Twitch streamers can now refuse to let Amazon train its genAI models on their content
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Microsoft ditches Copilot’s mascot Mico (and cuts a few AI features)
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‘Cookie Queens’ Review: A Doc About Girl Scout Cookies, Produced by Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, Is Too Much of a Reality-Show Ramble
As a director, Alysa Nahmias thinks like a reality-show producer — she frames the movie as a contest, inviting us to chortle in admiration at what eager-beaver achievers all four…
Sheriff Country’s Morena Baccarin Fought The FBI In This Short-Lived NBC Crime Drama
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NYT Connections Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for August 13, 2026
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URI, UMass Chan Medical School researchers developing high-tech armband to help people with opioid-use disorder
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Jeff Hiller never expected to win an Emmy. He was used to side roles like “Mexican restaurant waiter” and “frazzled salesman,” and then his big break came as Joel on…
New York’s Still Here Is Heading West
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Man Utd forced to field former non-league star as injury crisis deepens vs PSG
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