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-Sony Interactive Entertainment, owner of the PlayStation brand, has acquired Cinemersive Labs, a UK startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumes.

-The famous fan fiction website Archive of Our Own or AO3 has finally exited open beta, 17 years after it launched way back in 2009.

-Flipboard is rolling out its latest experiment, "social websites." The project offers publishers and creators an easier path into what's often called the "open social web," which includes the fediverse, as well as other protocol-based platforms like Bluesky.
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Apple might finally have a version of Siri that can compete with ChatGPT and Gemini.
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-After the company released Claude Code's 2.1.88 update on Tuesday, users found it contained a file that exposed the app's source code. Before Anthropic took action to plug the leak, the codebase was uploaded to a public GitHub repository, where it was subsequently copied more than 50,000 times.

-Director Daniel Roher said the goal of his project to be a sort of "first date" with AI, a way to hear about its potential benefits from AI boosters, while also taking in the many negatives brought up by critics.

-Even to a non-expert, there’s clearly a gap between what Donut promised and what its tests are showing. There is a whole lot more to this article written by Engadget Senior Editor Daniel Cooper with intensive investigation. You can check it out here.
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RIP bike lanes.
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-Salesforce has unveiled the latest version of Slack, which comes with a whole host of new AI features to add to its ever-growing catalog.

-Stephen Curry has long collaborated with Google and it appears the first product of this union is “coming soon,” based on a video posted to Curry’s Instagram account.

-Banijay is launching the Black Mirror Experience, starting with Montreal in May with additional locations to be announced in the future.

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