from The Associated Press and CNN .

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