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Emma Roth

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    PlayStation’s 2025 Wrap-Up is here.

    Your Wrap-Up summary will show you how many hours you clocked on your PS5 this year, along with stats showing the number of games you played, which ones you played the most, and how many trophies you earned throughout the year. You can view your recap on PlayStation’s website until January 8th, 2026.

    Emma Roth
    Emma Roth
    LinkedIn is making it easier to integrate its verification badge on outside platforms.

    The platform, which now has more than 100 million verified users, is launching a new self-serve API to allow a wider range of businesses to display LinkedIn’s verification badge across their platform, app, or website.

    It’s also partnering with Zoom to display “Verified on LinkedIn” badges during video calls, building on its existing partnership with Adobe.

    Zoom will soon allow users to display LinkedIn verification badges.
    Zoom will soon allow users to display LinkedIn verification badges.
    Image: LinkedIn
    RAM is ruining everything

    Price hikes related to the memory shortage aren’t just coming for PC gamers; smartphones, laptops, and storage drives could soon get increases, too.

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    Emma Roth
    Emma Roth
    Nvidia may soon be able to sell its powerful H200 chips in China.

    The White House is planning to give Nvidia the green light to begin exporting its H200 AI GPU chips to China, according to reports from Semafor and the WSJ. As noted by the WSJ, the H200 chip is more powerful than the scaled-down H20 GPU that China has cracked down on, but it still doesn’t rival Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs.

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    Emma Roth
    Doppl’s new discovery feed adds more outfits for your AI self to try on.

    Google’s experimental clothing try-on app now lets you scroll through a “discovery” feed of AI-generated videos with outfits you might like. The app curates the looks — which contain real products — based on the “style preferences you share with Doppl and the items you interact with.”

    Image: Google
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    Emma Roth
    David Ellison pitches Paramount’s $108 billion hostile bid for WBD as “pro consumer.”

    After launching a hostile bid for the entertainment giant, Paramount’s Ellison told CNBC that Netflix’s deal to buy part of WBD would create a company with “unprecedented market power:”

    When you combine the number one streamer with the number three streamer, that creates a company that has unprecedented market power, north of 400 million subscribers. The next largest competitor is Disney, with just under 200 million. That’s bad for Hollywood, that’s bad for the creative community, that’s bad for consumers.