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Editors’ note, Dec. 20: Xbox Game Pass offers a slew of benefits, like the ability to play on a myriad of devices — not just consoles — and access to games on Day 1 of release on certain plans, making this a convenient gaming subscription service for a wide range of people. Every Xbox Game Pass plan costs less than the price of a new AAA game each month, yet gives access to dozens — if not hundreds — of titles, which is why the service as a whole earned a CNET Editors’ Choice Award. The original article follows.New AAA…
Cheese boards are so smart for holiday hosting because they don’t require any cooking and are easily adapted to lots of groups. Carefully curated, they can even accommodate your friends with special diets like vegetarian or gluten-free. While building a cheese board is really fun, it can also get expensive quickly—especially if you add lots of accompaniments and extras to your cart. Plus, you don’t want to blow your whole hosting budget on cheese when there’s other food and wine to buy, too. Cheese boards are something I shop for regularly because I love hosting friends and family, and over…
Most site owners don’t realize how much of their content large language models (LLMs) already gather. ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini pull from publicly available pages unless you tell them otherwise. That’s where LLMs.txt for SEO comes into the picture.LLMs.txt gives you a straightforward way to tell AI crawlers how your content can be used. It doesn’t change rankings, but it adds a layer of control over model training, something that wasn’t available before. This matters as AI-generated answers take up more real estate in search results nowadays. Your content may feed those answers unless you explicitly opt out. LLMs.txt provides…
The data center market is booming with little indication it’ll be slowing down anytime soon — despite efforts to halt the processing sprawl. According to a new report by S&P Global, the global data center market ballooned to $61 billion in 2025, a half billion dollar increase from last year and another record high for the industry. The money is trying to keep pace with expanding infrastructure projects needed to funnel more data processing power to generative AI and its makers. SEE ALSO: NVIDIA earnings report: Why the AI bubble will bounce into 2026 Despite concerns that interest in AI…
Does it feel like your organic traffic is disappearing? You aren’t imagining it. AI Overviews and answer engines are sidelining classic SEO results. To stay visible, brands need to adapt – fast. The good news: you don’t need to rewrite your entire SEO playbook. With a few smart tweaks, you can shift from SEO to GEO and reclaim your share of search in the age of generative AI. GEO, or generative engine optimization, focuses on entities – not just pages. That means your brand, products, services, and experts. By strengthening these signals, you increase the chances your business is cited, referenced, and…
Looking for a different day?A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Saturday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, December 20 (game #657).Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today…
Every morning before doomscrolling, I’ve developed the habit of checking the weather. Nearly every time I head out, a vast blue sky greets me, only for rain to arrive halfway to my destination. But before I see the weather report, I have to work through a full-screen ad, tap a mute button on a video ad, and close a pop-up warning me that my Android phone is infected with a virus. These ads are irritating and consume my time, resources, and data while loading. Lately, this has gotten worse. Every time I tap to view detailed weather information, I’m redirected…
Google sued SerpApi in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging the company developed methods to bypass protections Google deployed to prevent automated scraping of Search results and the licensed content they contain. Why This Case Is Different Unlike previous cases that focused on terms-of-service violations or broader scraping methods, Google’s complaint is built on DMCA anti-circumvention claims. Google argues SearchGuard is a protection measure that controls access to copyrighted works appearing in Search results. The complaint describes SearchGuard as a system that sends a JavaScript “challenge” to requests from unrecognized sources and requires the browser…
Gamers who prefer physical copies of their favorite titles may be getting a major win with the Switch 2. In an unexpected announcement from retro video game publisher ININ Games, Nintendo reportedly has “two new smaller cartridge sizes” for its Switch 2 console. For ININ Games, these rumored game cartridges with smaller storage capacity allow the publisher to recalculate production costs and pursue a physical Switch 2 release of its upcoming R-Type Dimensions III.ININ Games later deleted its posts mentioning these smaller Switch 2 cartridges and issued a correction on its website and social media pages. However, the publisher reiterated…
73% off with 2yr plan (+4 free months). Now only $3.49/month See more details See at Fubo Carries NFL channels for $85 per month Fubo Show more (2 items) Welcome to Week 16! The NFL playoffs are looming, and there are two games today followed by a full slate tomorrow. The biggest game today is an NFC North showdown between longtime rivals Chicago and Green Bay, which starts tonight at 8:20 p.m. ET (5:20 p.m. PT) and will be broadcast nationally on Fox.On Sunday, the Bills will look to capitalize on their win last Sunday against the Patriots and keep…