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The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on Monday condemned Woody Allen for speaking virtually at a Russian film festival over the weekend, calling his participation in the event “a disgrace and an insult” to the victims of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. According to Russian media, Allen spoke Sunday at the Moscow International Film Week via video conference. The appearance put him …

Apple is planning to launch a tabletop robot in 2027, reports Bloomberg. The device features a 7-inch iPad-like display mounted on a movable arm that can rotate and extend around six inches in any direction, allowing the robot to reposition itself to face whoever is speaking. Some people at Apple apparently refer to it as the “Pixar Lamp.” The robot …

WASHINGTON—Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Notice urging financial institutions to be vigilant in identifying and reporting suspicious activity involving convertible virtual currency (CVC) kiosks. While CVC kiosks can be a simple and convenient way for consumers to access CVC, they are also exploited by illicit actors, including scammers. The risk of illicit …

Football season is officially underway, as the Los Angeles Chargers defeated the Detroit Lions, 34-7, in the annual Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio. There aren’t usually too many serious roster discussions that come out of the Hall of Fame Game, but the Chargers could have an interesting situation brewing at quarterback behind Justin Herbert. Chargers quarterback Trey Lance …

With Red Viper’s built-in color support, though, anyone with a 3DS modded for homebrew software can now easily add a bit of color to the Virtual Boy library. And running the emulator on the 3DS means you don’t even have to give up the Virtual Boy’s stereoscopic graphics to do so; Red Viper works with the filtered LCD screen on …

A paper describing the findings of the study was published July 29 in Nature. Zou and John Pak, PhD, a scientist at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, are the senior authors of the paper. Kyle Swanson, a computer science graduate student at Stanford University, is the lead author. Running a virtual lab The virtual lab begins a research project just like any …

Google today announced a trio of new shopping updates for Search, including the ability to customize price tracking alerts. Google’s existing price alerts feature is getting an update that lets you set an amount. To date, the tool sends a notification when there’s a “notable drop in price.” Enabling “Only notify me below a specific price” brings up a price …

After announcing in late May that the platform would be experimenting with a new virtual reward system, Discord is now launching it to the public. The aim of the rewards, called Orbs, is to get people to click on more interactive ads. Users earn Orbs after completing Quests, which involve interacting with ads for products or games to get virtual items. …

CNN  —  Virtual reality was supposed to transform entertainment. At least, that was the expectation roughly a decade ago with the arrival of the Oculus Rift, the first virtual reality (VR) headset that many believed would push VR into the mainstream. In 2025, the industry has failed to deliver on that promise. But tech and entertainment giants alike believe that …