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LG Electronics unveiled the UltraGear GX9 series, a groundbreaking lineup of OLED gaming monitors, at CES 2025. The centerpiece, the 45GX990A, secured three CES Innovation Awards, including the prestigious ‘Best of Innovation.’ This recognition highlights LG’s commitment to innovation and premium gaming solutions.

The GX9 series features advanced WOLED curved displays offering 5K2K resolution (5,120 x 2,160) with a 21:9 aspect ratio, delivering immersive visuals with true blacks, vivid colors, and optimized curvature. Certified for low blue light emissions and equipped with LG’s Anti-Glare & Low Reflection coating, these monitors ensure comfortable, eye-friendly gaming sessions.

The 45GX990A stands out as the world’s first bendable 5K2K OLED gaming monitor. Its 45-inch display transitions from flat to a 900R curvature, providing customizable immersion. It features LG’s second-generation Dual-Mode, enabling eight preset configurations for resolution, refresh rate, and aspect ratio, catering to diverse gaming genres. With a 0.03ms response time and support for NVIDIA G-SYNC and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro, it ensures smooth and responsive gameplay.

Another notable model, the 45GX950A, offers an 800R curvature with the same 5K2K resolution. Its high pixel density and RGWB subpixel layout enhance text readability and productivity, while its virtually borderless design adds a sleek aesthetic. Supporting DisplayPort 2.1, HDMI 2.1, and USB-C with 90W power delivery, it guarantees compatibility with modern graphics cards and devices.

The lineup also includes the LG UltraGear 39GX90SA, a smart gaming monitor powered by webOS. This 39-inch display serves as an all-in-one entertainment hub, featuring vibrant visuals and ergonomic design.

LG UltraGear GX9 Series: Meet The World’s 1st Bendable 5K2K OLED Gaming Monitors

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Daisy, an AI-powered virtual grandmother developed by Virgin Media’s O2, is revolutionizing phone scam prevention by wasting scammers’ time while protecting potential victims. Designed to mimic a polite, slightly forgetful elderly woman, Daisy engages scammers in long-winded conversations, effectively neutralizing their schemes. Her advanced natural language processing and humor-filled demeanor turn the tables on those who prey on the vulnerable, particularly older adults.

As noticed by Forbes, in an instance Daisy was able to keep the scammer on the line for over an hour, steering the conversation into tangents about her cats, family stories, and repeated questions. By the end, the scammer was audibly frustrated, realizing they had been outmaneuvered by an AI. This approach not only wastes scammers’ time but also disrupts their efficiency, reducing the number of potential victims they can target.

Developed in collaboration with scam-hunting expert Jim Browning, Daisy’s key features include:

• Realistic Conversations: Advanced AI enables Daisy to respond convincingly to scammers’ scripts.
• Scripted Detours: She redirects calls into humorous anecdotes and requests for repetition, keeping scammers engaged.
• Unshakable Calm: Daisy’s polite demeanor neutralizes fear-driven tactics often used by scammers.

Phone scams, which often exploit fear and confusion, disproportionately target older adults. Daisy’s calm persistence derails these tactics, turning each call into a dead end for scammers. While her efforts may not solve fraud entirely, they represent a step forward in leveraging technology to fight scams.

Daisy’s success showcases the potential of AI in fraud prevention, delivering both justice and satisfaction to those affected by scams. By offering scammers a maddening but fruitless encounter, Daisy highlights how technology can protect the vulnerable and strike back against fraudulent operations.

AI Granny Daisy Wastes Scammers’ Time And Protects Victims

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Sony just revealed the first set of PlayStation Plus games in 2025 available for all subscribers, regardless of what service tier they’re signed up for. Up this month are Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered and The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe. I can’t say it’s the most exciting set of games, but at the very least The Stanley Parable is a classic, albeit an old one — the game was first released way back in 2011 as a mod for Half-Life 2. The game then got a proper full release in 2013, and the Ultra Deluxe version was released for modern consoles in 2022. 

Original creators Davey Wreden and William Pugh put together the Ultra Deluxe edition, with an expanded script and a number of other new changers that the developers weren’t exactly forthcoming about: “Everything you remember has been recreated, yet it’s different somehow. We’ve been here before, haven’t we?” Broadly speaking, though, the game expands on the original with more choices, more dialog and more choices for the player to navigate. If you haven’t given the game a shot, you now have no excuse not to check it out.

