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New figures incoming.Nintendo has announced that the first in-game event for the Donkey Kong Bananza: DK Island & Emerald Rush DLC will kick off next week.The 'Chip Fever' event (as translated from Nintendo's Japanese website via Google, so the name may be different in the West) will get underway on…

Future of Travel: Trip.com and Google Unveil Key Trends for 2026 - Image Credit Trip.com    Trip.com and Google's latest report reveals key trends shaping the future of travel, focusing on expression, purpose, health, connection, and technology. The report, titled Why Travel?, highlights a shift towards meaningful, experience-focused journeys, integrating cultural…

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Amid various debates about the dangers of internet access for teens, and controls that can be implemented to protect young users, Google has published a new report which looks at how European teenagers are using the latest technology,…

South Korea is nearing a decision on whether to allow Google and Apple to export high-resolution geographic map data to servers outside the country. The detailed maps, which use a 1:5,000 scale, would show streets, buildings, and alleyways in far greater detail than currently available on these platforms. However, several…

Elissa Welle is a NYC-based AI reporter and is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She covers AI companies, policies, and products. Google is making videos created with the AI filmmaking tool Flow even more realistic — and harder to identify as AI-generated at first glance. The…

DirecTV will begin replacing your TV's screensaver with AI-generated ads thanks to a new partnership. The entertainment brand is working with Glance, an AI company that has received backing from Google and developed an on-device AI tool alongside the tech giant. The new AI-powered screensavers will begin rolling out to…

In order to avoid paying billions of dollars in fines for violating the European Union's Digital Markets Act, Google is considering changing how search results are displayed, Reuters reports. EU regulators first took issue with Google's Search and Play Store businesses in March 2025, claiming it favored its own services…

Google is tweaking how sponsored results will appear in Search. Going forward, it will group any text ads on the Search page into a "Sponsored results" section that will appear at the top of the screen. The size of the ads is unchanged and Google says there will never be…

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