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Disney’s new “Beat the Clock” ad format will let you play golf with your remote. | Image: Disney Disney is sprinkling a new kind of playable ad across Hulu and ESPN. The new ad format, called “advergames,” will let you interact with the ads using your remote, as reported earlier by Adweek. You might see two different advergames to start: Quiz Show and Beat the Clock. While Quiz Show presents a series of trivia questions, Beat the Clock challenges viewers to land golf balls into specific targets using their remote. Of course, they’re branded experiences, as the Beat the Clock ad features branding for Topgolf, and the Quiz Show game will prominently display an ad for a company while you play. Image: BrightLine Quiz Show replaces your traditional ad break with a sponsored trivia game. The pitch for this... Continue reading…

Image: The Browser Company The Arc browser is getting a nifty new Live Calendar feature that presents your next Google Calendar meeting on the sidebar just before it starts so you won’t miss any important calls. It includes a countdown timer and a Google Meet join button that you can see and access without opening your Calendar tab. To set up Live Calendar, first make sure you’re updated to the latest version of Arc (version 1.47.1). Then, just open Google Calendar in Arc, log in, and drag the tab into the favorites section directly under the URL. With Google Calendar pinned, you’ll get a new “Live Calendar Available” message confirming the feature is active. You can right-click on the Google Calendar favorite tab to change Live Calendar settings, like how soon... Continue reading…

Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge OLED monitors are on a nice (albeit, still slow) trajectory toward lower prices. If you’re in the market for a gaming-centric OLED for your PC, check out the excellent LG UltraGear 27-inch 27GR95QE-B currently selling for $656.99 ($340 off) at Amazon and B&H Photo or $659.99 at Best Buy. This LG model may not be gargantuan or capable of native 4K, but its modestly sized 27-inch OLED panel has crisp QHD (2560 x 1440) resolution. It’s got the deep blacks and strong color contrast you expect in an OLED, and since it’s designed for gaming, it can reach up to 240Hz over its DisplayPort 1.4 or twin HDMI 2.1 ports — making it a great choice for pulling double-duty if you use both PC and current consoles at your desk. In fact, it has a built-in... Continue reading…

Photo by David Madison / Getty Images The Stanford Internet Observatory, a small but prominent research group studying abuse on social media platforms, looks to be in crisis, according to a report by Platformer. Some key staff have departed recently, including founding director Alex Stamos and research director Renée DiResta, Platformer reports. A handful of staff have left recently after not having their contracts renewed, and other members have been told to look for other jobs. Platformer describes the turmoil as a “dismantling” of the research group. Stanford Internet Observatory research centers on some of the most pressing types of abuse online, including threats to democracy and elections, artificial intelligence, and child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The group’s... Continue reading…

Tesla’s current and future vehicle lineup. | Image: Tesla Tesla CEO Elon Musk teased three new vehicles during his presentation at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday — one more than what he showed off during the Master Plan Part 3 event last year. In a slide showing the company’s current lineup — Models S, X, 3, Y, the Tesla Semi, and Cybertruck — three shrouded vehicles were also included. “Obviously we’ve got some new products that we’re working on under the covers,” Musk said. “I think these are going to be pretty special.” “Obviously we’ve got some new products that we’re working on under the covers.” And that was basically it. No other details were divulged. Sure, Musk was in a giddy mood considering his shareholders just handed him a victory by reapproving his enormous... Continue reading…

Illustration: The Verge It’s been a rocky couple of months for Sonos — so much so that CEO Patrick Spence now has a canned autoreply for customers emailing him to vent about the redesigned app. But as the company works to right the ship, restore trust, and get the new Sonos Ace headphones off to a strong start, it finds itself in the middle of yet another controversy. As highlighted by repair technician and consumer privacy advocate Louis Rossmann, Sonos has made a significant change to its privacy policy, at least in the United States, with the removal of one key line. The updated policy no longer contains a sentence that previously said, “Sonos does not and will not sell personal information about our customers.” That pledge is still present in other... Continue reading…

As expected, Apple unveiled its suite of AI features coming to iPhone, iPad, and Mac this year. Dubbed Apple Intelligence, Apple's AI includes a personalized Siri AI experience, and a bunch of generative AI features that might be available already on competing platforms. Unsurprisingly, the Photos app also gets new AI features in iOS 18. Specifically, you can remove objects and people from images. But that's it. The iPhone will not get a Magic Editor tool like the one Google made for Google Photos. Magic Editor is an AI feature that lets you alter your photographs and make them look completely different from the original photo. I hated Magic Editor from the start, and I'm glad iOS 18 doesn't have an equivalent. I sincerely hope Apple never adds a feature like Magic Editor to the iPhone. Continue reading... The post There’s one popular AI feature that Apple should never bring to the iPhone appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Best Fire TV Stick deals for June 2024 Amazon gift card deals, offers & coupons 2024: Get $380+ free Today’s deals: $30 Echo Dot, $22 mini power bank, $629 Weber Spirit grill, $130 Beats Solo 3, more Today’s deals: $30 Thermacell mosquito repeller, $16 wireless fast charger, $140 eufy robot vacuum, more

Presidential elections in Mexico and the United States this year will affect the relationship between the two countries and policies about southern border security, immigration, and illegal drugs.