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered is another oldie — released originally in 2010, but updated for the PS4 in 2020. That’s the version available here, with full career modes for either a racer or cop, depending on which side of the law you feel like being on. This version also includes multiplayer modes and all the DLC that was released for the original game.

Finally, the newest game in the batch is Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, a live service game that went through multiple delays, got largely negative reviews and reportedly cost Warner Bros. some $200 million. Adding insult to injury, developers announced that the current season of content would be its last, though there are no plans to shut the game down yet. Given that it only came out this past February, that’s a pretty short lifespan. I’m not sure that I’d want to jump onto the sinking ship at this point, but at least you can give it a shot without shelling out the $70 it still costs.

All these games are available as of January 7 to PS Plus subscribers, and you have until then to add December’s games to your library. 

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/playstation/the-first-playstation-plus-games-of-2025-include-the-stanley-parable-and-suicide-squad-172531311.html?src=rss

Daisy, an AI-powered virtual grandmother developed by Virgin Media’s O2, is revolutionizing phone scam prevention by wasting scammers’ time while protecting potential victims. Designed to mimic a polite, slightly forgetful elderly woman, Daisy engages scammers in long-winded conversations, effectively neutralizing their schemes. Her advanced natural language processing and humor-filled demeanor turn the tables on those who prey on the vulnerable, particularly older adults.

As noticed by Forbes, in an instance Daisy was able to keep the scammer on the line for over an hour, steering the conversation into tangents about her cats, family stories, and repeated questions. By the end, the scammer was audibly frustrated, realizing they had been outmaneuvered by an AI. This approach not only wastes scammers’ time but also disrupts their efficiency, reducing the number of potential victims they can target.

Developed in collaboration with scam-hunting expert Jim Browning, Daisy’s key features include:

• Realistic Conversations: Advanced AI enables Daisy to respond convincingly to scammers’ scripts.
• Scripted Detours: She redirects calls into humorous anecdotes and requests for repetition, keeping scammers engaged.
• Unshakable Calm: Daisy’s polite demeanor neutralizes fear-driven tactics often used by scammers.

Phone scams, which often exploit fear and confusion, disproportionately target older adults. Daisy’s calm persistence derails these tactics, turning each call into a dead end for scammers. While her efforts may not solve fraud entirely, they represent a step forward in leveraging technology to fight scams.

Daisy’s success showcases the potential of AI in fraud prevention, delivering both justice and satisfaction to those affected by scams. By offering scammers a maddening but fruitless encounter, Daisy highlights how technology can protect the vulnerable and strike back against fraudulent operations.

AI Granny Daisy Wastes Scammers’ Time And Protects Victims

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Daisy, an AI-powered virtual grandmother developed by Virgin Media’s O2, is revolutionizing phone scam prevention by wasting scammers’ time while protecting potential victims. Designed to mimic a polite, slightly forgetful elderly woman, Daisy engages scammers in long-winded conversations, effectively neutralizing their schemes. Her advanced natural language processing and humor-filled demeanor turn the tables on those who prey on the vulnerable, particularly older adults.

As noticed by Forbes, in an instance Daisy was able to keep the scammer on the line for over an hour, steering the conversation into tangents about her cats, family stories, and repeated questions. By the end, the scammer was audibly frustrated, realizing they had been outmaneuvered by an AI. This approach not only wastes scammers’ time but also disrupts their efficiency, reducing the number of potential victims they can target.

Developed in collaboration with scam-hunting expert Jim Browning, Daisy’s key features include:

• Realistic Conversations: Advanced AI enables Daisy to respond convincingly to scammers’ scripts.
• Scripted Detours: She redirects calls into humorous anecdotes and requests for repetition, keeping scammers engaged.
• Unshakable Calm: Daisy’s polite demeanor neutralizes fear-driven tactics often used by scammers.

Phone scams, which often exploit fear and confusion, disproportionately target older adults. Daisy’s calm persistence derails these tactics, turning each call into a dead end for scammers. While her efforts may not solve fraud entirely, they represent a step forward in leveraging technology to fight scams.

Daisy’s success showcases the potential of AI in fraud prevention, delivering both justice and satisfaction to those affected by scams. By offering scammers a maddening but fruitless encounter, Daisy highlights how technology can protect the vulnerable and strike back against fraudulent operations.

AI Granny Daisy Wastes Scammers’ Time And Protects Victims

, original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.