Amazon MGM Studios head Jennifer Salke steps down

Jennifer Salke joined Amazon in 2018. | Photo by Kevin Winter/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images<br> Jennifer Salke, the head of Amazon MGM Studios, is stepping down from her role and will instead focus on producing, according to an internal memo obtained by Deadline. In the memo, Mike Hopkins, Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios…

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Nvidia RTX 5090 mobile GPU: more efficient and a little faster

Nvidia’s 50-series desktop GPUs have been off to a slightly rocky start, with quality control issues, underwhelming performance gains over last generation, and the occasional melting cable. Its new laptop GPUs, led by the flagship RTX 5090, may be on a similarly modest trajectory, but with one added benefit for laptop gamers: efficiency. I’ve been…

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Judge dismisses Samsung’s smart ring lawsuit against Oura

Samsung tried to preemptively stave off any patent infringement claims from Oura against its Galaxy Ring Last June, Samsung made a surprising move against smart ring maker Oura. The tech giant filed a lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment saying that its then-unreleased Galaxy Ring didn’t infringe on five Oura patents. Now, a judge has officially…

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Microsoft sets May end date for Skype after 14-year run

Before there was Zoom, Skype was the dominant internet-based phone and video service for the masses. After 22 years of service (14 years under Microsoft), customers were shocked to learn that Microsoft has decided to discontinue Skype in May 2025. That’s why “Pat’s” email prompted us to explore alternatives to Skype. “Hello, apparently Microsoft is…

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OpenAI has a Studio Ghibli problem

When you can create art just by asking for it, what might you create? If you’re anything like the internet these last few days, you’d create some lovely things — stylized family portraits, a thousand different looks for the Distracted Boyfriend meme — and some truly, deeply, unfathomably horrifying ones. But most of all, it turns…

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WhatsApp users can now add music to their status

WhatsApp is reviving some old school internet nostalgia with a new feature that allows users to add temporary music clips to their profile updates. Snippets from popular songs can now be featured in WhatsApp statuses, with availability rolling out globally and expanding “over the coming weeks,” according to parent company Meta. WhatsApp’s status feature is…

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Dem candidate caught on camera applauding notorious antisemite’s violent rhetoric: ‘You break his neck’

Progressive Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, one of the top Democratic candidates for New Jersey governor, was caught on video applauding and embracing radical Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan as he calls White people “demons” and calls for violence as retribution. Farrakhan, 91, is a longtime radical antisemite preacher known for making inflammatory statements against…

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