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Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. IFA is Europe’s largest consumer electronics show, and this year is no different. IFA 2025 features some of the most eye-catching innovations ever, so much so that it’s hard to narrow down the list of amazing products.  However, at a time when the tech world is saturated with artificial intelligence …

OpenAI is reorganizing its Model Behavior team, a small but influential group of researchers who shape how the company’s AI models interact with people, TechCrunch has learned. In an August memo to staff seen by TechCrunch, OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Chen said the Model Behavior team — which consists of roughly 14 researchers — would be joining the Post …

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Linux has suffered from a litany of myths over the years. If you’re on the fence, you’ll be glad to know those myths aren’t true. Linux is easy, beautiful, and ripe for desktop users. I’ve been using Linux since …

Firaxis, longtime developer of the strategy series Civilization, is laying off an undisclosed number of staff, Game Developer reports. “We can confirm there was a staff reduction today at Firaxis Games, as the studio restructures and optimizes its development process for adaptability, collaboration and creativity,” a spokesperson for the studio’s publisher and owner 2K told Engadget. The layoffs follow turmoil …

Before you decide to click away, thinking we’re talking about some heart rate monitor that connects to a display using WiFi, wait! Pulse-Fi is a system that monitors heart rate using the WiFi signal itself as a measuring device. No sensor, no wires, and it works on people up to ten feet away. Researchers at UC Santa Cruz, including a …

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways A hidden YouTube TV promotion might save you $66. It’s only accessible through a web browser, not the mobile app. The promotion saves you $33 a month for two months. If you’re a YouTube TV subscriber, you might be able to save …

The wait for the Hearthstone Summer Championship is almost over! From September 12–14, the top ladder players will join the winners of the Summer Playoffs to battle it out for their share of $50,000 as well as one of four spots in the 2025 Hearthstone World Championship. Read on for everything you need to know to enjoy all the action …

There hasn’t been a flood of foldables in 2025, but several large competitors have released entries. Namely, the Motorola Razr (2025) lineup comes to mind. According to recent market data, Motorola wiped the floor with Samsung. “Wiped the floor” may be strong, but it conveys the right idea. Counterpoint Research released a report noting a few key bits of data …

With two games in the bag, the finale of the Final Fantasy Remake Trilogy is inevitably drawing closer. Last year saw the middle chapter of the saga, Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth, released on console and PC, and producer Tetsuya Nomura says that Square Enix knows exactly when it’ll officially reveal the game. Just don’t expect him to provide a reveal …

The thing about Paris is that it never ages — like great cheese, it is pre-aged. Innovation burbles where it finds a foothold, and the city is no more immune to fads than anywhere else (voilà, the squeeze-bottle avant-gastronomy championed by the sages of Le Fooding or the scruffy little caves along the Canal Saint-Martin offering fizzy jugs of natural …