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Antonio G. Di Benedetto

Gamers are already using Nvidia’s DLSS 4 tech in Cyberpunk 2077

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You may have to wait until January 30th to buy Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 graphics card, but owners of last-gen Nvidia 40-series GPUs can already download and install DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation software via the Nvidia app. And if you want a compatible, graphically-intense game to test DLSS 4 out, Cyberpunk 2077’s newly-launched patch 2.21 adds support for it.

Here’s the important info from CD Projekt Red’s changelog for patch 2.21 about DLSS 4:

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The Verge

Emma Roth

Google’s Gemini AI smart home controls are rolling out to everyone

Google’s Nest Learning thermostat. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

Google is bringing smart home controls in Gemini to everyone. The Google Home extension in the Gemini app is adding a few new features, in addition to letting you adjust your smart lighting, thermostat, speakers, and other compatible devices as long as they’re connected to your Google account.

Google first previewed the extension last November. With it, you can use natural language to control your...

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Umar Shakir

Heat pumps in EVs are making a big difference in cold-weather driving

This icy 2025 Audi Q8 E-Tron has a heat pump. | Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge

Many EV manufacturers have leaned heavily on energy-gulping resistive heaters to keep the cabin and battery warm in the winter time. But heat pumps, which can cut down on battery range losses in the cold, are becoming more prevalent in EVs, and they could help EV owners in the US who are dealing with the low temperatures across much of the country this week.

EV research site Recurrent reported that heat...

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Emma Roth

Threads now lets you schedule posts

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Following last month’s test, Threads will now let everyone schedule posts, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday. You can use the feature by creating a new post, selecting the three-dot menu in the top-left corner, and selecting “Schedule.”

Once you get your post timed up, you can view, delete, or edit it from your drafts folder. Threads will let you schedule your posts up to 75 days in advance, but it won’t allow you to schedule...

Wired Top Stories

Joel Khalili

The Trump Cryptonaissance Is Here

US President Donald Trump has wasted no time in demonstrating his fealty to the cryptocurrency industry that backed his 2024 election ambitions. The alliance could herald a golden dawn for crypto, industry figures believe.

ESPN.com

Ichiro wants to have drink with lone HOF holdout

Ichiro Suzuki wants to raise a glass with the voter who chose not to check off his name on the Hall of Fame ballot.

ESPN.com

Jeff Passan

Are the Dodgers ruining baseball? Inside the Roki Sasaki signing -- and a spending spree that has rocked MLB

L.A.'s run of star additions has angered opposing fan bases and sounded alarms across the sport. But is the team or the system to blame?

SBNation.com

Jack Milko

PGA Tour stops Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines due to wild 35 mph winds

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Thirty-mile-per-hour gusts have forced the PGA Tour to suspend play at the Farmers Insurance Open.

Whenever the PGA Tour suspends play due to weather, heavy rain, thunder, and lightning are usually involved.

But on Thursday at Torrey Pines, the infamous Southern California winds reached a point of no return — the tour had to stop the second round as gusts exceeded 35 miles per hour. Balls began to move on the greens, and tournament officials...

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After Being Asked For Her Craziest Fan Interaction, Amy Schumer Revealed An Unexpected Sex Story

The Kinda Pregnant star reminisced about the hookup on Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast.

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Alan Feuer and Dmitriy Khavin

Violent Acts of Many Jan. 6 Rioters Pardoned by Trump Are Shown in Videos

President Trump pardoned men who violently attacked police officers on Jan. 6 along with nearly 1,600 other people who had been charged in connection with the riot. But his grant of clemency did not erase the video evidence of their crimes.

Wired Top Stories

Megan Farokhmanesh

The Creators of 'Palworld' Are Back—This Time With a Horror Game

Pocketpair, creators of the game fans dubbed “Pokémon with guns,” is partnering with the studio behind Tales of Kenzera: Zau as it aims to publish more indie games.

Mashable

Morning after pill sales boom in days leading up to inauguration

Women's telehealth company Wisp has seen a 233 percent increase in emergency contraception (EC, also called the "morning after pill") sales in the days leading up to Trump's inauguration.

The spike occurred the week of Jan.13 to Jan. 20, and on Inauguration Day itself (1/20) there was a 57 percent increase in orders of EC six-packs on Wisp.

SEE ALSO: Did Trump's executive order just make everyone in the U.S. female?

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Mashable

OpenAI announces Operator AI agent that can browse the web for you

Operator, OpenAI's agent that can perform multi-step tasks autonomously, has arrived.

The ChatGPT maker introduced a preview mode of Operator on Thursday, detailing how it works and what it's capable of. Operator can browse the web, performing tasks like calculating refunds from a canceled order and finding customers with specific criteria in an internal sales database. It can also buy groceries and send emails.

On a computer, Operator can perform various tasks, like downloading files,...

NYT > Home Page

Karoun Demirjian

Hegseth’s Nomination Faces Test Vote

All but two Republicans voted to advance Pete Hegseth’s nomination as secretary of defense to a final vote, as Democrats raced to bolster fresh allegations about his personal conduct.

The Verge

Justine Calma

Bill Gates’ nuclear energy startup inks new data center deal

A screenshot from a video of TerraPower’s groundbreaking ceremony for its demonstration project in Wyoming.

TerraPower, a nuclear energy startup founded by Bill Gates, struck a deal this week with one of the largest data center developers in the US to deploy advanced nuclear reactors. TerraPower and Sabey Data Centers (SDC) are working together on a plan to run existing and future facilities on nuclear energy from small reactors.

Tech companies are scrambling to determine where to...

ESPN.com

Brian Windhorst

Silver: NBA still exploring separate Euro league

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says the league still has serious interest in a separate European basketball league.

BuzzFeed - Latest

This Electric Ice Scraper Is "A Real Shoulder Saver." It's 42% Off Today But Time Is Running Out.

This electric ice scraper easily clears your car’s icy debris. It’s on sale for a limited time.

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Dominic Preston

Android 16’s first public beta adds Google’s more limited take on live lockscreen notifications

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Android 16’s first public beta will start rolling out later today, bringing with it dynamic lockscreen notifications for ride-sharing and food delivery, following yesterday’s reveal of a similar feature in Samsung’s Galaxy S25 phones. The new beta also forces apps to be resizable, a move to make sure they run full-screen on tablets and foldables. This is expected to be the first of four public beta releases before Android 16’s full release...

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Jay Peters

Google’s Identity Check for Android keeps phone thieves out of your digital accounts

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Google is officially launching a new Android security feature for Pixel devices with Android 15 to prevent phone thieves from accessing your digital accounts. The feature, called Identity Check, requires biometric authentication to access some account and device settings when you’re not at a trusted location (such as your home or your workplace).

“A stolen device in the wrong hands can expose sensitive data, leaving you vulnerable to...

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Gaby Del Valle

Fitbit fined $12 million for Ionic smartwatches that burned 78 people

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Fitbit is paying a $12.25 million fine over its Ionic smartwatches, which the company recalled in 2022 after reports that the watches’ lithium-ion batteries overheated and, in some cases, burned customers.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has provisionally accepted the settlement. The commission worked with Fitbit to recall 1.7 million Ionic watches in 2022 after receiving 115 reports of overheating batteries. Of those reports, 78 mentioned...

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