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House of the Dragon Season 3 family tree: How the Targaryens, Velaryons, and Hightowers connect

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House of the Dragon Season 3 is here, and you know what that means: It's time to take a climb into the very tangled branches of the Targaryen family tree. Over the first two seasons of House of the Dragon , some of these branches have been pruned. (RIP to the many Targs who've perished in this bloody show.) However, Season 2 also added its fair share of new offshoots, further complicating the knotted web between Houses Targaryen, Velaryon, and Hightower. Season 3 has complicated it even further, with new deaths and the face reveal of one Daeron Targaryen. If you're looking for a refresher on that web as you head into the second half of Season 3, we've got you covered. SEE ALSO: 'House of the Dragon' review: Season 3 atones for the sins of Season 2 Below, you'll find the Targaryen family tree as it stands as of House of the Dragon Season 3, episode 4, as well as a rundown of the characters and how...

Meta withdraws its controversial AI image feature

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Meta's Must Image tool, which launched last Tuesday, is now being shuttered by the company, according to Reuters . The social media giant released a statement on Friday announcing it would discontinue the feature: "Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public ​content could be referenced in this way. We've ​heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so ⁠it's no longer available." Meta launched Muse Image as part of a suite of new AI tools. Designed for Instagram and WhatsApp users, it lets them touch up, alter, or add 3D effects to new photos. Muse Image took things a step further, allowing users to use photos from public-facing Instagram accounts as reference material for generative AI. Worse still, they enabled the feature by default, so if you didn't want your personal photos being used as AI fodder, you had to either make your account private or locate the specific setting that would togg...

Samsung is building a dedicated AI chip for PCs, and HP and Lenovo are already testing it

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According to multiple Korean outlets, including Chosun, Samsung's LSI division which works on the Exynos mobile chips, is developing a dedicated AI accelerator for PCs codenamed GAIA. Read Entire Article from TechSpot https://ift.tt/wdBvlTQ via

NYT Pips hints, answers for July 12, 2026

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Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue. Released in August 2025, Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit. Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move on to the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you covered! Below are piecemeal answers that will serve as hints so that you can find your way through each difficulty level. How to play Pips If you've ever played dominoes, you'll have a passing familiarity with how Pips is played. As we've shared in our previous hints stories for Pips, the tiles, like dominoes, are placed vertically or horizontally and connect with each other. The main difference between a traditional game of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded conditions you have to address. The touching tiles don't necessarily have to match. SEE ALSO: ...

8 things to know about Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI

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Apple and OpenAI are heading to court. On Friday, July 10, Apple sued OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company led by CEO Sam Altman , and two former Apple employees, accusing the ChatGPT maker of obtaining confidential Apple information to help build its own consumer hardware. The lawsuit names OpenAI’s commercial and nonprofit entities, its hardware company io Products, OpenAI Chief Hardware Officer Tang Yew Tan, and former Apple engineer Chang Liu. It was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. “This case is about Apple’s former employees stealing Apple’s trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI,” Apple said in the complaint. The filing contains claims involving secret project names, confidential presentations, Apple-issued laptops, physical hardware components, supplier relationships, and even instructions for getting through an Apple exit interview. It also arrives as OpenAI prepares to release its first consumer ...

Facebook and Instagram violate laws due to addictive design, EU finds

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Sometimes it feels like the European Union is the only entity on Earth that's interested in reigning in big tech companies. Case in point: On Thursday, the European Commission preliminarily found that Meta apps like Facebook and Instagram were in breach of the EU's Digital Services Act, on the grounds that they feature "addictive design." The commission noted features such as autoplaying videos, infinite scrolling, personalized recommendations, and more as evidence that these apps encourage users to keep using them. Meta is facing a possible fine of up to 6 percent of its annual turnover, per CNBC . Given that this is a preliminary finding, there is presumably still time for Meta to get out of paying the fine. SEE ALSO: Meta Ray-Ban glasses brick the camera if you mess with recording light "We disagree with these preliminary findings, which don't accurately take into account the significant steps we’...

Steam now has 50% more users than PlayStation, and Sony's own decisions might be pushing more players there

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Shawn Layden recently said that bringing PlayStation games to PC was never about money. However, newer estimates of Steam's user base could put the former Sony executive's comments in a different perspective. Companies that do business with PC's most successful digital storefront have access to a massive pool of potential... Read Entire Article from TechSpot https://ift.tt/unLUOVl via