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Andrew Liszewski
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
A Chinese fitness influencer was disqualified for riding a bike during the Berlin Marathon.

Yuanyuan Sun, aka Abeeeer, was photographed on the bike during the race and wrote a statement later admitting that she “did indeed violate race rules,” The Athletic reports. Sun wore Brooks China gear during the event, and the sponsor has terminated its relationship with her.

It’s just another incident of sportsy influencers dropping the ball with brands they represent, following a disastrous golf ad and the shenanigans at the US Open.

Andrew J. Hawkins
Andrew J. Hawkins
Rivian’s R2 adds Pet Cam and an AI voice assistant.

A new software update rolling out the R2 enables Pet Cam, through which vehicle owners can keep tabs on their furry friends, as well as cabin temperature, via the Rivian app. (Tesla pioneered using in-cabin cameras to monitor pets with Dog Mode, released in 2019.) Rivian is also adding its AI-powered voice assistant to the R2 — which may be more of a mixed bag, based on some reviews from R1 owners.

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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Google’s AI content detector is rolling out globally.

The tool checks images, video, and audio files for Google’s SynthID watermark, a system that embeds a near-invisible marker into AI-generated content.

Google first made its SynthID Detector available to media professionals last year, but now anyone can use it by logging into synthid.com.

Image: Google
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
You can now make Instagram carousels in Meta’s Edits app.

The app gives you a bunch of tools to tinker and tweak your carousel if you want to spruce it up. Check out how the editor works in the below video from Meta.

The carousel-editing tool is launching first on iOS with Android “coming soon.”

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
The axe from The Shining and 2001’s star child are going up for auction.

Following public exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, a collection of “props, annotated scripts, production materials, awards, filmmaking equipment and personal possessions” from the Stanley Kubrick Film Archives will be going up for auction thgrough Bonhams London starting on February 3rd, 2027.

<em>The star child prop from </em>2001: A Space Odyssey<em> is expected to sell for</em> <em>£600,000 to £800,000.</em>
<em>Jack Torrance’s special effects axe from </em>The Shining<em> is expected to sell for £30,000 to £50,000.</em>
<em>Stanley Kubrick’s director’s chair is estimated to sell for £8,000 to £12,000.</em>
<em>A production-used clapperboard from </em>The Shining<em> is expected to sell for £10,000 to £15,000.</em>
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The star child prop from 2001: A Space Odyssey is expected to sell for £600,000 to £800,000.
Image: Bonhams
Tom Warren
Tom Warren
HP accidentally revealed the first Nvidia RTX Spark laptop prices.

Microsoft is holding a Windows and Surface event later today, but it looks like HP has spoiled some of the pricing surprise for Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops. Notebookcheck reports that HP briefly posted a $2,999.99 price for its OmniBook X, with an 18-core CPU and 32GB of RAM. An OmniBook 16 was also priced at $4,999.99, with 64GB of memory, before HP removed both listings from its website. We’ll be covering all the announcements from Microsoft’s Windows and Surface event live this morning from 10AM PT / 1PM ET.

The Social Reckoning is a tepid thriller that reminds us of how we got here

Aaron Sorkin’s follow up to The Social Network puts the Facebook Files scandal on the timeline.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Play Chase Bliss’ newly open-sourced Chompi sampler in your browser.

It took only about a week for someone to take the source code from the adorable but discontinued sampler and turn it into a free virtual instrument called NIBBI. You can download it and play it as a standalone app, open it in your DAW, or just tinker with it in your browser.