YouTube’s Premium Lite gets a tad sweeter with essential features

Premium Lite subscribers can now play videos in the background and download content offline, closing a major feature gap without raising the subscription price.
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Seedance 2.0 might be gen AI video’s next big hope, but it’s still slop
Seedance 2.0 might be gen AI video’s next big hope, but it’s still slop

When Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson began uploading a series of short clips created with Seedance 2.0 – TikTok developer ByteDance’s newest video generation model – it was hard to deny that the footage was much more impressive than what we’ve seen from other gen AI outfits. The clips’ star (a digital duplicate of Tom Cruise) […]

PlayStation’s Wolverine game hits PS5 in September
PlayStation’s Wolverine game hits PS5 in September

Marvel’s Wolverine, the next superhero game from Marvel’s Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games, will be released on PS5 on September 15th. Insomniac announced that it would be making a Wolverine game way back in 2021, so it’s been a long wait in the leadup to an official release date. Sony gave a vague fall 2026 release […]

Lego Creator 3-in-1 Space Exploration Telescope review

The Lego Creator Space Exploration Telescope is a fantastic model, but the alternative builds of this 3-in-1 are a little disappointing.

I have built hundreds of Lego sets, and I think the mid-sized Star Wars ships are the perfect gift for adults

Forget spending $1,000 on a UCS Death Star — the best Lego Star Wars sets are as cheap as $50.

This Chainsmokers-approved AI music producer is joining Google
This Chainsmokers-approved AI music producer is joining Google

ProducerAI, an AI-powered music-making platform, is joining Google. As part of the deal, Google will fold ProducerAI under the Labs umbrella and power the tool with a preview version of its new Lyria 3 music-making AI model. ProducerAI is a music-making platform that allows users to work with an AI agent to generate sounds, workshop […]

More Shohei Ohtani content is coming to TikTok
More Shohei Ohtani content is coming to TikTok

Major League Baseball wants more of a footprint on TikTok. Just in time for spring training, the two companies announced Tuesday they were partnering to expand baseball content on TikTok, including creating an MLB hub in the app and, of course, bringing in more influencers. Baseball is coming back after a season that was especially […]

Olaf is hosting a drawing class at Disney World — and animators will teach you to draw him and other classic characters

Disney World’s The Magic of Disney Animation will feature an audio-animatronic Olaf hosting a drawing experience alongside Disney animators, where guests learn to sketch Disney characters – including Olaf himself.

Will Trump’s DOJ actually take on Ticketmaster?
Will Trump’s DOJ actually take on Ticketmaster?

In mid-February, the Department of Justice lost its head antitrust enforcer – just weeks before it was scheduled to argue one of the year’s biggest anti-monopoly cases in court. Antitrust Division chief Gail Slater announced her departure suddenly, via a post on her personal X account. But to those who follow the agency closely, it […]

Billions of dollars later and still nobody knows what an Xbox is
Billions of dollars later and still nobody knows what an Xbox is

The last few years of Xbox have been expensive. Under Phil Spencer’s leadership, Microsoft has spent billions of dollars in an attempt to build an ambitious future for gaming that looks a lot like Netflix. And while its subscription service Game Pass started out as a good deal for gamers (although now not so much), […]