This group is playing ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ to help L.A. fire victims, and you can join in

The devastating California wildfires have led to a number of benefit events, from concerts to comedy shows, with the intention to fundraise for wildfire recovery efforts. 

The team at Critical Role, meanwhile, is going to do what they do best: play Dungeons & Dragons.  

Critical Role announced a special live one-shot D&D adventure titled “Freaky Thursday,” featuring Bells Hells, the characters from its third D&D campaign. The charity event

Amazon secretly tracked Californian consumers via cellphones, lawsuit alleges

Amazon.com was sued on Wednesday by consumers who accused the retailing giant of secretly tracking their movements through their cellphones, and selling data it collects.

According to a proposed class action in San Francisco federal court, Amazon obtained “backdoor access” to consumers’ phones by providing tens of thousands of app developers with code known as Amazon Ads SDK to be embedded in their apps.

Alibaba rolls out AI model, claiming it’s better than DeepSeek-V3

Chinese tech company Alibaba on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that it claimed surpassed the highly-acclaimed DeepSeek-V3.

The unusual timing of the Qwen 2.5-Max’s release, on the first day of the

The rise of ‘influencer voice’: Why this TikTok creator accent is taking over the internet and maybe the world

The “influencer accent” is taking over TikTok. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, scroll through your FYP page and listen. 

British singer-songwriter Cassyette pointed out this trend in a

AI assistants for lawyers are a booming business—with big risks

Illinois lawyer Mathew Kerbis markets himself as the Subscription Attorney, charging businesses and individual clients a monthly rate for legal advice and offering additional services like contract review and legal document drafting for a flat fee.

Kerbis is a fairly tech-savvy lawyer—he’s a regular at the American Bar Association’s

After DeepSeek, the AI giants still have plenty of work left to do

The tech industry has long been infatuated with metaphors relating to the original space race. Its favorite one is moon shot, a term it applies to

DeepSeek has called into question Big AI’s trillion-dollar assumption

Recently, Chinese startup DeepSeek created state-of-the art AI models using far less computing power and capital than anyone thought possible. It then showed its work in published research papers and by allowing its models to explain the reasoning process that led to this answer or that. It also scored at or near the top in a range of benchmark tests,

These 5 trends show where music and streaming are headed in 2025

Some of the biggest music stories in 2024 revealed inalienable truths. Kendrick beat Drake, once and for all; on the heels of her Eras Tour, the highest-grossing tour in history, Taylor Swift is the biggest Pop star in the world; and people like their Pop music served country-fried, as evidenced by Shaboozey’s massive “A Bar Song” and Post Malone’s Nashville-forward

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 breaks the sound barrier—the first private aircraft to do so

About 35,000 feet (10,670 meters) over the Mojave Desert, northwest of Los Angeles, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 became the first privately funded airplane to break the sound barrier during a test flight on Tuesday.

“She was real happy supersonic,” Boom Chief Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg said after landing, in a video posted by Boom Supersonic. “That’s the best she’s ever flown, was supersonic.”

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