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Rahul Naskar has years of experience writing news and features related to Android, phones, and apps. Outside the tech world, he follows global events and developments shaping the world of geopolitics.

Don't miss the Android Launch Trailer for Warframe, the hit sci-fi co-op third-person shooter developed by Digital Extremes. Players will take their Warframe journey on the go with the Android version ...

WordPress.com, the website hosting platform from Automattic, will now include a built-in WordPress AI assistant, the company announced on Tuesday. The feature is designed to work inside the website to ...

“Me Meme” is a new experimental feature in Google Photos that uses AI to let people put their faces into popular meme templates. The tool is now being rolled out in the U.S. It uses generative AI to ...

On a recent Saturday afternoon, Kendall Mayes was mindlessly scrolling on X when she noticed an unsettling trend surface on her feed. Users were prompting Grok, the platform’s built-in AI feature, to ...

Following extensive backlash from politicians, xAI said it was limiting the ability of Grok to create sexualized images of real people on X. The company also said image creation editing through Grok ...

Bowing to pressure, the company said it would restrict X users from generating explicit images of real people in jurisdictions where such content is illegal. By Ali Watkins The social media platform X ...

X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise. X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise. is a London-based reporter at The Verge ...

This story contains descriptions of explicit sexual content and sexual violence. Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot has drawn outrage and calls for investigation after being used to flood X with “undressed” ...

Lenovo’s CES 2026 ThinkPad refresh puts a spotlight on the guts of the laptop. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 Aura Edition gets a new internal layout called the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Space Frame redesign, ...