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Andrew J. Hawkins
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Meta’s adding parental supervision tools on Threads.

Starting next week, Meta’s Family Center will have options for parents to adjust their teens’ Threads account privacy and content settings, similar to parental controls on Meta’s other apps.

Parents will also be able to see and limit how much time their teens spend on Threads and manage who can tag their teens.

Screenshots of Meta’s parental supervision controls for Threads
Image: Meta
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Deezer says AI music now makes up half of all daily song uploads.

The music streaming platform receives almost 90,000 AI-generated tracks each day, a jump from the 75,000 it last reported in April. Using its AI music detection tool, Deezer now says it will take down AI tracks “used to generate fraudulent streams,” in addition to those that haven’t been streamed in six months or more.

Samsung can’t afford to play it safe with Apple’s first foldable looming

Reports of a new wider foldable phone suggest Samsung is ready to take a risk.

Dominic Preston
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
MSI’s special-edition dragon laptop costs nearly $7,000.

The Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic marks MSI’s 40th anniversary by maxing out the already-pricey Titan with a flashy dragon design, 96GB of DDR5 RAM, an Nvidia RTX 5090, and an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus. At least the $6,999 price tag also includes a bundled copy of LEGO Batman.

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A photo of the MSI Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic with lid closed
A photo of the MSI Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic with lid open
A photo of the keyboard deck on the MSI Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition Draco Epic
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Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Mulder and Scully get the minifigure treatment in Lego’s first X-Files set.

Launching on August 4th for $199.99 the 1,478-piece modular set features Mulder’s messy office and a close encounter of the third kind with an alien and a hovering UFO. It’s yet another set that could be worth it for the minifigures alone with tiny versions of Skinner, Krycek, Mr. X, Carl Busch, and the Flukeman.

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1/6Image: Lego