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The biggest night in gaming is here. The 2025 Game Awards take place today, December 11, in Los Angeles at 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT (pre-show) followed by the main roughly three-hour event at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. Hosted by Markham, Ontario-born Geoff Keighley, the ceremony will recognize the best games of the year while offering new looks at upcoming games.

Robotics company 1X found some big potential buyers for its humanoid robots designed for consumers — the portfolio companies of one of its investors. The company announced a strategic partnership to make thousands of its humanoid robots available for EQT’s portfolio companies on Thursday. EQT is a large Swedish multi-asset investor, and its venture fund EQT Ventures, is one of 1X’s backers.

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That is the conclusion reached by Kasper Røjkjær Andersen and Simona Radutoiu, professors of molecular biology at Aarhus University. Their new research highlights an important biological clue that could help reduce agriculture's heavy reliance on artificial fertilizer. Plants require nitrogen to grow, and most crop species can obtain it only through fertilizer. A small group of plants, including peas, clover, and beans, can grow without added nitrogen.

Pan Xin, former Google DeepMind researcher and ex-head of multimodal AI platforms at ByteDance, has recently joined Meituan, according to multiple sources. Pan previously worked at Google on TensorFlow’s dynamic graph mode and later held key AI roles at Baidu, Tencent, and ByteDance, focusing on deep-learning frameworks and visual/multimodal model platforms. In November 2024, he became an AI partner at FlashX, leading R&D for its smart-glasses initiative.

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. There may be a lesson for clean vehicle advocates in the announcement this week by Peterbilt that it has added three new battery-powered trucks to its lineup of models. Why is that significant? Because Peterbilt is owned by PACCAR. Along with Daimler Trucks North America, International, and Volvo Trucks, PACCAR is embroiled in a legal dispute with the state of California about its emission rules for medium and heavy duty trucks.


 CoHost, the podcast analytics and hosting platform developed by Toronto-based agency Quill Inc., has unveiled a new data feature designed to change how brands and creators measure podcast growth. The “New Listener Metric,” launched in November, helps users distinguish between loyal audiences and first-time listeners. For Fatima Zaidi, founder and CEO of both CoHost and Quill, the update represents more than just a product enhancement.

  Quick Answer: What is AI Customer Service Software for CRM Integration? AI customer service software for CRM integration combines machine learning and workflow automation to streamline customer support across voice, chat and email channels whilst synchronising data with CRM systems like Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics 365. This technology empowers customer service teams to deliver exceptional customer experiences by automating routine tasks, providing real-time insights, and enabling personalised assistance at scale.

Disney is also making a $1bn equity investment in OpenAI. Disney has agreed to license out many of its iconic characters to OpenAI’s Sora and ChatGPT. The three-year licensing deal would see users gaining access to more than 200 copyrighted characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars, including Mickey Mouse, Lilo, Stitch, Yoda, characters from Encanto, Frozen, Inside Out, Moana and Monsters Inc, among many more.

FILE PHOTO: Chinese-made MP8 device popular among young North Koreans. (Daily NK) Electronic study aids priced at $97–$138 become student “necessities” in Hamhung as parents see them as cheaper alternatives to private tutors costing up to $41 monthly per subject. A source in South Hamgyong province told Daily NK recently that many graduating middle school students set to enter high school “have electronic learning devices,” and that marketplaces “are doing a brisk trade in not only MP7s and MP8s, but also SD cards for learning foreign languages.”

OpenAI has just introduced GPT-5.2, its most advanced frontier model for professional work and long running agents, and is rolling it out across ChatGPT and the API. GPT-5.2 is a family of three variants. In ChatGPT, users see ChatGPT-5.2 Instant, Thinking and Pro. In the API, the corresponding models are gpt-5.2-chat-latest, gpt-5.2, and gpt-5.2-pro. Instant targets everyday assistance and learning, Thinking targets complex multi step work and agents, and Pro allocates more compute for hard technical and analytical tasks.

In episode 79 of The AI Fix, Gemini 3 roasts the competition, scares Nvidia, and can’t remember what year it is. Meanwhile, Graham investigates a fight between a fridge and robot, and Mark discovers that poetry could be a universal jailbreak for LLMs. Also in this episode, our hosts ponder whether Mark Zuckerberg’s underground bunker will be keeping robots in or out, Olaf the snowman walks and talks, Disney makes a robot Graham likes, and an AI-powered teddy bear talks to kids about BDSM and arson.

