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At first, the winners of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize for 2026 enjoyed the envy of their peers. But since their works of fiction earned this distinction, these authors have found themselves facing harsh scrutiny from the literary community, with several accused of enlisting generative artificial intelligence to write for them.The allegations have come from numerous readers, many of them writers themselves, expressing bafflement and dismay that the prize jury could have overlooked potential signs of inauthentic authorship.Each year, the Commonwealth Foundation, a nongovernmental organization in London, awards its short story prize to one writer in each of five…
Media server streaming software company Plex announced today that its lifetime Plex Pass subscription plan is soon getting a massive price increase from $250 to $750. The company says its doing this to better reflect the “real, ongoing value” of its software and to support its plans to maintain and expand in the “years to come.” On May 19, Plex announced that it was increasing the price of a lifetime Plex Pass subscription. This is the plan that unlocks all the premium options for users, including the ability to have friends and family remotely stream your personal library of movies…
I am not made of money, nor do I wish for flagships to be reserved exclusively for the ultra-wealthy. I do, however, have firsthand experience watching great ideas suffocate under the weight of unrealistic expectations. And that’s precisely why the Galaxy S27 Pro should aspire to be anything but budget-friendly.A small flagship is not the same as an affordable flagship The Galaxy S27 Pro needs to stand out from the rest of the lineup. | Image by PhoneArena Samsung is reportedly working on a fourth Galaxy S series model to sit just below the Galaxy S27 Ultra. While details are…
Google has been teasing its Android XR-powered smart glasses for the past year and a half—ever since it first announced the new mixed reality platform in December of 2024. Now, we’re finally starting to see more polished versions of the hardware, several of which will actually go on sale this fall.At Google I/O, the company gave us a first look at the designs of smart glasses coming from established eyewear brands Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. These smart glasses are codeveloped by Samsung and Google, while the eyeglass companies handle the design of the frames.Xreal also took the stage at…
The food truck industry has evolved far beyond simple street-side service. Today, food trucks are being used for luxury catering, corporate events, brand activations, weddings, and high-end mobile hospitality experiences. As the industry grows, the gap between a standard build and a premium one becomes much more noticeable. At first glance, many food trucks may appear similar. They all serve food, operate on wheels, and contain kitchen equipment. But once you step inside a professionally built truck, the difference becomes clear almost immediately. A premium food truck is designed with both appearance and functionality in mind. Every inch of space…
When Hironobu Sakaguchi praised an AI slop video of what a Final Fantasy VI remake could look like, he was roundly criticized. Fans and even some of his Square Enix colleagues, like Romancing SaGa director Akitoshi Kawazu, took the creator of the Final Fantasy series aside to explain why everybody hated that. But it seems like he still doesn’t understand what all the fuss was about. In the aftermath of his original tweet praising the video, he’s made another post expressing bewilderment at the strong reaction he got while posting some of his own AI-generated garbage. おや！？なんだかすごい反応ｗまあ、なんていうか「可能性を直感的に感じちゃった」ってことでそのまんまじゃダメだけど、その先には面白そうなことも待っていそうな．．．そんな感覚っす… pic.twitter.com/bL5CyXAZbl — 坂口博信…
I have spent the past few months obsessing over Nano Banana, especially how well it holds onto my likeness across edits, which is a problem that has plagued AI image tools forever. Today, Google just announced its next step, and it is leaping straight into video.Gemini Omni Flash is here, and it is Google’s biggest swing at video AI yetGoogle introduced Gemini Omni at I/O 2026, a new multimodal model family that creates and edits content from any input you throw at it. The full announcement landed in a new blog post from Google DeepMind, and the first model, Gemini…
Much weirder is voice editing in Google Docs, in a new feature called Docs Live. By describing with your voice what you want to write, an agent will dictate your words, generate text, pull in citations from the web, and aim to turn your stream-of-consciousness wishes into a coherent document.(Reminder: All this stuff may eventually have ads.)For Gemini power users, Google is creating a new subscription tier, the AI Ultra plan, for $100 a month. It is also dropping the price of its top Gemini AI Ultra from $250 a month to $200.Gemini OmniGoogle announced Gemini Omni, an AI video…
The B850 Chipset Continues To Be A Great Choice You can certainly grab an X870E if you need an inordinate amount of M.2 slots for storage, as well as support for a large number of USB 4.0 ports but if you don’t require those, the cost of X870E motherboards is a bit steep. The B850 will require some balancing between available PCIe lanes but will still give you everything you need. As an example, the MSI MAG B850 TOMAHAWK WIFI can support up to 17 USB ports, with a mix of 5Gbps, 10Gbps, and 20Gbps available, as well as legacy ports. …
I have a confession: Love and Deepspace intimidated the hell outta me, so much so that I, the horniest Kotaku writer not named Kenneth Shepard, wanted nothing to do with it. I had known about the mobile gacha game ever since its release in 2024. It’s published by Infold Games, the same studio that developed the fashion-focused Infinity Nikki, a game I fell unexpectedly hard for because it managed to expertly capture, “What if Breath of the Wild met The Devil Wears Prada?” And because my social media algorithm intersects neatly at Gamer Street and Gooner Boulevard, I was also…