Smart home owners will soon be able to control their devices connected to Google Home via an AI agent. On Tuesday, Google rolled out early access to its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for its Google Home ecosystem, which will allow any AI agent that supports MCP — like Claude, Hermes, OpenClaw, ChatGPT, and Google
Nigerian journalist and content creator Charity Ekezie believes the best way to challenge negative stereotypes about Africa is to laugh at them. She has built an online audience around the world by using humour to push back against the assumptions people make about life on the continent. In her social media videos, she often replies
After a flurry of fall festival activity in Venice and Telluride, the curtain is coming down on another year at TIFF. Careers were boosted, dark horses gained traction and blades were sharpened. Here are our biggest takeaways. Chris Rock Atmosphere at Variety and YouTube Creator Screening Series at TIFF held at TIFF Lightbox on September
Amazon is upping its minimum pay for core operations workers to $20 an hour and giving all US workers new grocery discounts. The $1-an-hour raise applies to full-time employees, many of whom work in Amazon’s warehouses picking, packing, and sorting orders. Amazon’s average hourly wage is now about $24, the company said on Wednesday. The
OK, so I’ve never been much of a Fire Emblem guy. Nintendo’s long-running fantasy strategy game series first came out around the same time as Advance Wars (2003). On the old Game Boy Advance, I liked its similar turn-based style but fuzzed out on the fantasy drama. But Fortune’s Weave, the newest in a long
The leaders of eight German states have backed the nation’s chancellor amid growing speculation about his political future. The premiers – all of whom are part of Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) – wrote that restoring trust in their party lay in “listening and taking political action, not in debates over personnel”. Merz, who
