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You can now make Alexa’s AI personality more friendly, blunt, or chilled out
That Brief option sounds great for people like me who find cheerful chatbots to be creepy or unsettling. | Image: Amazon Amazon is giving you more control over how Alexa behaves during conversations...
Amazon introduces three personality styles for Alexa+
Amazon is offering a new way for Alexa+ users to customize the AI assistant's communication style. The company has introduced three personalities for Alexa+, so the assistant can adopt an...
Amazon continues retreat from games by ending publishing deal for open-world racer
Amazon continues to scale back its gaming efforts, this time by ending a notable publishing deal. The Game Business reports that Amazon will no longer be the publisher of an upcoming open-world...
One of Trump’s cruelest policies yet has received almost zero attention
Poultry workers cut up chicken carcasses in a chilled room. | Leonard Ortiz/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images Last week, the US Department of Agriculture proposed a...
Uber previews its Dubai air taxi service
Uber is one step closer to going airborne. On Wednesday, the company previewed its air taxi booking service ahead of an expected launch in Dubai later this year. The inaugural Uber Air program will...
Can you fix a broken democracy without breaking it more?
A man holds a Make America Great Again hat as he and other supporters of Poland's President Karol Nawrocki demonstrate in front of the presidential palace in Warsaw on February 21, 2026. | Wojtek...
Did the Constitution doom American democracy?
What will the future of American democracy look like? | Ben Jones for Vox In the spring of 2015, few outlets predicted that the US would soon face a democratic crisis. Barack Obama was the...
Honor says its 4.8mm thick MagicPad 4 is the world’s slimmest Android tablet
Ahead of a full release at Mobile World Conference (MWC), Honor has teased the MagicPad 4 that it calls the world's thinnest Android tablet. The new model is just 4.8mm thick (not counting that...
Honor’s new MagicPad 4 is the world’s thinnest Android tablet
The new MagicPad 4 is a full millimeter thinner than last year’s model. | Image: Honor Honor has announced a new version of its already slim MagicPad tablet that's now even thinner. Last year's...
xAI’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI has been dismissed
OpenAI has successfully convinced the court to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s xAI, accusing the company of stealing its trade secrets. In her decision, US District Judge Rita F. Lin wrote...