Omar Hamdi says AI will test whether PR firms can really scale

For Omar Hamdi, chief executive of London-listed Pathos Communications plc, those figures are less a death notice for PR than a sharper test of its economics. The question suggested by those figures is not only whether…

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The White House is apparently a popular residential proxy exit spot

News of the security snafu comes from security firm Layer3 Intel, which reported this week that it discovered the likely illicit activity thanks to its recently launched Residential Proxy Observatory . According to…

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BMW bumps battery for the better: The 2027 i7 60 xDrive, driven

Ars does not accept paid editorial content. When BMW debuted the new 7 Series in 2022, it set a new standard for large luxury sedans, increasingly irrelevant though that class is. Rather than siloing off an electric…

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Anthropic lets Claude read your bank accounts, but not move money

Claude can read balances and transactions but cannot move money, and the feature has no ads. Anthropic is letting some Claude subscribers in the US connect their bank and card accounts and ask the chatbot about their…

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A BioWare documentary is set to arrive next year

As it turns out, a film crew documented the studio's final act. A documentary called Massive Effect: The BioWare Story is in the works, as Deadline reported, and it's expected to arrive next year. Filming started two…

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Huawei has designed probably the best-looking Wi-Fi router ever, one that doesn't look like an 8-legged spider and costs less than $100

It also supports interchangeable magnetic covers, four integrated Wi-Fi antennas and several networking technologies intended to improve wireless performance. . Its measurements are 191.7 × 51.1 × 141.1mm, while the…

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Google’s Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash makes 15-second AI videos for less

It makes 15-second clips, up from 10, lets users edit them over several chat turns and costs 30% less, at about $0.07 a second for 720p video. Google has made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, the latest version of its AI video…

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13 Best Early Black Friday Deals at Best Buy on Hot Tech (2026)

Courtesy of Beats Even though Black Friday is still more than three weeks away, retailers are already rolling out holiday discounts, making this a good time to get a head start on your wish list before items sell out.…

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6 Google Gemini voice commands that turn Android into an intelligent hands-free assistant

Gemini changes that . Add Android Police on Google Add as Preferred Source The AI assistant significantly improves the voice experience, so I have gone from not using voice commands at all to relying on them every day to…

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Software squeezes more data out of Webb Telescope for imaging exoplanets

Even with a coronagraph, it can be difficult to pick out planets. Credit: Gemini Observatory, NSF's NOIRLab, NSF, AURA, Julien Rameau (University of Montreal), Christian Marois (NRC Herzberg) With a huge and…

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