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR A new free game is available today on the Epic Game Store. Users can now download the popular roguelite, Metroidvania-inspired title Dead Cells. This freebie is available globally on Android and PC, and for iOS users in the EU. If you’re into gaming and don’t want to spend a lot of money, you may want to have the Epic Games Store installed on your device.

Fourteen years ago, Sony’s Xperia Play phone attempted to blur the line between phone calls and game controllers. It slid open to show a series of buttons that made each thumb swipe feel like crossing the finish line. The device soon disappeared from memory, but AYANEO has brought the concept back to the forefront with the Pocket Play, their first smartphone.

Samsung Wallet allows users to conveniently store and access payment cards, passes, and now also custom gift cards—all in one secure place. With gift card integration, partners can deliver a personalized and rewarding experience to their users, enhancing brand connection and user convenience. In this article, you learn how to create and integrate your own gift card as a partner using Samsung Wallet’s card template system.

After ten long years of battling debilitating neck pain, 48-year-old Indian national, Ms. Nisha Dennis from Abu Dhabi has found relief following a unique and intricate spine revision surgery at Medcare Hospital Sharjah. This pioneering procedure, performed by Dr. Bobby Jose, Specialist Neurosurgeon at Medcare Hospital Sharjah, not only alleviated severe spinal cord compression resulting from surplus bone and scar tissue but also demonstrated the hospital’s exceptional neurosurgical expertise, enhancing the UAE’s growing status as a hub for top-tier, multidisciplinary spine care.

Bell flanker brand Virgin Plus updated its plans with new, slightly cheaper pricing that brings costs back to Black Friday levels. The main change is the addition of an additional $10/mo credit on select plans. This credit is in addition to the $10/mo automatic payments credit applied to all Virgin Plus plans. Here are the plans: $40/50GB 4G (includes $10/mo credit) – previously $50/50GB.

Agent frameworks are now good at reasoning and tools, but most teams still write custom code to turn agent graphs into robust user interfaces with shared state, streaming output and interrupts. CopilotKit targets this last mile. It is an open source framework for building AI copilots and in-app agents directly in your app, with real time context and UI control. (⭐️ …

New research by Hays Ireland explores how organisations and their leaders are changing gears when it comes to skill. Recruitment company Hays Ireland has published The Hays Ireland Salary and Recruiting Trends Guide 2026, highlighting the changing attitudes among employers and employees, particularly in relation to skill and workplace expectations.  More than three-quarters (76pc) of participating employers stated that they are now willing to hire candidates who don’t currently have all of the necessary skills, choosing instead to invest in upskilling.

Planned deployment across 18–20 deep-tech startups Focus on lab-to-market deep-tech ventures building globally relevant, IP-led technologies Over 50% of the fund already subscribed and this be part of first bullet India, 11th December, 2025: BYT Capital, an India-focused deep-tech venture capital firm founded by Amit Chand,Dinesh Kumar, and partners with deep experience across research-led innovation and early-stage investing, today announced the launch of its maiden ₹180 crore Category II AIF.

Blake Scholl founded Boom Supersonic with one single purpose in mind: to reintroduce commercial supersonic travel, which had been lost from our skies for decades. Ten years later, the Denver-based startup has quietly raised an eyebrow at that concept and moved it in a whole other direction. Earlier this week, Boom Supersonic revealed a small secret. They introduced the Superpower, a massive 42-megawatt natural gas turbine powered by the same engine technology that would drive the Overture aircraft to supersonic speeds beneath the Atlantic in less than four hours.

Infibeam Avenues Ltd is consolidating around its payments and artificial intelligence (AI) units, as it prepares for a top management shuffle and completes a multi-year pivot from its legacy ecommerce platform business. Infibeam has been recasting its business around CCAvenue, its core payments gateway, and Phronetic.ai, which is being unified under a broader AvenuesAI brand, as the company positions itself as an AI-first payments and infrastructure provider.

Freedom Mobile customers should be wary of a text scam pushing people to log into a fake website to address a billing issue. Some customers reported on Reddit that they received texts supposedly from Freedom Mobile warning of an unsuccessful automatic payment. The messages direct customers to log into Freedom’s website to update their payment info. However, the link in the text goes to a fake website designed to look like Freedom’s login page.

Koshary, a dish made from lentils, rice, and pasta, was officially inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the Intergovernmental Committee during its meetings in New Delhi from 8 to 12 December. Lentils, one of the core ingredients of koshary, have been cultivated in Egypt for thousands of years, becoming a staple of local diets long before the dish took its modern form, while rice later arrived in the country through ancient trade routes from Asia.