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New York Attorney General Letitia James has accused Valve of promoting illegal gambling through its video games in a lawsuit filed by her office. According to the AG’s announcement, her office conducted an investigation and had concluded that Valve enabled gambling by enticing users to pay for a chance at rare items from loot boxes in Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2. In the lawsuit, the New York AG stressed that Valve’s loot boxes are “particularly pernicious,” because the games are popular amo
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Nvidia’s developer conference has agent fever. On Tuesday, one of the most popular spots at the company’s GTC convention was Nvidia’s “Build-A-Claw” tent, where attendees could try out Nvidia’s newly unveiled NemoClaw, open-source software for creating AI agents based on the popular OpenClaw.Many of the people who stopped by the Build-A-Claw tent wanted to take an agent for a test drive to see how it works before setting up their... Read more ›
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The best fitness apps combine structured training programs, advanced analytics, motivational tools, and community support into a single platform. Many of them now also integrate AI-powered features, wearable device compatibility, and personalized coaching systems to help users train smarter. Fitness Online: Best Overall Unlike many fitness apps that rely solely on generic workout videos, Fitness ... Read more ›
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Металлы... Будучи однажды открыты человечеством в глубокой древности, они изменили всё — и позволили людям подняться с четверенек и устремить свой взгляд к звёздам… Но, войдя в жизни людей, они принесли и присущую им проблему: недолговечность. «Но, постойте», скажите вы, — ведь большинство металлов настолько крепки и долговечны, что изделия из них доходят до нас даже из глубокой древности! Всё так, однако, нельзя отрицать того, что большинство металлов подвержено коррозии... Read more ›
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For years, China’s hotel story was concentrated in major cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. That’s where the demand was, and that’s where most branded supply clustered. But that’s changing now. Read more ›
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Got a spare Stadia controller? Mod it into a Bluetooth adapter for wired gamepads! Read more ›
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Reputable leaker shares alleged specifications for the unannounced Ryzen 7 9750X and Ryzen 5 9650X processors from AMD. Read more ›
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Just as was hinted at by a recent leak, today the Oppo A6x became official in India, where it's called A6s, despite the fact that there's also an international A6s with a different battery capacity. Anyway, the Indian A6s comes with a 6.75-inch 720x1570 LCD touchscreen with 120Hz refresh rate, 240Hz touch sampling rate, and 1,125-nit peak brightness, the MediaTek Dimensity 6300 SoC at the helm, a 50MP rear camera,... Read more ›
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The vivo X300 Ultra is expected to launch by the end of March in three colors and four storage variants. Read more ›
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A friend named Derek, 53, told me something over drinks near Boat Quay a few months ago that I haven’t been able to shake. He’d been with his wife for twenty-two years. They still ate dinner together most nights, still split the grocery run on weekends, still texted each other about mundane logistics throughout the ... Read more Read more ›
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My current partner can tell when I’m upset before I’ve said a word. Before I’ve even fully registered it myself. She’ll walk into a room and immediately know something’s wrong. Not because of anything obvious. Just a shift in energy that most people would completely miss. For a long time, I thought this was just ... Read more Read more ›
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AI seems to be making things worse, as vibe-coded commits leave hardcoded credentials and other vulnerabilities. Read more ›
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The Google Pixel 10 is the brand's 'most competitive phone yet,' and it just dropped to a record-low price of $549.99 at Amazon. Read more ›
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New research reaffirms that GLP-1s can help prevent heart attacks, but only as long as you're taking them. Read more ›
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ProPublica reports that federal cybersecurity reviewers had serious, yearslong concerns about Microsoft's GCC High cloud offering, yet they approved it anyway because the product was already deeply embedded across government. As one member of the team put it: "The package is a pile of shit." From the report: In late 2024, the federal government's cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft's biggest cloud computing offerings. The tech... Read more ›
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Stop me if you've heard this before: Meta has a new program to lure top creator talent to Facebook and it comes with hefty bonus payments. The company is launching a new initiative aimed at popular creators who already have large followings on TikTok, YouTube or Instagram and offering them bonuses up to $3,000 a month just for posting on Facebook.Meta's goal is to lure more top talent to its... Read more ›
