Chance Townsend

TikTok Music is finally shutting down

TikTok parent company ByteDance is pulling the plug on TikTok Music, its short-lived music streaming service, by November. Launched just over a year ago in July 2023, the platform debuted in Indonesia and Brazil as part of the company’s effort to expand its TikTok empire into music streaming. SEE ALSO: …

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iPhone 16 teardown reveals what Apple packed into the device

Apple hasn’t changed much when it comes to the design of the iPhone 16. Not counting the Camera Control button, this year’s version of Apple’s flagship is pretty much the same as last year’s — if you’re only looking at the outside. SEE ALSO: iPhone 16 Pro users are reporting …

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'Gladiator II' drops another glorious trailer

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II looks like it’s shaping up to be the veteran director’s opportunity to do all the bonkers stuff he couldn’t pull off in the original 2000 blockbuster. Sharks in a water-filled coliseum? Absolutely wild. Someone go ahead and preemptively take all my money. In the newest trailer, …

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French startup Mistral unveils Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal AI model

French AI startup Mistral has dropped its first multimodal model, Pixtral 12B, capable of processing both images and text. The 12-billion-parameter model, built on Mistral’s existing text-based model Nemo 12B, is designed for tasks like captioning images, identifying objects, and answering image-related queries. SEE ALSO: OpenAI Strawberry might release sooner …

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