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T-Mobile is upping the steaks with its next T-Mobile Tuesday freebie

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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Between making changes to legacy plans, introducing new student-focused options, and rolling out its Experience 2.0 plans, T-Mobile has given customers plenty to talk about recently. And now, the carrier is returning to one of its more familiar traditions: handing out freebies. According […]

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WoW will let some WeakAura-style mods function in its next major patch, as the war on combat AddOns turns into more of a truce

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World of Warcraft calling curtains on combat-based UI mods (AddOns) has been a bit of a mixed bag—while I’m personally more than fine having a class I don’t need constant auditory pings and klaxons to play, there have been some missing functionalities and hiccups along the way. One element of this is, at least, somewhat

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AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?

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The new deep learning techniques behind LLMs have also given us weather simulations that can run on laptops instead of supercomputers, changing meteorology. But the bigger task for AI may be making it easier for people and organizations to put those forecasts to work. WindBorne Systems, a startup that collects data with the world’s longest-flying

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Saudi Aramco backs India’s Mitti Labs to make Asia’s rice farming more water-resilient

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As rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns put Asia’s water-intensive rice farming under pressure, Mitti Labs, a New York- and Bengaluru-headquartered climate-tech startup, has raised $9.5 million in an investment led by Aramco Ventures, Saudi Aramco’s venture arm, to expand across Asia with a platform that combines satellite imagery, AI, and field operations to help

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Google Photos could soon let you customize Collections to your liking

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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Google Photos seems to be constantly changing, and Google is almost always working on multiple new features or UI tweaks. We recently reported that the app could soon make it easier to export still frames from videos and even add new “Memories games.”

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I really want a NAS, but it’s out of the question for me — here’s why

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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. A NAS makes sense in many ways, but there are also several reasons why it doesn’t. Those reasons outweigh all the positives I’ve mentioned, meaning that a NAS is out of the question for me — at least for now. Here’s why. Robert

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A special weapon was forged to create Onimusha: Way of the Sword’s brutal blade sound effects: “We wanted that very raw, kind of rough feel”

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During my exclusive hands-on with Onimusha: Way of the Sword at Capcom’s HQ in Osaka, I sat down with the game’s audio director, Shunichi Suwa, to talk about how the music, environmental and character audio, as well as weapon sound effects were designed. And, for a game that has a huge focus on duelling with

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AI worms? In your Copilot PC? According to this AI researcher, it’s more likely than you think

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Though I write a fair amount about AI agents, I do not use them. This is because agentic AI applications often introduce a more than medium-sized headache in terms of cybersecurity. For instance, one security research recently explained how a Word Doc could be leveraged to get Copilot to spread an AI worm. AI researcher

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There are a few gooduns in August’s Xbox Game Pass line-up, including a surprisingly sexy, and funny, furniture dating sim

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Elsewhere, the surprisingly entertaining dating game Date Everything! arrives on Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and PC Game Pass. This is the game made by Critical Role alumni Robbie Daymond’s studio Sassy Chap, so it involves a lot of the Critical Role voice cast and their friends. The idea is brilliantly bizarre: you date items of

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