The American Athletic Conference has a new name. It’s now just the American Conference. The league announced a conference rebrand on Monday, which includes the new name, no acronym, a mascot, motto and more. The league took the name “American Athletic Conference” in 2013 amid a wave of realignment within the Big East, when the conference’s non-football schools broke off …
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As part of a sweeping rebrand, the American Athletic Conference on Monday formally changed its name to “American Conference,” ditched the acronym AAC and added its first mascot, “Soar,” the eagle. The league will use American Conference on first reference, and “American” on subsequent references. The modernized website will go live on Thursday at the league’s media days in Charlotte, …
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Apple is introducing a new reason to upgrade to its subscription news offering, Apple News+: more games. On Thursday, the company announced the addition of the Emoji Game, an original title that will join its other games, including its Crossword puzzle, Crossword Mini, Sudoku, and word game Quartiles, in both the U.S. and Canada in English. Bundling games with other …
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As the race to bake in AI features into productivity apps intensifies, Slack is bolstering search on its app with AI features, adding transcription and summaries for huddles, and a way to see recaps of channels and threads. Using AI, Slack now lets you search across channels as well as connected apps (like Google Drive, Salesforce and Teams) to surface …
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Apple is introducing a new reason to upgrade to its subscription news offering, Apple News+: more games. On Thursday, the company announced the addition of the Emoji Game, an original title that will join its other games, including its Crossword puzzle, Crossword Mini, Sudoku, and word game Quartiles, in both the U.S. and Canada in English. Bundling games with other …
Read More »Google Search adds Gemini 2.5 Pro, AI Deep Search, and agentic local calling Search Engine Land More advanced AI capabilities are coming to Search The Keyword That’s Not a Human: Google Search Can Now Make Phone Calls To Businesses PCMag Google rolls out AI-powered business-calling feature, brings Gemini 2.5 Pro to AI Mode TechCrunch Google’s AI can now make phone calls for you The Verge …
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After hours of debate that culminated in a rebuke of the Trump administration’s efforts to restore Confederate names to military bases, the House Armed Services Committee voted late Tuesday to advance the annual must-pass defense policy bill that endorses a pay bump for service members. This year’s National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, which supports a 3.8% pay raise for …
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Image: Nintendo This week marks the return of DK in a brand new 3D outing, and as part of the celebrations, the My Nintendo Store in North America is now offering a new themed reward. It’s a Donkey Kong Bananza Rally Towel and it’s available exclusively from this store for 650 Platinum Points. Here’s the official description, along with a …
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Following the announcement at I/O 2025 in May, Google is rolling out Deep Search to AI Mode, as well as letting subscribers access 2.5 Pro. Free users will get access to AI calling in Google Search. Google AI Pro and AI Ultra members in the US can now access Gemini 2.5 Pro in AI Mode for more complex “Reasoning, math …
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GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Microsoft has announced the next set of additions to the Xbox Game Pass library, and it includes three day-one new releases. There are seven titles in all coming to Game Pass by the end of July, while Microsoft also revealed that Farming …
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