Microsoft plans to bring Xbox age verification to countries outside of the UK

Microsoft is implementing an age verification system on Xbox accounts to comply with the UK's Online Safety Act, and in a new blog post announcing the move, the company suggests it'll come to other countries, too. 

Players in the UK who indicate on their account that they're 18 years or older will now "begin seeing n

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Anthropic is rate limiting Claude Code, blaming some users for never turning it off

Anthropic has introduced new weekly rate limits on its Claude Code tool for AI assistance with coding tasks. The move comes shortly after the AI company quietly began implementing rate limits on the Claude Code service, which is an agentic side of the AI chatbot that is capable of reading code, editing files, performing tests and pushing GitHub commit

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Whistle pet trackers are shutting down next month

Whistle, a subsidiary of Mars that makes pet trackers, has announced that it's being acquired by Tractive. As part of the acquisition, Whistle trackers will stop working, but Tractive is

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Sony's wireless fight stick is now called FlexStrike and it features mechanical switch buttons

Sony just dropped some more details about its upcoming wireless fight stick, including the real name. During development, it was known as Project Defiant but it's officially called the F

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The new Warner Bros. and Discovery Global would like you to forget Warner Bros. Discovery

Earlier this summer Engadget covered the news that Warner Bros. Discovery would split into two giant media companies. Today the

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Jack Dorsey's Bluetooth messaging app is now on the App Store

Earlier this month, Block CEO and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey unveiled a peer-to-peer, Bluetooth-based messaging app he put together. Now, anyone with a compatible iPhone, Mac or iPad (or even Apple Vision Pro) can try Bitchat as it's

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Chrome will now display AI reviews of online stores

Google just announced a neat little feature for its Chrome web browser. It'll now show AI-generated reviews of online stores, to make buying stuff "safer and more efficient."

The feature is available by clicking an icon just to the left of the web address in the browser. This creates a pop-up that spills the tea about the store's overall reputation, with information on stuff like produc

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Sony sues Tencent over its Horizon Zero Dawn clone

Sony is suing Tencent for copying nearly every aspect of its Horizon games for the upcoming Light of Motiram, an open-world hunting game with some obvious similarities to Sony's franchise, as first reported by Reuters. Tencent first announced the new game

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Apple released iOS 26 public beta: Here’s the list of compatible iPhones that can download it today
All the new features iOS 26 has to offer.

If you've been ready to see a significant change come to your iPhone's OS, then get ready because a

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Apple iOS 26 public beta is live, here's everything you need to know about the new iPhone features and how to use them
new liquid glass display on an iPhone
Liquid Glass is a huge new change coming to iOS 26. (Apple)

The wait for accessing all the new Apple

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