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3 days ago
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Add an extra 16TB of storage to the Mac Studio with this matching Thunderbolt 5 dock.
Posted Aug 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM UTC Add an extra 16TB of storage to the Mac Studio with this matching Thunderbolt 5 dock. It can also hold two SSDs giving the Mac Studio up to 16TB of extra storage in multiple RAID configurations and up to 80Gbps transfer speeds over Thunderbolt 5. You can preorder it now for $269 (discounted from $399) with shipping in early September. 1/2 RayCue's new Mac Studio Thunderbolt 5 dock adds additional redundant ports to the front of the computer including a headphone jack, while introducing a CFexpress slot for type A and B cards. Image: RayCue Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates. Andrew Liszewski Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All by Andrew Liszewski Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Apple Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Gadgets Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Tech
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5 days ago
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Let the Wookiee win.
Posted Aug 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM UTC 1/2 Pressing a button on the ornament activates lighting effects, turns on the Dejarik game, and plays sounds from the scene in Star Wars. Image: Hallmark Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates. Andrew Liszewski Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All by Andrew Liszewski Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Entertainment Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Film Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Gadgets Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Star Wars
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6 days ago
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Google Gemini can now create AI-generated bedtime stories
Google rolled out a new tool within its Gemini AI chatbot that lets you create an illustrated story by simply describing it. The feature, called 'Storybook,' generates 10-page stories, each with a short paragraph of text that Gemini can read aloud, along with an accompanying illustration. You can customize your story by asking Gemini to use specific art styles, such as ones inspired by claymation, anime, comics, and more. Google also lets you upload photos and other images for Gemini to reference, like uploading a child's drawing and asking Gemini to create a story about it. I just had to try out these features for myself, so I first asked Gemini to create a story about a catfish struggling to make friends in a new aquarium. As I flipped through the 'pages,' I found that the plot it generated about the tank's inhabitants trying to move a marble was pretty lame. But other than that, everything seemed pretty standard for an AI-generated children's story, until I came across one illustration that put a human arm on one of the fish. Another Gemini-generated story made a page involving spaghetti sauce look like a cartoon crime scene, while an AI image of a mother and son watching TV put the screen on the wrong side. My colleague Andrew Liszewski even spotted an AI-generated oddity in Google's own video about the feature, which shows a woman building a spaceship and making 'tap, tap, tap' noises while holding a wrench and some other tool I can't make out. Besides coming across some inconsistencies in character designs, I didn't spot any other blatant AI weirdness in some of the other stories I had Gemini create. However, the chatbot didn't seem to share my artistic vision when I uploaded an image of a cartoon cat that I drew. The Gemini Storybook feature is available globally on desktop and mobile, including in all the languages Gemini currently supports. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All by Emma Roth Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All AI Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Apps Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Google Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Tech
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6 days ago
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Honda's Pokémon Koraidon motorcycle finally hits the racetrack.
Posted Aug 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM UTC Honda's Pokémon Koraidon motorcycle finally hits the racetrack. Koraidon moves its four legs in a galloping motion while leisurely rolling down the track, but its tires don't spin. Its balance is assisted by a pair of wheeled kickstands, and while there's room for a passenger, its moving limbs may make for an uncomfortable ride. Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates. Andrew Liszewski Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All by Andrew Liszewski Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Cars Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Gaming Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Honda Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Pokemon Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Transportation
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6 days ago
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All three Pilotwings games have been added to the Nintendo Music app.
Posted Aug 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM UTC All three Pilotwings games have been added to the Nintendo Music app. You can now tune out to 75 chill tracks from the games which always prioritized fun and unique flying challenges over being truly accurate flight simulators. There are 21 tracks and 19 minutes of music from the original Super Nintendo version of the game, 30 tracks/46 minutes from Pilotwings 64 on the N64, and 24 tracks/36 minutes from Pilotwings Resort which was the last game in the series launching on the Nintendo 3DS in 2011. Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates. Andrew Liszewski Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All by Andrew Liszewski Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Apps Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Gaming Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Nintendo Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Tech