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Partech Partners has secured a €20m (£17.3m) commitment from the British Business Bank in support of its €300m (£260m) Impact Fund. Founded 40 years ago, Partech is a Paris-based technology investor that backs European impact firms addressing societal and environmental challenges. British Business Bank’s backing of the fund follows a €30m (£25.9m) commitment it previously ... Read more ›
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Fortnite's original Save the World game mode will be free to play beginning on April 16. This is not the battle royale mode that went on to take over the world, but rather a PvE co-op campaign that focuses on crafting and survival. It currently costs $9 but that ends soon. As a matter of fact, Epic Games will stop selling the paid version of the content tonight, March 11,... Read more ›
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Sony has announced its latest additions to the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog. While they might not top last month's introduction of Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Extra and Premium subscribers are still getting access to some notable games. In March, the new additions include Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (PS5), one of Engadget's picks for the Best Games of 2024, and Persona 5 Royal (PS5 and PS4). The PS4 version of Persona... Read more ›
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Eight of the 10 most popular AI chatbots were willing to help plan violent attacks when tested by researchers, according to a new study from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), in partnership with CNN. While both Snapchat's My AI and Claude refused to assist with violence the majority of the time, only Anthropic's Claude "reliably discouraged" these hypothetical attackers during testing. Researchers created accounts posing as 13-year-old boys... Read more ›
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Meta has announced that it’s introducing parent-managed accounts on WhatsApp. Designed to allow young people under the age of 13 to use the messaging platform more safely, these accounts feature new controls that enable a parent or guardian to restrict who can send them messages. Parent-managed accounts can also only be used for messaging and calling, so additional features like Channels, location sharing and Meta AI integration aren’t included. To... Read more ›
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A new company called Musical Beings has officially unveiled the Tembo, which might be the cutest drum machine ever made. Just look at this thing! It's got a wooden chassis that resembles a standard drum machine, but with one key difference. The sequencer is tactile. Users arrange beats by placing magnetic pucks that trigger samples. This seems like a really good way to introduce the basics of sequencing and beatmaking... Read more ›
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Microsoft plans to begin shipping early units of its next generation console, codenamed Project Helix, to game studios starting sometime next year. “We're sending alpha versions of Project Helix to developers starting in 2027,“ said Jason Ronald, vice-president of next generation for Xbox, according to IGN, which was present at the company’s GDC 2026 presentation where it shared early details about the new device. Ronald did not clarify what he... Read more ›
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Microsoft first debuted its full screen Xbox experience for Windows in the ROG Ally Xbox handheld, in a bid to compete with Steam's nearly 15-year-old Big Picture Mode. That Xbox interface eventually made its way to other Windows 11 gaming portables last year. Today at GDC, Microsoft revealed that its big screen Xbox UI is headed to all Windows 11 devices (including laptops and desktops) in April. Oh yah, and... Read more ›
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TikTok will soon let you stream full songs in its app via a new integration with Apple Music. The company's new Play Full Song feature makes it possible to link your Apple Music account toTikTok, and play any song that strikes your fancy directly in the app while you're scrolling.Starting a song is as simple as tapping a button in the Sound Details page or your For You page. Assuming... Read more ›
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It must be 2017 because loot boxes are back in the news again. Two weeks after New York's attorney general sued Valve over its use of the gimmick, the company has responded. In short, the Steam maker essentially said, "See you in court."New York's lawsuit accuses Valve of promoting illegal gambling through its games. AG Letitia James called the loot boxes found in titles like Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2... Read more ›
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Superhuman has taken its writing assistant Grammarly on quite the merry-go-round ride regarding its approach to AI tools. In August, the company launched a feature called Expert Review that would offer feedback on your writing, offering AI-generated feedback that would appear to come from a famous writer or academic of note. These recreations were based on "publicly available information from third-party LLMs," which sounds a lot like web crawlers of... Read more ›
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