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Fox has closed its $22 billion acquisition of Roku, which reaches more than 100 million US households. The deal's data implications for ad targeting and measurement are drawing regulatory attention.
Researcher Derik Kauffman found more than 100,000 words and phrases that iOS blocks from predictive text and swipe-typing, and published the lists. Apple says the keyboard avoids inappropriate suggestions and that users can still type or override them.
Netflix has announced Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure, a live-action 1950s prequel expected in 2028, with Kate Trefry as showrunner and Joe Wright directing the first three episodes.
Amazon is letting a small group of US customers buy products by texting Alexa for Shopping, with photo queries, preference memory, and price alerts, as the feature prepares to reach millions more accounts.
Underdog has released Woof, a 32MB open-weights text-to-speech model with 31 million parameters that the company says can run offline on most devices. The model is demoed in a browser game and the release is a useful signal for engineers evaluating on-device voice generation.
Physicl, a startup led by CEO Alex de Vigan, has raised $10 million in seed funding from Inovia Capital to sell synthetic training data for robot perception. Its Studio product, in private beta, generates labelled depth, normal, segmentation, camera-pose and bounding-box data from rendered 3D scenes. The key open question is whether simulated training transfers to real sensors in hard cases such as clutter and shadow.
Google is rolling out a per-device "Notify when left behind" alert in Find Hub that warns Android users when a tag is separated from their phone, with an exemption for the Home address in Google Maps. The feature is live in the US and parts of Europe for tags.
The Verge's comparison of Apple's iPhone Duo with Samsung, Google, Xiaomi, Oppo and Honor foldables finds the cover display too small and the phone heavier than rivals, while praising its matte inner screen and IP68 rating.
About 100 protesters entered the construction site of a Microsoft data center in Amsterdam on Friday, opposing the three-tower project. The site has faced earlier protests, and the city's ban and newer restrictions on data centers, driven by electricity and water concerns, shape the project's future.
The Enough Phone, a compact Android handset offering a choice of stock Android or Sleke's minimalist OdysseyOS, passed half of its $250,000 Kickstarter goal within a day. Its target specs, $599 post-discount price, and May 2027 shipping plan are not yet shipping specifications.
